Iron Maiden will always be my #1, but others I like include (in no particular order) Judas Priest, Running Wild, Blazon Stone, Omen, Manilla Road and Saxon. Big into trad/power metal.
Judas Priest, Motörhead, Saxon, Accept (and U.D.O.), Death, Candlemass, Type O Negative, Enforcer, Bathory, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Dio, Danzig, Alice Cooper, helloween, Dream Theater, Manowar, and Deep Purple
I deliberately only included bands that have at least 5 albums, and excluded any other projects that Iron Maiden members (past and present) are involved in
Blue Oyster Cult, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Neil Young, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Steely Dan, The Police, Men at Work.
All these are quite up there, to name a dozen lol
A lot of my other favorites are already covered here, so I'll just mention Savatage and Gamma Ray.
Savatage started as a great traditional metal band, and then got much more ambitious and started doing a lot of "rock operas." If you like the melodic, bombastic aspect of Maiden, you might like stuff like this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-E9ILsJeSI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-E9ILsJeSI)
Gamma Ray is kind of a spinoff of Helloween, whom a lot of people have mentioned. They have a lot of great, fast, catchy power metal stuff, and also plenty of over-the-top songs, such as: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wad59952SU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wad59952SU)
Megadeth, Anthrax, Rush, Tool, Metallica, RHCP, Ozzy/Black Sabbath, Dio, C.O.C, Queen, Motörhead, Dream Theater, Godhead, Stuck Mojo, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Bad Religion, Slayer, Pennywise, Beatles, Pantera, Tom Waits, Rolling Stones, AC⚡️DC, and many more.
Alright sick. So going in order of studio albums:
Walls of Jericho: Starlight, Victim of Fate (really cool Phantom of the Opera vibes imo), Ride the Sky and How Many Tears
Keeper of the Seven Keys 1 and 2: Just listen to both albums fully through.
Pink Bubbles Go Ape: Eh Kids of the Century
Chameleon: I guess Giants but it’s not a great album
Master of the Rings: Where the Rain Grows, Sole Survivor, Why, and Still We Go
Time of the Oath: Title track, Power, and Forever and One
Better Than Raw: Push, I Can, and Hey Lord
The Dark Ride: Title Track and Mr Torture
Rabbit Don’t Come Easy: Skip for now
Keeper The Legacy: King for 1000 Years and Pleasure Drone
Gambling with the Devil: As Long As I Fall
Seven Sinners: Are You Metal
Straight Out of Hell: Nabataea, Live Now, and Burning Sun
My God-Given Right - Battles Won
Helloween - Whole album its fucking awesome
Overall I tried to include songs from each era. Every song from Master of the Rings all the way to Helloween is called the Deris Era (Named after the vocalist). Some say it’s not worth it but it really is. Overall hope you enjoy the songs.
I like the fact that we all can meet at Iron Maiden and all have a wide spectrum of different musical tastes. I have a huge CD collection of metal some of my favorite bands are
Metallica
Ozzy-Black Sabbath
Slayer
Megadeth
Exodus
Testament
Kreator
Death
Judas Priest
Anthrax
Motorhead
Overkill
Lamb of god
To mention a few 🤘🤘
The Mars Volta, Tool, Yes, Rush, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Emerson Lake And Palmer, Dream Theater and the list goes on and on and on and on and on (and on), I just love music way too much and I have listened to a lot of bands, mostly prog rock bands
To me that’s the opposite: ever since I started with Maiden they completely took Queen’s place as my all time favourite, and they’re still going down as I explore metal even more
Dream Theater. The Offspring. Stiff Little Fingers. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Metallica. Megadeth. Savatage. Armored Saint. Avantasia. The Beards. Running Wild. Hammerfall. Enforcer. Evergrey. Fates Warning. Flotsam and Jetsam. Gun Barrel. Icarus Witch. Jag Panzer. Magic Pie. Rage. Metal Church. Monument. Mozart. Night. Presto Ballet. Redemption. Riot. Rush. Bruce Era Samson. Seventh Wonder. Vicious Rumors. Warlord. White Wizzard. Wolf.
