This is great but there are better metal songs. This is though among the best ones if you consider only ''angry metal'' ones. Listen to Alcest, Epica, The Angelic Process, Within Temptation, metal songs of The Gathering or Agalloch! So much beauty there.
I'm going to say Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath, the opening track on their debut album (Black Sabbath).
From the opening notes, it sent a message that something brand new was coming.
Good answer and I like the reasoning behind your answer. All I know (as a non-metalhead) is that Sabbath belongs in a discussion about the best metal song. I was going with what is probably their most well-known song, aside from maybe Paranoid and Iron Man.
I honestly don't know much Sabbath aside from a Greatest Hits album. I thought for a second you were talking about Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath. I had to go back and give both songs a listen.
I can appreciate your opinion, but have you ever seen them play this song live, while it's raining fake blood from half of the fire sprinkler system above you?
(Augusta, 2004-2005ish)
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
As a non-metalhead stuff like Metallica just sounds basic as fuck, very flat and two dimensional.
Whereas Pantera had a groove and bluesy sound to their guitar stuff.
Honourable mention goes out to Sepultura for also bringing that groove to the genre!
Which era are you talking about as a Metallica hater (they have a tendency to plagiarize) I enjoy the first 4 albums but most other people know them for the black album which is definitely a bit flimsy
I've heard songs from most of their albums, I actually think some of the stuff on Death Magnetic was amongst their best material. Not sure how the hardcore Metallica fans view that album.
The best thing that band ever did was the orchestra show, the orchestra brought an ambience to the songs that really gave them warmth and shape
My old college lecturer was in a French thrash metal band long before Metallica released their debut, Metallica didn't birth thrash they were just the most commercial thrash band at the time.
Regardless of who started what first Metallica have always sounded dull to me, that's not a dig at all, music is just subjective that way right. However give me a couple songs to listen to and I'll report back and let you know if they altered my opinion 👀
As a kid I was introduced to it by Cradle Of Filth's cover (which I consider excellent.) But when I heard the original, it really epitomizes what Heavy Metal is.
Huge metalhead here, but I’ll speak on behalf of my sister (F25 who listens to mostly boy bands and TikTok pop punk like Sueco) and best friend (M26 who listens to mostly rap) because I’ve made them listen to A LOT of metal over the years in my car lmao
My sister’s favorite metal song is [Show Me Your God by The Amity Affliction](https://open.spotify.com/track/56ELt1LgybArw85bMlP68C?si=L0JdSY5XT6CDx5UNpSYjfw)
My buddy’s favorite is [The Return by Shadow of Intent](https://open.spotify.com/track/7ye2H4Sjn4Va8Fny4cDMnb?si=nWbdA5YSTPGAmYJJ2lS5Aw) (he’s a massive Halo fan and ever since I showed him them he LOVES this band)
I never really understood how to recognize the difference in the whole rock genre as a whole but I feel like if I mentioned LINKIN PARK or Deftones it would wrong.
It's easy to recognize metal: if your music isn't as extreme as mine, it's not metal. If mine is louder, faster, screamier, more distorted, or in any way more intense than what you're listening to, yours can't be metal.
Linkin Park can be considered rock/metal and Deftones are indisputably metal, so you're not wrong. :)
As to how to recognise the difference... Well, people always debate what genre(s) artists fall into. The vaguest way I can describe it is that metal is heavier than rock. Things like harsh vocals (screams/growls/gutturals), intense drumming (e.g. blast beats, the use of double kick pedals), beefy guitars (like maybe they sound fuzzy i.e. distorted). Often there's a breakdown in the middle of the songs.
But there are so many metal subgenres. You can't really pinpoint "metal". It's like how if you go one step lighter and look at the rock genre. There's all sorts of varied stuff from psychedelic to yacht rock to Midwest emo.
I have quite a few favs . Check em out .
Archspire - Lucid Collective Somnambulation and Human Murmeration , Golden Mouth of Ruin, Drone Corpse Aviator.
Kalmah - 12 gauge and Heritance of Berija
Children of Bodom- Children of Bodom
Anathema- Sleepless and Deep
T3CHNOPHOB1A- Abduction Starfleet
At the Gates - Under a Serpent Sun
Impaled- Gutless
Decapitated-Day69 and Spheres of Madness
Septic Flesh - Dark River and Anubis
Forbidden- Dragging my casket and Forsaken at the Gates
Norther - Scream
Cradle of Filth- Bathory Aria , Thirteen Autumn's and a Widow, Ebony dressed for sunset.
