(in no alphabetical or genre order, first band that I like that comes to mind will be put on the, Judas Priest, Early Metallica (never been a fan not even in the 80's), Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, Tankard, Helloween, Gammaray, Hellhammer/early Celtic Frost, Dissection, early Napalm Death, Terrorizer, Vader, Bathory (both early raw black metal AND the viking/progressi, Decapitated, Naglfar, Shade Empire, Wintersun, Ensiferum, Finthroll, Eluveitie, Falconer, some Angra, Motorhead, Venom, Mayhem (mostly the early the stuff but still like them), Astarte, Ossuary (From Uruguay South America, there are other bands in other countries with this name), Sarcofago, Dark Funeral, Enslaved (both early and new), Vesania, Behemoth (both Black metal AND Black/Death eras), Black Sabbath (with Ozzy and DIO ONLY), Hate Eternal, Cannibal Corpse (I hate the lyrics though but amazing musici, specially Alex Webster), Necrophagist, Nile, early Deicide, Death, Overkill, Nuclear Assault, Moonspell (used to like only their earlier stuff but I'm sta, specially NIght Eternal), Aeon, Amon Amarth, Halford (Rob Halford's solo project which seems has been rev, Bruce Dickinson (Bruce's solo works were amazing in my opini, Marduk, Hypocrisy (all of their discography, incredible band and Peter Tagtren is an amazing musician), Immortal, Satyricon, Thorns, Azarath, Lux Occulta (early mostly), early Ulver (though new stuff is amazing too and very "uniqu, Defleshed, Absu, Belphegor, early Dimmu Borgir, very early Cradle Of Filth (The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh, ...Dusk and her Embrace), early Type O' Negative, some Therion, very early Nightwish, Saxon, Running Wild, HammerFall, very early In Flames (otherwise it's shit), and many........MANY more... In this list bands/artists , Iron Butterfly, Rush (this band is still amazing), Deep Purple, Rainbow, Janis Joplin, early WASP (glam rock does NOT belong to metal contrary to p, AC/DC, Stone Temple Pilots (first 2 albums actually), fist Pearl Jam album, Sound Garden (up to Superunknown), Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Uria Heep, Blue Oyster Cult, Queen (R.I.P Freddie, you will always be remembered)... and much, much more... , ,