Most Popular Heavy Metal Bands (2003-2023) 

Because technically Rammstein isn't a heavy Metal Band. They are considered New German Hardness (Neue Deutsche Härte) and not Heavy Metal.

@@frimofu5888 most of the band on the top are not heavy metal band

@@frimofu5888 rubbish...Rammstein is a metal band. They are a sub genre metal band just like some of these other bands. They are famous for their heavy guitar riffs. You can ofc cal it Neue Deutsche Härte, but it`s still metal...i don`t know what the reason for not calling it metal should be???

Me too 😢

Industrial Metal = Rammstein

Right. Maiden. Pantera in the 90's.

Maybe they would be number one, but i think they dont considered as a Heavy Metal Band.

@@Rockeydooky and 80% of this list is not HMB to... but they in list! Rammstein have so heavy songs but they mainstream is industrial! Other band more poppy than Rammstein))

The list is a bit weird indeed. Like Nightwish would be doing Heavy Metal.

It seems the creator, just started with a list of 25 bands he thinks are the most popular, checked their data and disregarded all the other bands. I would assume Mastodon, Tool, Gojira, Periphery, maybe on there as well ... If Arch Enemy is up there ...

Disturbed is bigger than you give them credit for

yes and 5fdp

and BMTH would be top10 when they released Sandpit Turtle for sure, it was all over metal media..

Somethings telling me this videos bullshit

@@klemenskof nobody cared about sempiternal, it badly had 12m views on shadow moses,that was their most popular song back then

@@maneripo Oh that's interesting! so it's still not the metal scene's problem, but humanity and society one, as per usual :D

As much as I love seeing some of my most favorite bands in that list, I don't think that internet searches are a good indicator for that. I mean Metallica is the only metal band that really broke into mainstream and is even known by people that don't care about rock music at all, and there's not been a moment in time where they haven't been the most popular metal band since they released the Black album. And to see that Linkin'Park was obviously purposefully excluded from that list, when bands like Korn and Disturbed aren't just shows that this list is rigged anyways. LP is basically the only band from the wider metal genre to ever pose a challenge to Metallica's no.#1 spot.

Это не хэви метал, только iron maiden, judas priest heavy metal 🤘

Yes but it surprise me that Lacuna is the only gothic metal band, that thing was huge back then i think we well see Evanescence or HIM in the list

​@@Eluarelon That's why Metallica is at the Top of this list most of the time, but that still doesn't mean there aren't any other bands with popolarity success

​​@@Eluarelon That's why Metallica is at the Top of this list most of the time, but that still doesn't mean there aren't any other bands with popolarity success And I agree that LP should be included in this list too, they would probably domiate even more than Metallica especially after the 2000s

Nightwish y Whitin Temptation

Me sorprende más ver a pantera xD ya que en realidad no han sacado disco desde hace 20 años

Which is a testament to how good they were

Nightwish's never quit the top 10 in 20 years 💪 Amazing 🤟

Здесь я согласен)

Amazing isn’t it. A band like them remain relevant all this time. They’re special.

most overrated metal band ever...

@@heroinflames really? so, whats the most underrated according to you?

@@lokuragames6647 On a wider scale, tons of black, death and progressive metal bands, that are just not mainstreamy enough for their superior musicianship to be recognized. I mean there's a lot to love about Metallica ( I even love Load and Reload, while still holding MoP as one of my top 3 albums of all time). But everything they released since then completely depended on their name recognition to become successful, because the quality of their music certainly was not the cause for that success. I mean just look at Thrash metal bands like Kreator or Testament who have consistently put out better albums than Metallica in the last 20 years, that haven't even an ounce of the success that Metallica had.

@@Eluarelon Thats exacctly what I mean. I dont say that Metallica is a bad Band or that they make bad music. But its like there are tons of bands that make better music than Metallica and no one knows them.

@@heroinflames Well…..if they were better, they’d get known just as Metallica did without Social Media. Metallica are certainly not overrated. They’ve been one of the best for over 40years for a reason. Great Music.

No, that crown belongs to Metallica.

