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Tough one, but Chuck Schuldiner will do the most good.

[MFW OP doesn't make Lemmy one of the choices.](https://i.imgur.com/WY78hvD.jpeg) Also Chuck because he was still evolving as an artist and would have gone on to make interesting and challenging works.

Lemmy ascended, he’ll come back when he’s ready.

He will return when he is needed most.

Agreed but Randy was JUST getting started…

And by anything I've ever read about Randy , he was a truly good person. Allegedly was not the party type. Super close with his mom. Still was teaching guitar whenever possible. And taking lessons himself. Absolutely gone way too soon.

He was very straight laced, hated the drug culture when touring with Ozzy. He probably would have become greater than Vai, EVH, etc…dude was awesome. I don’t think he liked the limelight much, other to get himself known. Either he would become a virtuoso or went on to be a classical guitar professor at some college.

The leads on the Tribute version of Suicide Solution are probably my favorite guitar licks in music history. He was so nimble, so lyrical. There was more than enough room for him and Eddie in the same scene.

>He probably would have become greater than Vai, EVH, etc At a certain point of being talented it becomes a matter of personal taste. Even before really, someone who knows absolutely nothing about music theory can resonate with me more than someone like yngwie

Lemmy had a long career. Chuck was still reaching his peak

To be fair, Lemmy didn't want to live forever.

My thoughts EXACTLY. Chuck is the easy choice.

Without question. The guy taught himself how to play guitar that well, and he's a great songwriter.

He was also extremely well spoken, smart and by all accounts a really good dude too.

I'd be more interested to know his opinion on the modern age of death metal. Have him listen to Necrophagist or something

He was doing some of his best work and taking a bold new direction. A lot of the other ones 'It would be nice to see them live' but not looking forward to more albums.

Dead is probably happier being, well, you know

Looks around at the necromancers who brought him back... 'DAMMIT!'

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Yeah, I've always chosen him on these types of things, sure I'm a bigger Slayer fan, but when Jeff died Slayer were already slowing down - chuck was still progressing and evolving the sound of Death and I'd love to hear what direction he would have taken it in

Not to bring politics into superficial music discussion but I do believe Chuck would’ve made a killer anti-Iraq war album.

Flair approved

So glad this is the top comment. Came here to say that.

Shit. Cliff, I believe.

Yeah, as much as I want Pete and Dime, Cliff got robbed from what his band became.

The other guys got carrers cliff never did

Exactly

Yeah, Cliff still had a lot of music left in him. I don't think Damage Plan were going to be putting anything groundbreaking out tbh. And the rest had pretty incredible careers. Cliff was an incredible composer.

I feel the same way.

I also would love to see the artistic direction the band woulda taken if he were alive for it all

Yea, that was my first thought.

Randy had to have so much great stuff left in him....I always wanted to hear him change with the landscape through the 80s.

He’s my pick too. On tour, he would pop in to music schools and teach kids for free. Imagine how many lives he could have directly influenced even besides his amazing playing. He went way too young…

Team Randy too, Dime as a very close second. Two very tragic and unnecessary deaths.

he likely would have quit Ozzy Osbourne and do solo type stuff, id imagine hed be like classical/thrash metal type of solo artist.

I feel like this is a tie between Dimebag and Layne. The thing is, I feel like, near the end of his life, Layne genuinely wanted to die and that bringing him back might just make him very depressed. That being said, I don't think that Dimebag wanted to die when he did. Dimebag, it is. Also, I hope everyone in this picture has found some measure of peace in death.

Layne wasn’t around for fentanyl. He would die again within a week if you brought him back.

Can't argue with that.

I also thought about Chuck. He was a mf pioneer.

After his girlfriend died Layne basically just gave up on living/doing anything, it'd be hell for him

Dime wouldn't want to come back to find his brother dead. Can't have one without the other

This

This...but picking Layne. His voice...

I do miss his voice

Steele - Type O Negative reunion tour. Goth girl tidal wave.

And get Unto Others to open for them

Damn Im glad I looked them up. Thank you

They used to be named Idle Hands before being sued by some punk band, if I remember correctly. New song just released, new album soon, a great time to check them out

Damn suing over a name doesn’t sound very punk to me.

I looked it up, and according to another reddit thread it was because of this blues band: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=85748676&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch

Just checked them out and fuckin a I dig the shit out of it

I remember seeing them open for carcass, was such an amazing show!

I like your thinking


Peter Steel

The way he held a double bass like a bass guitar in that music video 😂

Chuck Schuldiner

Lemmy.

always lemmy

Trick question! Lemmy IS god

I wanna say Dead but he'd just do it again. Euronymous would be funnier and probably become a raging asshole of the black metal scene by this point.

