Top 20 All-Time Favorite Bands

Best albums: Unleashed In The East; Sad Wings Of Destiny; Painkiller
Best songs: Ram It Down; Beyond The Realms Of Death; Painkiller; Blood Red Skies; Running Wild

Best albums: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son; Somewhere In Time; Powerslave
Best songs: Hallowed Be Thy Name; Fear Of The Dark; Purgatory; Wrathchild; Ghost Of The Navigator

Best albums: Nordland I; Hammerheart; Blood On Ice
Best songs: Ode; Destroyer Of Worlds; One Road To Asa Bay; The Lake; Nordland

Best albums: Likferd; 1184; Arntor
Best songs: Fagning; Journey To The End; Black New Age; Mørket Sin Fyrste; Despot

Best albums: With Oden On Our Side; The Avenger; Once Sent From The Golden Hall
Best songs: Thousand Years Of Oppression; Cry Of The Black Birds; Across The Rainbow Bridge; The Last With Pagan Blood; Victorious March

Best albums: Somewhere Far Beyond; Nightfall In Middle-Earth; A Night At The Opera
Best songs: And Then There Was Silence; Mirror, Mirror; Majesty; Into The Storm; Wait For An Answer

Best albums: Use Your Illusion I; Appetite For Destruction; Use Your Illusion II
Best songs: Coma; Breakdown; Locomotive; Welcome To The Jungle; Don't Damn Me

Best albums: Iron Will; Hammer Of The North; The Hunt
Best songs: I Am The North; Vahalla Rising; The Hammer Will Bite; Like The Oar Strikes The Water; Fear Is The Key

Best albums: Knights Of The Cross; Rheingold; The Grave Digger
Best songs: The Battle Of Bannockburn; Knights Of The Cross; Spirits Of The Dead; Maidens Of War; Haunted Palace

Best albums: Powertrip; Monolithic Baby!; Mastermind
Best songs: Negasonic Teenage Warhead; Unbroken (Hotel Baby); Powertrip; See You In Hell; Silver Future

Best albums: The Crimson Idol; The Headless Children; Unholy Terror
Best songs: The Heretic (The Lost Children); Chainsaw Charlie (Murders In The New Morgue); The Great Misconceptions Of Me; Unholy Terror/Charisma; The Last Redemption

Best albums: Sabotage; Heaven And Hell; Master Of Reality
Best songs: Megalomania; Into The Void; Heaven And Hell; TV Crimes; Falling Off The Edge Of The World

Best albums: Phoenix Rising; Cold Steel... For An Iron Age; Defiance
Best songs: I Am The Wargod (Ode To The Battle Slain); A Stand Defiant; Savage Pitch; Shadow; The Birth Of Tragedy

Best albums: Storm Of The Light's Bane; The Somberlain
Best songs: Thorns Of Crimson Death; At The Fathomless Depths/Night's Blood; Black Horizons; The Somberlain; Where Dead Angels Lie

Best albums: Black Hand Inn; Under Jolly Roger; Blazon Stone
Best songs: The Curse/Black Hand Inn; Under Jolly Roger; Raise Your Fist; The Rivalry; Masquerade

Best albums: The Years Of Decay; Taking Over; Ironbound
Best songs: Deny The Cross; Overkill; I Hate; Bring Me The Night; Come And Get It

Best albums: Night Of The Stormrider; Burnt Offerings; Horror Show
Best songs: A Question Of Heaven; The Clouding; Colors; Dracula; When The Night Falls

Best albums: Iron; Ensiferum; Victory Songs
Best songs: Guardians Of Fate; Tale Of Revenge; Into Battle; Blood Is The Price Of Glory; Slayer Of Light

Best albums: Show No Mercy; South Of Heaven; Reign In Blood
Best songs: Angel Of Death; Temptation; Behind The Crooked Cross; Black Magic; Metal Storm/Face The Slayer

Best albums: Mechanical Animals; Antichrist Superstar; The Last Tour On Earth
Best songs: Coma White; Mechanical Animals; Astonishing Panorama Of The Endtimes; Great Big White World; The Last Day On Earth