@@markoragnos6757 just for that answer i can tell that you are still a young man,in the Great Metal World.

@@jpmtlhead39 I domt doubt Iron M greatness. I love Led Zappelin and Motor head as well. But I feel Metallica extraordinary reach and connection to fans over 40 something years just edges it as the best adn biggest band in the world.

If you are Over 55 you know why Iron Maiden are the Greasted Heavy Metal,Ever and have the Greastest Fan Base for an Heavy Metal Band. Mate a Band that plays for 250.000 thousand people like they did in 2001 during Rock in Rio just shows how Big this Heavy Metal Band without any Mainstream support (like those guys who sold their soul for Fame and Fortune,and now are trying to going back in time because they know what they did,like the Great Lemmy Kilmister always Said " when you stop playing what you realy like,because some guys told you that you might achive another level of "rewarding" and you accept, that's the true Prostitution",and has Ever he was right. Maiden like Motorhead were Cast away many Times,but always belived in what they where doing was right,but specialy they never Turn their backs on their true and real fans. That's what makes Legends. Iron Maiden without the support of the " make shitty music hits" were able to sell more than 100 million Records,cd's,even cassetes,and Nowadays streams,only that puts Metallica in a very uncomfortable place ( not money wise )that is who is the Real Deal. And they know it,their souls are long gone,but Iron Maiden Soul stills banging,anyday,anytime everywhere,with millions across the world " Scream For Me...". Up The Irons.

You're living in the past grandpa. Im sorry to burst your bubble but old metal has no chance against modern metal bands. Not even close. Modern metal is so much more powerful, so much stronger, so much heavier, so much more energetic, and at the same time more melodic and more groovy and more dynamic too... But it's ok grandpa, stay in the past... It's probably better for you that way, because the modern metal bands would be too overwhelming and shocking for you 😂😁 But it's ok, the old bands already had their prime time in the past, so it's all fair and deserved.

YEAH! When sabaton appeared in the video, I was like "let's go sabaton 🤘🏼"

@@stenorn84 same, I think I was first introduced to metal and hard rock by bands like Thousand Foot Krutch, Skillet, and Linkin Park, but Disturbed and Sabaton are what fully got me into metal, so they have a special place in my heart. I was watching disturbed the whole time, until I spotted sabaton near the end and tried to split my attention between the 2

It coincide with their release of the "heroes" album!

For me, it Was Christmas Truce

It's always the same ... look what happened to AC/DC after Bon Scott died.... do you think the career would have been the same ... maybe, but not the sales for the Back in Black album ...

I believe this is because Helloween has never been a mainstream band, especially outside the European market. In the United States the band is only known in very specific niches and I believe this results in this video. Notice that no other band of the style appears, such as Blind Guardian, Stratovarius, Angra etc.

@@brunouchoa1467 Helloween is very big Europe but also in South America and in Japan.

I agree with you, but I believe that the US market has a very large share for the first on the list.

@@brunouchoa1467 Yeah and most people probably misunderstand how much bigger the U.S. market is compared to everyone else. And let's face it, while Helloween has been one of the most beloved bands here in Europe, even their most successful album - Keeper II - only sold 250k units worldwide. A band like Avenged Sevenfold, that barely made the list, sold 1 mio. plus units with each album between City of Evil and Hail to the King in the U.S. alone. At a time when overall sales had already dropped compared to what metal bands achieved in the 80's.

Sadly but power metal never was a big genere outside europe, now sabaton and powerwolf are changing that

But Slipknot only the last 18 years, Metallica and Iron for 40 years that was really incredible

Who

I guess they are too complex for the avergage simple minded person 😂 The average audience need more simple music because anything that is even a little bit more complex or diverse would overwhelm them 😂

@@RockandMetal-u9x I guess so.

It really is 😢

for example Jinjer 🤘

@@rudolfbecker4313 I really expected Jinjer to appear on this chart in 2021

Yeah, that's the sad thing there... I felt like most of the bands shown have been around for at least 15+ years. Are there really no new, good metal bands? Maybe it's just hard for newer bands to become popular.