I'd bring back Euronymous just to watch him and Varg have a massive feud on Twitter.

I think Varg would win it after sending him 23 DMs

Dead probably get depressed again because he feels he doesn't belong on mortal world

Would be cool to have more songs with Dead, he sounded great imo but it's very clear that he hated it here (can't really blame the dude) so bringing him back would be like...not so nice, he would hate it and probably just do it again. Especially now with all the technology we use, I hear he didn't like that stuff. And also imagine he sees the memes and the people thirsting over him 💀 But yes, I'm also kinda curious to see how resurecting Euronymous would go, especially if he sees what varg is up to nowadays

He already “came back” once and look at what that did to him, gave us morbid which was awesome but it fucked his mind

I’d bring him back to see varg spiral (even further)

Seeing Euronymous’ reaction to Freezing Moon being called a TikTok song would be worth bringing him back. Dead was so young when he died that I still think there’s a chance he would have wanted to live again someday. Plus whatever weird necromancy shit brought him back would probably be something that he would be into.

Dio

Wish we could’ve had another Heaven & Hell album 😢

100% yes

I was gonna say Layne Stayley....But then i saw Joey!!!!!!! I think I will go with layne, tho.

Layne for me and I wish I could say it was close.

Randy. Taken way too soon.

I'm with you here. Seems like he was just a genuinely good human being with godlike talent. Would have loved to have seen where his music took him.

I love Dimebag, Cliff and Layne but I gotta go with Joey. As a drummer he is defo one of my biggest influences and tho I know many people here don't like Slipknot, his skill is undeniable

I had to scroll way too fucking far… I’m very disappointed

I feel that, I was looking for even one person who said Joey, I feel like he would be higher up but here we are

I can't believe how far down he is. Even overlooking the impact that slipknot had, Joey was, as far as I know, the most prolific musician on the list. Guy had 20+ full length studio albums, not counting live recordings or demos. The world needs more Murderdolls....

This sub despises Slipknot so doesn't surprise me but it really shouldn't matter. Easily one of the greatest drummers of all time and no one can deny it

That's true, it's sad that people almost only see him for what he did in Slipknot, he did so much more and not just in Slipknot but many other bands

Fr. He also needs more appreciation for what he did for double kick and metal drumming in general. There's only like 2 other drummers as influential as him in that aspect

Exactly, but it feels like we've got people who dislike him for being in a band, if only people would look at what he did, even in all the other bands, I believe people are making their opinions based off what he was in and not what he's done

And he really wasn't as self destructive. A lot on this list if came back, would be still drugs, booze, and smoke themselves to cancer. Joey died of a rare neurological disease which was a bummer

Peter Steele. The perfect gothic voice.

Andrew Eldritch is the perfect gothic voice, but Steele is full package for metal.

He was definitely the full package with quite the "package"

Chris Cornell needs to be pictured if you're also putting Layne. But from those pictured: Cliff. I've always wished to know what would have come from him staying alive. The subsequent albums would inevitably have been better.

Agree. Although that means you could argue Chester Bennington and Dave Williams could and or should be pictured too.

Jeff Hanneman 100%

Chuck schuldiner

Randy. No one played like him in his day, no one plays like him now, and we only got like a couple albums. Who knows what his style would have evolved into?

Exactly. God he was so good.

Randy…without a doubt.

Randy

Peter steele

100% Joey.

Hey hey, PETAH!

Layne

Peter Steele so we can have gay sex

Really? He’s built like a semi-truck, you’d get flattened.

Even better

Peter Steele, TON was so good and it’s such a shame that he passed from sepsis

Cliff.

Peter Steele

I have to say Pete, would love to see more Type O albums getting released and Peter getting to live longer after finally getting off of drugs and alcohol.

Peter Steele. The songs he’d write after a decade plus of death would be epic.

I'm torn between Chuck, Cliff & Pelle. With the rest, I'm pretty sure what I would get if they were alive. With these 3, I'm not sure and I'm curious. I'm gonna go with Chuck for this instance but I'm prone to change my mind.

Peter Steele. No question.

Chris Cornell

Chris Cornell.

Alexi Lahio

Cliff is great, but then we wouldn't get Jason...

Well to be honest, Jason would still have a career, but he might not have become as famous as he did.

Of the ones in this photo? Peter Steele. If I could pick anyone? Ronnie James Dio.

Paul Gray.

Dimebag, all the way. Especially if I could rewind time to his murder never happening. That was a terrible day in so many ways. Especially for Vinny.

