# Best metal songs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856 "2017-10-25T23:44:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/21 "2017-10-27T03:07:39Z")
If the OP gets in the mood for shit a little less mainstream… In the early 80’s, Florida was a major hotbed for metal (as well as surprisingly la belle province du Quebec), and Death, founded by metal guitar nabob Chuck Schuldiner\*, was one of the forerunners of the scene. “Flesh and the Power it Holds”, off their seventh and final release _The Sound of Perseverance_, is sort of like a suite - eight and a half minutes of all these different heavy parts and styles. At the time this came out, in 1998, it turned a lot of heads, upping the technicality with complex song structures. To the uninitiated, Chuck’s vocals here might sound like Connie Stevens after drinking drano. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XjB101k2Bog/maxresdefault.jpg "DEATH - 'The Sound of Perseverance' Reissue (Full Album Stream)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjB101k2Bog) \*“…the band’s driving force, Chuck Schuldiner, is acknowledged as the originator of extreme metal.” - wiki. I’ve posted these rascals before, and why not again…Cephalic Carnage, from Colorado, are merchants of grind metal that is nothing short of synapse-shorting, especially live - unbelievable to watch. Ganja grind! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G14u64D-Sc The vocals here should hopefully get you in a very angry mood: Neurosis - ["The Doorway"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUBegD4\_Bn4) from \*Times of Grace\* (ha! there's a part in here that reminds me \*so\* much of a part in King Crimson's "One More Red Nightmare".) Maryland’s Dying Fetus - [“Your Treachery Will Die With You”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Jjy3Zy7kk). Through John Gallagher’s trademark ‘gurgle-growl’ vox here one can discern a dislike of a certain someone in power. And in case you’re not all frazzled out, I’ll leave you with some [Internecine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTc4abzOdAs). ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/22 "2017-10-27T07:13:41Z")
Here’s a whole album by High on Fire. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yVjZ3eIF0c0/maxresdefault.jpg "High On Fire - The Art Of Self Defense - Full Album") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVjZ3eIF0c0) ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/23 "2017-10-27T07:32:44Z")
ISIS, “In Fiction”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sopiG1Qhlh8/hqdefault.jpg "Isis - Panopticon - 3 - In Fiction") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sopiG1Qhlh8) ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/24 "2017-10-27T12:47:38Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’ll restrict myself to only 2017 stuff; here’s 9 tracks: > > [King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Rattlesnake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-i1XZc8ZwA) (okay, more psychedelic rock, but these guys have played Roadburn, so they’re metal enough) I know this isn’t, necessarily, a listen-and-comment thread, but I’ve got to say… I loved that ! It pegged a few meters on my musical dashboard. I’m not shittin’ you; this link was fulfilling on many levels. I’m not usually one to enjoy the video, but well… c’mon. This is something else. The comments on that page are a great way to reflect on what you’ve just experienced. Thank you, **Bo**. ---
**Author:** ![Real\_Iggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Real\_Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Real_Iggy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/25 "2017-10-30T04:52:11Z")
It’s REALLY tough to choose but here goes. In no particular order, five of my favorites have to be : Dio- Strange Highways [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQMPRTyJyEU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQMPRTyJyEU) Danzig- Mother [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gw5pyjBYmQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gw5pyjBYmQ) Savatage- Morphine Child [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzDRwx4AnFk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzDRwx4AnFk) WASP- Animal (F\*uck Like a Beast) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1qt7oeM9HY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1qt7oeM9HY) Ozzy Osbourne- Believer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxYP\_HImgu4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxYP_HImgu4) ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/26 "2017-10-30T06:59:15Z")
Baroness, [A Horse Called Golgotha](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qii59-7JAM) And I’m trying to decide which Mastodon but will go with [Once More Round The Sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhqSeYFpKZw). And Red Fang’s [Prehistoric Dog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VufilzHKTqk), because beer can armour. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/27 "2017-10-30T10:38:19Z")
[The Ace of Spades](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co9yv2NjyWs) has not been mentioned yet, shurely shome mishtake? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/28 "2017-10-30T12:24:20Z")
Kamelot-Forever Dream Theater- Surrounded Nightwish-Endless Forms Most Beautiful Pagans Mind-Aegean Shores Ozzy Osbourne-Crazy Train ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/29 "2017-10-30T15:19:52Z")
[quote=“Larry\_Borgia, post:22, topic:799856”] Here’s a whole album by High on Fire. [/QUOTE] High on Fire was one of my best concert experiences ever! The audience was in a swimming pool, the band on the edge. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/30 "2017-10-30T15:30:56Z")
High on Fire is indeed excellent. We need some White Zombie in here too, “[Welcome to Planet M.F.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8gHMU-pDbU)” ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/31 "2017-10-30T15:38:20Z")
Some old metalcore stuff, and some local DC/Baltimore stuff: Damnation AD - [On A Pale Horse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYHoyXJg6HI) Integrity - [In Contrast of Sin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axirxOGBdg0) Earth Crisis - [Unseen Holocaust](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io_Js9cpLJk) Nothingface - [Bleeder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6uawGBDGCg) Next Step Up - [Passive Aggression](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iMeU4O1LkQ) ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/32 "2017-11-01T01:03:10Z")
Overkill. doesn’t matter which, pick one Nuclear Assault - Critical Mass Exodus - Toxic Waltz (cause it’s silly) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/33 "2017-11-01T03:10:42Z")
