Check the list
Loudwire posted a list this week featuring their selection of the 50 most important metal bands of the 21st century.
The website clarifies that it used as criteria not only bands that formed after the year 2000, but rather bands that stood out significantly in this century, evolving the genre and elevating it to a new level. This allowed classic bands like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, and Judas Priest to appear on the list.
See the selection below in alphabetical order:
Agalloch
Amon Amarth
As I Lay Dying
Avenged Sevenfold
Babymetal
Baroness
Behemoth
Between the Buried and Me
Children of Bodom
Converge
Cradle of Filth
Dethklok
Devin Townsend Project
Dimmu Borgir
Disturbed
DragonForce
Electric Wizard
Enslaved
Ghost
Gojira
GWAR
High on Fire
HIM
Iron Maiden
Isis
Judas Priest
Killswitch Engage
Korn
Lamb of God
Mastodon
Meshuggah
Metallica
Municipal Waste
Necrophagist
Nightwish
Opeth
Periphery
Pig Destroyer
Rammstein
Sabaton
Slayer
Slipknot
Suicide Silence
System of a Down
The Black Dahlia Murder
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Tool
Trivium
Watain
Whitechapel
