Metal Music?

I'm trying to get into metal. it seems like it has a lot of energy and is very fast and fun to listen to. but, having spent the majority of my life listening to hip hop/rap, i am oblivious to any good metal songs. i know there are a lot of metal heads out there, so i was hoping you guys could help me out. i'll try anything, but preferably some older songs, you know, with the crazy album covers and stuff. none of that brutal newer stuff though.

Thrash/Prog is where it's at. Start from there.

Start with Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest.Rocky32189

This man speaks the truth. I recommend old Metallica though.

Start with Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest.Rocky32189

The best place to start is in a video game, actually. In GTA Vice City, there's a radio station called V-Rock. It's got all you need to get started in metal - all the best heavy and thrash metal hits from the glory days of metal - late 80s-early 90s. It's just awesome. It's what got me into metal more then 6 years ago, and it hasn't let g0 since.

If you don't have GTA Vice City, I'm sure you can find the rip of the station somewhere. I can even send you one.

I'm trying to get into metal. it seems like it has a lot of energy and is very fast and fun to listen to. but, having spent the majority of my life listening to hip hop/rap, i am oblivious to any good metal songs. i know there are a lot of metal heads out there, so i was hoping you guys could help me out. i'll try anything, but preferably some older songs, you know, with the crazy album covers and stuff. none of that brutal newer stuff though.

positivebalance

Listen to this.

Listen to this.

Ultrabeatdown55

Why is no one listening to my V-Rock suggestion? It's honestly really good.

[QUOTE="Rocky32189"]Start with Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest.positivebalance

Try Agalloch. [QUOTE="Ultrabeatdown55"]

Listen to this.

wizzardjeff

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[QUOTE="Rocky32189"]Start with Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest.Visible_ninja69

This man speaks the truth. I recommend old Metallica though.

I'm trying to get into metal. it seems like it has a lot of energy and is very fast and fun to listen to. but, having spent the majority of my life listening to hip hop/rap, i am oblivious to any good metal songs. i know there are a lot of metal heads out there, so i was hoping you guys could help me out. i'll try anything, but preferably some older songs, you know, with the crazy album covers and stuff. none of that brutal newer stuff though.

positivebalance

V-ROCK!

[QUOTE="Rocky32189"]Start with Megadeth, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest.positivebalance

Rhapsody-Emerald Sword

thank me later :P

[QUOTE="wizzardjeff"]Try Agalloch. [QUOTE="Ultrabeatdown55"]

Listen to this.

Ultrabeatdown55

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Get aria, M8L8TH(just kidding with this one) Loudness, X-Caliber, Fifth Angel, Wild Dogs, W.A.S.P.

Lamb of God,Children of Bodom ,Metallica,Slayer and go on from there

try LAID TO REST- LAMB OF GOD

MASK OF SANITY-CHILDREN OF BODOM

TRAPPED UNDER ICE-METALLICA

WAR ENSEMBLE-SLAYER

[QUOTE="Ultrabeatdown55"]

[QUOTE="wizzardjeff"]"This video contains content from WMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." :(DragoonSaber

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manowar they wright songs about Conan

Fav song atm is this:

Give it a go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQvMXKWvs8Q

No one will probly listen to it but w/e

It made me smile inside to see such a lost soul convert to Metal. Welcome to the Dark Side, brother! You should find at least something you like out of these.

Classic Metal - try Metallica's Master of Puppets.

Progressive Metal - Savatage's Hall of the Mountain King.

Power Metal - Hammerfall's Dreamland or Any Means Necessary.

Symphonic Metal - Nightwish's Dark Chest of Wonders or Planet Hell.

Symphonic Power Metal - Rhapsody's Emerald Sword or Kamelot's Forever.

¢lassic Progressive Power Metal - Angra's Carry On.

(It's censoring ¢lassic for some reason...) The only song you really only have to listen to more than 30 seconds of is Planet Hell, because it gets Metal after the intro. Be sure to listen to all of Carry On, though, because it's pretty diverse, and my favorite of all of these.

Also, there's this.

The Ultra-Violence

It's just the best instrumental song ever written in the history of forever. Ever. Give it a try.

Also, there's this.

The Ultra-Violence

It's just the best instrumental song ever written in the history of forever. Ever. Give it a try.

XanderKage

Lamb of God,Children of Bodom ,Metallica,Slayer and go on from there

try LAID TO REST- LAMB OF GOD

MASK OF SANITY-CHILDREN OF BODOM

TRAPPED UNDER ICE-METALLICA

WAR ENSEMBLE-SLAYER

Black Sabbath, Songs that you should atleast listen to: War pigs, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QUhsghj7eU, Iron man, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjbMVXj0F8, sabbath bloody sabbath, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReuBms-qZQk, children of the grave, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=236Lquwq22A- More songs for the ozzy led sabbath era but those are their most well known.

Dio led sabbath era: Heaven and hell, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riwxbh_n_WM, (One of my favourites), Neon knights, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTgj0KUpGhU, Plus more. like Lady evil, the mob rules etc.

