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Mar 13, 2023 · The 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time, including Black Sabbath, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne, Dio, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden.
May 7, 2024 · From The Kinks to Steppenwolf, all the heavy building blocks before Friday the 13th, February 1970, the fateful day Black Sabbath created the heavy metal sound.
Mountain's proto-metal or early heavy metal hit song "Mississippi Queen" from the album Climbing! is especially credited with paving the way for heavy metal and was one of the first heavy guitar songs to receive regular play on radio.
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- Lee Dorrian
- Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970) It began with the dank drubbing of rain and the distant toll of a church bell. Then, with the mood established, Black Sabbath opened their studio account, Tony Iommi’s funeral-pace riff humming with sin and Ozzy Osbourne’s spooky observations of a ‘figure in black which points at me’ still making you check over your shoulder.
- Sir Lord Baltimore - Master Heartache (1970) Sir Lord Baltimore drummer/vocalist John Garner wasn’t messing around; he sounds like a man seriously damaged by affairs of the heart on this rip-roaring, guitar-freaking killer.
- Budgie - Guts (1971) The bludgeoning low-end bass of Budgie's Burke Shelley combined with the slow, Sabbathy groove of Guts makes this song a must-inclusion in the collection of any heavy hairy freak.
- Judas Priest - The Ripper (1976) The future of metal was changing, and Judas Priest were going to be at the forefront of it. They may not have realised it at the time, but Rob Halford’s vocals would go on to influence a future generation of screamers.
- ‘Welcome to Hell,’ Venom | 1981
- ‘Planets Collide,’ Crowbar | 1998
- ‘Executioner’S Tax (Swing of The Axe),’ Power Trip | 2017
- ‘43% Burnt,’ The Dillinger Escape Plan | 1998
- ‘Yeah Right,’ Girlschool | 1981
- ‘Davidian,’ Machine Head | 1994
- ‘In The Meantime,’ Helmet | 1992
- ‘Hammer Smashed Face,’ Cannibal Corpse | 1992
- ‘All We Are,’ Warlock | 1987
- ‘Pull Me Under,’ Dream Theater | 1992
Blasphemy has been an effective attention grabber for centuries, but until 1981, heavy metal had never seen a band go as all-in on Satan as the three lads from Newcastle calling themselves Venom did. Contrasting with the forward-thinking innovation of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (a.k.a. the NWOBHM), the trio stripped heavy metal down to its...
In the early Nineties, Crowbar established themselves as the gruffest act on the bustling New Orleans metal scene. But “Planets Collide,” the leadoff track from the band’s fifth album, 1998’s Odd Fellows Rest, showed that there was way more to guitarist-vocalist-bandleader Kirk Windstein than his bellowing, grimacing MTV visage suggested. The song ...
Everything about Power Trip screamed throwback — from their tasteful marriage of hardcore and thrash, building on the golden era of so-called “crossover,” right down to their 1987-style album-cover font. But their compositional smarts and ferociously intense delivery combined to create a true new-school anthem with “Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the ...
Prog and hardcore punk once seemed like polar musical opposites, but by the late Nineties, a handful of innovative acts had found a way to combine the complexity of the former style with the fury of the latter. The Dillinger Escape Plan’s “43% Burnt” — from the New Jersey band’s landmark 1999 debut LP, Calculating Infinity — became something like a...
Combining NWOBHM thump with classic rock & roll sass, Girlschool’s 1980 single offered a charmingly snotty two-fingered salute to naysayers everywhere. The song’s message of staying focused in the face of negativity — whether you’re making much-needed life changes or just getting your drink on — would resonate in any era, but the fact that it’s del...
Robb Flynn played an important role in the mid-Eighties Bay Area thrash scene, but the guitarist-vocalist’s greatest contribution to the heavy-metal canon came at the helm of Machine Head, the band he founded in 1991 after leaving Vio-lence. “Davidian,” the opening track from the band’s 1994 debut, Burn My Eyes, crystallized the sound of Nineties h...
Helmet came out of the noise-rock underground, debuting on the Minneapolis punk label Amphetamine Reptile with the cold-eyed assault of 1990’s Strap It On, fusingorchestrated noise, metal precision, tricky time signatures, avalanche riffs and singer-guitarist Page Hamilton’s mosh pit drill-sergeant bark. “I really liked noisy stuff and I really lik...
From the mid-Eighties through the early Nineties, metal’s fringes grew more and more extreme, but Cannibal Corpse dialed up the darkness to genuinely uncomfortable levels, fashioning songs that played like aural snuff films. Their greatest track is a relentlessly bludgeoning ditty about, yes, caving in a helpless victim’s face with a sledgehammer. ...
If Rob Halford is the Metal God, then Warlock’s Doro Pesch is the Metal Goddess. The singer co-wrote the thunderous, fist-pumping anthem “All We Are” with producer Joey Balin after moving from West Germany to New York City. It became an immediate global hit, thanks to its irresistible, shout-along chorus and Pesch’s empowering lyrics, delivered in ...
In the wake of Eighties trailblazers like Queensrÿche and Fates Warning, Dream Theater became the leaders of American progressive metal in the Nineties. A year after Nirvana released “Smells Like Teen Spirit” with all its crudely simple guitar riffs, Dream Theater held fast to the showy technicality of prog rock, improbably earning a hit with the d...
Robert Walser. Heavy metal, genre of rock music that includes a group of related styles that are intense, virtuosic, and powerful. Driven by the aggressive sounds of the distorted electric guitar, heavy metal is arguably the most commercially successful genre of rock music.
Jun 21, 2017 · The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time. The most headbangable records ever, from Metallica's Black Album to Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid'. By. Christopher R. Weingarten, Tom Beaujour, Hank ...
