Favorite bands

Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Rush
Metallica
Judas Priest
Carcass
Cathedral
Jethro Tull
Thin Lizzy
Voivod

Others that often figure in my list:
Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin
Uriah Heep
Jimi Hendrix
Pink Floyd
Bruce Dickinson
Scorpions
Guns N' Roses
Faith No More
King Crimson
The Police
The Who
Budgie
Death
Celtic Frost
Paradise Lost
 
The absolute leading 2:

1. Iron Maiden
2. Judas Priest

Candidates for the third place:

3. Midnight Oil / Bad Religion / Black Sabbath / Bruce Dickinson


This is really difficult because I love quite a lot of bands which have some amazing albums but also less interesting albums. Maiden and Priest had a few weaker ones, but the strong ones make up for it, so they easily stand above the other bands. I also love Rush and Helloween but relatively seen, I think The Oils, BR, Bruce and Sabbath had more consistent discographies. Rush and Helloween both had at least 5 lesser albums... and I am tempted to mention many more bands (e.g. 90s Iced Earth is excellent in my book)!
 
1. Iron Maiden (no shit)
2. Megadeth
3. Dream Theater

Then there are several other bands that I listen to, but those three are my favorites at the moment. Maiden will always be my number one.
 
Iron Maiden

The only Metal band I really listen to. I usually stick to indie stuff

Interpol
The Sounds
Damien Jurado
Anna Ternheim
Daniel Wesley
MGMT 
Bob Dylan
 
That's really interesting 'cos it shows Maiden really have something more, that other Metal bands (even if I love them) just don't have.
 
Metal/hard rock/grunge:
Maiden/Dickinson
Dream Theater
Blind Guardian
Queensryche-everything through Promised Land
Metallica-First 5 and DM
Slayer
AC/DC
Pantera
Helloween
Megadeth
Cellador
Dragonforce
HIM
Nirvana
Nine Inch Nails
Dimmu Borgir
Mushroomhead
Suicidal Tendencies
Ozzy/Dio/Sabbath
Avenged Sevenfold
Iced Earth
Uriah Heep
Devil Driver
Hawthorne Heights
Linkin Park
Testament
Endrone
Sonata Arctica
Stratovarious
As I Lay Dying
Anthrax
In Flames
Candlemass
Type O Negative
Evanescence
Lacuna Coil
Five Finger Death Punch
Gojira
Judas Priest
MC5
Ministry
Nightwish
Pearl Jam
Scorpions
System Of A Down/Serj Tankian
Skid Row/Sebastian Bach
Steve Vai
Guns N Roses
Styx
Symphony X
Tool
Alice Cooper
The Who
Wildestarr
Alice In Chains
Grand Funk Railroad
Foreigner
Def Leppard
Motley Crue
Van Halen
Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin
Godsmack
Rob/White Zombie

Non metal:
RUSH
Pink Floyd
Moody Blues
The Beatles
Declan Galbraith
Dredg
Jethro Tull
Neil Young/Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
Wookie Foot
Insane Clown Posse
Pavlov's Dog
Wishbone Ash
Grateful Dead
Blue Oyster Cult
The Police
Fleetwood Mac
Kansas
Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Starship
Steve Miller Band
Journey
Tom Petty
Pelican
 
Tough one.
Other than Iron Maiden clearly on number one, it's hard for me to put my finger on the next two. Or seven for that matter.
I really like Megadeth, Iced Earth, King Crimson and Pink Floyd.
The problem is that other than these 4 I mostly only listen to a couple of albums for each band I try, and while some of them are fantastic like Van Der Graaf Generator and Steve Miller Band to name a few, I don't want to put them too high on the list.
 
At least you're trying and not mentioning all the bands you like, because that wasn't the question!  :ok:
 
No particular order + favorite albums:

1. Iron Maiden (Somewhere In Time)
2. Rainbow (Long Live Rock 'N' Roll)
3. Dream Theater (Images And Words)
4. Bruce Dickinson (Accident Of Birth)
5. Black Sabbath (Heaven And Hell)
6. Dio (The Last In Line)
7. Judas Priest (British Steel)
8. Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin IV)
9. Whitesnake (Whitesnake)
10. Megadeth (Rust In Peace)
11. Metallica (... And Justice For All)
12. Rush (Moving Pictures / Power Windows)
13. Aerosmith (Toys In The Attic)
14. Queen (A Night At The Opera / The Game)
15. Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here / The Dark Side Of The Moon)
16. Deep Purple (Machine Head)
17. AC/DC (Highway To Hell / Let There Be Rock)
18. Ozzy Osbourne (Blizzard Of Ozz / No More Tears)
19. Guns N' Roses (Appetite For Destruction)
20. Dire Straits (Brothers In Arms)
21. Journey (Escape)
22. Iced Earth (The Glorious Burden / The Dark Saga)
23. Blind Guardian (Tales From The Twilight World / Somewhere Far Beyond)
24. Helloween (Keeper Of The Seven Keys, Part II / Keeper Of The Seven Keys, Part I)
25. Rob Halford (This includes: Fight, 2wo and Halford) (Resurrection)
26. Queensryche (Operation: Mindcrime / The Warning)
27. Jimi Hendrix (This includes: The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Band Of Gypsys, and his posthumous albums) (Electric Ladyland)
28. The Beatles (Abbey Road)
29. The Rolling Stones (Steel Wheels)
30. The Who (Tommy / Who's Next / Quadrophenia)
 
Black_Thunder94 said:
In no particular order:

AC/DC
Black Sabbath
Bruce Dickinson
Deep Purple
Derek And The Dominos
Dio
Dire Straits
Guns N' Roses
Iron Maiden
Journey
Judas Priest
Led Zeppelin
Metallica
Ozzy Osbourne
Pink Floyd
Queen
Rainbow
Ramones
Whitesnake

Looks to me like alphabetical order :p
 
Favourite is of course Iron Maiden, second would be Bruce Dickinson and third would be (and I'm surprised that nobody hasn't mentioned) Manowar
 
Of course... Iron Maiden is my favorite band and a lot of bands, which  were written before and some other bands would be :

Ensiferum, Negura Bunget
 
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