POX: Metal Songs

I've invited metal back into my life after a couple decades of absence. I keep trying to listen to whole albums of stuff - metal can be a very album-oriented format a lot of the time and that's how I thought of it as a kid - but that's been overwhelming. I want to try an approach of listening to some of the absolute best individual tracks of metal.

So, what are your 10? Black, death, thrash, grind, doom, nwobhm, whatever.

for whom the bell tolls
angel of death
I rroldsfog faren vild
turn loose the swans
holy wars... the punishment due
unquestionable presence
the world i know
winona had a big brown beaver
the dam at otter creek
let's get loud

1. "Supernaut" by Black Sabbath
2. "Fast as a Shark" by Accept
3. "Rip Ride" by Venom
4. "(We Are) The Road Crew" by Motorhead
5. "Creeping Death" by Metallica
6. "Sanctuary" by Iron Maiden
7. "Hellion/Electric Eye" by Judas Priest
8. "Triumph of Death" by Hellhammer
9. "Dont' Change That Song" by Faster Pussycat (you heard me)
10. "Peace Sells" by Megadeth

...and about seventeen-dozen more

winona had a big brown beaver

Ummmmm.......huh?

I don't even know where to begin, but I'll try.

Iron Maiden - "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Judas Priest - "Freewheel Burning"
Metallica - "Fade to Black"
Slayer - "Black Magic"
Motorhead - "The Chase is Better Than the Catch"
Meshuggah - "Future Breed Machine"
Accept - "Princess of the Dawn"
Ratt - "Wanted Man"
Mercyful Fate - "A Dangerous Meeting"
Opeth - "Demon of the Fall"

Black Sabbath "Sweet Leaf"
Iron Maiden "Killers"
Slayer "Angel of Death"
Bathory "Blood Fire Death"
Earth "Ouroboros Is Broken"
Emperor "I am the Black Wizards"
Immortal "Mountains of Might"
Gorgoroth "Destroyer"
Satyricon "I Got Erection"
Sunn 0))) "Agharta" (total cheat!)

Anthrax "S.S.C./Stand or Fall"
Anaal Nathrakh "The Destroying Angel"
Judas Priest "Electric Eye"
Black Sabbath "Neon Knights"
Metallica "Master of Puppets"
Dark Angel "No One Answers"
Voivod "Technocratic Manipulators"
Slayer "Angel of Death"
Repulsion "Slaughter of the Innocent"
Leviathan "Receive the World"

Oh wait replace the Gorgoroth with Voivod "Missing Sequences".

I forgot Obituary "Godly Beings".

And actually I should probably put Godflesh "Pure" on there somewhere. So take the Immortal off there too.

Carcass - "Corporal Jigsore Quandary"
Napalm Death - "Mass Appeal Madness"
Morbid Angel - "Chapel of Ghouls"
Slayer - "Mandatory Suicide"
Death - "Open Casket"
Dead Horse - "Born Believing"
Craft - "Earth a Raging Blaze"
Anthrax - "A.D.I./The Horror of it All"
Metallica - "Fight Fire With Fire"
S.O.D. - "March of the S.O.D."

At the Gates "Terminal Spirit Disease"
Black Sabbath "Symptom of the Universe"
Celtic Frost "The Usuper"
Carcass "Corporal Jigsore Quandary"
Darkthrone "In the Shadow of the Horns"
Judas Priest "Painkiller"
Meshuggah "New Millennium Cyanide Christ"
Metallica "Creeping Death"
Napalm Death "Scum"
Slayer "Piece by Piece"

Transilvanian Hunger
Over Fjell Og Gjennom Torner
Skald Av Satans Sol
Slottet I Det Fjerne
Graven Tåkeheimens Saler
I En Hall Med Flesk Og Mjød
As Flittermice As Satans Spys
En Ås I Dype Skogen

+ "Wasted Years" & "A Dangerous Meeting"

Skald Av Satans Sol is a fun time jam

Arcturus - For To End Yet Again
Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance
Burzum - Jesus' Tod
Macabre - Konerak
Sigh - Iconoclasm In The 4th Desert
Primordial - Empire Falls
Emperor - With Strength I Burn
The Great Kat - Metal Messiah
Zimmer's Hole - This Is Metal
Morbid Angel - Sworn To The Black (Laibach Remix)

J0hn D. are you referring to Iron Maiden's "Wasted Years"?

