Right, here goes.
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Michael Schenker Group
Scorpions
Deep Purple
Saxon
WASP
Motorhead
Dio
Danzig
etc, etc

Rise Against is primarily punk, their new album is has a bit of hardcore influence and the one before it had like a song ir two that where like post hardcore, but you're trying to tell me that I didn't post metal and then you post Rise Against, what the hell.

Yeah they are, but thrash is a subgenre of metal and the dude asked for metal, thus he gets thrash as well.

slayer, as i lay dying, unearth, atreyu.

someoen else that actually likes them, woo hoo!

John Zorn/Mike Patton
Tool
Om
Electric Wizard
Black Sabbath
Kataklysm
Meshuggah
Leviathan
Mastodon
Burzum

Dragonforce
Rammstein
Slayer
Hypocrisy
Decapitated
Nile
Blind Guardian

my top 7 (?)

Death
Gorgoroth
Bathory
Emperor
Dissection
Kreator
Megadeth
Cryptopsy
Slayer
Sepultura
Burzum
Nile
Suffocation
Destruction
Black Sabbath

Between The Buried and Me
With Passion
The Black Dahlia Murder
At The Gates
Darkest Hour
Shai Hulud
Arsis
Dark Tranquility
Through The Eyes Of The Dead
The Red Chord
Poison The Well

Rise Against is punk. Don't be dumb.

right now

Abazagorath
Undying
Origin
Sleep
Arsis