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I'll get stoned to death, but I'll say Metallica.
Yes, they popularized thrash metal and metal genre as an extension.
Yes, they're the best-selling metal band.
Yes, Ride the Lightning and …and Justice for All are great albums—they're on my favorites list also.
No, they're not "the best metal band of all time". I'd even say they're one of the weaker bands in the entire thrash metal genre. I'd rather listen to Exodus, Testament, Annihilator, Destruction, etc. than to listen Metallica, if I don't crave one of their songs particularly.
Hating metallica is a common thing nowadays, they really fell from grace a while ago when people realized they were jerk divas.
I still remember the Napster case. They should've disbanded after Jason Newsted left their sorry asses.
My hot take: Metallica should be replaced in the big 4 by Suicidal Tendencies, but don't worry, that means Rob gets to stay at least, he's the only talent they had left anyway
ST is more crossover than thrash, that's why I wouldn't add them. My big four would be like this:
I also think Rob made a successful financial decision, but his musical career took a nose dive; he entered the band when the boys were done with music and became their own tribute band.
It's also not metal to sue people for millions of dollars because they downloaded one of your shitty songs off of Napster.
They lost their cool after the Moscow concert.
Best is subjective once you are bigh enough and can deliever what you sell or not make a fool out of yourself.
But... Metallica is way too consistent in their discography to be anything other than huge. David Mustaine made them on Kill'em All and James Hetfield took the torch forth.