BEST HEAVY METAL BAND

OK Mettalica is good, but I'm surprised no one mentioned Judas Priest--they seriously added a lot to the genre. I agree with all of the Sabbath votes. Although Zeppelin is probably the best rock band--I agree that they don't belong here in the metal category.

King's X. I especially like the two CDs titled "King's X" and "Gretchen goes to Nebraska".

Just to set the record straight Depp Purple Black Sabath were Hard Rock bands not Heavy Metal.I love Hard Rock Deep Purple LED ZEP Sabbath Uriha Heep,.Not a fan of Metal.

Three Way Tie: Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Judas Priest

Piledriver just for the cover to Metal Inquisition. http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/bruss/Metal/groups/Pile.html seriously the best heavymetal metal band to me has to be black sabbath but there are many many more that are great. finaly there are also a lot of newer great records coming out like from hammerfall, steel prophet, sacred steel to name a few and a lot of good comeback records. metal is by no means dead although in the mid 90's it was looking pretty bad.