The GREATEST heavy metal band!!!
Not talking your favorite or the best...but the greatest. Criteria like longevity, over coming adversity, obviously song catalog...but also things like brand recognition, duration of popularity without selling out, fan appreciation.
Some great acts fail to achieve true greatness due to some of the above reasons. For example...pound for pound I think guns n roses has one of the most impressive catalogs to date...real firey shit! Great videos...BUT...Ive had tickets to see them over half a dozen times...and have physically seen them twice! Not because I couldn't make the shows...axl and slash couldn't...cunts! Metallica also very sound music...good live...sued thier fans??? Van Halen...inner band turmoil...Sammy...gone!
But a few acts seem to shine throughout the decades as survivers and thrivers.
Ac⚡Dc...around for ever! Overcame adversity with the loss of original singer..Bon Scott. Went on to achieve greater success with Johnson. Way beyond solid catalog...I would point out that the music does lack diversity and has largely been played to death, but that is far from the bands fault! A dependable sound is equal to a diverse one in my book and songs get played that people want to hear...played to death is kind of a compliment! But they neve forged a true persona other than the school boy Young thing...
KISS...What can be said about them that Gene Simmons has not already said? LOL! Great collection of tunes! Overcame much strife...turned "selling" out into "branching" out...only to "return to their roots"...with the make up they DEFINATELY had a brand...but kinda wrecked it in the 80s by losing their war paint and then later rocking the pink spandex look👎👎👎 also I'm fairly certain hey have retired more than once...which for me is a bugaboo! Still a solid act...but not my vote for greatest.
That honor would go to IRON MAIDEN! Not my favorite act...but their greatness checks almost every box...killer tunes...great fan recognition...awesome live...shit tons of records...overcame loss of original lead singer...and BRAND RECOGNITION for days! Eddie is the lynch pin in the bands successful persona...just masterfull! Every album had a musical theme that was then represented with a visual theme in Eddie!!! Just brilliant shit!
Worthy of the honor of...GREATEST HEAVY METAL BAND!!!
Let me know what y'all think!