Iron maiden - Number of the beast, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mHe6FMs46o, the Trooper, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uq6Ax-zzkQ, run to the Hills, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDd-GXkMrJs, Aces high, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y80XM_k-0u4. Plus more like Fear of the dark, 2 minutes to midnight, hallowed be thy name and more.

Judas Priest - Not the biggest fan of JP but here ya go: Painkiller, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM__lPTWThU, breaking the law, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L397TWLwrUU, Angel, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuWr7U8N_Hc, Delivering the goods, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc3a-CphkCY. Lots more.

Hope I've helped :D

Also, there's this.

The Ultra-Violence

It's just the best instrumental song ever written in the history of forever. Ever. Give it a try.

XanderKage

The best place to start is in a video game, actually. In GTA Vice City, there's a radio station called V-Rock. It's got all you need to get started in metal - all the best heavy and thrash metal hits from the glory days of metal - late 80s-early 90s. It's just awesome. It's what got me into metal more then 6 years ago, and it hasn't let g0 since.

If you don't have GTA Vice City, I'm sure you can find the rip of the station somewhere. I can even send you one.

XanderKage

Children of Bodom (the older stuff is better), metallica, megadeth, black sabbath then move to the harder stuff. i just recently started listening to metal like you. i liked a lot of hip hop and im still exploring and finding some new bands ( i like amon amarth, dimmu borgir, dragonforce, celtic frost)

Black Metal: Immortal, Ulver, Mayhem, Brokngar, Summoning, Farsot, Melechesh, Emperor

Prog Metal: Savatage, Royal Hunt, Shadow Gallery, Crimson Glory, Symphony X, Winds, Tyr, Fates Warning, Royal Hunt

Power Metal: Gamma Ray, Iron Savior, Labyrinth, Rhapsody, Angra, Stratovarius, Virgin Steele, Celesty, Crystal Eyes, Dark Moor, Timeless Miracle

Thrash: Megadeth, Vio-Lence, Forbidden, OverKill, Dark Angel, Annihlator

Death Metal: Athiest, Morbid Angle, Obituary, Edge of Sanity, Death, Nocturnus, The Chasm

Doom: Cirith Unglo, Candlemass, Saint Vitus, Pentagram, Ahab

Innfluential Bands: Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Helloween, Rush, Loudness, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Dio

Bands if you want to go way back: UFO, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, Rainbow

You want good and old? Well here comes a list of bands:

Iron Maiden

Savatage

Riot

Diamond Head

Cacophony

Sanctuary

Grim Reaper

Mercyful Fate

Tygers Of Pan Tang

Witchfinder General

Angel Witch

Witchfynde

Samson

Satan

Battleaxe

Savage

Anvil

Demon

Cloven Hoof

Racer X

King Diamond

Helloween

Iced Earth

Metal Church

Jaguar

Liege Lord

Manowar

Pagan Altar

Testament

Overkill

That's all I can think of right now.

Oh lets see:

Metallica

Iron Maiden

Megadeth

Nevermore

All That Remains

Avenged Sevenfold

Slipknot

Killswitch Engaged

System of a Down

Drowning Pool (Just the Sinner album)

And for something different:

Dillinger Escape Plan

You gotta like one of these:

Folk Metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtdvoKpLevc

Power Metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGxVsCom92s

Avant Garde: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_qRLlnsjhU

Whatever this is considered (black?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ih3JVrRPE

Death Metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnoMb8BEHbA

More Folk Metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrMclZovh_o

Metal sucks. Go with punk.

Rock on, young poster...rock on...

i'm still baffled at how these guys get left out of most Metal topics you see

Metal sucks. Go with punk.

planetshhh

I would say go for both.

They are two great and very similar genres.

Start with Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Motorhead and Iron Maiden, ya know...the roots of metal. Other heavy metal bands like Savatage, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Diamond Head and Saxon are good too.

Then when you wanna rock a bit harder, move on to thrash. Start with Metallica, Megadeth, Exodus and Testament, then move onto some Slayer after giving those guys a listen, then move on to real thrash metal like kreator, sodom and destruction.

After that, if you wanna go farther, hit up melodic death metal and folk metal like in flames, amon amarth, black dahlia murder, equillibrium, dark tranquility, children of bodom, kalmah wintersun and ensiferum.

If you still wanna progress down the road, black metal and death metal are the way to go (my two favorite metal genres) and you shall listen to Wolves in the Throne Room, Marduk, Gorgoroth, Immortal, Mayhem, Nile, Bolt Thrower, Immolation, Atheist, Behemoth, Death, Rotting Christ and Suffocation

Also throw in Nevermore, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains and NIN (I know NIN and Alice in Chains aren't metal, but enough metalheads like them and they are still awesome) because all those bands rule.

Welcome to the world of heavy metal, please enjoy your stay...just stay away from metalcore! :P

Rock on, young poster...rock on...

i'm still baffled at how these guys get left out of most Metal topics you see

darkspineslayer

You gotta like one of these:

Folk Metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtdvoKpLevc

Power Metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGxVsCom92s

Avant Garde: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_qRLlnsjhU

Whatever this is considered (black?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ih3JVrRPE

Death Metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnoMb8BEHbA

More Folk Metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrMclZovh_o

RobboElRobbo

Iron Maiden is a nice start.