100 FAVORITE METAL SONGS

100 FAVORITE METAL SONGS

As opposed to every other list I've done on this blog, I didn't read any other source's version of breaking down metal songs by quality to inspire my own.  Instead, my guitar player Tyler simply asked me, "Hey, wanna do a 100 favorite metal songs list?".  Say no more good sir!

I've ranked me some metal on here before.  My "20 Favorite Extreme Metal Vocalists" and "100 Favorite Metal Albums" of course, then a few of these songs here showed up on my overall "100 Favorite Songs" list, naturally.  As I had to with said albums list, I had to once again hammer down and decide what exactly I wanted to count as "metal".  Should it be any song from any metal band?  Any song that helped define or invent the current criteria for metal?  Should it just be anything with distorted guitars?  There's also a handful of bands and artists that got heavier with the times.  Black Sabbath, who singlehandedly invented stoner and doom metal, easily comes to mind here.   Yet I've always lumped them in with Deep Purple or even Zeppelin as hard rock pioneers.  Though by the time Heaven & Hell the band came into existence, certainly that stuff counts as metal.  Am I making a point or just being confusing?   No matter.   My list, I makes up the rules as I damn well please.

Because one of these men is made of gypsy powers instead of drugs, ergo is more metal.

There's also other bands that have some damn heavy moments, but not exclusively so.  Does Type O Negative's more melodically driven/borderline ballads count?  Cause otherwise "Love You To Death" might be my favorite metal song, which sounds wrong somehow.  Or what about anything off Damnation from Opeth?  That band is or was at least certainly metal and does make appearances here, but said album has nothing resembling heaviness or distortion to be found.  And such the conversation went between me and my bandmate who suggested this project.  And we still didn't' see eye to wang.  He counted solo Dio, I did not.  Per example.

Then there's neo-classical stuff like Yngwie Malmsteen, prog-metal like Dream Theater and Fates Warning, or hair metal like Twisted Sister.  I digs all of this stuff to varying degrees, but none of it shows up here.  This comes to the main point which is that I decided ultimately to make up this list with songs that I feel like hearing when I want to hear something heavy.  Not necessarily brilliant and gorgeous pieces of music.   Just brutal ones with sick riffs that make my head want to go Jennifer Love Hewitt album.

Operation "Incorporate Let's Go Bang album title into blog post" = success!

Now anyone who knows my tastes with extreme music for extreme people, you'll know that I'm primarily a death metal fan.  By a large amount, this particular sub-genre is the most represented here.  Others such as power or traditional metal and stoner metal are barely present.  And I shouldn't have to tell anyone that nu metal ceases to exist up in here, though I have no problem admitting that early Slipknot and Mudvayne aint' half bad.  Thrash, black, NWBHM, and all that like are all here, but my preference for DM takes, well, preference.  I've to date played in two death metal bands so me and my bandmates influencing each others tastes has been going on for quite awhile.  But I suppose every metalhead has their go to stuff.  Be it band, album, song, or era,  when I want killer riffs in my belly, there's certain stuff I go to more than others.  And with that, here be a hundred examples...