Some are more known than others but they all deserve praise. Without further ado, here are, in no particular order, the best ...

Now that you have some insight as to how we ranked the Top 50 Metal Bands of All Time, click through the gallery above to find out where your favorite acts land on our list.

If the Bay City Rollers fans had done that, we simply would have yanked all the votes, but Dream Theater are an amazing metal band and we are going with the results as they stand. No other ranking ...

and moreover universally praised metal band of all time. Boasting a streak of impeccable records throughout the 80s and early 90s, it’s no wonder Metallica have become the gargantuan figures ...

Metal gave me a way to express myself ... So it's easier for us to write music and just let it all out through music. PFEIFFER: Rita, from a filmmaking perspective, I was thinking how well ...

While we can't even think of 96 different Arizona bands, we do acknowledge that the artists on this list do represent a number of different metal styles, but in the long run, it really all just is ...

The first bands I saw were Twilight Force, Sonata Arctica, HammerFall and Kalmah, all power and melodic metal from Europe. The venues were packed, crowds screaming along. On the second day of the ...

Even better, much of metal music is based on classical theory. Who are the top five metal bands of all time? Unfortunately, there are so many we could include, but only five will take the top spots.