I'd say Dethklok, even though they are fictional, but they did get the highest US entry in the charts for a black metal band. I'd also be inclined to say Dimmu Borgir, but that's just cos they are my personal favourites... :-p
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Probably Cannibal Corpse, if we limit the spectrum to actual Death Metal, and don't consider these so-called 'Melodeath' bands.
If not Death (the band that is the founder of death metal), I'm gonna have to say Dark Tranquility. Dark Tranquility, Amon Amarth, In Flames, Nightrage, and Insomnium are examples of REAL melodeath (melodic death metal) and not that watered down fully commercialized crap melodeath.
Xasthur, Hypothermia, Lifelover etc
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Pantera.
I'd have to go for either Slipknot or Korn.
Iron Maiden.No comparison between their net worth and Metallica's. actually James Hetfield, from Metallica, is the richest man in heavy metal...Metallica is easy the richest.
No, Poison Black is not a Christian band. They are a Gothic metal band.
Really the first black metal band was Venom, from England. But the country most known for black metal is Norway. The black metal bands there defined the genre.