# Ultimate MetaAAAAAAaal playlist **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307 "2008-10-24T04:37:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/1 "2008-10-24T04:37:37Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/2 "2008-10-24T04:47:07Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Industrial Coil, “4-Indolol, 3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl],Phosphate Ester” ---
**Author:** ![Hero\_From\_Sector\_7G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@Hero\_From\_Sector\_7G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hero_From_Sector_7G)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/3 "2008-10-24T04:48:46Z")
Does [silly metal](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U) count? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/4 "2008-10-24T05:21:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/5 "2008-10-24T05:48:34Z")
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” ---
**Author:** ![SuntanTigerTamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SuntanTigerTamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanTigerTamer)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/6 "2008-10-24T06:03:03Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/7 "2008-10-24T06:19:53Z")
Dragonforce, wholeheartedly seconded Hammerfall, your call (I like “Natural High” and “Renegade”) Metallica, “Master of Puppets (album)” ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/8 "2008-10-24T06:26:26Z")
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] ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/9 "2008-10-24T16:15:18Z")
> [@Junior\_Spaceman](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/10 "2008-10-24T16:22:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/11 "2008-10-24T16:47:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/12 "2008-10-24T22:24:43Z")
Here are my additions: 80’s Ozzy - Anything off of Diary of a Madman Sanctuary- [White Rabbit (cover)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE3HSMZGipY) Crimson Glory - [Lost Reflections](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VtVnJA6pdE) or [In Dark Places](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWLGwknOLtY&feature=related) Leatherwolf - [Black Knight](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-m2oIqx-mI) ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/13 "2008-10-24T22:29:11Z")
Rammstein - Links 234, Feuer Frei Twisted Sister - We’re Not Gonna Take It ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/14 "2008-10-25T02:20:53Z")
Apocalyptica - In the Hall of the Mountain King Cello quartets never sounded so fucking hardcore. ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/15 "2008-10-25T02:49:48Z")
Off the top of my head I would suggest: [ul] [li]The Deftones - _Needles & Pins_[/li][li]Ministry - _Just One Fix_[/li][li]Tool - _Stinkfist_[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![aerodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/16 "2008-10-25T03:01:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Righteous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Dr.Righteous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Righteous)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/17 "2008-10-25T21:43:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/18 "2008-10-25T22:03:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/19 "2008-10-26T00:57:04Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![PetW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PetW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PetW)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307/20 "2008-10-26T05:16:11Z")
[Tenacious D - “The Metal”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Q3vNXpfQw&feature=related) Yes! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-metaaaaaaaaal-playlist/469307.md?page=2)