My 40 (Ever-Changing) Favorite Songs Ever

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My 40 (Ever-Changing) Favorite Songs Ever

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*Now remixed with some of my favorite non-metal tracks! In order by preference, although it's tough with songs... and who knows what I'm forgetting? I'm not claiming these are the downright best, just my personal favorites based on my own enjoyment of them. Song titles in parentheses. Will probably change a lot, except for the top ten, which is harder to break into.
40.
1.
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
1996 (Crimson)
40.
2.
Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
2007 (Empire Falls)
40.
3.
Artillery - By Inheritance
1990 (Bombfood)
40.
4.
Agalloch - The Mantle
2002 (In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion)
40.
5.
Theatre Of Tragedy - Aégis
1998 (Siren)
40.
6.
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
1990 (Caroline)
40.
7.
Redemption - The Fullness Of Time
2005 (Sapphire)
40.
8.
Rainbow - Bent Out Of Shape
1983 (Can't Let You Go)
40.
9.
Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion
2003 (Beginning of the End)
40.
10.
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
1986 (There Is a Light That Never Goes Out)
40.
11.
Hittman - Hittman
1988 (Will You Be There)
40.
12.
Anubis Gate - The Detached
2009 (A Lifetime to Share)
40.
13.
Heavenwood - Abyss Masterpiece
2011 (Poem for Matilde)
40.
14.
Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis
1988 (Die in Pain)
40.
15.
Fates Warning - Parallels
1991 (We Only Say Goodbye)
40.
16.
Radiohead - In Rainbows
2007 (All I Need)... yes, really.
40.
17.
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
1976 (Dreamer Deceiver)
40.
18.
Kreator - Coma Of Souls
1990 (People of the Lie)
40.
19.
Angra - Temple Of Shadows
2004 (Waiting Silence)
40.
20.
Extol - The Blueprint Dives
2005 (Pearl)
40.
21.
Queensrÿche - Rage For Order
1986 (Walk in the Shadows)
40.
22.
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
1988 (The Evil That Men Do)
40.
23.
Pagan's Mind - God's Equation
2007 (God's Equation)
40.
24.
Yes - Fragile
1971 (Roundabout)
40.
25.
Septicflesh - The Great Mass
2011 (Oceans of Grey)
40.
26.
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
2010 (Night Sight)
40.
27.
Pagan's Mind - Heavenly Ecstasy
2011 (Follow Your Way)
40.
28.
Labyrinth - Return To Heaven Denied
1998 (State of Grace)
40.
29.
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
2006 (Not Unlike the Waves)
40.
30.
Saint Deamon - In Shadows Lost From The Brave
2008 (My Heart)
40.
31.
Metal Church - Hanging In The Balance
1993 (Waiting For a Savior)
40.
32.
Voivod - The Outer Limits
1993 (Fix My Heart)
40.
33.
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
2007 (Love You to Death)
40.
34.
Rush - Moving Pictures
1981 (Red Barchetta)
40.
35.
Rotting Christ - Triarchy Of The Lost Lovers
1996 (One With the Forest)
40.
36.
Pharaoh - Bury The Light
2012 (Cry)
40.
37.
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
1987 (Girlfriend in a Coma)
40.
38.
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
2006 (Deliberation)
40.
39.
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
1985 (Bonded by Blood)
40.
40.
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
1988 (Burning Bridges)
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Rush and Voivod? Thumbs up from me!
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Some really good gems in here, particularly Rotting Christ's "One With The Forest", I love that song! Into Eternity and Fates Warning's songs are also amazing.
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Every time I see an album I know I think "He's gonna take song X" and then I see you took song Y and I'm like "wait whut?".
Great list though
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Written by Zap on 04.03.2012 at 23:56

Every time I see an album I know I think "He's gonna take song X" and then I see you took song Y and I'm like "wait whut?".
Great list though

Ha, yes, I've dumbfounded more than just you by doing that, especially with Bombfood, Oceans of Grey, and Burning Bridges.
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Written by strade on 05.03.2012 at 00:20

Ha, yes, I've dumbfounded more than just you by doing that, especially with Bombfood, Oceans of Grey, and Burning Bridges.

Well Bombfood is one of the few songs I agree upon, but the latter two came to mind indeed, I would have picked Pyramid God and Masque Of The Red Death or Painted Skies.
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Amaaazing!!

You failed my "Headbanging" list i made that a year back. Amazing bunch of hard hitting Metal stuff out here. Will surely check out more.
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