Well maybe not from the 2010 or 2020 era, but at least we can still consider Disturbed, SlipKnot, Bullet for my Valentine, Linkin Park and Nightwish as relatively modern metal music, because their style and sound is still very modern and up to date even today. Compared to the most other older bands which already sound very outdated in comparison with modern metal bands (except for KoRn they also still have a very powerful metallic sound since they were the first band to use a 7-string guitar so they can still keep up with modern Metal too)

Based on google searches that's a bit hard since google started around 97/98

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Yup

I don't like them but yes

Yh same, it's a shame that a gimmicky band is the main Japanese metal band that has gotten really big in recent years when the country has soo much more to offer

@@rubengardinerart their not really a gimmick anymore.

“Metal”

Slipknot as well. They fought for first place more than any other band. Korn and slip knot are only beat out by Metallica right now for most listened to metal bands. They’ve been right there especially slipknot to carry that flag easily.

Hey grandpa just because YOU don't know more modern metal bands (because you are stuck in the past) doesn't mean there arent any modern and pooular Metal bands. You just don't know them because you're stuck in the past, but that doesn't mean there aren't more modern metal bands today 😂 Modern metal is much better and superior over the old music anyway. I perosnally don't even listen to these old bands anyway because they are *too soft* and too boring for me perosnally, aince I'm already used to much heavier and more energrtic modern metal bands of today. So i need more heavier and more energetic Metal that modern bands offer and deliver today. And im not the only one who feels that way, many young people of today (up to 30 years of age) feel the same way. So no, we don't even need the old music from the 80s or 70s or 60s anyway. We are not all relying on old music. We already have enough modern metal bands which are much better and suoerior anyway. And every year many more new bands arise. Modern metal has so much more to offer, why should we saste our time with boring old stuff that can't deliver as much as the modern bands? 😂

@@RockandMetal-u9x Cheers dad now toddle off and don't forget to get your colostomy bag changed.

@@chrisparnham oh did i hurt your feelings granny? 😁

@@RockandMetal-u9x Omg you're carrying on haha. I was minding my own business when I got your reply to a comment I made god knows how long ago. No, it did not hurt my feelings it was inaccurate, crass and stupid and made me laugh. I thought I'd give you a taste of how stupid you sounded but of course, you didn't get it. This is over now bore off.

Technically Rammstein isn't a heavy Metal Band. They are considered New German Hardness (Neue Deutsche Härte) and not Heavy Metal.

@@frimofu5888 With that logic slipknot and korn are not "Heavy" metal. They are Nu metal. I could also say that BFMV is metalcore, Metallica and Megadeath is Trash metal, Within Temptation is symphonic metal, Lacuna Coil is Gothic Metal, etc etc etc. If we talk about Metal in general Rammstein is industrial Metal and should be in the ranking.

@@cristianlucianodesideri9195 Th-rash metal, not Trash metal. Trash is another word for garbage / rubbish.

​@@cristianlucianodesideri9195 What he means is that Ramstein does not have any traditional Heavy Metal elements, they are more Hard Rock with Industrial elements as you alredy pointed out (some of their songs are literally Pop Rock like "Ohne Dich"). In comparison *SlipKnot, Bullet for my Valentine* and *Nightwish* have at least some Heavy Metal elements because they are *NOT* only 1 genre alone, but instead they fusion multiple different genres together, including alternative metal (Nu-Metal), Rap Metal, Hip Hop, Thrash Metal and Heavy Metal elements all combined together. Having only 1 genre is so 1960. But we don't have 1960 anymore, this is a thing of the past. Most of the modern bands blend multiple genres together, this makes their music and style more dynamic and more vibrant and more interesting. This is what makes bands like SlipKnot so unique in the first place.

Popularity does not mean actually liking something. It literally just means knowing something or at the very least having heard of something before, that is the definition of polularity. So if you search for soemthing it means you have heard of it

Opera with METAL That's a big difference 😈😈

Is this based off records sold? Surprised to see dt aswell.

@@Heatwave9000 I believe the OP said it was based off of internet searches. But of course, it's only as good as OPs data set - there might be bands with more searches but that OP didn't include in their data collection, for example.