> [@somepumpkin](#): > > I know this isn’t, necessarily, a listen-and-comment thread, but I’ve got to say… I loved that ! > > It pegged a few meters on my musical dashboard. I’m not shittin’ you; this link was fulfilling on many levels. I’m not usually one to enjoy the video, but well… c’mon. This is something else. The comments on that page are a great way to reflect on what you’ve just experienced. Thank you, **Bo**. I’m very glad that you enjoyed it, **shunkpiker** ; you’re welcome. The video works well with the song, aye. I’ll offer y’all another nine, all but the Jello/DOA tune are from the last couple of years: [The Fat Dukes of Fuck - Full Metal Jack Off](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVHcKkSruj0) \*\*\*\*\* IN NO WAY IS THIS SAFE FOR WORK!!! \*\*\*\*\* (punk/metal from Las Vegas, baby!) [Jello Biafra with D.O.A. - Full Metal Jackoff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJMP0FEz51U) \*\*\*\*\* IN NO WAY IS THIS THE SAME SONG!!! \*\*\*\*\* (punk as fuck/metal as fuck) [Perturbator - Tainted Empire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSGu55BpDVo) (whack industrial synth rave metal) (instrumental) [Tardive Dyskinesia - The Electric Sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O6lVYFH1OE) (prog metal) [Slomatics - Troglorite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsJGvCRrd3Q) (dooooooooooooom!) [The Last Band - White Powder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMDWpZc6GEQ) \*\*\*\*\* NSFW! \*\*\*\*\* (mosh pit metal) [Dead Label - Throne Of Bones](https://vimeo.com/149781402) (brutal 21st century metal) [Infant Annihilator - Soil The Stillborn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2EY6urC4tg) \*\*\*\*\* NSFW!!! \*\*\*\*\* (insane brutalist grindcore; seriously: this is the most brutal music on the planet right now (and an album that I haven’t been able to stop listening to for over a year now) [Bad Guys - Prostitutes (Are Making Love In My Garden)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcZ3oxMhpmU) \*\*\*\*\* NSFW! (duh) \*\*\*\*\* (dirty, nasty alcohol-soaked weed-smoking metal) and a bonus entry: [Christian Fitness - Bees Mode](https://youtu.be/yrHjFykfhFE?t=13m33s) (not technically metal but it totally fucking rocks; like a 21st century Gang Of Four (the band not the communists)) ---
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[I am the Dog - Nevermore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5lcmGLW5VE) [Demon of the Fall - Opeth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT_waNzdKMg) [Tablescrap - Stolen Babies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1_5ul4Nr_A) [Stellar Tombs - Draconian](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQlboFvHGQ4) [Color of Blood - Chelsea Wolfe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJQR6D8NbKI) [Where the Dead Ships Dwell - In Flames](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylfn0o66jwM) [Ember - One Eyed Doll](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh2Rpq8HH8w) ---
**Author:** ![Mavic\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mavic\_Chen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavic_Chen)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/35 "2017-11-01T17:04:52Z")
[Death Metal Batman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKmGC9qYSD4) and [Batmetal Returns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53HDr0-Qew) ---
**Author:** ![Hanover\_Fist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Hanover\_Fist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanover_Fist)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/36 "2017-11-29T15:59:56Z")
Black Sabbath: Paranoid Children of the Grave NIB Snowblind Hole in the Sky ---
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> [@somepumpkin](#): > > I know this isn’t, necessarily, a listen-and-comment thread, but I’ve got to say… I loved that ! > > It pegged a few meters on my musical dashboard. I’m not shittin’ you; this link was fulfilling on many levels. I’m not usually one to enjoy the video, but well… c’mon. This is something else. The comments on that page are a great way to reflect on what you’ve just experienced. Thank you, **Bo**. Who hell, who are these guys?! I’ve just left Youtube on autoplay and I’m on my sixth or seventh King Gizard song. This is pretty incredible stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/38 "2017-11-29T18:33:07Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Who hell, who are these guys?! I’ve just left Youtube on autoplay and I’m on my sixth or seventh King Gizard song. This is pretty incredible stuff! 😃 KG&tLW are from Australia. They play psychedelic rock and are quite good at it. They’ve been a band since 2010. In 2011 they released an EP; 2012 saw the release of their first proper full-length album. Since then, they’ve released 12 full albums, including 5 this year alone. The 5th, [Polygondwanaland](http://www.kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com), was just released 12 days ago and is available for free at that link (but if you want a hardcopy, you have to make it yourself (from their templates, natch)). And yeah, the guys seem incapable of producing a song that is below “acceptable” levels, often reach “engaging” and “memorable” and occasionally achieve Instant Classic Earworm status (like with Rattlesnake). [Here’s their bandcamp page](https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/music), too. ---
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[Korn’s cover of “Another Brick in the Wall”, all three parts in one track.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzkiJJ_NkD0) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856/40 "2017-11-29T22:51:52Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 😃 > > KG&tLW are from Australia. They play psychedelic rock and are quite good at it. They’ve been a band since 2010. In 2011 they released an EP; 2012 saw the release of their first proper full-length album. Since then, they’ve released 12 full albums, including 5 this year alone. The 5th, [Polygondwanaland](http://www.kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com), was just released 12 days ago and is available for free at that link (but if you want a hardcopy, you have to make it yourself (from their templates, natch)). > > And yeah, the guys seem incapable of producing a song that is below “acceptable” levels, often reach “engaging” and “memorable” and occasionally achieve Instant Classic Earworm status (like with Rattlesnake). > > [Here’s their bandcamp page](https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/music), too. Cool. Interesting stuff, and stylistically broad. I’m just randomly clicking through each of those albums on Bandcamp. and it almost feels like a different band made each one. The one you linked to sounds like psychedelic microtonal krautrock, if there were such a genre. 🙂 Not really what I think of as “metal,” (though if they laid some heavy distortion on the guitars, they’d be most of the way there) but some of their other stuff definitely crosses into more popular definitions of the genre. It’s gonna be fun chewing my way through this stuff. Thanks! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-metal-songs/799856.md?page=3)