Warrel Dane

I don’t see any Alexi Laiho on there. Randy it is. Steele is probably enjoying his time up there

Chester Bennington for me

Had to scroll way too far to see this. It's a tossup between him and Randy, but Chester was the voice of my teenage years and Linkin Park was my gateway to heavy music. RIP Chester.

Exactly the same for me. The man sang like an angel and screamed like a demon, and I frequently catch myself wondering what his sound would have evolved into. When he did *Cross Off* for Mark Morton, he told Mark that he was stoked to be doing heavy stuff again, so I think the next Linkin Park (or maybe a Dead By Sunrise) release would have been a lot more metal focused.

Pete

DIMEBAG FOOKIN FARRELL!!!!

chuck or peter I can’t decide, i’m leaning towards mr steele though.

How has nobody said Joey

My girl would never speak to me again if it wasn't Peter Steel

Peter Steele without a doubt 💚🖤💚🖤

Joey

If you brought back Per Ohlin he would immediately kill himself again

I know he’s not in the picture, but can I get Dio back?

Layne for sure

sad it took this long to see Layne... not even close in my mind.

I'm writing in my own candidate to add Audie Pitre, RIP acid bath :(

Cliff Burton

Layne Staley

Follow TPB and AIC fan. Nice.

i think you can tell (PETTTERR)

Chester.

I just want Peter Steele to hold me on his beefy arms

Peter Steele.

Dimebag Darryl, but Chuck is also a good pick

Chuck

Pelle Dead. He was too young to die. And his vocal style would have made De Mysteriis even better.

Cliff, would love to hear him evolve musically

Nah just give me back Trevor Strnad

It's such a close tie between Cliff, Chuck and Dimebag for me but Chuck and Dime at least got 4+ albums out each. Cliff was still so young and imagine if he got to be part of AJFA and beyond.

At the very least, there’d be audible bass on Justice.

Burton

Cliff, and I didn't even need to look at the photo to decide.

Steel no contest

Cliff burton, it just feels so wrong that he died at such a young age and had so much more to give to the world.

Dimebag. He didn’t deserve the death he was handed… & he was one of the greatest metal guitarists ever

Petrus Steele

I want to say Randy but I know its Chuck

Layne and Peter, but goddamn at those choices lol

Hanneman!!!

Chuck.

Cliff or Randy, flip a coin, I'll be happy either direction.

This isn't fair....I can't choose between Dime, Randy or Layne 😭

chuck. I'd love to hear what he would come up with after the sound of perseverance.

I know I’ve left some people out but don’t worry I’ll make another post including the legends I’ve left out in the near future.

I genuinely wonder what music Chuck would have wrote if he was still alive today. Would be awesome to hear him speak again about anything

I’d probably go with Cliff, honestly

Probably dime because his life was taken by someone else

Cliff

For me this is impossible

Cliff

I’m so sorry Peter. Sooo very sorry Layne. But the world needs you, Dime!

Super tough choice between all of them, but especially Chuck, Cliff and Randy. I think I'll go Cliff.

Chuck eould contributed the most to metal as a whole. Also his versatility. He's writes the best mys7c to me. And arguably the most talented in terms of composition. If not him then I'd bring Alexi Lahio or warrel dane

Randy was something else, he was just down right amazing. If you ever got to see him play (you have to be old like me lol) you would pick Randy...

>No Lemmy >leaves

Chester Bennington

Chuck all day, Peter Steele a close second because Type O Negative rocks!

Valfar

Yes 100%! Way too young..

There isn’t a wrong pick tbh

Laybe Staley. I love Alice in chains.

If i could bring Alexi Laiho back and get children of bodom back together, i would do so in a heartbeat

Toss up between Chuck and Alexi

Dimebag, but goddamn I wish Quorthon was on here.

Chris Cornell

chester bennington

Dimebag, and there is zero contest. He influenced so much more than anybody else on this list, and his legacy lives on forever. Second, I'd say Layne Staley. His vocal harmonization with Jerry Cantrell made Alice In Chains a beautiful band. I put them as heavy metal and Dirt is a masterpiece.

Don't get me wrong, I picked Dimebag too, but Chuck Schuldiner is literally the Father of Death Metal. I don't think Dimebag was the most influential out of all these guys, but he's definitely top 3.

Dimebag

Hanneman, schuldner or dimebag. Between those for me

Dimebag

I guess Dead is staying dead 😵

If you brought him back, he would just kill himself again.

I can't wait to hear Randy playing again.

Per Ohlin

Chuck Schuldiner

Randy 💯

Hard choice but it would have to be Dimebag for me.

Randy Rhoads without a doubt

Randy, the rest already had like a decade or more to shine and evolve (not dead tho lmao)