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Dave Sherman

Stuart Anstis

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Roman Kostrzewski

Matt Wolfe Former Byzantine drummer

Eric Wagner

Joey

William Mecum

Paulo Turin

Lars-Göran Petrov

Rich Lipscomb

The King of Drumming Neal Peart R.I.P.1-7 2020

Timi "Grabber" Hansen

Reed Mullin

Richard Brunelle

Tony Särkkä aka It

Peter Hobbs

Erik Lindmark

Earl Root

Dimebag and Peter

Ralph Santolla

Fabiano Penna

Killjoy

Martin E. Ain R.I.P.: Oct 21st, 2017

A true superhero Bill Tolley

Mick Zane passed away on December 23rd of 2016

Adam Sagan passed away on Dec 5th 2016 from Lyphoma

Leonard Haze, the original drummer for veteran Bay Area rock band Y&T, has died at the age of 61.

Nick Menza passed away from a heart attack on 5-21-2016

4-18-16 Aleah Stanbridge passed away after a battle with cancer at the age of 39

Riverside Guitarist Piotr Grudziñski passed away on February 22 2016 at the age of 40

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1-24-16 Jimmy Bain passes away at the age of 68

Lemmy passed away on 12-28-15 at the age of 70

Fast Eddie, Lemmy and Animal

Philthy Animal Phil Taylor passed away on November 11th 2015 at the age of 61

Singer David Van Landing passed away on 11-17-15 at the age of 51 from a car accident !

AJ Pero Passed away on 3-20-15

10-18-2015 Sadly, Bassist Frank Watkins has lost his battle with cancer. REST IN PEACE

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Heavy Metal Hall of Fame

Very strict guidelines to be excepted

Early Doom, Power and Heavy

Year	Genre	Band	Votes
2005	Doom / Heavy Metal / Blues	Black Sabbath	18
2005	Power	Iron Maiden	17
2005	Heavy	Judas Priest	13
2005	Power	Manowar	10
2008	Power	Iced Earth	14
2020	Heavy / Traditional / Rock	Dio	10
2020	Speed / Heavy / Power	Helloween	8
2021	Heavy	Ozzy Osbourne	10

Thrash, Speed, Crossover and Core

Year	Genre	Band	Votes
2005	Thrash	Testament	16
2005	Thrash	Pantera	15
2005	Thrash	Metallica	12
2005	Thrash	Megadeth	11
2008	Core / Punk / Thrash/ Crossover	Suicidal Tendencies	13
2020	Thrash / Speed/ Thrash	Anthrax	10

Late 70's, Early 80's Roots of Extreme

Year	Genre	Band	Votes
2005	Thrash	Slayer	19
2005	Thrash	Sepultura	13
2005	Black	Mercyful Fate	12
2005	Black Thrash	Venom	11
2008	Early Symphonic Black	King Diamond	12
2020	Early Extreme / Folk/ Viking/ Punk	Bathory	10
2021	Thrash	Kreator	9

Late 80's, Early 90's Extreme and all around Extreme

Year	Genre	Band	Votes
2004	Death	Morbid Angel	14
2004	Thrash / Death / Prog	Death	14
2004	Death Gore	Cannibal Corpse	14
2008	Death Grind (Early) Melodic( Late)	Carcass	8
2020	Death	Immolation	7
2021	Extreme	Behemoth	10
2022	Punk, Grind, Death	Napalm Death

Black

Year	Genre	Band	Votes
2005	Black Prog	Emperor	9
2005	Black	Immortal	7
2008	Sym Black	Dimmu Borgir	12
2020	Black / Exp	Mayhem	8
2021	Black/ Sym/ Melodic	Cradle of Filth	6

Melodic ,Doom, Death and Thrash

Year	Genre	Band	Votes
2005	Melodic	Opeth	17
2005	Thrash Melodic Death	Entombed	6
2005	Thrash/ Melodic	Edge of Sanity	6
2008	Melodic/ Folk	Amorphis	10
2020	Doom	Candlemass	6
2021	Doom, Thrash, Melodic, Punk	Type O Negative	8

Specialty, One of a kind, Groundbreakers

Year	Genre	Band	Votes
2004	Melodic Rock Prog	Tool	7
2005	Rock / Grundge / Heavy	Motorhead	7
2008	Symphonic / Opera	Therion	7
2020	Prog/ Melodic/ Sym/ Exp	Devin Townsend	7
2021	Black / Prog/ Melodic/ Folk / Exp	Enslaved	7
2022	Djent / Prog/ Thrash/ Death	Meshuggah