# Heavy Metal music suggestions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067 "2009-10-08T16:55:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/21 "2009-10-09T04:01:29Z")
> [@IluvAxCx](#): > > Those bands aren’t fucking heavy metal douche bag. RATM is hard rock. Soundgarden (although considered heavy metal, they are more grunge), and Godsmack… well lets not get into that. Personal insults aren’t allowed in Cafe Society. I can, however, tell you that the Opie and Anthony bands you named sound gay as shit. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/22 "2009-10-09T04:17:10Z")
> [@IluvAxCx](#): > > Those bands aren’t fucking heavy metal douche bag. Welcome to the board, **IluvAxCx**. You can say what you want about any type of music, but you’re not allowed to insult other posters in any part of this site except The BBQ Pit. Please don’t do this again. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/23 "2009-10-09T04:46:55Z")
I recommend Lizzy Borden. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/24 "2009-10-09T05:17:12Z")
> [@IluvAxCx](#): > > P.S. Amon Amarth is folk/viking metal. > [@](#): > > To set the record straight, how would you categorize “AMON AMARTH” musically? I’ve heard so many labels being put on the music from Death metal to Viking metal. Who would know better than the band themselves? (Laughs) > > Johan Hegg: We play Death Metal. We write about Vikings so therefor some refer us to Viking metal, but I have no idea what that is. I can’t imagine the Viking’s veer into metal at all except on the swords and stuff. And musically, I guess they only played these strange lip instruments and some bongos or whatever. [cite](http://www.themetalweb.com/amonamarthinterview.html) Because of their use of melody, which has become more of a factor for them in the last 5-6 years, I thought they might be of interest to **Sir T** , just like I suggested **Sepultura** , even tho they don’t strictly fit the definition of a prog band. Lighten up, Francis. ---
**Author:** ![St.Anger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@St.Anger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Anger)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/25 "2009-10-09T06:08:31Z")
As a former college radio metal DJ, I’m gonna fill out yer metal library right here right now with a good mix of all genres of metal, but no pussy shit! 🆒 **Motorhead "No Sleep 'til Hammersmith"** If you are really serious, try and track down the cassette version, guaranteed to blow out your speakers. Greatest live metal album ever. The cassette deal also applies to Venom’s “A Little Light Night Music” live double album. **Celtik Frost "Morbid Tales"** Heaviest album EVER made. Hands down. It will weigh you down after just listening to it! **Skid Row "Slave to the Grind"** Suprisingly thrashing sophomore followup. The guitars just shred through your speakers, and setting aside the pretty boy image, Sebastian Bach simply shreds the vocals. This album is rockingest. **Black Sabbath "Dehumanizer"** Dio sheds his bullshit dungeons and dragon lyrics, Tony Iommi gets back to basics, this ranks near the tops in terms of uncompromising heavy, heavy Sab CDs. **Motley Crue "Shout at the Devil"** I was never a big Crue guy, but every song on this album kicks ass. \*\*Accept “Metal Heart” \*\* Udo Dirkschneider unplugged would still be metal. Be prepared for dogs to surround your house after playing this, however. **Judas Priest "Stained Class"** In a famous 80s court case, a high school kid killed himself while listening to this. You KNOW there must be backwards masking involved, now how metal is that? **Slipknot "Iowa"** I’m still scared to play this CD. I’m afraid the Devil is going to show up and kill everyone in my neighborhood every time I play it. There’s actually 2-3 other titles I am guessing belong on this list, but its after 2pm and I have to be up in 5 hours, and I’ve been drinking all night, so fuck off, I’ll think of those later! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/26 "2009-10-09T13:21:35Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > **Architects** (the UK band), **Architect** (the US band) (but not **The Architects** , which is a US punk band) This is hilarious. Thanks for the overall education…checking out the links… ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/27 "2009-10-09T14:18:50Z")
I going to post a link to the track list for the upcoming [heavy metal themed videogame Brutal Legend.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%BCtal_Legend) ---
**Author:** ![Haunted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/898d66/32.png) [@Haunted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/28 "2009-10-09T14:22:44Z")
Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath. And I think that’s really all you need to know. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/29 "2009-10-09T17:18:49Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > This is hilarious. Thanks for the overall education…checking out the links… Yeah, it’s comical. You should see the deer-in-the-headlights look in a record store manager’s eyes when I try and explain to him how/why they have these bands misfiled. I once found all three band’s CDs lumped into one tray in the pop/rock section of the store, and no section at all for either in the metal area. Thankfully, the guys at my local Zia store listened to me and now file Architects in metal, but they don’t yet have a divider to seperate Architect from Architects. As I bought the only copy of the Architect CD, that may not matter much. 😃 For **Sir T** : After reading your last comment again (about Dethklok) I thought maybe you’d like [Destroyer 666](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C66Tl29JP4). Great album. I’ll check back in this afternoon and see if we have any reviews of my previous links. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/30 "2009-10-09T21:59:02Z")
Other bands play, Manowar kills! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/31 "2009-10-09T22:17:08Z")