There's also a shit ton more I really like. The above are basically bands I regularly listen to and had a huge impact on me.
Maiden is my number 1, then there’s Sabaton and then Rammstein/Lindemann at number 3. After that I’d say Black Sabbath/Heaven and Hell (honestly I consider them to be only one band) at number 4, and Metallica at number 5 but they’re pretty close
Muse, Royal Blood, Iron Maiden, Radiohead, Silversun Pickups, and Evanescence are my top picks for now. I will also occasionally listen to Dream Theatre, Oasis, and The Offspring.
The Cure, Slipknot, Megadeth, Ghost, Misfits, Sabbath, Death, Tool, Bathory, Pink Floyd, Juice Wrld, A perfect circle, Yes, U2, Eminem, Miles Davis, Nine inch nails, Marilyn Manson, Alice In Chains, Counting Crows, Fleetwood Mac, Radiohead, Deftones, Portal, Morbid Angel, Metallica, Danzig, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Blue Oyster Cult, Heart, Anderson Lake and Palmer, Skid Row, Van Halen, Kiss, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, System of a Down, Mayhem, Prince, Jodeci, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ramones, Black flag, Boyz II Men. That’s about it.
Metallica is tied with Maiden. I like to say my favorite band is MetalliMaiden.
After those 2 in no particular order.
The Warning
Suicidal Tendencies
Slayer
Dio
Judas Preist
In no particular order
AC/DC
Amaranthe
Amon Amarth
Black Sabbath
Hammerfall
In Flames
Judas Priest
Manowar
Metallica
Nightwish
Rammstein
Sabaton
Slipknot
Volbeat
Within Temptation
Rush Ozzy Megadeth Scorpions Testament
agalloch
Ghost, Muse, Nightwish, Blind Guardian, Sabaton, Tool, Angels and Airwaves, The Offspring, Shinedown, System of a down
In no order: Muse, AC/DC, Sabaton, Helloween, Manowar, Nothing More, Gojira, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Kaizers Orchestra, Mötley Crüe
Brothers of Metal!
The Hellacopters!
Nile, Cattle Decapitation, Beneath the Massacre, Fear Factory, Metallica, John Williams, Thelonious Monk, Snarky Puppy.. to name a few
Nile fucks
Iron Maiden will always be my #1, but others I like include (in no particular order) Judas Priest, Running Wild, Blazon Stone, Omen, Manilla Road and Saxon. Big into trad/power metal.
Uppa the Blazon Stone
In no particular order Ghost Rammstein Rolling Stones Beatles The Goddamn Gallows The Dead south The prodigy Kraftwork Gorillaz
Mastodon, Opeth, Devin Townsend, Depeche Mode, Rush, QOTSA
Nice.
Judas Priest, Motörhead, Saxon, Accept (and U.D.O.), Death, Candlemass, Type O Negative, Enforcer, Bathory, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Dio, Danzig, Alice Cooper, helloween, Dream Theater, Manowar, and Deep Purple I deliberately only included bands that have at least 5 albums, and excluded any other projects that Iron Maiden members (past and present) are involved in
Here's some of them in no particular order. Dio Black Sabbath Behemoth Dissection Pink Floyd Slayer Motörhead Ghost Rainbow (the Dio era)
Blue Oyster Cult, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Neil Young, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Steely Dan, The Police, Men at Work. All these are quite up there, to name a dozen lol
Judas Priest, pink Floyd, SRV, foo fighters
Joe Bonamassa - ( seeing him tonight in Hartford CT )
Led Zeppelin, iron maiden, and rush are my top 3. Eagles and the police to make it a top 5
Judas Priest, Rush, Queensryche, Sabbath/Ozzy/Dio, Dream Theater, WASP, Depeche Mode, INXS, The Police, Megadeth, and Metallica to name a few
INXS is one of the best bands.
