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Pat Torpey
American musician
1
Paul Gilbert
American musician
2
Eric Martin
American musician
3
Richie Kotzen
American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
4
The Winery Dogs
American rock supergroup
5
Billy Sheehan
American musician
6
Extreme
American rock band
7
Testament
American metal band
8
Racer X
American heavy metal band
9
Exodus
American thrash metal band
10
Sons of Apollo
American band
11
Munetaka Higuchi
Japanese musician
12
Faith No More
American rock band
13
Flotsam and Jetsam
thrash metal group from Phoenix, Arizona
14
Forbidden
American thrash metal band
15
Black Sabbath
British heavy metal band
16
Death Angel
American thrash metal band
17
Heathen
American thrash metal band
18
Murderdolls
band
19
Stormtroopers of Death
band
20
Warrant
rock band from the United States
21
Trouble
American doom metal band
22
Metal Church
American heavy metal band
23
Slayer
American thrash metal band
24
Accept
German heavy metal band
25
Liquid Tension Experiment
American band
26
Loudness
Japanese heavy metal band
27
As I Lay Dying
American metalcore band
28
The Misfits
American horror punk band
29
Terry Bozzio
American musician
30
Dokken
American heavy metal band
31
John Sykes
musician, songwriter
32
Helloween
Power metal band
33
Derek Sherinian
American keyboardist
34
Fear Factory
American metal band
35
Takahiro Matsumoto
Japanese guitarist and music producer (1961-)
36
Tracii Guns
American musician
37
Dark Angel
American thrash metal band
38
Steven Adler
American musician
39
Skid Row
American heavy metal band
40
Skrape
41
A Perfect Circle
American alternative rock band
42
Gene Hoglan
American musician
43
Corrosion of Conformity
American heavy metal band formed in 1982
44
Carcass
British extreme metal band
45
Mark Boals
American musician
46
Anthrax
heavy metal band from USA
47
Shadows Fall
American metal band
48
Decapitated
Polish death metal band
49
Saigon Kick
band
50
Saint Vitus
American doom metal band
51
Stryper
American band
52
Mike Portnoy
American drummer
53
Whitesnake
British hard rock band
54
Arch Enemy
Swedish melodic death metal band
55
Mr. Bungle
American band
56
Twisted Sister
American rock band
57
Lordi
Finnish hard rock band
58
Labyrinth
Italian power metal band
59
In Flames
Swedish metal band
60
Scorpions
German rock band
61
The Cult
British rock band
62
Kittie
Canadian heavy metal band
63
Tomahawk
American supergroup
64
Soilwork
Swedish melodic death metal band
65
The Sword
American band
66
Overkill
American thrash metal band
67
Poison
American glam metal band
68
Soundgarden
American rock band
69
Venom
English thrash metal band
70
BulletBoys
American hard rock group
71
Avenged Sevenfold
American metal band
72
TKO
rock band from Seattle
73
Obscura
band
74
Cinderella
American rock band
75
Megadeth
American heavy metal band
