User blog comment:MEffect Fan/The Music, The Noise and the Pop./@comment-217683-20100705201159

We're going to have to agree to disagree on some of these, mainly the best (instrument here). I'm more a fan of old metal classic rock, and a bit of the newer stuff. And no offense Armenius, but I HATE Tool. :P So let's see: were I to name my favorite metal band, it would be (and it seems blasphemous to me that nobody has listed them yet) Black Sabbath (with Ozzy, not no f-ing Ronny James Dio). Iron Maiden is a close runner up (especially these days with 3 guitarists), and the best new metal is Mastodon. Now that I listed them, some of my choices below will seem a bit odd.

Best Guitar Player- [[wikipedia:Pete Townshend|Pete Townshend)
 * Very close runners up- Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page, and Zakk Wylde.

Best Bass Player- it's a tie between Geezer Butler (I mean, c'mon! He started Sabbath!) and John Entwistle
 * Runners up- Well, it's hard to follow those two, but let's say Phil Lynott and Cliff Williams

Best Drummer- (out of left field) Frank Beard
 * Runners up- Bill Ward, Keith Moon, and Joey Jordison

Now, Vocals is more a mixed bag, with a lot more names- Best- let's just go ahead and say it, Ozzy Osbourne
 * Runners up- Peter Gabriel (either solo or w/ Genesis, as I always preferred him to Phil Collins), John Fogerty, Sammy Hagar ((yup, I'm a Van Hagar fan), Dusty Hill, and Rob Zombie|Rob Zombie. And there you go...