I’m trying to create the ultimate metal playlist for my iPod. I’m looking for a bit of everything from classic 80s metaAAAAAAAAaaal!!!, death metal, thrash metal, 90s nuMetal, Industrial, and so on. So lets have’em!
Coil, “4-Indolol, 3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl],Phosphate Ester”
Does silly metal count?
All the bands are major players. The songs are my favorites and not necessarily their best known.
Black Sabbath, “Paranoid”
Iron Maiden, “Hallowed Be Thy Name”
Judas Priest, “The Hellion/Electric Eye”
Alice in Chains, “Them Bones”
Deep Purple, “Smoke on the Water”
Led Zeppelin, your call
Manowar, “Kill With Power”
Motorhead, “Ace of Spades”
Helloween, “Future World”
Venom, “Black Metal”
Korn, “Blind”
Disturbed, “Stupify”
Van Halen, “Hot for Teacher”
Def Leppard, “Too Late for Love”
Metallica, “Fade to Black”
Megadeth, “Peace Sells”
Candlemass, “Solitude”
Celtic Frost, “Circle of the Tyrants”
Slayer, “Jesus Saves”
Anthrax, “Among the Living”
Bathory, “Blood Fire Death”
Kyuss, “Thong Song”
Electric Wizard, “Vinum Sabbathi”
Death, “Scavenger of Human Sorrow”
Danzig, “Mother”
Dream Theater, your call
At The Gates, “Under a Serpent Sun”
Spinal Tap, “Big Bottom”
In Flames, “Satellites and Astronauts”
Dark Tranquility, “Punish My Heaven”
Faith No More, your call
Vision of Disorder, “Twelve Steps to Nothing”
Refused, “Summerholidays Vs. Punkroutine” (not strictly metal, but c’mon)
Ministry, “Jesus Built my Hotrod”
Morbid Angel, “Rapture”
Deicide, “Dead by Dawn”
Carcass, “Carnal Forge”
Darkthrone, “Natassja In Eternal Sleep”
Napalm Death, “You Suffer”
Dethklok, “Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle”
Voivod, “Astronomy Domine”
Dillinger Escape Plan, “Caffeine”
Dragonforce, your call
Stratovarius, “Eyes of the World”
Swallow the Sun, “Silence of the Womb”
Sentenced, “Neverlasting”
Amorphis, “Goddess of the Sad Man”
System of a Down, “Cigaro”
Symphony X, “King of Terrors”
Theatre of Tragedy, “And When He Falleth”
AC/DC, your call
Emperor, “Ye Entrancemperium”
Therion, “Son of the Staves of Time”
Tiamat, “The Scapegoat”
Corrosion of Conformity, “Heaven’s Not Overflowing”
Tool, “Ænema”
Immortal, “My Kingdom Cold”
Týr, “Hail to the Hammer”
Finntroll, “Slaget Vid Blodsälv”
Grave, “Bullets Are Mine”
Into Eternity, “Selling God”
Lacrimosa, “Liebesspiel”
Isis, “Weight”
My Dying Bride, “Sear Me”
Ahab, “The Pacific”
Evoken, “In Pestilence, Burning”
Neurosis, your call
White Zombie, “More Human than Human”
Nightwish, your call
Savatage, “Morphine Child”
Solefald, “Christiania (Edvard Munch Commemoration)”
Arcturus, “Master of Disguise”
Nevermore, “The River Dragon Has Come”
Iced Earth, “Disciples of the Lie”
Alice Cooper, “Desperado”
Cradle of Filth, “Heaven Torn Asunder”
Earthride, “For Mere Remains”
Einherjer, “Ironbound”
GNR, your call
I think that’s enough for now.
