I'll do it without Ildjarn.

Bone Awl > Raspberry Bulbs > Joyless > Katatonia > Anathema > Novembers Doom > Rotting Christ > Melechesh > Nile > Suffocation > Malignancy > Waking the Cadaver.

I'll include one that might be impossible despite a solid number of similar artists for each.

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Arcana/1070
to
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Ars ... 3540294499

edit: Nope, it's possible, though I had to use a band with only one vote.

Arcana > Autumn Tears > Grey November > Decroyah > Anathema > Tiamat > Type O Negative > Carnivore > Superjoint Ritual > Arson Anthem.

As I've been playing this I try to only use bands with enough votes to be displayed on the main page, but oh well. I'll accept it.

Zodi, you definitely beat me. I had this massive goddamn chain:

Arcana -> Nachtreich -> Pensees Nocturnes -> Gris -> Austere -> Make a Change...Kill Yourself -> Krohm -> Leviathan -> Judas Iscariot -> Darkthrone -> Celtic Frost -> Winter -> Hooded Menace -> Dream Death -> Cirith Ungol -> The Gates of Slumber -> Orange Goblin -> Corrosion of Conformity -> Crowbar -> Arson Anthem.

I think the pattern I'm seeing is that the shortest path to anything goes through Anathema.

Oh, I like this thread.

Hmm... what about The Axis of Perdition to Vektor?

Doing it with Ildjarn:
Bone Awl> Ildjarn> Wulkanaz> Tomhet> Panphage> Lja> Darkthrone> Bathory> Venom> Possesssed> Death> Morbid Angel> Deicide> Cannibal Corpse> Aborted> Ingested> Annotations of an Autopsy> Waking the Cadaver

The Axis of Perdition> Portal> Immolation> Vader> Sepultura> Demolition Hammer> Sadus> Vektor

In seven:

TAOP -> Anaal Nathrakh -> Aborym -> Dodheimsgard -> Virus -> Voivod -> Vektor

Sulphur Aeon to Dethlehem.

I guess that one was easy


Sulphur Aeon > December Flower > In Flames > Dethlehem

n.n

Using only bands with 3+ votes:

SA > Hypocrisy > Vader > Slayer > Exodus > Anthrax > Municipal Waste > Swashbuckle > Dethlehem

Dream Theater to Inquisition: (just on my own as a warm-up)

Dream Theater > James LaBrie > Soilwork > Dark Tranquillity > Hypocrisy > Depresy > Septic Flesh > Behemoth > Panzerchrist > Belphegor > Goatwhore > Inquisition

A whopping 12 degrees. Can probably be done more efficiently, any takers?

Sure.

Dream Theater -> Rush -> Dan Swano -> Edge of Sanity -> Entombed -> Morbid -> Bathory -> Immortal -> Inquisition.

In 8:

Dream Theater> Pressure Points> Opeth> Xanthochroid> Emperor> Satyricon> Immortal> Inquisition

This game is so much fun, man.

Six Feet Under to All That Remains.

Six Feet Under > Obituary > Orange Shrimp > Soulfly > Machine Head > Trivium > All That Remains

Seven, but I have a feeling the right combination could get it down to 5.

Cannibal Corpse to Theocracy.

Here was my path.

Six Feet Under > Gorefest > Dismember > At the Gates > In Flames > All That Remains

Got it on 9... Geez.

SFU > Cannibal Corpse > Aborted > Cattle Decapitation > Man Must Die > Revocation > Sylosis > The Haunted > All That Remains

I have a super fun one:
Appalling Spawn to Trans Siberian Orchestra. I just did it but I lost track of who/how many bands I went threw

Got it in 8, sure that someone could probably do it better tho.

Cannibal Corpse> Cannabis Corpse> Morbid Angel> Possessed> Slayer> Testament> Savatage> Theocracy

Did it in 8.

Appaling Spawn > Gorguts > Death > Control Denied > Sanctuary > Metal Church > Savatage > TSO

7

Appalling Spawn> Gorguts> Atheist> Control Denied> Sanctuary> Savatage> Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Deicide to Stryper?

I was practicing with Trap Them to Times of Grace, got it on 8:

Trap Them > Black Breath > Entombed > Hypocrisy > At The Gates > In Flames > Killswitch Engage > Times of Grace

Deicide to Stryper... 15 Oh God.

Deicide > Vital Remains > Nile > Fleshgod Apocalypse > Ex Deo > Mayan > After Forever > Lacuna Coil > Theater of Tragedy > Anathema > Riverside > Wolverine > Fates Warning > Iron Maiden > Stryper

Deicide > Goatwhore > Hellhammer > Motorhead > Iron Maiden > Stryper
Kinda feels like cheating when I have to press the (see more) button so many times.

Pain of Salvation to Goreaphobia?

edit: Finally did it with 12 bands.

Edit2: And again with 8 bands.

Pain of Salvation > Faith No More > Anthrax > Annihilator > Kreator > Possessed > Morbid Angel > Goreaphobia

Edited:
Pain of Salvation to Goreaphobia, 7:

Pain of Salvation > Leprous > Opeth > Edge of Sanity > Bloodbath > Morbid Angel > Goreaphobia

New one: Star One to Burzum.

In 9:

Star One > Symphony X > Myrath > Orphaned Land > Moonspell > Samael > Celtic Frost > Darkthrone > Burzum.

New one, Ulcerate to Om.

A 10:
Star One → Symphony X → Fates Warning → Psychotic Waltz → Control Denied → Death → Obituary → Celtic Frost → Darkthrone → Burzum


9: Ulcerate → Immolation → Incantation → Disembowelment → Wormphlegm → Khanate → Sunn O))) → Earth → Om

Next one: Negură Bunget to Abominable Putridity.

Seven:

Ulcerate -> Immolation -> Incantation -> Cianide -> Triptykon -> Neurosis -> Om

This game is at least giving me ideas about what to downvote for similar artists, heh.

Haha! I'm too lazy to do one of these right now, but I wanted to say this thread rules!

Hemoptysis to Enbilulugugal.

I do this all the time when i'm too lazy to type a band into the search bar. And I don't think I can do the one above me.

double poast

Hemoptysis> Arsis> Psycroptic> Suffocation> Immolation> Portal> Gnaw Their Tongues> T.O.M.B.> Luggaldimerankia> Enbilulugugal

Could probably be done better.

You could've just gone straight from T.O.M.B. to Enbilulugugal.

Still on the table:

Bah, mixed up my tabs when I was going through the connections, probably. Made the same mistake with TAOP and Vektor earlier.

Negură Bunget > Enslaved > Opeth > Edge of Sanity > Bloodbath > Cannibal Corpse > Suffocation > Skinless > Cerebral Bore > Abominable Putridity

I'd like to see Meshuggah to Scald.

Meshuggah > Sybreed > Samael > Celtic Frost > Bathory > Scald

Try and do Cynic to Taake.

Cynic> Death > Possessed > Venom > Bathory > Darkthrone > Taake