Your personal Top10 Metal Songs
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Posted by marinBG, 14.08.2006 - 14:24
so here is mine (at least at the moment):
1. Children Of Bodom - Bodom After Midnight
This is the most difficult pick ever - I simply cannot pick my favourite COB song, since this is my alltime favourite band. I love the dynamics, I love the feeling, I love the vocals, I love the technicallity and I love the writing... for this is just the perfect music. Even the new album that tends to be a little bit new just plainly makes me happy when I hear it. Great stuff!
2. Lacuna Coil - Haeven's a lie
I love Lacuna Coil. And especially the more powerfull and catchy songs. For me Heaven's a lie is the anthem of a particular approach to metal that I hope will develom more and more. It has some great melodies, an amazing chorus and some great keyboards samples that simply make the music much more colorful and interesting at least for me (I play keyboards
)3. SlipKnot - My Plague (yes, I consider this metal)
Well, for me this song combines the two post difficult things to put together in metal. Melody and brutallity. I really like catchy stuff and the chorus is both vigourus, catchy and of course melodic. While the verse retains a very cool agressive brutal feel. And the nicest part of all it that the brutallity and the catchyness can ve felt troughout the whole song. Btw, I prefer the shorter version cause it's more to the point and more in your face basicly. And it's more radio-friendly as much as a song with growling in the verse can be
and there's something I would like to note about SlipKnot's stuff. I don't think they are that untrue, because they are heavy as f**k. Actually it's most probably the heaviest and most agressive band on my list.4. In Flames - Only for the weak
In Flames for me are just an awesome band and Clayman is one of my favourite albums ever (top 5 materisal basicly). An Only For The Weak is one of the coolest songs on the album. I'm not the biggest fan of the new In Flames stuff, but Clayman for me will probably always be the best gothenburg or melodic death metal (whatever you call it) albums ever. It is catchy, it is heavy, it has crunching guitar leads. What else could you possible want?
5. Metallica - One
Do I really need to explain. I love almost eveything about that song, from the music trough the inspiration for it to the story of it. For me it signifies the entrace of metal into the mainstream which for me is a cool thing. I think the more metal spreads the better. I would be gladly watching all of the bands on this list on MTV and reading how they earn tons of money, cause I belive they all (and not only them) deserve it more than Breatney Spears or Backstreet Boys. And there's something more. And aslo the music is so great. The verses are so emotional and well written... and the ending part just freakin kicks ass!!! Again, a great song combining emotions, bisicly lyrical music with really heavy stuff. Also this is probably the only Metallica solo (Kirk is one of the weakest guitarists ever!!!) that I really dig (may be also Nothing Else Matters), cause no matter that it's not so virtuoso it's just really well written. I also chose this song cause I wanted to have Metallica on the list and I was wandering what to choose. Cause they have both heavy songs and ballads. And both rock. So I picked One also beacause it fully represents them at their best (not like St.Anger which sucked)
6. Crematory - The Fallen
Just a perfect song. Nothig else to say
Very cool keyboard melody. Great overall feel. Cool Melodic Verse and a really killer Chorus. That's it. And a cool tempo. I really dig this type of songs.7. Amorphis - Crimson Wave
Another unique song. The whole album Am Universum for a very long time was one of my favourites. Some really catchy stuff on there. And in this particular song the thing that is sung over the opening riff (a bridge or a chorus probably... I don't really know with this a bit strange song structure) just makes me wanna jump around and headbang. And in addition to all the musical quality in this song, I also have some plainly personal reasons to love it
8. Nightwish - She is my sin
Well, we just need one more Finnish band in that list, huh
I generally do not dig so much most of the stuff Nightwish do, but some of their songs are really really cool. And the coolest of them all is She is my sin. This song also helped me alongside Children Of Bodom to turn my mother into a metal aprechiator I really love the keyboards and the melody in this song. It just creates a great great feel for me. I like every single note that's in it and that is a very rare thing to happen with me. Especially with a song by Nightwish, cause didn't really like (and still don't) Tarja. No need to say that I was very happy when they kicked her out. I hope they find a singer that is not so operaic, so they can appeal to a larger audience and double the success they had with Once (which for me is thier strongest effort by far... it's just much more agressive and catchy than the older stuff.)9. Soulfly - Seekin' Strike
Max Cavalera for me is among the greatest man of metal. Basicly godlike, despite the bunch of not so good songs he's done also especialy with Prophecy for example.. I love the way he writes his music and I really love his vocals. And this particular song just makes me wanna headbang and mosh in the most brutal pit possible.