Couple I forgot:
Pantera, “Fucking Hostile”
Rage Against the Machine, “Killing in the Name of”
Opeth, “The Leper Affinity”
Monster Magnet, “Space Lord”
Rammstein, “Amerika”
Annihilator, “Back to the Palace”
For the stoner/doom set:
Boris - Electric
The Sword - Freya
Sunn O))) - Rabbits Revenge
Earth - Omens and Portents 1: The Driver
Electric Wizard - Torquemada 71
Sunn O))) and Boris - The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)
High On Fire - Devilution
Orange Goblin - They Come Back
Witch - Disappear
Dragonforce, wholeheartedly seconded
Hammerfall, your call (I like “Natural High” and “Renegade”)
Metallica, “Master of Puppets (album)”
I have nothing to add to ultrafilter’s list, except to say that back in the late 1980’s, I played in a band that did a few covers, and incredibly, I can only think of two songs we did that aren’t on that list. So the question for YOU, ultra, is what do you have against Metal Church’s ‘Badlands’ and Sodom’s ‘Remember the Fallen’ ?!?! [and why were you spying on our rehearsals]
I never really got into Metal Church, and if you liked Sodom well enough to cover them, you’re probably not interested in my opinion of their work. If I were going for more thrash outside the big four, I’d nominate work from Exodus, Testament, Kreator and maybe Overkill.
The best metal I’ve come across recently has been from Scar Symmetry. All three of their albums are amazing, and any one of their songs would go well on any metal playlist.
Interested in power metal?
Avantasia, Rhapsody [of Fire], Dragonforce (thirded)
Funny metal?
GWAR
Viking/Death metal:
Amon Amarth, Ensiferum
I like all these bands enough to recommend any random song from any of them. And obviously most of the stuff ultrafilter mentioned.
Here are my additions:
80’s
Ozzy - Anything off of Diary of a Madman
Sanctuary- White Rabbit (cover)
Crimson Glory - Lost Reflections or In Dark Places
Leatherwolf - Black Knight
Rammstein - Links 234, Feuer Frei
Twisted Sister - We’re Not Gonna Take It
Apocalyptica - In the Hall of the Mountain King
Cello quartets never sounded so fucking hardcore.
Off the top of my head I would suggest:
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[li]The Deftones - Needles & Pins[/li][li]Ministry - Just One Fix[/li][li]Tool - Stinkfist[/li][/ul]
Here are just a few select things from some of my favorite metal bands. For the most part, these are bands from whom I could recommend many, many tracks, but I’m trying just to pick one, (or a few if I can’t help myself).
Trivium - “Entrance of the Conflagration”, “Detonation”
Rammstein - “Ich Will”, “Sonne”, “Keine Lust”
Machine Head - “Halo”
Slipknot - “Left Behind”, “Wait and Bleed”, “The Nameless”
Mudvayne - “Dig”
Megadeth - “Symphony of Destruction”, “Peace Sells”
Metallica - “Battery”, “Cyanide”, “Creeping Death”
Five Finger Death Punch - “The Bleeding”, “Hate Me”
Hatebreed - “Spitting Venom”, “Destroy Everything”
Pantera - “Walk”, “Cowboys from Hell”
Lamb of God - “Pathetic”, “Redneck”
And I must also second Dethklok’s “Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle”. It may be silly, but it’s damn good metal at the same time.
I have to mention a duet that I just ADORE. One dude from Symphony X, one from Masterplan.
Allen/Lande “The Battle” (available on iTunes). The Revenge is their second and IMO inferior album. Kinda symphonic or melodic metal, and fabulous stuff.
Jesus, he’s back! Run, Kilroy, run!
Judas Priest, Breaking the Law, Another Thing Coming, Living After Midnight
Scorpions, Rock You Like a Hurricane
Ratt, Round and Round (poppy, but a great song)
Anything off Van Halen and VHII.
Metal Church only really had one great album (Blessing In Disguise), but having said that, I haven’t listened to it in well over a decade. A definite thumbs up for eighties era Kreator.
I’ll put in a vote for anything off Fates Warning’s Awaken The Guardian or The Spectre Within. Both of these recently had great reissues with better sound and bonus tracks/videos.