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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.
Currently it's While we serve by Orbit Culture.
Atreyu - Bleeding Mascara, just punches you in the face with an awesome intro.
That was one of the songs that introduced me to Metalcore. I remember making a mix with that, My Last Serenade, some Folly, and some Anah Aevia, a band I can't find anything by these days.
The only thing they fear is you
Rip & Tear
Both by Mick Gordon
Since nobody mentioned them yet, Strapping Young Lad - Detox.
Honestly though, anything that Devin Townshend touches is gold.
Red Handed Denial - One More Night
Or
Spiritbox - Circle With Me
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.
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
meshuggah - new millennium cyanide christ. great riff, great music video
Chop Suey. I love how jarring the tempo changes are.
Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth.
Tornado of souls for me
Five Magics for me
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
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!
Thats a hard one. But im a sucker for Metropolis part 1 by dream theater.
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.
Right now its still probably Killing Time and Space by Nekrogoblikon. Goblins, cosmic history, and a banjo? In my metal? Helllll yeah brother.
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.
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.
In Flames - Only for the weak Iced Earth - Frankestein Antioch - Where the dagger lies Children of Bodom - Needled 24/7
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.
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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
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