# The Essential Music Library: Metal

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 21, 2005, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-essential-music-library-metal/336596 "2005-12-21T06:20:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![BlackNGold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BlackNGold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackNGold)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-essential-music-library-metal/336596/41 "2005-12-23T15:29:22Z")

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I’m going to nominate Accept, either _Restless and Wild_ or _Balls to the Wall_. An under-appreciated band, IMHO.

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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-essential-music-library-metal/336596/42 "2005-12-23T16:49:00Z")

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> [@PetW](#):
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> Not to mention they’re probably the only metal band that regularly infuses Middle Eastern (Armenian) melodies into their songs. The lyrics tend to be pretty vague, but come across as very meaningful.

Well, Zep have a few Egyptian melodies which are similar to middle eastern 😉  
( get hold of No Quater - Plant and Page, Unleaded dvd ). I think Extreme had some middle eastern styled melodies as well.

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