Linkin Park is a joke, nothing to do with metal.

​​​​​@@Seba03111976 Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't metal That's not how it works mate 😂 Linkin Park is definitely one of the best metal band in existance, at least their 2 first albums *Meteora* and *Hybrith Theory,* which are some of the best metal albums ever released 🎸

KoRn definitely is Metal, they are using heavily doentuned metallic riffs with heavy punchy drumming and heavy metal growls and even heavy Breakdowns. They are much heavier than Metsllica So KoRn is 100% metal

Linkin Park has nothing to do with metal.

​@@Seba03111976 Linkin Park literally started their career with 2 Metal albums in 2000 and 2003 so they definitely are a Metal band, even if they changed their style to more Pop music later, but that still didn't erase their first 2 albums. Meteora and Hybrith Theory are in fact the most successful modern metal albums in history

That makes complete sense.

LoL 😂😂😂

Well, all of their albums have sold millions. Even though metalheads tend to praise the first four albums, their mainstream success started from the 5th and has been steady ever since.

Not quite, sure the Black Álbum never left the billboard 200 wich helps a lot, but after that massive álbum every álbum they've released has sold millons, including cover albums, Live albums, a movie, Lulu, and massive massive touring since 82', only band to have played 6 continents and ever before antártica they went to places so Hidden that more "hardcore" bands never even tried to go.

Well nowadays they are, and it's based on Google searches

@@DanzGmod565 google searches is not the same as selling tickits to fans. Maiden is still playing in bigger venues and making more money in Europe. Slipknot in 2015 played in a venue with 6000 tickets in the Netherlands. And 2020 a venue with 17.000. In 2023 the same venue but they didnt sold out. Maiden standing in the venue 34.000 or one venue in NL (17.000) and one in Belgium (23.000).

Listen grandpa. they might been stars in the 80s but we dont have 19-something anymore we live in the 21st century now and the generation of today don't care much about old generic grandpa rock 👴🥱 They are outdated now The genaration of today cares more about modern rock and metal bands because they are more refreshing and more interesting and more dynamic than the old ones. I was born in 1991 so I'm not even part of the todays youth anynore but even I care more about modern bands (2000s) like Slipknot rather than the old grandpa bands

Maiden is old grandpa rock tho 😂

Unrelated but love the name and pfp lol

In fact they actually are "real" metal, just a diffeent type but still Metal 🎸🔥

This is actually accurate The generation of today don't really care about old grandpa rock 🥱👴 The old grandpa rock is fading and outdated Modern metal is way superior It's heavier, more energetic, more powerful, more groovy, more rhytmics, more melodics, more emotions, more dynamic, more vibrant, more interesing 😂

Or which new platinum or gold thingy is going up on the wall. xD (forgot what its called) xD

Nightwish is heavy metal with symohonic elements They are just more popular than epica, because Nightwish was featured in Mainstream Pop on TV that's why they are so popular, while Epica never seen on TV (at least not in my country)

Some of these aren't even heavy metal bands

There is no way Tool was included. They would top the list for sure in late 2019, when Fear Inoculum came out.

Rammstein is more Hard rock than metal Some of their songs are literally Pop Rock (Ohne Mich, America)

What's wrong with these guys

They are all Metal bands

@@RockandMetal-u9x They're not.

@@saandroosgobi9402 They are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't metal. Your personal preference doesn't change facts. Grow up

@@RockandMetal-u9x Just because they use some distortion doesn´t mean they´re metal. That´s not any preference, it´s a fact. They are shitty worthless bands pretending to be Metal. Never will they be!

They are old grandpa rock 🥱👴 Any modern Underground metal band nowadays has more punch and more energy and is heavier than them 😂

Google searches. Might wanna read the description if you want more information on a video 😆

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Press X to doubt.

Hope you checked them out! :D

@@AshleyAOculos prob a core kid go listen to real metal Ashley

@@Metalton95 symphonic metal sucks makes sense I never cared

Yeah linkin park is a titan in the music industry, period, and they're definitely one of, if not, the biggest nu metal band. Really surprised they weren't here