Despite not being a metal band. Thought you'd wanna know. http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/top-po...test-debut-of-the-last-25-years/#pd_a_5581043
I can't find the list, but I actually hope Linkin Park doesn't win this. I mean, Linkin Park is my favorite band, however, they are not a metal band. Linkin Park has enough hatred to them by the metal community, it's sometimes best not to antagonize it.
They took the list down, but judging by some of the other bands mentioned in the comments, they were using the word "metal" kind of loosely, anyway. EDIT: Found the list elsewhere. Airbourne – Runnin' Wild Alice In Chains – Facelift At The Drive-In – Acrobatic Tenement At The Gates – The Red In The Sky Is Ours Black Label Society – Sonic Brew Bullet For My Valentine – The Poison Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Cannibal Corpse – Eaten Back To Life Cathedral – Forest Of Equilibrium Cradle Of Filth - The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh The Darkness – Permission To Land Death – Scream Bloody Gore Death Angel – The Ultraviolence Deftones – Adrenaline Dimmu Borgir – For All Tid Down – NOLA Emperor – In The Nightside Eclipse Entombed – Left Hand Path Evile – Enter The Grave Faith No More – We Care A Lot Fear Factory – Soul Of A New Machine Gallows – Orchestra Of Wolves Godflesh – Streetcleaner Guns N' Roses – Appetite For Destruction In Flames – Lunar Strain Korn – Korn Lamb Of God – New American Gospel Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory Machine Head – Burn My Eyes Mastodon – Remission Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Meshuggah – Contradictions Collapse Monster Magnet – Spine Of God Morbid Angel – Altars Of Madness My Dying Bride – As The Flower Withers Napalm Death – Scum Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine Nirvana – Bleach Pantera – Cowboys From Hell Prong – Force Fed Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine Rammstein – Herzeleid Skid Row – Skid Row Skindred – Babylon Slipknot – Slipknot System Of A Down – System Of A Down Testament – The Legacy Tool – Undertow Trivium – Ascendancy Velvet Revolver - Contraband
Here is the top 10 on the List 1. Slipknot – Slipknot (32.27%) 2. Korn – Korn (8.88%) 3. Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction (8.84%) 4. Rammstein – Herzeleid (6.92%) 5. Pantera – Cowboys From Hell (6.2%) 6. System Of A Down – System Of A Down (4.67%) 7. Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory (3.78%) 8. Machine Head – Burn My Eyes (3.35%) 9. Bullet For My Valentine – The Poison (3.01%) 10. Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine (2.78%) I put the bands in bold that I thought were "Metal bands." Please note that my few names do not include any off the wall sub-genre of metal like most of that list was... To me there were a lot of "Hard Rock" bands in the list to chose from.
Nola and Remission are the best albums on that list, imo. Having Linkin Park on there is a little silly, but . . . Airbourne? The Darkness? The fuck?
The metal community determines who the metal bands are. It's mostly subjective. Oh my, such a genre full of elitists and posers (like jazz).