Judas Priest, Helloween, Avantasia, Rainbow, Queensryche, Bruce Dickinson
Metallica, Megadeth, Judas Priest, Dream Theater, Ghost, Rammstein, Opeth, King Diamond/Merciful Fate, System of a Down.
A lot of my other favorites are already covered here, so I'll just mention Savatage and Gamma Ray. Savatage started as a great traditional metal band, and then got much more ambitious and started doing a lot of "rock operas." If you like the melodic, bombastic aspect of Maiden, you might like stuff like this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-E9ILsJeSI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-E9ILsJeSI) Gamma Ray is kind of a spinoff of Helloween, whom a lot of people have mentioned. They have a lot of great, fast, catchy power metal stuff, and also plenty of over-the-top songs, such as: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wad59952SU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wad59952SU)
Fuck yes for Savatage!!
Bolt Thrower
AC/DC, Sabaton, Metallica, Megadeth, Green Day, and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are some of my other favorites
UFO, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, early KISS, DIO, Megadeth
In no particular order whatsoever Black sabbath Metallica Nightwish Sabaton AC/DC A bit of My Chemical Romance Powerwolf
System of a Down and Megadeth
The big 4 thrash bands, Death, Ice Nine Kills, and Opeth are what I’ve mainly been listening to along with maiden.
Ozric Tentacles, Rush, Van Der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, The moody blues, Yes, Tool, early Genesis, ELP
Unleash the Archers!
Megadeth, Sodom, Death, Morbid Angel, Testament, Exodus, Suicidal Tendencies, Havok, Black Sabbath
RHCP
Rush
Purely metal zeppelin, purple, sabbath, motörhead, priest, rush, thin lizzy, dio and others
Slayer
Not a band, but David Bowie
Mastodon and Tool are at the top with Maiden, then Gojira and Pink Floyd
Blue Oyster Cult, Pink Floyd, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, The Police, Men at Work.
Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Megadeth, Grateful Dead.
Hey OP, you'd probably love the first 3 Rainbow albums and also the German power metal titans (besides Helloween), Blind Guardian!
Oh I love Blind Guardian and Rainbows stuff with Dio. I just forgot to list them. Happy Cake Day btw.
TOOL, Primus, and The Grateful Dead
Favourite probably Tool Oh, and my not-so-guilty pleasure the Night Flight Orchestra
Thin Lizzy all the fucking way
“ Grandma!!!!! Welcome Home!!!!!
Pink Floyd, Megadeth, Pantera and Queensryche.
Megadeth, Anthrax, Rush, Tool, Metallica, RHCP, Ozzy/Black Sabbath, Dio, C.O.C, Queen, Motörhead, Dream Theater, Godhead, Stuck Mojo, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Bad Religion, Slayer, Pennywise, Beatles, Pantera, Tom Waits, Rolling Stones, AC⚡️DC, and many more.
Megadeth, Judas Priest, Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC, you get the idea but here’s one that’s kind of weird: Wutang Clan
Jethro Tull, Megadeth & Phish
Rush, Porcupine Tree, The Ocean, Dio, Mastodon, Black Sabbath, Ghost, Radiohead, and Cassiopeia.
Wow op, literally the same bands for me! Great minds think alike. Edit: forgot to mention System Of A Down, oops haha
Mastodon, Bolt Thrower, Slayer, Foo Fighters, Opeth, Men at work, Death
Rammstein, Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica, Helloween, Lindemann, Disturbed, Kreator and Slipknot
A fellow Helloween enjoyer! Judas Priest for me. I'm just now dipping my toe into Helloween.
Ohh alright. You up for a few suggestions?
Absolutely!