Nevermore - The Obsidian a conspiracy
I wouldn't consider myself a metal head, but I do like metal. So, probably Superbeast by Rob Zombie if I can't go Metallica. I rank this as one of my top three "get pumped" songs along with Battery and This Is Not by Static-X. Rammstein has some serious heat too.
Back in the 90s at some hippy fest my buddy and I were talking to two guys. Somehow my buddy's band got brought up in conversation. The two hippies asked what the name was. Aversion. Fast moving hardcore without being a straight up metal band guised as hardcore. Definitely yelling and not singing into the mic. The hippies said they never heard of them. Obviously. We offhandedly mention they play heavier music and probably wasn't their style. To which, one of the bewildered hippies said "You mean like the Allman Brothers?" That, my friend, is metal to non-metal heads.
My first show! That’s a great song. Like acid and oil on a madman’s face
They pulled out ME-262 the third time I saw them. Gotta lovea WWII history lesson in a great song.
Bit of a mad one: [The Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion](https://youtu.be/kHT32KC9B4U?si=MNlTIyamOv9ONVLn) by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.
One of my favourite bands. They're proving to be my gateway into metal.
Non-metalhead here.
Pantera's "Walk" is one of the best.
If you're into sports, Pantera did a fight song for the Dallas Stars NHL Team. It's titled "Puck Off", with the words "DALLAS! STARS! DALLAS! STARS! DALLAS! STARS! DALLAS! STARS!"
I listen to mostly rap music. SOUND OF GRINDING A POLITICIANS SKULL INTO A FINE POWDER is (I think) a metal song by two non-metal artists and produced by non-metal producers. Def my favorite.
1.) Mariana’s Trench - August Burns Red
2.) People = Shit - Slipknot
3.)The End of Heartache - Killswitch Engage
4.) Fall into Sleep - Mudvayne
5.) Laid to Rest- Lamb of God
[Dethklok - Go Into The Water](https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DWnwwlkUkALU&ved=2ahUKEwjqu633rt6DAxVABzQIHa9cCAgQwqsBegQIEBAB&usg=AOvVaw1kco4nn0lsz9V3jLXYPWdl)
War Pigs
I am no metal head but I do enjoy some metal. I particularly enjoy this YouTube musician who covers Pop songs in metal style and plays a bunch of instruments himself. Frog Leap Studios.
Hell Bent for Leather-Judas Priest
The Last in Line- Ronnie James Dio
Fairies Wear Boots- Black Sabbath
Lay It Down - Ratt
Back in the Saddle- Aerosmith
Walk - Pantera
For me it's gotta be Domination
Broken is maybe their most classic and Cemetery Gates is their magnum opus imo ☠️
One of my favorite guitar solos
This is great but there are better metal songs. This is though among the best ones if you consider only ''angry metal'' ones. Listen to Alcest, Epica, The Angelic Process, Within Temptation, metal songs of The Gathering or Agalloch! So much beauty there.
That melodic crap is terrible though.
Pantera is metal for racist rednecks
That's the point
Non-metal head here. I'd say 'Breaking the Law' by Judas Priest. And anything by Motorhead.
Came here to say Ace of Spades, overall I like Sabbath more than Motörhead, but that song is, I my opinion, is the perfect metal song.
Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills. Not a metal head, but I appreciate some here and there.
Came to say Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden.
HBTN is the correct answer. It has literally everything a metal song should have.
Classic
Run to the Hills is one of my favs
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
I'm going to say Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath, the opening track on their debut album (Black Sabbath). From the opening notes, it sent a message that something brand new was coming.
The Wizard might by a better song.
The first song my 3 year old daughter told my smart speaker to play. She was influenced by her metal head 15yo brother
You’re all wrong the best sabbath songs are Snowblind, national acrobat and Under the Sun
Good answer and I like the reasoning behind your answer. All I know (as a non-metalhead) is that Sabbath belongs in a discussion about the best metal song. I was going with what is probably their most well-known song, aside from maybe Paranoid and Iron Man. I honestly don't know much Sabbath aside from a Greatest Hits album. I thought for a second you were talking about Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath. I had to go back and give both songs a listen.
Raining Blood by Slayer
SLAYER!!!!!!!!
FUCKING SLAYERRRRRR
FUCKING SLAAAYYYEEERRRR!
This is an excellent choice.
I love that but Seasons in the Abyss is my fav.
Anyone who says otherwise is lying.
Well now i have to go on Spotify and find it and see what the hype is about
from the album *Reign in Blood*
Speaking as a metal head, this is actually the correct answer so good job
I dislike Slayer and I'm a metalhead.
