Metal Reviews

Ok here's one for you... I want you to give me a list for best metal compilation (It would not be the best but i hope it will be good).
Actually I want you to help me to make metal compilation and you will help me by giving me (names of)songs that should be in the compilation.

is it a "most metal song" thing (we've got one) or a "really good metal" thing?

either way, no list is complete without
JUDAS PRIEST - PAINKILLER

an obvious inclusion in either list.

Some of my favorite songs ever:


Sonata Arctica - Full Moon

Serenity - Fall Into Nothingness

Morifade - As Time Decides

Black Sabbath - Wishing Well

Tarot - Pyre Of Gods

Vision Divine - We Are, We Are Not

I'm thinking...Blind Guardian- Mirror Mirro

serious kickass song

Some of the most iconic and best metal songs ever:

Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Dio - Don't Talk To Strangers
Manowar - Battle Hymns
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Rainbow - Stargazer
Slayer - Angel of Death

And some personal favorites:

Iced Earth - Dracula
In Flames - Ordinary Story
Masterplan - Crawling From Hell
W.A.S.P. - Hellion
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys
Evergrey - Nosferatu
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Amon Amarth - Victorious March

I could go on...

Death-Crystal Mountain
Atheist-Unquestionable Presence
Cynic-Veil Of Maya
Gorguts-Earthly Love
Anata-A problem Yet To be Solved-fined
Meshuggah-Future Breed Machine
Nasum-Shadows
Psycroptic-The Colour of Sleep
Necrophagist-Intestinal Incubation
Spawn of Possession-Lash By Lash
Cryptopsy-Phobophile
Martyr-Ostrogoth
Sinners Bleed-Daemons
Vader-Xefer
Skinless-From Sacrifice To Survival
Immolation-Harnessing Ruin
Cannibal Corpse-Hammer Smashed Face
Deicide-Crucified For The Innocence
Dying Fetus-Kill your Mother Rape Your Dog
Arsis-The Face of My Innocence


Dont know just came off of my head. (extreme list)

Napalm Death - Suffer The Children
Napalm Death - The World Keeps Turning
Entombed - Masters Of Death
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Meshuggah - Perpetual Black Second
Centurions Ghost - The Supreme Moment
Cathedral - Corpsecycle
My Dying Bride - The Blue Lotus
Akercocke - Verdelet
Blind Guardian - Precious Jerusalem
Hammerfall - Legacy Of Kings
Hammerfall - Hearts On Fire
Carcass - Heartwork
Hate Forest - Elder Race
The Meads Of Asphodel - My Beautiful Genocide
Sepultura - Refuse Resist
Metallica - Hit The Lights
Metallica - Whiplash
Morbid Angel - Chapel Of Ghouls
Nile - Smashing The Antiu
Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance
Nile - Cast Down The Heretic
Cryptopsy - Graves Of The Fathers
Suffocation - Bind Torture Kill
Blood Red Throne - Mephitication
Bolt Thrower - This Time It's War
Celtic Frost - Into The Crypt Of Rays
Suffocation - Abomination Reborn
Slayer - Chemical Warfare
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Pig Destroyer - Loathsome
Samael - Son Of Earth
Deicide - Lunatic Of Gods Creation
Behemoth - Horns Of Baphomet
Slayer - Jesus Saves
Slayer - Piece By Piece
Alice In Chains - Dam That River
Vital Remains - Hammer Down The Nails
Iced Earth - Burning Times
Iced Earth - Wolf
Iced Earth - Declaration Day
Iced Earth - The Domino Decree
Enslaved - Lifandi Lif Undir Hamri
Angelcorpse - Smouldering In Exile
Edguy - Mysteria
Helloween - Mr Torture
Opeth - The Leper Affinity
Cradle Of Filth - Better To Reign In Hell
Emperor - Thus Spake The Nightspirit
Alchemist - First Contact
Fear Factory - Slave Labour
Fear Factory - Drones
The Gathering - Strange Machines
Lacuna Coil - Purify
Nightwish - Ghost Love Score
Mayhem - Deathcrush
Mayhem - Key To The Storms
Ministry - Thieves
Red Harvest - Antidote
Rotting Christ - Non Serviam
Ulver - I Troldskog Jaren Vild

Silly thread, by the way. "What Metal songs can we think of offhand that aren't crap?"

the lord weird slough feg's album traveller with arsis's a diamond for disease tacked on to the end

This is impossible. It's the same thing as my top 20 favorite songs of all time, I can never come up with lists like this.

My perfect 25 song mix, with each band only contributing one song:

1. Judas Priest- Painkiller
2. Iron Maiden- Rime of the Ancient Mariner
3. Megadeth- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
4. Black Sabbath- Heaven and Hell
5. Kreator- When the Sun Burns Red
6. Blind Guardian- Imaginations From the Other Side
7. Kamelot- Center of the Universe
8. W.A.S.P.- Chainsaw Charlie (Murders in the New Morgue)
9. Vio-lence- Kill on Command
10. Cloven Hoof- Road of Eagles
11. Mekong Delta- Dances of Death
12. Heathen- Heathen's Song
13. Manticora- Cantos
14. Demons and Wizards- Fiddler on the Green
15. Symphony X- The Odyssey
16. Dark Angel- Black Prophecies
17. Exodus- No Love
18. Iced Earth- Dante's Inferno (Alive in Athens version)
19. Metal Church- End of an Age
20. Overkill- Time to Kill
21. Sabbat- A Cautionary Tale
22. Savatage- Believe
23. Virgin Steele- A Token of My Hatred
24. Sodom- Magic Dragon
25. Shadows Fall- A Fire in Babylon

But it sure is fun, isn't it!

