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Of all the websites in the world, financial magazine and website Forbes has released a list of the top 38 metal bands of all-time. The list actually has no real surprises. All the top most popular bands of all-time are present, topped by Metallica, with virtually no other surprises in terms of major underground bands. In picking their list Forbes wrote that it’s “impossible to include all metal sub-genres in this type of list, the sub-genres that are most prominent and influential across metal today were considered with priority.” They added that all 38 bands were chosen due to having “the most significant impact in the metal genre, and a number of these bands are among the genre’s most famous and revered bands.”

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Carcass
At The Gates
Exodus
Behemoth
Napalm Death
Kyuss
Dream Theater
Nightwish
King Diamond
Danzig
Converge
Cannibal Corpse
Anthrax

Machine Head
Lamb Of God
Mastodon
Sepultura
Type O Negative
Motörhead
Death
Dio
Megadeth
Gojira
Korn
Rammstein
Deftones
System Of A Down

Avenged Sevenfold
Tool
Slayer

Slipknot
Ozzy Osbourne
Judas Priest
Pantera
Iron Maiden

Black Sabbath
Metallica