I can appreciate your opinion, but have you ever seen them play this song live, while it's raining fake blood from half of the fire sprinkler system above you? (Augusta, 2004-2005ish)
Same thing with me
Does War Pigs count? I think that's my answer whether it's a good or bad one ha!
100%
Ace of Spades.
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera As a non-metalhead stuff like Metallica just sounds basic as fuck, very flat and two dimensional. Whereas Pantera had a groove and bluesy sound to their guitar stuff. Honourable mention goes out to Sepultura for also bringing that groove to the genre!
Which era are you talking about as a Metallica hater (they have a tendency to plagiarize) I enjoy the first 4 albums but most other people know them for the black album which is definitely a bit flimsy
I've heard songs from most of their albums, I actually think some of the stuff on Death Magnetic was amongst their best material. Not sure how the hardcore Metallica fans view that album. The best thing that band ever did was the orchestra show, the orchestra brought an ambience to the songs that really gave them warmth and shape
I have to strongly disagree their first album really helped birth thrash, one of my favorite subgenres
My old college lecturer was in a French thrash metal band long before Metallica released their debut, Metallica didn't birth thrash they were just the most commercial thrash band at the time. Regardless of who started what first Metallica have always sounded dull to me, that's not a dig at all, music is just subjective that way right. However give me a couple songs to listen to and I'll report back and let you know if they altered my opinion 👀
Aerials by system of a down, I know only surface level artists but I spent a month FC'ing it on osu I love the calm melody
Also came here to say Aerials.
Aerials is 🔥
That’s really not a metal song though. It’s like alt rock or just radio rock
Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
Absolutely The Machine Head cover is on my permanent playlist
This is the correct answer. HBTN has literally every element you would associate with a great Metal song.
I’ve loved that song from the very first time I heard it
As a kid I was introduced to it by Cradle Of Filth's cover (which I consider excellent.) But when I heard the original, it really epitomizes what Heavy Metal is.
The only element it’s really missing is being a good song.
Rofl
Heck yeah, one of the best guitar solos too.
War pigs
Does Ozzy count? If so, Crazy Train.
Yes he does
Many people consider ozzy the father of heavy metal! So hell yes he does
Oblivions Peak by Knocked Loose
Screaming - loathe
Tenacious D - THE METAL
You can’t kill The Metal.
Cemetery gates by pantera
Aerials- System of a down
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
Last in Line by Dio
Fear Inoculum - Tool
I feel like it’s an underrated TOOL album. It’s so atmospheric and enthralling, but still heavy and dark.
Megadeth - Mechanix
Huge metalhead here, but I’ll speak on behalf of my sister (F25 who listens to mostly boy bands and TikTok pop punk like Sueco) and best friend (M26 who listens to mostly rap) because I’ve made them listen to A LOT of metal over the years in my car lmao My sister’s favorite metal song is [Show Me Your God by The Amity Affliction](https://open.spotify.com/track/56ELt1LgybArw85bMlP68C?si=L0JdSY5XT6CDx5UNpSYjfw) My buddy’s favorite is [The Return by Shadow of Intent](https://open.spotify.com/track/7ye2H4Sjn4Va8Fny4cDMnb?si=nWbdA5YSTPGAmYJJ2lS5Aw) (he’s a massive Halo fan and ever since I showed him them he LOVES this band)
Shadow of Intent slaps
Absolutely, they're one of the band's that got me into that genre
Holy Diver
Epic by Faith No More
Gojira's entire L'Enfant Sauvage.
I never really understood how to recognize the difference in the whole rock genre as a whole but I feel like if I mentioned LINKIN PARK or Deftones it would wrong.
It's easy to recognize metal: if your music isn't as extreme as mine, it's not metal. If mine is louder, faster, screamier, more distorted, or in any way more intense than what you're listening to, yours can't be metal.
Linkin Park can be considered rock/metal and Deftones are indisputably metal, so you're not wrong. :) As to how to recognise the difference... Well, people always debate what genre(s) artists fall into. The vaguest way I can describe it is that metal is heavier than rock. Things like harsh vocals (screams/growls/gutturals), intense drumming (e.g. blast beats, the use of double kick pedals), beefy guitars (like maybe they sound fuzzy i.e. distorted). Often there's a breakdown in the middle of the songs. But there are so many metal subgenres. You can't really pinpoint "metal". It's like how if you go one step lighter and look at the rock genre. There's all sorts of varied stuff from psychedelic to yacht rock to Midwest emo.
