only a couple questions regarding this otherwise admirable list... look up the middle. Why Hetfield over Mustaine? and behind hetfield, in the mask. Slipknot? greatest anything? and behind him. Shadows from A7X? otherwise looks like they did a pretty good job with this list great they put Manson up front with Axl, also good to see Zombie and Mike Portnoy especially.
James Hetfield fronts the biggest metal band of all-time, thats why he is ahead of Mustaine. Although Mustaine should be on there ahead of half of those guys.
Slipknot is probably the biggest heavy metal band of the last 10 years, so that explains their inclusion on it.
Avenged Sevenfold are the biggest hard rock band in the U.S today, and actually swept every category of the Revolver Golden God awards last year, so I was surprised Shadows wasn't even more front and center on this cover.
Seeing as though Marilyn Manson hasn't done anything noteworthy in 12 years, I was surprised to see him so front and center on the cover.
But once again, the list is not ranked, they are just the top 100. The way in which the cover was done had nothing to do with A being better than B, I think they just went with what aesthetically looked the best, while taking into account they had to put some of the more successful people up front for recognition purposes.
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