Virgin Steele - Blood And Gasoline
Savatage - Prelude To Madness
Savatage - Hall of The Mountain King
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Sweet Lilith of My Dreams
Testament - D.N.R
Dragonlord - Tradition & Fire
Dio - Stand Up And Shout
Nevermore - We Disintegrate
Tarot - Follow The Blind
Sabaton - Primo Victoria
Elvenking - Seasonspeach
Therion - The Wondrous World of Punt
Gamma Ray - Gardens of The Sinner
Blind Guardian - The Quest For Tanelorn
Bruce Dickinson - Book of Thel
Dream Evil - Blind Evil
Iced Earth - A Question of Heaven
Stormwitch - Fallen From God
Katatonia - Sweet Nurse
Nightwish - The Pharaoh Sails to Orion
Tristania - Deadlocked
Steel Prophet - Vengeance Attained

22 random songs I think kickass. Not my favorites, and not in any real order, but all would be awesome in a mix of some sort.

Acid Bath - Cassie Eats Cockaroaches
Atheist - Water
Behemoth - As Above, So Below
Behemoth - Conquer All
Dream Theater - Lie
Emperor - Warriors of Modern Death
Fear Factory - Edgecrusher
Judas Priest - Beyond the Realm of Death
Megadeth- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine
Skid Row - Monkey Business
Slayer - Angel of Death
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
Destruction - Cracked Brain
SYL - SYL
Testament - Time is Coming
Type O Negative - Everything Dies
Sepultura - Inner Self
White Zombie - More Human Than Human
Anvil - Corporate Preacher
Edguy - Vain Glory Opera
Immortal - Tyrant
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
Static X - Push It
Cannibal Corpse - Meat Hook Sodomy

and others...

Let's try an all heavy metal selection:

Virgin Steele - Victory Is Mine
Judas Priest - Jawbreaker
Accept - Metal Heart
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Manowar - Guyana (Cult of the damned)
Astral Doors - Apocalypse Revealed
Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg
King Diamond - Magic
Savatage - Edge Of Thorns
WASP - The Heretic (The Lost Child)
Queensryche - Eyes Of A Stranger
Mercyful Fate - Leave My Soul Alone
Crimson Glory - Red Sharks
Rage - End Of All Days

Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Infinite Dreams
Iron Maiden - Hallowed be thy Name
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Dio - Don't Talk to Strangers
Dio - Jesus Mary and the Holy Ghost
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Judas Priest - Electric Eye
Mercyful Fate - Satan's Fall (how come no one mentioned any MF or KD?, fuck you all!!)
Mercyful Fate - Corpse Without a Soul
Mercyful Fate - Pharaoh's Curse
King Diamond - Magic (and loads more from the Puppet Master)
Manowar - Hail and Kill
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Metallica - Seek and Destroy
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Immortal - Withstand the Fall of Time
Immortal - Blizzard Beasts
Immortal - Blashyrrk
Emperor - I am the Black Wizards
Emperor - Inno A Satanna
Cradle of Filth - The Forest Whispers My Name
Dimmu Borgir - Entrace
Old Man's Child - The Millenium King
Rotting Christ - Non Serviam (right on Zad!)
Rotting Christ - King of a Stellar War
Rotting Christ - In Domine Sathana
Nile - Even the Gods Must Die
Venom - Black Metal, Witching Hour, Countess Bathory
Death - Nothing is Everything, Symbolic, The Philosopher

I could go on, but somebody here's gonna scream at me wasting all the space.

Maybe if you just read above your post...

Am i the only one who does not love this song? I mean, it's ok, but great?

Granted these type of compilations are impossible, but it's always fun. Lemme think of stuff off the top of my head and try not to repeat a band's name.

1) Judas Priest - Painkiller
2) Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark
3) Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
4) Megadeth - Tornado Of Souls
5) Metallica - Battery
6) Slayer - Raining Blood
7) Death - 1000 Eyes
8) Whitesnake - Still Of The Night
9) Alice In Chains - We Die Young
10) Immolation - Close To A World Below
11) Omen - Battle Cry
12) Deicide - Dead By Dawn
13) Sodom - Tapping The Vein
14) Helloween - The Dark Ride
15) God Dethroned - The Serpent King
16) Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
17) Candlemass - Solitude
18) Dio - Holy Diver
19) Morbid Angel - Maze Of Torment
20) Mercyful Fate - Nightmare Be Thy Name.
21) Pantera - Cemetary Gates.
22) Dream Evil - The Book Of Heavy Metal.
23) Cannibal Corpse - Devoured By Vermin
24) Queensryche - Take Hold Of The Flame
25) Sepultura - Territory

From what I concur, Yes.