I’m a newbie but i really like Take No Prisoners by Megadeth
Pure White Poison (Masshiro na Doku) - Utsu-P
“Laser Cannon Death Sentence” by Dethklok
Murmaider
Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth.
Tornado of souls for me
Painkiller by Judas Priest will always have a special place in my heart due to the hours 11 year old me spent air-guitaring that solo.
Arbitrary choice, but Wherever I May Roam by Metallica never gets old for me.
I definitely didn’t quote this song in my highschool yearbook grad comment…
Good! That would be really embarrassing if we both quoted Metallica songs in our HS yearbooks. Which we definitely did not.
All time? Probably Dream Theater’s A change of seasons. But there’s way too many to choose from.
Katatonia - Old heart Falls
Caligula’s Horse - Marigold
Soen - Martyrs
Swallow the sun - Falling World
Haken - 1985
Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
Rotting Christ - Ze nigmar
Draconian - Daylight Misery
Paradise lost - faith divides us /death unites us
Leprous - Rewind
Eons Enthroned - Stormblessed (for fans of the stormlight archive)
Rhapsody (of fire)- emerald sword
Ihsahn - Mass darkness
Gojira - Flying whales
The ocean - jurassic
Opeth - fuck… can’t even pick one… but let’s say ghost of perdition
Dragony - Magic
And many, many, many more…
One by Metallica, Ratamahatta by Sepultura, The Trooper by Iron Maiden are all up there
Special mention for Gimme Chocolate by Babymetal
Woo hoo Babymetal. Have you heard Electric Cowboy x Babymetal song Ratatata? That’s a banger!
Red Handed Denial - One More Night
Or
Spiritbox - Circle With Me
Changes literally every day! At the moment I’m loving Witch Club Satan’s new single You Wildflower.
Also (sorry for the spam), I co-present a metal radio show which plays music from explicitly antifascist and/or anti-bigotry artists called Contra Odium.
Thats a hard one. But im a sucker for Metropolis part 1 by dream theater.
One by Metallica
Yah, which one?
If you haven’t heard it, theres a Chris Cornell mashup he did by putting the lyrics from Metallicas One to the music of U2s One.
Apparently he was looking up the wrong lyrics one time then challenged himself to figure it how to make it work.
I’d argue this is a precursor to metal rather than metal itself. Still a great song that everyone should listen to.
Also Iron Man
Aunt Lisa by Mastodon
Like other people say, “favorite” depends on the context. Here are ones I’ve had on repeat at one point or another.
The Hammer - Kublai Khan TX
Contraband - Make Them Suffer
The Migrant - Shadow of Intent
Die Alone - A Pale Horse Named Death (this one is for a sad day)
In The Name Of God - Rotting Christ
(literally anything, Garden of Earthly Delights is a good place to start) - Apocalypse Orchestra
Looking Down The Barrel of Today - Hatebreed
Bullet With A Name - Nonpoint
WAKE UP - The Browning (whole album is good, intro is a fucking headbanger)
Where The Things Have No Color - Destrage
The Orphan - Paleface Swiss
I have to go do stuff, but that should get you started.
*I’m back and adding some more, cuz why not:
I Am The Mountain - Windrose
Captain Morgan’s Revenge - Alestorm
Primo Victoria - Sabbaton
Vodka - Korpiklaani
Hardrádi - Hulkoff
Låt Napalmen Regna - Raubtier
Planet on Fire - Rob Sigurd
Hellhacker - Aaron F. Bianchi Jupiter
Destiny Crucified - Shokran
Tibet - Space of Variations
Homicide - Sammy Slamdance
I saw Shadow of Intent live as an opener for Heaven Shall Burn a couple years ago and they were great.
