Here are the Top 100 Hard Rock and Heavy Metal bands of All-Time updated for 2014. These groups are established, they are hard, and some of them are really heavy. Sure, some are hard rock, others are heavy metal. Some bands on this list, at one time or another, could be considered death, grunge, sleaze, hair, or punk. In the end though, they all have one thing in common—they rock pretty damn hard.
- Black Sabbath
- Iron Maiden
- Metallica
- Slayer
- AC/DC
- Judas Priest
- Motorhead
- Led Zeppelin
- Pantera
- Megadeth
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Kiss
- Aerosmith
- Motley Crue
- Anthrax
- Guns n’ Roses
- Alice Cooper
- Rush
- Queen
- Van Halen
- Def Leppard
- Alice in Chains
- Deep Purple
- White Zombie
- Dio
- Scorpions
- Accept
- Overkill
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Mercyful Fate
- Nirvana
- Marilyn Manson
- Diamond Head
- Machine Head
- Thin Lizzy
- The Misfits
- W.A.S.P.
- Ted Nugent
- Poison
- Exodus
- Type-o-Negative
- Twisted Sister
- Sepultura
- Ratt
- Ministry
- The Ramones
- U.F.O.
- Pearl Jam
- Bon Jovi
- Dream Theater
- Danzig
- Fear Factory
- Tesla
- Quiet Riot
- Soundgarden
- Joe Satriani
- Steve Vai
- Sammy Hagar
- Slipknot
- Testament
- Lamb of God
- Faith No More
- Tool
- Cinderella
- Corrosion of Conformity
- Korn
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Down
- Skid Row
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Rage Against The Machine
- Deftones
- Foo Fighters
- Black Label Society
- GWAR
- Whitesnake
- Primus
- Warrant
- Life of Agony
- Kid Rock
- Volbeat
- Biohazard
- Nickelback
- Extreme
- Armored Saint
- Mastodon
- Queensryche
- Manowar
- Staind
- Linkin Park
- Sex Pistols
- Godsmack
- Mr. Big
- Living Colour
- Dokken
- Sevendust
- Lita Ford
- King’s X
- System of a Down
- Disturbed
Bands that missed the Top 100, but are included on the Gears of Rock’s Top 200 Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Bands Countdown: Saxon, Opeth, Buckcherry, Iced Earth, Monster Magnet, Amon Amarth, Chevelle, Helloween, Six Feet Under, Soulfly, Filter, Deicide, Anvil, Cannibal Corpse, Trivium, Kreator, Doro, Coheed and Cambria, Hatebreed, Voivod, Smashing Pumpkins, DragonForce, Coal Chamber, Evanescence, Ugly Kid Joe, My Chemical Romance, Apocalyptica, Shadows Fall, Limp Bizkit, Children of Bodom, Static-X, Muse, and Vision of Disorder. Bands for future consideration include Gojira, Halestorm, Five Finger Death Punch, Shinedown, and Bullet for My Valentine.
For the older Top 100 Bands of All-Time list that was released in 2010, click here.
oooh, REALLY!?!?!?!
Guns n’ Roses should be in top 3!!!!