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I'd argue this is a precursor to metal rather than metal itself. Still a great song that everyone should listen to.
Dopesmoker by Sleep, listen to the whole thing it's a real jam
Been feeling Black Label Society lately, specifically Stillborn and Blessed Hellride.
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
Opeth - Black Rose Immortal
Got me into metal when I was very young, and overall it’s an incredible song.
It’s so hard to pick a favorite, with so many great songs out there.
Meshuggah - Demiurge
Haken - Nil by Mouth
Mick Gordon - The Only Thing They Fear is You
Tesseract - King
Animals As Leaders - Tooth and Claw
Gojira - Silvera
Not much of a metal head, but the whole Nonagon Infinity album by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is great. Also their album PetroDragonic Apocalypse.
What got me even slightly into metal, and stays mainstays on my playlists, are the albums Black Hole Space Wizard Parts 1 and 2 by Howling Giant. Cannot reccomend those enough. Also, their album The Space Between Worlds is great too, but isn't like one long story.
Wheel of Time by Blind Guardian. It's symphonic metal, which is a tiny subgenre that may not be your cup of tea, but I love it!
I really like a lot of Megadeth's Hidden Treasures since they don't pop up randomly so much I've never gotten tired of them.
Angry Again, 99 Ways to Die, Breakpoint, Go to Hell, Diadems. All great stuff.
"Postmortem" by Slayer.
As the others mentioned, there's way too many options.
Heimat - Equilibrium (folk metal)
Score to a new beginning - Fairyland (symphonic metal)
Seven pillars of wisdom - Sabaton (power metal)
At the moment, Lilith - Butcher Babies
I'm unable to pick a single one, as it shifts very often. So I opened my main Playlist to find something, so today I'll give you three very different suggestions:
In Flames - Only For the Weak.
Dimmu Borgir - Kings of the Carnival Creation.
Destiny Potato - Addict.
Ask me tomorrow and you'll get different answers
Depends on what subgenres you're into.
I really enjoy power metal, and Gloryhammer is one of my faves. He has returned, Keeper of the celestial flame, Land of unicorns, Masters of the galaxy, and Rise of the chaos wizards are all ones I really enjoy.
Prog metal is another really good genre, and Between the Buried and Me is amazing and have some fantastic concept albums. Coma Ecliptic has The Coma Machine and Memory Palace being a hell of an earworm. The Great Misdirect has Obfuscation and Feed from Cloud Mountain as those two slots, and The Parallax double album is great (part 1 is a good ep, part 2 is the main album), with Astral Body being one of the main singles and so many tracks that get stuck in my head.
I listed a bunch of other bands in this comment as well that are really good as well: https://lemmy.world/comment/19203007
Wintersaga by Wind rose. My favorite band by a long shot.
I’m not a huge metal head, but “Trapped Under Ice” by Metallica is probably my favorite. I’d strongly recommend the entire Ride the Lightning album though. Pretty much every song is great.
Right now it’s The Tales of War by Orbit Culture. Amazing band.
The Prince by Metallica is always a banger.
No Surrender by Beast in Black
Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience III - The Extermination
Blind Guardian - Valhalla is also really good.
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
at the moment aaj by bloodywood
Trollfest Kaptein Kaos
Uncle Acid and the deadbeat Melody Lane
Blood ceremony The weird of Finistere
Actually, if I need to name only one, I'd say the latest
Kickstart my Heart by Motley Crue
Changes all the time but right now I'm into Stoner Metal so:
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gila Monster
Discipline - Nine Inch Nails
Hmm, probably Vermilion by Slipknot, either part is fine...
Here's a few of my current favourites, in random order:
Amenra - A Solitary Reign Blut aus Nord - Epitome XIV Thou / Emma Ruth Rundle - Ancestral Recall Thou / ERR - the Valley Celtic Frost - A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh Zeal and Ardor - Feed the Machine Ragana / Thou - the Void Neurosis / Jarboe - Within King Woman - Boghz
Wizard Fight by Weedeater. If I had to choose.