Just personal opinion here... But I don't listen to much metal post 1990. I'm not into any of the new wave Swedish/Finnish metal bands. Alexi Laiho can play, but he still hasn't written a song that has had all the elements of a good song... to me anyway.
You left off the original "metal" band and the band to whom many looked up to... Black Sabbath. To do what they did and at the time period in which they did it... Sabbath was the most evil metal band ever, and for that I would say they were the best metal band... But that's just me. I voted for Metallica simply because in the early days Metallica owned.
But to each his own.