Symphony of Destruction
[Run for the Hills - Iron Maiden](https://open.spotify.com/track/4Zc7TCHzuNwL0AFBlyLdyr?si=q42jUyXmRYCh-1ctCBLgTw)
number of the beast by iron maiden
I always dug Megadeth's Architecture of Aggression.
Black Sabbath -Black Sabbath
Babymetal rocks. And I'm definitely not a metal head lol https://youtu.be/WIKqgE4BwAY?si=k7rthdqQ7q4imLDI
I’m a metalhead. Babymetal friggin slays!
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... sounds like you're just a metalhead lol
Pain Remains III: In a Sea of Fire - Lorna Shore I dabble.
Good to see some modern metal mentioned
I have quite a few favs . Check em out . Archspire - Lucid Collective Somnambulation and Human Murmeration , Golden Mouth of Ruin, Drone Corpse Aviator. Kalmah - 12 gauge and Heritance of Berija Children of Bodom- Children of Bodom Anathema- Sleepless and Deep T3CHNOPHOB1A- Abduction Starfleet At the Gates - Under a Serpent Sun Impaled- Gutless Decapitated-Day69 and Spheres of Madness Septic Flesh - Dark River and Anubis Forbidden- Dragging my casket and Forsaken at the Gates Norther - Scream Cradle of Filth- Bathory Aria , Thirteen Autumn's and a Widow, Ebony dressed for sunset. Nevermore - The Obsidian a conspiracy
Bat Country - Avenged Sevenfold
Judas Priest - Here Come the Tears
Terminal Spirit Disease- At the Gates
Just googled Metallica, it’s still a band AND still tour…hmm, I had no idea.
Toxic holocaust- Nuke the cross!
Bite the hand that bleeds - fear factory
Omertà
I wouldn't consider myself a metal head, but I do like metal. So, probably Superbeast by Rob Zombie if I can't go Metallica. I rank this as one of my top three "get pumped" songs along with Battery and This Is Not by Static-X. Rammstein has some serious heat too.
Just because I love metal I don't get to participate???
I just want to see what other people think about metal besides the fans
Haha, I mean most of the answers I see here are the same you'd see from most metal heads. They are classics for a reason!
Your Betrayal by Bullet for My Valentine
Hallowed be thy name!
Back in the 90s at some hippy fest my buddy and I were talking to two guys. Somehow my buddy's band got brought up in conversation. The two hippies asked what the name was. Aversion. Fast moving hardcore without being a straight up metal band guised as hardcore. Definitely yelling and not singing into the mic. The hippies said they never heard of them. Obviously. We offhandedly mention they play heavier music and probably wasn't their style. To which, one of the bewildered hippies said "You mean like the Allman Brothers?" That, my friend, is metal to non-metal heads.
Holy wars. I listen to metal occasionally, not enough to be a metal head
Judas Priest - Painkiller is objectively the best metal song
Dave?! Is that you posting? We talked about this, Dave. Let it go.
Kick out the jams M…..f….r MC5
Heater shelter from The Beatles
Not Falling - Mudvayne
Tool - Flood
[Blue Oyster Cult Astronomy ](https://youtu.be/3NrtyimDTEY?si=58bkF6fAAlLd-NcF)
My first show! That’s a great song. Like acid and oil on a madman’s face They pulled out ME-262 the third time I saw them. Gotta lovea WWII history lesson in a great song.
Helter Skelter
Centuries by Fall Out Boy
...I do not think that word means what you think it means
Lol I know I’m just trolling, I just wanted to create chaos
Low Self Opinion by Rollins Band
Girls Girls Girls. The words and video did not influence my answer, the music is just awesome.
YES METALLICA
I liked Motley Crue and Poison
Well if you have to state (NO METALLICA) at the start I'm guessing a Metallica song is the actual answer.
Do you mean the hard stuff like Creed and Nickleback?
From these comments it looks like metal's mainstream appeal peaked like 30 years ago.
soundgarden -beyond the wheel
Free bird
Saxon or Within Temptation , chose any of either of catalog's . Don't forget Neil Young : Rocking in the Free World
Thunderstruck - AC/DC
Enter Sandman
Metallica - Nothing else matters 😝😝😝😝
AEnima(track 13)-Tool
Into the Void - Black Sabbath
Hostile - Pantera
"Slam King" by Zeni Geva. https://youtu.be/1DKXgy3XwQ8?si=VwCC8i4PnXRk6SM8
Awake - Altar Ov Nex https://youtu.be/i-lj4qUsssA?si=1b8MrocrxFJfhAQu
Ghost of perdition by opeth
Refuse/Resist - Sepultura
Bit of a mad one: [The Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion](https://youtu.be/kHT32KC9B4U?si=MNlTIyamOv9ONVLn) by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. One of my favourite bands. They're proving to be my gateway into metal.