Ha, after looking at other people who did "Wasted Years" on allmusic, you must be. One of my favorite Maiden songs - surprised to see anything off that album called out over other Maiden stuff.

Makes me slightly angry that I have an Iron & Wine folder on my music drive, but no Maiden. Guess I'm ripping CDs tonight.

here's another list for you. 100% sincerity this time. my last list was only six tenths sincere.

katatonia - brave
megadeth - good mourning/ black friday
burzum - det som en gang var
amorphis - drowned maid
black sabbath - symptom of the universe
mayhem - from the dark past
samael - black trip
lacuna coil - no need to explain
opeth - godhead's lament
converge - conduit

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2. Judas Priest - Dreamer Deceiver
3. Iron Maiden - Genghis Khan
4. Candlemass - Blackstone Wielder
5. Metallica - Call of Ktulu
6. Slayer - Black Magic
7. Voivod - Psychic Vaccum
8. Opeth - Deliverance
9. YOB - Grasping Air
10. Craft - According to Him

I could do this like 80 more times tonight.

At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Meshuggah - The Mouth Licking What You've Bled
Cynic - Uroboric Forms
Megadeth - Ashes in Your Mouth
Morbid Angel - Hatework
Death - Zero Tolerance
Suffocation - Pierced From Within
Dream Theater - Pull Me Under
Carcass - Heartwork
Dark Tranquility - Punish My Heaven

Fuck it ...

11. "I Am the Law" by Antrhax
12. "Fucking Hostile" by Pantera
13. "Snap your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" by Prong
14. "Say What You Will" by Fastway
15. "Hell Bent for Leather" by Judas Priest
16. "Prefabricated" by Trust
17. "Wrathchild" by Iron Maiden
18. "Disposable Heroes" by Metallica
19. "Slottet i Det Fjerne" by Darkthrone
20. "Astronomy Domine" by VoiVod
21. "Balls to the Wall" by Accept

dark tranquillity - tongues
enslaved - havenless
borknagar - the dawn of the end
carcass - incarnated solvent abuse
judas priest - painkiller
opeth - when
old man's child - soul possessed
agalloch - not unlike the waves
darkthrone - in the shadow of the horns
dissection - where dead angels lie

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Motorhead - (We Are) The Road Crew
AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire
Slayer - Angel of Death
Slayer - Raining Blood
Voivod - Killing Technology
Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells
Pantera - Mouth For War
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

Ha, after looking at other people who did "Wasted Years" on allmusic, you must be. One of my favorite Maiden songs - surprised to see anything off that album called out over other Maiden stuff.

there are bunches of other maiden jams I might have picked obv., especially stuff on of Killers, but I sure do love the hell outta wasted years

Let me do five old and five new:

Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
Judas Priest - Dream Deceiver/Deceiver
Celtic Frost - Dethroned Emperor
Fifth Angel - Call Out the Warning
Scorpions - Fly to the Rainbow

Primordial - End of All Times
Wolves in the Throne Room - (A Shimmering Radiance) Diadem of 12 Stars
Usurper - The Dead of Winter
Anaal Nathrakh - Shatter The Empyrean
My Dying Bride - L'Amour Detruit

just a question that's kind of on topic... anyone seen one of the slayer shows where they play reign in blood in its entirety? thoughts? they're doing one in sydney, see.

terrorizer - "dead shall rise"
iron maiden - "iron maiden"
entombed - "left hand path"
black sabbath - "wheels of confusion"
bathory - "a fine day to die"
dissection - "the somberlain" (or "night's blood"; can't decide)
motorhead - "limb from limb"
burzum - "det som en gang var"
emperor - "i am the black wizards"
autopsy - "twisted mass of burnt decay"

'night's blood' is awesome, true.

though for me it doesn't quite top 'where dead angels lie'. one of my favourite moments in metal is the bit that goes "touch the snow... caress the lifeless sculptures... DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

just ten was too hard, so:

sodom - "ausgebombt"
massacre - "dawn of eternity"
darkthrone - "transilvanian hunger"
slayer - "raining blood"
repulsion - "black breath"
morbid angel - "chapel of ghouls"
sarcofago - "satanic lust"
bolt thrower - "armageddon bound"
carcass - "incarnated solvent abuse"
amon amarth - "the dragon's flight across the waves" (just for the bit at the end where he bellows 'attack! attack!" really)

so who's gonna make these "RG's to Metal" available is what i wanna know?