An idea I've had for a while is a deck of playing cards with a different metal musician on each card. So what I want to know is who should be on these cards?
While 2 of the cards pick themselves (and it should be obvious who), who would you guys suggest for the cards. I'll also automatically put Tony Iommi in, cause he's Tony Iommi.

Rules:
The numbered cards (2-10, I'm including aces as face cards for this) should be instrumentalists, with the 4 suits each having a different instrument. The face cards (king, queen and jack) will all be vocalists. If they also play an instrument, they will go in the suit which corresponds to that instrument. Ace will be a singing instrumentalist. The kings should all be male and the queens female. The others can be of either sex. The jokers (either 2 or 4 in the deck) could probably be not musicians, but other people influential in metal, like cover artists, lyricists/songwriters, producers, managers, etc.

Clubs = guitars. Spades = bass. Hearts = drums. Diamonds = keyboards/others.

Designated cards:
Clubs: King = Bruce Dickenson. Numbered = Tony Iommi, James Hetfield, Mikael Akerfeldt, Dave Mustaine, Devin Townsend, Chuck Schuldiner, Euronymous, Ihsahn, Glen Tipton, Piotr Wiwczarek, Tom Warrior
Spades: Ace = Lemmy. King = Ronnie James Dio. Numbered = Cliff Burton, Steve Harris, Leif Edling
Hearts: King = Rob Halford. Numbered = Hellhammer, Cozy Powell, Joey Jordison, Dave Lombardo, Mikkey Dee
Diamonds: King = King Diamond. Numbered = Jens Johansen, Tuomas Holopainen, Rowan London

Hell i like the idea although its nerdy as hell

Judging by the title I thought it would be one of those yu gi oh like card games

You disappoint me Metal Storm. To get the ball rolling, start with who should be Ace of Clubs:

(Per MS Top 10 bands): Hetfield, Mustaine, Åkerfeldt, Schuldiner, Laiho? Certainly not Laiho.

Written by Azarath on 23.10.2014 at 00:43

You disappoint me Metal Storm. To get the ball rolling, start with who should be Ace of Clubs:

(Per MS Top 10 bands): Hetfield, Mustaine, Åkerfeldt, Schuldiner, Laiho? Certainly not Laiho.

The rest could still fill out the numbered clubs.
Anyone other than Fenriz for the ace of hearts? Snowy Shaw's the only other well known singing drummer I can think of.
Halford, Dio and Dickenson would be the other 3 kings, probably.

Written by M C Vice on 23.10.2014 at 10:16

Anyone other than Fenriz for the ace of hearts? Snowy Shay's the only other well known singing drummer I can think of.

Brann Dailor is decent as well.

Never forget Quorthon

Seth Putnam is one of the jokers. This is not negotiable.

Written by M C Vice on 23.10.2014 at 10:16

Halford, Dio and Dickenson would be the other 3 kings, probably.

Sounds about right. Ozzy is the "Prince of Darkness" so he can get a jack.

Mike Portnoy occasionally sings co-lead vocals, though there are probably better candidates for the ace of hearts.

I totally can imagine that black color be musicians from black and death metal :d

What about Fredrik Nordstrom for one of the jokers? His list of production credits is pretty impressive.

We need a card with "Tom Hardy".

Written by deadone on 29.10.2014 at 00:13

Written by M C Vice on 27.10.2014 at 02:51

What about Fredrik Nordstrom for one of the jokers? His list of production credits is pretty impressive.

But there's also Andy Sneap, Colin Richardson, Tue Madsen, Neil Kernon, Andy Wallace, the prolific if unremarkable Harris Johns, Scott Burns (father of Florida DM sound), Ross Robinson etc etc as well as Dan Swano, Peter Tagtgren.

Swano would probably be one of the numbered cards anyway. The rest we'll have to whittle it down to 2, I guess.
Any noteworthy album cover artists?