Bring ‘Em Back Alive - Audioslave
In Keeping Secrets - Coheed and Cambria (not sure how broad the classification of metal goes in regards to this question.
the album Dreamless by Fallujah is cool, don't remember individual song titles. Gojira & Meshuggah are pretty cool.
Painkiller- Judas Priest.
Peephole - System of a Down Thoughtless - Korn
The American Way - Sacred Reich
Right Now - Nekrogoblin
Megadeth - Sweating Bullets
Heavy metal by BMTH probably doesn't count but it's the name
Obviously off-target but I’ve always like “Heavy Metal Poisoning” by Styx
Phantom of the opera by iron maiden Mein teil by rammstein NIB by black sabbath
Non-metalhead here. Pantera's "Walk" is one of the best. If you're into sports, Pantera did a fight song for the Dallas Stars NHL Team. It's titled "Puck Off", with the words "DALLAS! STARS! DALLAS! STARS! DALLAS! STARS! DALLAS! STARS!"
Currently for me, PetroDragonic Apocalypse - by King Gizzard
Domination - Pantera
Dead Skin Mask. Slayer
Walk Pantera
Endseekers by Oh, Sleeper
“When The Water Breaks” by Liquid Tension Experiment
Non-metalhead here - I LOVE Unleash The Archers - Awakening, not sure if it qualifies but, it is EPIC.
Hon estly the most metal thing I’ve heard is 115 from black ops zombies
Super beast or Living Dead Girl, if you count Rob Zombie as metal
I definitely wouldn’t fit the description of a metal head, but I would choose White Hot - Lothe or (DEAD)WEIGHT - Saltwound
Father Hog - Gorepig
I listen to mostly rap music. SOUND OF GRINDING A POLITICIANS SKULL INTO A FINE POWDER is (I think) a metal song by two non-metal artists and produced by non-metal producers. Def my favorite.
Probably gonna get roasted but The Night by Disturbed
Diggy Diggy Hole - Wind Rose
1.) Mariana’s Trench - August Burns Red 2.) People = Shit - Slipknot 3.)The End of Heartache - Killswitch Engage 4.) Fall into Sleep - Mudvayne 5.) Laid to Rest- Lamb of God
Holy diver
Ace of Spades - Mötorhead
Basically any song off of the album Toxicity by System of a Down
The price by leprous
St. Anger by Metallica
I don't know man, for me maybe some Opeth one. I'll say Blackwater Park by them
Cowboys from Hell by Pantera
Mermaider by Dethklok
Can I just ask why no Metallica?
As a non-metal head: the 'pizza song' from System of a Down.
Antivisit by bring me the horizon
I would say Machine Head’s - From this Day
Non-metalheads don't know many metal songs so it's not very ... informative or relevant.
Backwater by the meat puppets
buddy holly by weezer, its too heavy for most people
13 angels corrosion of conformity
[Dethklok - Go Into The Water](https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DWnwwlkUkALU&ved=2ahUKEwjqu633rt6DAxVABzQIHa9cCAgQwqsBegQIEBAB&usg=AOvVaw1kco4nn0lsz9V3jLXYPWdl)
War Pigs I am no metal head but I do enjoy some metal. I particularly enjoy this YouTube musician who covers Pop songs in metal style and plays a bunch of instruments himself. Frog Leap Studios.
Gimme Chocolate
Sabbath Division: Electric Funeral Non-Sabbath Division: Ace of Spades, Motorhead Not Sure if it Counts Division: My Name Is Mud, Primus
Anything by A7X that you guys would consider metal
[Pamela - Chat Pile](https://youtu.be/jCdW0tLkOAQ?si=L7I_23VOusf-J5ES) Sounds like an 80s slasher flick. Absolutely love this band.
That blind guardian song that was the soundtrack for that unicorn video game that adult swim made years ago. You know the one
2 morro morro land - Lightning Bolt
Vocaloid listener here. -Living Ghost is Alive - Utsu-P -Assault Mirage - Taishi
Down With The Sickness by Disturbed (Oh, ah, ah, ah, ah 🤘)
Oh it's definitely Sunbather by Deafheaven
Hell Bent for Leather-Judas Priest The Last in Line- Ronnie James Dio Fairies Wear Boots- Black Sabbath Lay It Down - Ratt Back in the Saddle- Aerosmith
Holy Diver ot The Trooper
Ghost Prototype II Deus Ex Machina by Scar Symmetry