BEST HEAVY METAL BAND

ok, i'm showing my age - led zeppelin. their noise was musical, at least... doug

WOW Sedond,are you really that ancient!!?? I saw a nice chrome plated bed pan on eBay!

Metal VS Hard Rock? They are differentiated by talent and IQ. Metal is characterized by simplicity (classic "3 chords") and shoots straight for your "Monkey Bone" (quoting Mr. Greenberg). Good as it is, this is why I call Black Sabath a "Heavy Metal" band. Zeppelin, on the other hand, comes from a place I'll never know (awsome talent) but can still feel. I wouldn't even put Zep in Hard Rock category because they (like Hendix, Beatles, Clapton when he's hot, Stravinsky) truly have no category except "Art". Another good (if not great) metal band (from 70's) is an east coast group called "Dust". Very powerful.

easy: Slayer. honorable mention to Black Sabbath and Metallica's work up to & including Justice. now they're just a bunch of top-40 hacks writing 3 minute made-for-radio songs based on one chord--listen to Orion, what a masterpiece with its complexity & flow; nothing like they're stuff now. Slayer is still kicking total ass after all these years. nothing compares to Reign in Blood!

I don't even like them. I prefer Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Def Leppard and many more, but not them.