Not my fav but to post something different: dir en grey - shitataru mourou https://youtu.be/TLXtwCViVQk
Murmaider
Quite a few, and hard to pick one, however Slania's Song by Eluveitie is up there.
The only thing they fear is you
Rip & Tear
Both by Mick Gordon
Hmmm...
Enter Sandman, and The Unforgiven (Metallica)
The Phantom of the Opera in Tarja's and Marko's version (Nightwish). Also Storytime in Anette's version.
The Keeper of the Seven Keys, and Eagle Fly Free (Helloween)
Chop Suey (System of a Down)
Dance With the Dragon (Dark Sarah)
Ace of spades (Motörhead)
.... A bunch of stuff from Guns'n'Roses, Black Sabbath, and Poison (maybe my definition of metal is wider than yours...)
Other days I'd have listed something by Evanescence, Edguy, Blind Guardian, Dream Theater, Korpiklaani, Alestorm, Nanowar, Dragonforce, ...
Yeah, I tend to be biased towards power metal, symphonic metal, and various '80s groups that are somewhere on the border between "hard rock" and "metal". I know that's not everyone's cup of tea.
Since nobody mentioned them yet, Strapping Young Lad - Detox.
Honestly though, anything that Devin Townshend touches is gold.
It's hard to pick one, but here are a few of my favorites:
Opeth - the drapery falls
Panopticon - Cedar Skeletons
Cult of Luna - The Fall
Ashenspire - The Law of Asbestos
Fen - Fear
Chop Suey. I love how jarring the tempo changes are.
meshuggah - new millennium cyanide christ. great riff, great music video
Black Sabbath, by Black Sabbath, from the album Black Sabbath.
Where do you stand on "Hocus Pocus" by Focus?
Pretty good track! But maybe not as good as Weed by Weed, from the album Weed.
Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth.
Tornado of souls for me
Five Magics for me
One by Metallica, Ratamahatta by Sepultura, The Trooper by Iron Maiden are all up there
Special mention for Gimme Chocolate by Babymetal
Woo hoo Babymetal. Have you heard Electric Cowboy x Babymetal song Ratatata? That’s a banger!
Metal is too hard to define. Some old folks would say poison is metal. Some would say only Megadeath and Pantera are metal. Some say they're pop and not metal at all. It's just not worth arguing in this sector. I grew up in the 90s and enjoy "nü metal" the 80s made shit music as far as I'm concerned and isn't metal at all. Is the music racist? Then its not metal. There's a lot of racism in bands that are considered metal. Then you have the ADHD industrial metal. What is metal and what isn't? Megadeath sucks shit outside of a few songs and are openly embraced by neonazis. It's honestly a very hipster style, with so many being labeled cool or not cool based on the time at any given moment, and whether or not they fit in.
What a peculiar title for a song
Shortest power metal song title
Changes literally every day! At the moment I'm loving Witch Club Satan's new single You Wildflower.
Also (sorry for the spam), I co-present a metal radio show which plays music from explicitly antifascist and/or anti-bigotry artists called Contra Odium.
Painkiller by Judas Priest will always have a special place in my heart due to the hours 11 year old me spent air-guitaring that solo.
Thats a hard one. But im a sucker for Metropolis part 1 by dream theater.
Right now its still probably Killing Time and Space by Nekrogoblikon. Goblins, cosmic history, and a banjo? In my metal? Helllll yeah brother.
All time? Probably Dream Theater's A change of seasons. But there's way too many to choose from.
Katatonia - Old heart Falls
Caligula's Horse - Marigold
Soen - Martyrs
Swallow the sun - Falling World
Haken - 1985
Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
Rotting Christ - Ze nigmar
Draconian - Daylight Misery
Paradise lost - faith divides us /death unites us
Leprous - Rewind
Eons Enthroned - Stormblessed (for fans of the stormlight archive)
Rhapsody (of fire)- emerald sword
Ihsahn - Mass darkness
Gojira - Flying whales
The ocean - jurassic
Opeth - fuck.. can't even pick one.. but let's say ghost of perdition
Dragony - Magic
And many, many, many more..
Arbitrary choice, but Wherever I May Roam by Metallica never gets old for me.
I definitely didn't quote this song in my highschool yearbook grad comment..
