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Testament
American metal band
1
Criss Oliva
American musician
2
Savatage
American heavy metal band
3
Eric Peterson
American musician
4
Glen Drover
Canadian musician
5
Forbidden
American thrash metal band
6
Chris Caffery
American guitarist
7
Exodus
American thrash metal band
8
Joe Satriani
American musician
9
Metal Allegiance
American band
10
Nuclear Assault
American thrash metal band formed in New York City in 1984
11
Megadeth
American heavy metal band
12
Vicious Rumors
American power metal
13
Death Angel
American thrash metal band
14
Overkill
American thrash metal band
15
Mattias Eklundh
Swedish musician
16
Mike Chlasciak
Polish musician
17
Destruction
German thrash metal band
18
Anthrax
heavy metal band from USA
19
Louie Clemente
American musician
20
Mike Portnoy
American drummer
21
Voivod
Canadian heavy metal band
22
Paul Bostaph
American drummer
23
Slayer
American thrash metal band
24
Steve Smyth
American musician
25
Revocation
band
26
Circle II Circle
band
27
Glen Alvelais
American musician
28
Havok
American band
29
Sepultura
Brazilian Metal Band
30
Annihilator
Canadian thrash metal band
31
Michael Schenker
German musician
32
Sadus
band that plays thrash metal
33
Chris Broderick
American guitarist
34
Gus G
Greek guitarist
35
Leslie West
American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter
36
Primal Fear
German power metal and speed metal band
37
Vio-lence
American thrash metal band formed in 1985
38
Alex Machacek
Austrian jazz musician
39
Tankard
German metal band
40
Jeff Loomis
American musician
41
Death
American death/progressive metal band
42
Trivium
American heavy metal band
43
Allan Holdsworth
English guitarist and composer
44
Heathen
American thrash metal band
45
Sacred Reich
American band
46
James Murphy
American guitarist
47
Vader
Polish death metal band
48
Flotsam and Jetsam
thrash metal group from Phoenix, Arizona
49
Lamb of God
metal band from United States
50
Jeff Hanneman
American guitarist
51
Takahiro Matsumoto
Japanese guitarist and music producer (1961-)