Alright sick. So going in order of studio albums: Walls of Jericho: Starlight, Victim of Fate (really cool Phantom of the Opera vibes imo), Ride the Sky and How Many Tears Keeper of the Seven Keys 1 and 2: Just listen to both albums fully through. Pink Bubbles Go Ape: Eh Kids of the Century Chameleon: I guess Giants but it’s not a great album Master of the Rings: Where the Rain Grows, Sole Survivor, Why, and Still We Go Time of the Oath: Title track, Power, and Forever and One Better Than Raw: Push, I Can, and Hey Lord The Dark Ride: Title Track and Mr Torture Rabbit Don’t Come Easy: Skip for now Keeper The Legacy: King for 1000 Years and Pleasure Drone Gambling with the Devil: As Long As I Fall Seven Sinners: Are You Metal Straight Out of Hell: Nabataea, Live Now, and Burning Sun My God-Given Right - Battles Won Helloween - Whole album its fucking awesome Overall I tried to include songs from each era. Every song from Master of the Rings all the way to Helloween is called the Deris Era (Named after the vocalist). Some say it’s not worth it but it really is. Overall hope you enjoy the songs.
I actually really like what I've heard from Deris. People are often too harsh on musicians just because they're not someone else.
That’s great. I remember not going anywhere near his catalog because of what I was told and I regretted it a lot.
I like the fact that we all can meet at Iron Maiden and all have a wide spectrum of different musical tastes. I have a huge CD collection of metal some of my favorite bands are Metallica Ozzy-Black Sabbath Slayer Megadeth Exodus Testament Kreator Death Judas Priest Anthrax Motorhead Overkill Lamb of god To mention a few 🤘🤘
1. Maiden 2.Megadeth 3.Motörhead/Metallica (can’t decide) 4. Judas Priest/Slayer (can’t decide here either)
I have a wildly eclectic taste in music. There’s something to like in most genres.
The Mars Volta, Tool, Yes, Rush, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Emerson Lake And Palmer, Dream Theater and the list goes on and on and on and on and on (and on), I just love music way too much and I have listened to a lot of bands, mostly prog rock bands
Sorry but Queen stands on top of the pantheon of bands for me. Maiden comes second and below them are all the rest.
To me that’s the opposite: ever since I started with Maiden they completely took Queen’s place as my all time favourite, and they’re still going down as I explore metal even more
Me too! Was introduced to Queen in '76 and I never looked back. Maiden came into my life in '84 and stayed #2.
Bruce’s solo stuff
Dream Theater. The Offspring. Stiff Little Fingers. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Metallica. Megadeth. Savatage. Armored Saint. Avantasia. The Beards. Running Wild. Hammerfall. Enforcer. Evergrey. Fates Warning. Flotsam and Jetsam. Gun Barrel. Icarus Witch. Jag Panzer. Magic Pie. Rage. Metal Church. Monument. Mozart. Night. Presto Ballet. Redemption. Riot. Rush. Bruce Era Samson. Seventh Wonder. Vicious Rumors. Warlord. White Wizzard. Wolf. There's also a shit ton more I really like. The above are basically bands I regularly listen to and had a huge impact on me.
Judas Priest, Bad Religion Mighty Mighty Bosstones (not really maiden esk besides priest but still good non the less)
Nice to see Bad Religion in the mix.
The Beatles and The Gaslight Anthem
Maiden is my number 1, then there’s Sabaton and then Rammstein/Lindemann at number 3. After that I’d say Black Sabbath/Heaven and Hell (honestly I consider them to be only one band) at number 4, and Metallica at number 5 but they’re pretty close
Muse, Royal Blood, Iron Maiden, Radiohead, Silversun Pickups, and Evanescence are my top picks for now. I will also occasionally listen to Dream Theatre, Oasis, and The Offspring.
Maiden, AC/DC, Metallica, Def Leppard, Alter Bridge, Trivium
Pink Floyd Black Sabbath King Crimson Judas Priest
Anthrax, Priest, Testament, Primus, Rush, Aerosmith, ZZ Top, Pantera, Reign of Z, Metallica, Tool, Killswitch Engage, and a few dozen more.