Good! That would be really embarrassing if we both quoted Metallica songs in our HS yearbooks. Which we definitely did not.
Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony - Human
This album is a Top 5/desert island choice for me, but No Leaf Clover is my favorite, though I've worn it out so much over the years.
Blind Guardian - Violent Shadows, Ride Into Obsession
Angra - Salvation Suicide, Nothing to Say
Twilightning - Fever Pitch
Shadow Gallery - Mystery
Dream Theater - The Root of all Evil
Mago de Oz - Molinos de Viento, El fin del Camino
Keldian - Never Existed, FTL
In Flames - Only for the weak Iced Earth - Frankestein Antioch - Where the dagger lies Children of Bodom - Needled 24/7
Archspire - Drone Corpse Aviator, first song that popped in my head thinking of contemporary metal
Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face, groovy and brutal
Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis, grungy doom goodness, love that bass line
What kind of metal do you like?
Meshuggah - Bleed
Rotting christ - ze nigmar
Like other people say, "favorite" depends on the context. Here are ones I've had on repeat at one point or another.
The Hammer - Kublai Khan TX
Contraband - Make Them Suffer
The Migrant - Shadow of Intent
Die Alone - A Pale Horse Named Death (this one is for a sad day)
In The Name Of God - Rotting Christ
(literally anything, Garden of Earthly Delights is a good place to start) - Apocalypse Orchestra
Looking Down The Barrel of Today - Hatebreed
Bullet With A Name - Nonpoint
WAKE UP - The Browning (whole album is good, intro is a fucking headbanger)
Where The Things Have No Color - Destrage
The Orphan - Paleface Swiss
I have to go do stuff, but that should get you started.
*I'm back and adding some more, cuz why not:
I Am The Mountain - Windrose
Captain Morgan's Revenge - Alestorm
Primo Victoria - Sabbaton
Vodka - Korpiklaani
Hardrádi - Hulkoff
Låt Napalmen Regna - Raubtier
Planet on Fire - Rob Sigurd
Hellhacker - Aaron F. Bianchi Jupiter
Destiny Crucified - Shokran
Tibet - Space of Variations
Homicide - Sammy Slamdance
I saw Shadow of Intent live as an opener for Heaven Shall Burn a couple years ago and they were great.
Not really a metal guy. I like beautiful music. I remember asking people why people who play metal don't play beautiful music. And I got no good answers. No one introduced me to Iron Maiden, who would have fit the bill. As someone who does not like metal, I can listen to every minute of "Brave New World" (2000) and enjoy the whole thing. I also like Number of the Beast and Powerslave from the 1980s, and the one that released between them.
The metal band I really love is Nightwish. They're from Finland, but I think they only have one song in Finnish? The opening to Imaginaerum. Over the Hills and Far Away is not only a cover, but it's about The Count of Monte Cristo... sort of. It's not exactly the same, but it's basically the same energy. Love triangle sends an innocent man to prison. Except in the book (and many films) the girl was his and it was the jealous lover who set him up. In this song, he messed with his best friend's wife and that's why he set him up.
And if you wanna hear how they sound live — the true indicator of what a band can do — here's Wishmaster from their final tour, I think, before they changed singers for the first time. Their composer/keyboard player is a bit of a drama queen, much like Eddie Van Halen was, and similarly, his personality would clash with diva singers over who "leads" the band. Neither of them can keep a singer. Not taking a side — incredible talent all around. Just band drama keeps them from having a consistent lineup. It happens to the best of them (see: Fleetwood Mac). So you enjoy what you can as it comes. But sadly they basically suck now. Their second singer was good too, but their third singer either isn't working for them or they're out of ideas, because their last few albums have been duds.
The entirety of their Imaginaerum album is good, but it's a bit weird. It was always meant as a companion piece for their movie, which never saw distribution in the US. So you have to watch it online. I won't help you do that, but if you're savvy, you can find it. Or maybe you're in Europe and you can just pick it up. I think you absolutely should if you can. For a while it was on YouTube (unofficially but in HD), not sure if it still is or not. Worth looking for, and it's just under an hour and a half. Much like Pink Floyd's The Wall, it's about how a musician has been driven crazy. Here, his adult daughter tries to reconcile with him before his death. Watch the movie trailer here
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