10. Sepultura - Refuse/Resist
Well, the old Sepultura. What can you say... for me they are
a legend. And as I mentioned before Max is almost a God... And for me personally this is maybe thier coolest song (among others). I really dig everything about it, which all comes down to sheer brutallity. I love the mosh vibe Sepultura have to all thier stuff (I'm talking about the old Sepultura... I wouldn't mosh on Bullet the blue sky for example unless I really have to
). And also this is again a pretty personal song for me especially with the momorry of singing in on stage (on a totally inapropriate for that one) and scarying some jazz lovers and musicians out of the hall (yep, as I said, I generally play keyboards, but when my band needs someone to grawl it's usually me + Refuse/Resist doesn't really need keyboards anyway)
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These come up to my mind right now...not 100% my definite top10 but anyway. And i won't put them in a particular order :p Slayer - Angel Of Death : the ideal song that in my opinion descibes better the metal music. It's the metal anthem for me :p Nevermore - Born : Aggressive, killer riffs, good lyrics. Definately one of my favourites. Iced Earth - Travel In Stygian : Dark, fast heavy metal song, from a kinda unique band. I love this song. Death - Scavenger of Human Sorrow : When I listen or even play that song on guitar, it makes me wanna bang everything in the room. Especially the fast part. At The Gates - Suicide Nation : For me the best song to be performed live. Septic Flesh - Little Music Box : Not the best song, but i'm kinda emotionally attached to this one. Nile - Cast Down The Heretic : My favourite brutal song. Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight : I always liked that song very much, but since they put it into GTA - Vice City (great game btw :p) and i was listening to it while i was crushing things with a car, well yeah, it's been my fav maiden's song. Emperor - Into The Infinity Of Thoughts : One of my favourite black metal songs. The atmosphere of this one is amazing. I also like to listen to it when i'm kind of depressed and i want to relax. It works :p Zyklon - Psyklon Aeon : Kick-ass song. The song that put me into Zyklon and since then i love em. Aggressive riffs, and a well placed and performed solo.
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| Dark Blood The Avenger Posts: 1435  |
This is kinda hard to pick only 10 favourite songs.. but here are they, in no particular order: Nymphetamine Overdose - Cradle of Filth I love the atmosphere of this song, I guess it's specially because of the keyboards, and both vocal. Liv's voice is great here. Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden What can I say about this one? lol It's a classic, and maybe my favourite Maiden song. Seek and Destroy - Metallica Killer riffs.. Another classic and it's always great to scream "...SEEK AND DESTROY" after James says "Searching..." in live concerts! Elizabeth (trilogy) - Kamelot I consider the 3 Elizabeth songs only 1 for obvious reasons. May be my favourite Kamelot song, it has everything in it.. a ballad, a mid tempo and a kick ass fast and heavy part. Although all parts are very catchy. FantasMic - Nightwish Always loved this song. Divided in 3 parts... It's catchy and fast in some parts. The Drapery Falls - Opeth One of my favourites Opeth songs.. simply amazing stuff. We Disintegrate - Nevermore Awesome guitar riffs, amazing vocal like usual, and lyrics are great too. Love it. Angel Of Death - Slayer A kick ass classic. Nothing more to say Kiss of Judas - Stratovarius One of the best power songs ever IMO. And of course my favourite from Stratoguys. Cowboys From Hell - Pantera Another metal classic! What more can I say?! Of course there a lot more songs, equally or even more important, but I choose these ones.
