AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Blind Guardian
Iced Earth
Demons and Wizards
Dragonland
Iron Maiden
Mystic Prophecy
Black Sabbath
Dethklok
Blue Oyster Cult (yes, they are considered metal, fuck you.)
Kamelot
Machinae Supremacy
Mare
Mastodon
Devin Townsend in all three forms (Devin Townsend, The Devin Townsend Band, and Strapping Young Lad)

Your turn.

OH SORRY I THOUGHT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT GOOD METAL HERE

The Fall of Troy
Protest the Hero
Primus
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Hella
King Crimson
Priestess
Tera Melos
Tool

Edit: Porcupine Tree

Stripped away all the generic and cheesy power metal, Blind Guardian are still cheesy and power metal but their older stuff is still pretty good thanks to Olbrichs innovative riffs and Hansi's half-screamed-half-sung vocals. They became more or less unlistenable around A Night at the Opera though.

Most of those aren't metal and those that are close to metal sucks. Protest the Hero is atrociously bad, wanky and cheesy. Most of the non-metal bands you posted are really good though, Priestess, King Krimson and the Fall of Troy in particular.

Now for some real god-tier metal:

At the Gates (pretty much anything before Slaughter of the Soul)
Atheist
Bathory
Burzum
Cynic
Emperor
Gorguts
Immolation
Suffocation
!T.O.O.H.!

Most of these are still cheesy, sure, but they make up for it with genuinely complex (but not self-indulgent), narrative song structures, a subtle sense of melody and in the case of the proggier bands (Gorguts, Suffo, Cynic, Atheist) a wicked sense of rhythm.

If Blue Oyster Cult and Machinae are metal, The Fall of Troy and Priestess are metal. I really have no idea what I was thinking when I put King Crimson, Tera Melos, and GY!BE in there, though. And are you implying that Primus, Hella, and Tool suck? >:U

No, all I'm implying is that I don't really care about them as of now. I like Tool's stuff up to and including Aenima though, huge guilty pleasure of mine.

Also, everyone should listen to Cynic's final two demos, they're amaaaaaazing.

Seeing as how I don't half the bands your talking about, that and I'm to lazy to google them, I'll just tell ya the ones I like.

Hammerfall
Powerman 5000
Black Sabbath
Dragonforce

Ha.

Hahahahaha.

HAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA, please tell me you're joking



also:
Strapping Young Lad
Devin Townsend
Metallica(Shut up, they're good)
Death
Pantera(again, shut up they're good)
Mastodon

Nightwish is <3

Also, viking metal ftw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFBIr3Vx16w

Oh, I'm not saying Metallica is bad, I do enjoy some of their songs, I just think they went to shit black album and beyond.

Pantera I enjoy in doses.

And yay someone else likes Mastodon and SYL.

Also, Pandora is turning me onto other bands that I am enjoying.

Um... er... well... uh... uhm....erm... Arch... Enemy... maybe... perhaps?

Kinda funny that you guys have the nerve A) to edit away a cheesy aberration like Hammerfall and B) then laugh at Black Sabbath, who blow away ever single band you posted, from the bouncy and bland nu-death of SYL to the chuggy, derivative boredom that is Pantera. Kids these days, huh?

Not viking metal, power metal with tacked on folk elements.

This is viking metal.

Can't say I like the cheesefests ala Nightwish and Arch Enemy either, worst thing is when Nightwish fans A) compare their music to genuine opera or B) assert that Nightwish is "gothic" music.

I like the Nightwish songs that have celtic feels to them, such as Last of the Wilds or The Islander.

Well then...what about Tyr? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97lxvrKC-nI

What does ITT stand for anyways?

Does it stand for "Post your opinions then argue over them and insult others' tastes without any real reason why other than, 'They make my ears bleed?'"

Because I don't think it can stand for that.

That other band he said I've never heard of before, so I couldn't comment. Black Sabbath is terrible.