METAL: The top 100 metal bands of Board 8!!

Throughout December 2009, this guy Psycho_Kenshin gathered the votes of Board 8's heavy metal warriors. You could post up to 20 of your favorite metal bands, with the top pick being worth 20 points on down to the 20th being worth 1 point.

Here it is, the official top 100 metal bands voted as only Board 8 could! With the number of points to the right. Ties were rated on a first come first serve basis. When a band got a certain number of points, they get ranked right below the other bands which already had that number.

01. Iron Maiden (259) 02. Megadeth (208) 03. Opeth (197) 04. Metallica (184) 05. Dream Theater (181) 06. Mastodon (175) 07. Black Sabbath (173) 08. Judas Priest (134) 09. Between The Buried And Me (117) 10. Blind Guardian (112) 11. Kamelot (96) 12. Protest The Hero (95) 13. Nightwish (95) 14. Agalloch (91) 15. Pantera (85) 16. Sonata Arctica (84) 17. In Flames (75) 18. Children of Bodom (73) 19. Machinae Supremacy (70) 20. Tool (67) 21. Ozzy Osbourne (65) 22. Rhapsody (63) 23. Stratovarius (63) 24. Baroness (61) 25. Converge (57) 26. Symphony X (53) 27. Death (53) 28. Iced Earth (51) 29. Devin Townsend (50) 30. Slough Feg (48) 31. Slayer (45) 32. All That Remains (45) 33. Motörhead (42) 34. Dragonforce (42) 35. Cynic (40) 36. Neurosis (39) 37. Ayreon (38) 38. Hammerfall (37) 39. Lamb of God (37) 40. Elvenking (35) 41. Ulver (35) 42. Pain of Salvation (35) 43. Skepticism (34) 44. Killswitch Engage (34) 45. Candlemass (34) 46. The Human Abstract (34) 47. Arcturus (34) 48. Accept (32) 49. Eluveitie (32) 50. Korpiklaani (31) 51. Parkway Drive (31) 52. The Dillinger Escape Plan (31) 53. Deep Purple (31) 54. Dio (30) 55. Boris (29) 56. Acid Bath (28) 57. Isis (28) 58. Primordial (28) 59. Amon Amarth (27) 60. Dark Moor (27) 61. Dark Tranquillity (27) 62. Strapping Young Lad (25) 63. Helloween (25) 64. Earth (25) 65. Cormorant (25) 66. Electric Wizard (24) 67. Diablo Swing Orchestra (24) 68. Rammstein (23) 69. Dethklok (22) 70. Moonsorrow (22) 71. Burzum (22) 72. Edguy (21) 73. Gorguts (20) 74. Slipknot (20) 75. Tristania (20) 76. Kyuss (20) 77. Tyr (20) 78. Masterplan (20) 79. Immolation (19) 80. Thin Lizzy (19) 81. Delain (19) 82. The Fall of Troy (19) 83. Theatre of Tragedy (19) 84. Savatage (19) 85. Arch Enemy (19) 86. Anthrax (19) 87. Fear Factory (19) 88. Gojira (18) 89. Dream Evil (18) 90. Flowing Tears (18) 91. Corrosion of Conformity (18) 92. Avantasia (18) 93. Misery Signals (18) 94. Overkill (17) 95. Sunn 0))) (17) 96. Silentium (17) 97. Demons & Wizards (17) 98. Burst (17) 99. Queensryche (17)

100. Gamma Ray (17)