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| sq_xeper Posts: 212  |
Execration Text - Nile- I fucking love this song, its fast, its brutal, it definetely represents Nile in every aspect, I cant get tired of listening to it over and over again Silent Empire- Vader- One of the bests song from the mighty Vader, it starts with a great riff and then it breaks into a fast and killer song, it definetely represents everything in death metal The New Build- Dark Tranquillity- the best song on Character and one of my favourite songs of all time Blinded by Fear- At The Gates- One of the most influential bands of the melodic scene in Sweden and this song in particular represents every aspect of it Demigod- Behemoth- It was one of the most headbanged songs when they played in May here in Chile and I just fucking love it, it has a great intro and Inferno's drums are extremely brutal and fast on this one Adjusting the Sun- Hypocrisy I could have picked Pleasure of Molestation 'cause its their most brutal song, but I love this one because it reminds me a lot of the swedish scene and I love the riff and solos in it Psyklon Aeon- Zyklon- Brutal as hell!!!, excellent song to start an album Stripped, Raped and Strangled- Cannibal Corpse- An awesome song with great lyrics and performed alive sounds even better Spheres of Madness- Decapitated- One of the bests death metal riffs of all time!!! RIP Vitek, you will always be remembered Pierced from Within- Suffocation- Death metal masters!!! this songs gives me chills down my spine, its brutal as hell and the whole record its a piece of art ...right now these are my personal 10 but of course there are a lot of other songs but those in particular always make me remember why I love this music although I didnt pick songs from legendary bands because its too hard to pick one for example of Death, all of their records are flawless, or Morbid Angel, the same thing
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| DanielViking Posts: 163  |
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Moonspell - Alma Mater Metallica - Fade to Black Sentenced - Despair Ridden Hearts Amorphis - The Castaway Manowar - Heart of Steel Black Sabbath - Paranoid Children of Bodom - Needled 24/7 Judas Priest - Breaking the Law AC/DC - Highway to Hell 
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| MadGatsu Posts: 1312  |
Written by DanielViking on 12.11.2008 at 11:05 Iron Maiden....check! Judas Priest....check! Children of Bodom.....check! Manowar......check! Moonspell.......check! Metallica......check Wow, we got similar tastes! 
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Written by MadGatsu on 18.11.2008 at 16:42 guess what... you have good taste 
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| MétalNoir Fils du Lys Posts: 847  |
OMG OMG OMG... That's a really hard question. Well, I guess I'll just write my present top 10, since it could change entirely in a month... Oh, and no order, OK, just my ten favorite. Behemoth - Demigod The epic opening, the epic riffs, the epic lyrics... This song is the most epic of all death metal songs. And it's the first Behemoth song I ever heard. Oddly enough, most people are attached to First One's... Children Of Bodom - Silent Night, Bodom Night Best COB song ever! It has all a good guitar-centered song should have... and every COB song should have... Cradle Of Filth - Lord Abortion Most difficult pick for me, since I have, hmmm 159 COF tracks on my iPod. But, in the end, Lord Abortion wins! I had to proceed by elimination, and I think this nasty filthy song, even though it lacks symphonic elements, is the most brutal and disgusting COF song ever, I love it!  Dimmu Borgir - The Serpentine Offering The medieval/symphonic feel of In Sorte Diaboli is incredible and track one is the most epic BM song I know of. Equilibrium - Unbesiegt My favorite song ever, I just can't stop listening to it... The folk elements are so real, you almost believe you're in a jungle. I don't understand a single word of German, but it just makes the song more mysterious ^^ Into Eternity - Timeless Winter Best track from Into Eternity's best album. Guitars and vocals are just SICK. Nightwish - Nemo I almost wrote Stargazers here, but when I think real hard about it, I realize I would more likely listen to Nemo a thousand times in a row than Stargazers... But Stargazers comes next... Septic Flesh - Anubis I have a strong emotional link with that song... It just happened to be playing in my car at a very difficult time in my life and I can't help having tears in my eyes every time I listen to it, now. Symphony X - Domination SO perfect. Aggressive, yet beautiful, great technicality, every single element I love in a metal song, except maybe growled vocals, but the singer's gorgeous voice makes for it. Turisas - To Holmgard and Beyond Epic, epic, and epic again. I almost feel the urge to buy a sword and get on a drakkar to conquer the world when I hear that song. So, in conclusion, if you read carefully, I love EPIC things...
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Hmm...I guess in alphabetical order: Amon Amarth - Asator Paints just a perfect image of Thor...gets my heart pumping every time. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond Unbelievably epic...lots of spurred instrumentation, powerful solos erupting from the gallop. >=D Children of Bodom - Kissing the Shadows Lots of juicy guitar moments here, contains all the speed and distracting power that I look for in songs. Eluveitie - Calling the Rain Great variety of instruments come together here, creates a nice somber feeling that helps me get through a bad day. Ensiferum - Wanderer I'm not sure what it is here, but the song never fails to carry me away to my happy place. Finntroll - Ur Djupet This is probably just a passing attraction, but I'm a big fan of Vreth. Love the simple verse and the folk breakdowns. Kalmah - Time Takes Us All To me, this song is the epitome of the 'extreme power metal' genre, nothing but intense energy. Whenever I play this song people seem to stop what they're doing and listen up. Nile - Lashed to the Slave Stick Perfect song for getting out steam, and also seems to be a little catchier than most other Nile songs. Tyr - Brother's Bane A brilliant retelling of the death of Baldur...just blows me away. Perfectly followed in 'The Ride to Hell'. Gotta love the vocal style here, getting that kind of emotion through the progressive note structure. Wintersun - Battle Against Time Awesome song with some great use of triplets. Great song structure and lyrical inspiration here, good for long winter walks. Yeah, lots of fantasy in my music. I just can't seem to listen to anything that takes itself too seriously...:P
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| Warman Erotic Stains Posts: 7695  |
Written by bard on 16.12.2008 at 08:46 That's like me and my friends favourite booze song. Always listening to it during our drunken situations, even the non-metalheads of my friends.