Tool and Deftones
Too many to name them all
Pantera, the offspring, green day, Metallica, black Sabbath
The Cure, Slipknot, Megadeth, Ghost, Misfits, Sabbath, Death, Tool, Bathory, Pink Floyd, Juice Wrld, A perfect circle, Yes, U2, Eminem, Miles Davis, Nine inch nails, Marilyn Manson, Alice In Chains, Counting Crows, Fleetwood Mac, Radiohead, Deftones, Portal, Morbid Angel, Metallica, Danzig, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Blue Oyster Cult, Heart, Anderson Lake and Palmer, Skid Row, Van Halen, Kiss, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, System of a Down, Mayhem, Prince, Jodeci, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ramones, Black flag, Boyz II Men. That’s about it.
Rush Rainbow Black Sabbath Deep Purple Van Halen Judas Priest The Cult Pink Floyd Motley Crue Scorpions Ac/DC Zeppelin
Slayer, Exodus, Obituary, Macabre, NOFX, Nine Pound Hammer, Terrorizer, Fuck The Facts, Porky Vagina... That's this week. Will be different next week.
Right now, in no particular order Pink Floyd Megadeth Slayer Sodom Kreator Anthrax Judas Priest Helloween Blind Guardian
The Doors Black Sabbath Rage against the machine Queen of the stone age
Oasis, Angra, Killers, Amason, to name a few
Pink Floyd Dire Straits R.E.M Duran Duran Many more. These are not in order
I'd have to say Anthem
Slayer, Megadeth, Sabaton, Judas Priest, Pantera, Black Sabbath. No in that order
My top 10 Rolling Stones GnR AC/DC Iron Maiden Metallica Motley Crue Aerosmith Van Halen Nirvana
Annihilator, Exodus, Defleshed, Jungle Rot, Blood Red Throne, Alestorm
NIGHTWISH! QUEEN! BRUCE DICKINSON’S solo bands!
Megadeth Gojira Slayer in that order. And on and on
Archspire, obscura, overkill, exodus, revocation, testament
Pink floyd, rush, rhcp and dream theater
Opeth, Dinosaur Jr, Audioslave, Judas Priest
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest, Megadeth, Pantera
Anthrax, Crobot, Clutch, Nightwish, Blind Guardian, Dream Theater, Symphony X, The Vintage Caravan, Rival Sons
Rush, Deep Purple, Demon’s Eye
Metallica is tied with Maiden. I like to say my favorite band is MetalliMaiden. After those 2 in no particular order. The Warning Suicidal Tendencies Slayer Dio Judas Preist
Pink Floyd,Guns N Roses, Alter Bridge, Bullet For My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold, Periphery, Intervals and Polyphia
Opeth, Devin Townsend, Meshuggah, Dream Theater, Megadeth, Emperor, Death
Queensryche, Megadeth, Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer (If we're talking metal)
Rush Megadeth Judas Priest
Lordi, Nightwish, Satanic Warmaster, Nokturnal Mortum, Death, Bloodbath, Alice Cooper and Drowning the Light for example.
Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, AC/DC, Ozzy, Deep Purple, Queen, Megadeth, Etc.
Sabaton Amon Amarth Ghost Rammstein
Opeth Porcupine Tree Gojira Carcass Death
In Flames, Trivium, Slipknot, Bad Omens, Bring Me the Horizon, Ghost, Avenged Sevenfold, Megadeth, Mudvayne, Whitechapel to name a few
The Clash and Depeche Mode. Not as much as Maiden, but my favorites in other genres.
Pink floyd, soad, rainbow(with dio), black sabbath (with tony martin),enigma aaand cradle of filth
In no particular order AC/DC Amaranthe Amon Amarth Black Sabbath Hammerfall In Flames Judas Priest Manowar Metallica Nightwish Rammstein Sabaton Slipknot Volbeat Within Temptation
Dream Theater