These Are The 38 Greatest Metal Bands, According To Forbes

Forbes – a magazine and website largely focused on all things finance and marketing – has dipped a toe into the metal world with their most recent list. Forbes published their 38 Greatest Heavy Metal Bands article and it's ruffling quite a few feathers.

Right up top, Forbes noted that while it's "impossible to include all metal sub-genres in this type of list, the sub-genres that are most prominent and influential across metal today were considered with priority." They later added that all 38 bands were chosen due to having "the most significant impact in the metal genre, and a number of these bands are among the genre’s most famous and revered bands."

And it's… fine. It certainly covers all the bases of important metal bands as far as pioneers of the genre, but 38 choices seems like a weird line to draw. And then there are some of the choices – Metallica being slightly more important than Black Sabbath? Check. Dream Theater instead of Fates Warning? Got it.

It's certainly not a bad list as far as "major publication that generally doesn't deal in metal goes metal," but yeah. Check out the bands-only rankings below, and check out the full list here via Forbes.

38. Carcass
39. At The Gates
40. Exodus
41. Behemoth
42. Napalm Death
43. Kyuss
44. Dream Theater
45. Nightwish
46. King Diamond
47. Danzig
48. Converge
49. Cannibal Corpse
50. Anthrax
51. Meshuggah
52. Machine Head
53. Lamb Of God
54. Mastodon
55. Sepultura
56. Type O Negative
57. Motörhead
58. Death
59. Dio
60. Megadeth
61. Gojira
62. Korn
63. Rammstein
64. Deftones
65. System Of A Down
66. Avenged Sevenfold
67. Tool
68. Slayer
69. Slipknot
70. Ozzy Osbourne
71. Judas Priest
72. Pantera
73. Iron Maiden
74. Black Sabbath
75. Metallica