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| Luciferion Posts: 139  |
1) Darkane - Convicted --- My Favorite track of my favorite album. 2) Bal-Sagoth - Cry Havoc for Glory, and the Annihilation of the Titans of Chaos (The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire: Part III) --- Every time i read this title of this song i laugh at how epic it sounds, and it's actually a really wicked song too. 3) Amon Amarth - Runes to My Memory --- Probably my favorite from Amon Amarth, due to how great it is both live and recorded. 4) Satyricon - Mother North --- The song that defined and got me into Black Metal 5) Sonata Arctica - Full Moon --- The song that got me into Power Metal, heh. 6) Primal Fear - Nuclear Fire --- One of teh first Metal Songs that really blew me away and I still love to this day 7) In Flames - Lord Hypnos --- The song that got me into metal. 8) Slayer - Reign in Blood --- More or less the song that is the perfect definition of what Metal should be imo 9) Vision Divine - Waiting For The Dawn --- A very simplistic song that just blows me away every time i hear it. 10) Nile - Sacrifice Unto Sebek --- Most Brutal song i can think of m/
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| Abattoir Staff Posts: 3695  |
I made a list of my currently top 10 songs...generally it would be very difficult to decide which are top 10 songs of all time for me, cause the taste is changing of course Anorexia Nervosa - Mother Anorexia Detonation - The Last Of My Commands Immortal - Solarfall Gamma Ray - Send Me A Sign Korpiklaani - Happy Little Boozer Poisonblack - Nothing Else Remains Charon - Colder Charon - Deep Water Dark Tranquillity - The Treason Wall Iced Earth - Angels Holocaust
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Well I do not have a definitive top ten but I will post my current In Flames - Moonshield and December Flower (Tie )Slumber - Rapture Benighted - Grind Wit Burzum - Lost Wisdom In Mourning - Past October Skies Amon Amarth - Cry of the black birds At the Gates - Blinded by Fear Dark Tranquility - Punish my Heaven Suffocation - Infecting the Crypts Immolation - Lost Passion
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| Frija Posts: 16  |
Wow, this is actually quite difficult - I'll post 10 songs that I've liked consistently, though my "favorite" songs change all the time. Emperor - The Majesty of the Nightsky -- I'd pick the entire album "In the Nightside Eclipse" if I could, all of those songs are amazing. Definitely my favorite album. Bathory - A Fine Day to Die -- This period of Bathory is my favorite - I love the mixture of black metal vocals and folkier sound/atmosphere. Dissection - Where Dead Angels Lie -- A really haunting, creepy song off of one of the greatest albums in metal period. The intro is beautiful. Candlemass - Bewitched -- One of the first Candlemass songs I ever heard, plus it's so catchy. Burzum - Lost Wisdom -- My favorite Burzum song. The lyrics of this one put forth a great message. Enslaved - Yggdrasil -- I love the solemn sound of this song and the clean vocals. IMO the best song on the "Frost" album. Evoken - Astray in Eternal Night -- It's hard for me to pick my favorite song off this album, but the intro on this one is what makes it great. Satyricon - Mother North -- Best Satyricon song (though I prefer "Dark Medieval Times" albumwise). Riffs and lyrics are awesome. Windir - Dance of Mortal Lust -- 1184 is my favorite Windir album, but this pretty much ties with The Spiritlord for best Windir song IMO. Wolfchant - A Pagan Storm -- Same as above - I love all the songs on "A Pagan Storm" but the title track really stands out.