**Bo** , I’m trying really hard to find the time to go through the music, I promise I will soon… ---
**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:** [October 9, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/32 "2009-10-09T23:54:41Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > **Bo** , > > I’m trying really hard to find the time to go through the music, I promise I will soon… LOL take yer time; those links aren’t gonna expire or anything. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/33 "2009-10-10T00:29:17Z")
I happened to find this list I made from a previous thread on the subject: AC/DC - your call Ahab - The Pacific Alice Cooper - Desperado Alice in Chains - Them Bones Amorphis - Goddess of the Sad Man Anthrax - Only Anthrax - Among the Living Arcturus - Master of Disguise At The Gates - Under a Serpent Sun Bathory - Blood Fire Death Black Sabbath - Paranoid Candlemass - Solitude Carcass - Room 101 Carcass - Carnal Forge Celtic Frost - Circle of the Tyrants Corrosion of Conformity - Heaven’s Not Overflowing Cradle of Filth - Heaven Torn Asunder Danzig - Mother Danzing - She Rides Danzing - In the underbelly of the beast Dark Tranquility - Punish My Heaven Darkthrone - Natassja In Eternal Sleep Death - Scavenger of Human Sorrow Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water Def Leppard - Too Late for Love Deicide - Dead by Dawn Dethklok - Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle Dillinger Escape Plan - Caffeine Disturbed - Stupify Dragonforce - your call Dream Theater - The glass prison Dream Theater - your call Earthride - For Mere Remains Einherjer - Ironbound Electric Wizard - Vinum Sabbathi Emperor - Ye Entrancemperium Evoken - In Pestilence Evoken - Burning Faith No More - your call Fear Factory - Resurrection Finntroll - Slaget Vid Blodsälv Five Finger Death Punch - Hate Me Five Finger Death Punch - The Bleeding GNR - your call Grave - Bullets Are Mine Hatebreed - Spitting Venom Hatebreed - Destroy Everything Helloween - Future World Iced Earth - Disciples of the Lie Immortal - My Kingdom Cold In Flames - Satellites and Astronauts Into Eternity - Selling God Iron Maiden - Run to the hills Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name Isis - Weight Judas Priest - The Hellion/Electric Eye KoRn - Did My Time Korn - Blind Kyuss - Thong Song Lacrimosa - Liebesspiel Lamb of God - Pathetic Lamb of God - Redneck Led Zeppelin - your call Machine Head - Halo Machinehead - Take my scars Manowar - Kill With Power Megadeth - Hangar 18 Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction Megadeth - Peace Sells Meshuggah - New millenium cyanide Metallica - One Metallica - Sad But True Metallica - Battery Metallica - Cyanide Metallica - Creeping Death Metallica - Fade to Black Ministry - Jesus Built my Hotrod Morbid Angel - Rapture Motorhead - Ace of Spades Mudvayne - Dig My Dying Bride - Sear Me Nailbomb - Cockroaches Napalm Death - You Suffer Neurosis - your call Nevermore - The River Dragon Has Come Nightwish - your call Nine Inch Nails - Reptile Opeth - Karma Pantera - 5 minutes alone Pantera - Walk Pantera - Cowboys from Hell rage against the machine - Township rebellion Rammstein - Spiel mit mir Rammstein - Ich Will Rammstein - Sonne Rammstein - Keine Lust Refused - Summerholidays Vs. Punkroutine (not strictly metal Savatage - Morphine Child Sentenced - Neverlasting Sepultura - Dead embryonic cells Slayer - Seasons in the abyss Slayer - Jesus Saves Slipknot - Left Behind Slipknot - Wait and Bleed Slipknot - The Nameless Snot - Deadfall Solefald - Christiania (Edvard Munch Commemoration) Spinal Tap - Big Bottom Strapping Young Lad - Thalamus Stratovarius - Eyes of the World Swallow the Sun - Silence of the Womb Symphony X - King of Terrors System of a Down - Cigaro Testament - Return to serenity Theatre of Tragedy - And When He Falleth Therapy? - Knives Therion - Son of the Staves of Time Tiamat - The Scapegoat Tool - Hooker with a penis Tool - Ænema Trivium - Entrance of the Conflagration Trivium - Detonation Type O Negative - Love you to death Type O Negative - Stay out of my dreams Týr - Hail to the Hammer Van Halen - Hot for Teacher Venom - Black Metal Vision of Disorder - Twelve Steps to Nothing Voivod - Astronomy Domine White Zombie - More Human than Human Enjoy ---
**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:** [October 10, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/34 "2009-10-10T06:38:12Z")
This song by [The Autumn Offering](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWdeUyimlQ) came up while I was walking today. The lineup of the band has changed twice since this album (their 2nd), so I’m not sure what they sound like today, but this tune fuckin’ rocks. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/35 "2009-10-10T08:38:10Z")
_British Steel_ by Judas Priest is absolutely essential. No single release has had the impact of this one. ---
**Author:** ![Enniaunus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b2d939/32.png) [@Enniaunus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enniaunus)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/36 "2009-10-10T18:00:58Z")
I heavily recommend The Mars Volta’s _Bedlam in Goliath,_ particularly the track “Goliath” (although I’m for the most part a sissy Indie fan, so YMMV.) ---
**Author:** ![pope\_hentai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/37 "2009-10-11T01:30:43Z")
all these bands and noones mentioned my favorite… GWAR dammit! GWAR! GWAR! GWAAAAAAAAR! except for those couple albims in the middles… their last 3 or 4 albums have been great! ---
**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:** [October 13, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/38 "2009-10-13T14:16:16Z")
[Rumors Of War](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89h-X-tZa_w) by **High On Fire**. ---
**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 13, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/39 "2009-10-13T15:53:44Z")
If you like really heavy (heavy as in slow and dark) psychadelic metal, try Electric Wizard. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067/40 "2009-10-13T18:08:37Z")
OK! After spending a majority of my afternoon sifting through **Snowboarder Bo** ’s links (thanks SO much man) I have found my little niche. I am Progressive Death Metal! I had a great time listening to all of that, and I found that I started loving on **Mastodon** pretty good, I LOVED **Opeth** (do they have any song under 6 minutes?!?) and about cried when I heard how awesome **Amon Amarth** was. I’m in the process of looking at multiple songs by these guys. I can’t thank everyone enough for all their input! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heavy-metal-music-suggestions/513067.md?page=3)