Written by Ilham on 29.10.2014 at 00:25

We need a card with "Tom Hardy".

Is that in reference to [URL=http://www.metalstorm.net/bands/album.php?album_id=77963&band_id=110&bandname=Obituary]this thread[/URL]?

Written by Wukk on 29.10.2014 at 17:21

Is that in reference to [URL=http://www.metalstorm.net/bands/album.php?album_id=77963&band_id=110&bandname=Obituary]this thread[/URL]?

Indeed. And the funniest of all is that Fear tried to talk about him again later but called him "John Hardy". So cute.

Written by Ilham on 29.10.2014 at 17:53

Written by Wukk on 29.10.2014 at 17:21

Is that in reference to [URL=http://www.metalstorm.net/bands/album.php?album_id=77963&band_id=110&bandname=Obituary]this thread[/URL]?

Indeed. And the funniest of all is that Fear tried to talk about him again later but called him "John Hardy". So cute.

At least I'm adorable

Written by [user id=126528] on 29.10.2014 at 18:53

At least I'm adorable

If there's a card left empty we'll put your face on it. On a 3 or a 2, those unwanted ones.
We should actually make a whole set with MSers, it would be much funnier.

Written by Ilham on 29.10.2014 at 20:31

We should actually make a whole set with MSers, it would be much funnier.

Indeed!

Written by Karlabos on 29.10.2014 at 22:57

Indeed!

Instead of spewing nonsense in the shoutbox I could actually use some of that time and make a couple cards with the people whose pictures I already have on facebook.

Written by Ilham on 29.10.2014 at 23:07

Written by Karlabos on 29.10.2014 at 22:57

Indeed!

Instead of spewing nonsense in the shoutbox I could actually use some of that time and make a couple cards with the people whose pictures I already have on facebook.

Yeah, you actually should. You could use the MS profile pics too. The members would be more recognizable

Written by Karlabos on 29.10.2014 at 23:26

Yeah, you actually should. You could use the MS profile pics too. The members would be more recognizable

You're right, and I wouldn't be betraying their right for privacy. Maybe you should start a thread. We're derailing this one.

Written by Ilham on 29.10.2014 at 23:31

Written by Karlabos on 29.10.2014 at 23:26

Yeah, you actually should. You could use the MS profile pics too. The members would be more recognizable

You're right, and I wouldn't be betraying their right for privacy. Maybe you should start a thread. We're derailing this one.

No. We're still talking about metal playing cards. Just a different set of them

Written by Karlabos on 29.10.2014 at 23:51

No. We're still talking about metal playing cards. Just a different set of them

Okay then you'll bear the blame if we're reprimanded .

Who shall we start with?

Written by Ilham on 29.10.2014 at 23:57

Who shall we start with?

How about Fear?
You did say he deserved a card after all =P

Written by Karlabos on 30.10.2014 at 00:08

How about Fear?
You did say he deserved a card after all =P

Daww how sweet :3

Can we make Marcel a queen? Please please pretty please?

Written by [user id=126528] on 30.10.2014 at 00:23

Written by Karlabos on 30.10.2014 at 00:08

How about Fear?
You did say he deserved a card after all =P

Daww how sweet :3

Can we make Marcel a queen? Please please pretty please?

Marcel is the queen of hearts

Written by [user id=126528] on 30.10.2014 at 00:23

Daww how sweet :3

Okay, for you I finally chose the four of clubs because of nickname it gets: The Devil's Bedpost. Goes with your username. I should improve the design but I can't be arsed right now.

Nice job. If you keep em coming I guess I'll have to print them in some sort of card material and have a deck

Most of the design will be on the heads (queen/joker/etc), but I could embellish this a little. Give it a metal edge. I'll even change the font for the numbers. Make it extra fraktur-esque. And if MC Vice comes with a full list of musicians for his set, I can do one every couple of days.

I'm half tempted to change my profile pic so that you're forced to make a new one