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| Khaldi Posts: 188  |
Marduk - Christrraping Black Metal Anorexia Nervosa - Antiferno Immortal - Battles In The North Cryptopsy - Crown Of Horns Satyricon - With revenous hunger Cannibal Corpse - The Time to Kill Is Now Sworn[Arm] - My Euphorical Atmosphare ( "Of Euphoria" EP) Sworn[Nor] - Vivid Vision (it's a pretty good melodic black ) Anorexia Nervosa - Sister September Melechesh - Apkallu Counsel Limbonic Art - A Cosmic Funeral Of Memories and finaly Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here  
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| Lombjeff Posts: 7  |
Probably i forgot some great song but these 10 songs are great too: Rhapsody - Warrior of Ice (very difficult to choose, i love a lot of Rhapsody's songs) Edguy - Vain Glory Opera Angra - Carry On Gamma Ray - Rebellion In Dreamland Avantasia - The Tower Luca Turilli - Kings of The Nordic Twilight Hammerfall - Heeding The Call Stratovarius - Destiny Symphonity - Evening Star Domine - The Hurricane Master
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| Saitenhexerin Posts: 195  |
That's gonna be difficult...only one per band... *hmm* I just write them here without any special ranking...they are in the order as they come to my mind Iron Maiden - Still Life Probably one of their best songs ever for me...It has the atmosphere, the drive, just fuckin everything! Dave and Adrian's twin guitars are incredible, Steve's bassline kicks ass, Nicko rules and Bruce's Vocals on this particular song (and album) really got me into metal!!! Samson - Communion Again Bruce Dickinson on vocals...i guess he'll show up once more xD This song is so infamous but so great and sad...one of my all time favourites! I found that Samson Album when I was quite young and it was one of my first real HEavy Metal albums lol Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Coming This song just fuckin rocks! It is great to play it sing it and listen to it! A real classic song! Machine Head - Descend the Shades Of Night This was a really tough one...i love actually all of their songs, so picking one is a real pain in the ass >.< I chose this one, because this song covers their fast and thrashy side, but has also really melancholic elements and i also love the lyrics! IT was the first Machine HEad song I learned to play, so I am really attached to it^^ Metallica - Battery pure fuckin Metallica, this song represents everything they stand for (at least for my part!) and is just incredible to hear it live! In Flames - Only For The Weak One of the first metal songs that ever reached my ear and still kicks ass... The solo is so great and Anders vocals rock! Avantasia - Devil In the Belfry This has not only Tobias Sammet on vocals, but also Jorn Lande! this is a great uptempe song, to which i can listen, when I am in a bad mood and then cheer up again! IT has incredible amounts of power! Iced Earth - Watching Over Me So many good songs, and i had to chose this one, because it was the first Iced Earth song I ever heard and was avle to sing along. And it also reminds me of a very important person of me who passed away... Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth Because this song and actually the whole album is him rising like Phoenix from ashes! Progressive, heavy and it always carries me to a dark and twisted world, full of inspiration. Helloween - The Keeper Of The Seven Keys a little Opera, one of their best, still with Michael Kiske on vocals. It has so many different parts (especially that "Disease, disease my friend rocks), arrangements and ideas in there that it is a joy listening to it!
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Written by Saitenhexerin on 03.01.2009 at 01:00 Cool! A very underestimated song, not many mention it when talking Iron Maiden. I'd kill to experience it live! Probably the best of "Piece of Mind"... maybe "To Tame a Land".
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Written by [user id=35704] on 16.01.2009 at 13:04 It sure is, my favourite Wintersun song by far!
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| JAGEagent Posts: 30  |
Burzum - My Journey to the Stars Judas Priest - The Sentinel Judas Priest - Run of the Mill Cancer - Hung, Drawn and Quartered Entombed - Sinners Bleed Saxon - Crusader Slayer - Tormentor Slayer - Crionics Bolt Thrower - World Eater Obituary - Download
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| Slayer666 Posts: 2466  |
A really tough one. Don't ask me why I choose these songs, I don't know myself. I just know that they are my all-time favourites. 10. Reign In Blood - Slayer 9. The Prison of Mirrors - Xasthur 8. Nattetale - Nortt 7. De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas - Mayhem 6. Funeral in Carpathia - Cradle of Filth 5. Rege Diabolus - Rotting Christ 4. Lustmord and Wargasm - Cradle of Filth 3. To Eve The Art Of Witchcraft - Cradle of Filth 2. Blod og Minne - Gorgoroth 1. The Smoke of Her Burning - Cradle of Filth I just realised something: 10 places is too freakin' little!
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