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November 04, 2005

Friday Random Play: All Metal Up Your Ass Edition

Twenty random songs culled exclusively from the metal (hair, death, etc.) on my current playlist.

  1. Revolution Calling - Operation: Mindcrime - Queensryche: When I was a freshman in undergrad I saw Queensryche perform this album in it's entirety. Suicidal Tendencies opened. I was rocked.
  2. You Could Be Mine - Live Era '87-'93 - Guns 'n' Roses: This song flat out rocks. The live version is considerably better than the album version recorded for the T2 soundtrack.
  3. No Question - Cleansing - Prong: I love Prong even if they are just a Killing Joke ripoff. Paul Raven of Killing Joke even joined Prong in the early '90's.
  4. Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck-Cleansing - Prong: The chunkiest guitar riff ever.
  5. Disfigured - Vile - Cannibal Corpse: Scary. Not as fast as I remember them being. They're no Napalm Death.
  6. Devil's Island - Peace Sells...but Who's Buying? - Megadeth: I'll take Dave Mustaine and company over the whiny twits in Metallica any day.
  7. Lit Up - Buckcherry - Buckcherry: A 1999 ode to cocaine from the first new 80's style metal band to make it big since the 80's.
  8. Ironhead - Meantime - Helmet: Page Hamilton would always try to separate his band from the metal masses by talking about his jazz guitar expertise but he wasn't fooling anyone. This album still gives me a rush of adrenaline everytime I hear it.
  9. Seasons in the Abyss - Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer: This song is so freakin' cool. The video was even cooler, filmed on location in Egypt on the Nile and inside one of the Pyramids (they bribed guards with cartons of Marlboros in order to get inside.)
  10. Eerie Inhabitants - The New Order - Testament: Another of Testament's trademark songs with the classical accoustic guitar intros fading into shrieking electric guitar and double-bass thrash.
  11. South Heaven - South of Heaven - Slayer: Probably THE classic Slayer song. Slower and more intricate than their older stuff, but even more creepy.
  12. Blessed in Contempt - Practice What You Preach - Testament: Probably Testament's best album. This one doesn't pussyfoot around with the classical pretensions. It thrashes from the get-go.
  13. Hallowed Be Thy Name - Lovecraft & Witchhearts - Cradle of Filth: I dont' really listen to this band at all but I love their goth/death metal aesthetic. Plus, their song titles are hilarious.
  14. Controlled By Hatred - Feel Like Shit..Deja Vu/Controlled by Hatred - Suicidal Tendencies - Classic, classic punk/metal angst for 15 year old skaters and law students.
  15. Dead Skin Mask - Live: Decade of Aggression - Slayer: Another Slayer classic, this one's about Ed Gein.
  16. Pre-Ignition - Nothingface - Voivod: The height of Canadian sci-fi prog metal.
  17. Holy Wars...The Punishment Due - Rust in Peace - Megadeth: This is the song that hooked me onto Megadeth back in 1990.
  18. Lustmord and Wargasm II (The Relicking of Cadaverous Wounds) - Lovecraft & Witchhearts - Cradle of Filth: Remember what I said about their song titles. This song is actually kind of cool, though. Very majestic and epic.
  19. Yesterdays - Use Your Illusion II - Guns 'n' Roses: Eh. A nice little song from a once great rock band.
  20. Empire - Empire - Queensyche: Probably their second biggest hit behind the tepid David Gilmore-era Pink Floyd ripoff, Silent Lucidity.

    Posted by Half-Cocked at November 4, 2005 05:19 PM

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    I can't believe you have TWO Cradle of Filth songs in there.

    Posted by: Sarah at November 7, 2005 10:00 AM

    Wow. Your top 20 and my top 100 only intersect at one place, and that place is certainly not north of heaven. I've never like G'nR at all. And I don't like much traditional death metal, with the exception of Death's The Sound of Perseverance and some of the newer death metal bands (if you can call them that) like Lamb of God and Trivium.
    But I don't think I'd even consider Buckcherry metal.

    Posted by: Kelly at November 11, 2005 02:46 PM

    Oh yeah, and I have to note a certain contradiction. You say you don't really care for Metallica. Yet, "metal up your ass" is a Metallica-related saying from the 80's that spawned a Pushead-designed t-shirt with a hand holding a knife sticking out of a toilet.

    Posted by: Kelly at November 11, 2005 02:47 PM

    To be fair to me, Kelly, those aren't my top 20 metal albums or songs or whatever, but just 20 random songs from all the metal/harder rock albums on my playlist. And I'm well versed in Metallica history. I love everything pre-Black album. I just think they're whiny twits now.

    Posted by: Steve at November 11, 2005 03:24 PM

    Well its kinda funny looking at this. i remember how much i used to like metal. untill that crap called grunge came alond and wowed everyone. to me you could get the same sound by cranking the amp to 11 and putting your head into a toilet, then striking a chord.. remember getting on stage and playing metallica for the first time. and slayer.. Long live METAL!

    Posted by: porkydapig at December 16, 2005 09:58 PM

    METAL UP YOUR ASS!
    rock on metallica (and megadeth) u alwayz ruled until u all turned shit and cut ur hairs i agree pre black album waz all awsum but the black album was pretty sick too, they are sooo pussy now they sound shit live azwell the good old dayz will alwayz b remembered i wish i waz born in the 70's.by the way---simple plan SUK!!!

    Posted by: sometallicafan at March 23, 2006 05:52 AM

    By the way rip cliff burton and dimebag darrell.

    we will alwayz remember u.

    Posted by: sometallicafan at March 23, 2006 05:59 AM