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I consider myself a fan of heavy music so when I came across this video of 100 metal riffs, I was initially enthusiastic. Then I started looking at the 100 bands listed and I began to feel uneasy. I wanted to validate or invalidate my uneasiness so I did a quick test. I went through the list and if I could hum the tune, I tallied it. Tunes with which I was familiar with (Anthrax's "A.I.R.") did not get a tally mark because, if I were walking down the street, and someone said, "Hum Anthrax's "A.I.R." and I will give you $1000 in cash," I would walk away without $1000.

I had 17 tally marks.

Sad, I know. I am probably going to create a playlist with these 100 tunes and embed it on this blog in the future.


Here's the video:

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Here's the list of 100 bands in the video order (verbatim, including typos from the video's description):

1. megadeth - holy wars
2. cacophony - savage
3. rammstein - asche zu asche
4. burzum - war
5. iron Maiden - 2 minutes to midnight
6. metal church - badlands
7. opeth - moonlapse vertigo
8. eternal silence - dreambook
9. virgin steele - through the ring of fire
10. death angel - voracious souls
11. avantasia - reach out for the light
12. gli atroci - voglio vederti morire
13. helloween - if I could fly
14. pantera - cemetery gates
15. ozzy osbourne - bark at the moon
16. riot - thundersteel
17. judas priest - painkiller
18. moonspell - breathe
19. anthrax - A.I.R.
20. testament - the hew order
21. pagan’s mind - through osiris eyes
22. twisted sister - burn in hell
23. rhapsody of fire - dawn of victory
24. masterplan - crawling from hell
25. suicidal tendencies - trip at the brain
26. queensryche - eyes of a stranger
27. sanctuary - future tense
28. sepultura - lobotomy
29. overkill - elimination
30. sonata arctica - don’t say a word
31. king diamond - give me your soul
32. dio - stand up and shout
33. fear factory - replica
34. arch enemy - we will rise
35. xentrix - for whose advantage
36. accept - balls to the wall
37. black Sabbath - black Sabbath
38. saxon - metalhead
39. voivod - into my hypercube
40. watchtower - the fall of reason
41. manowar - kings of metal
42. angra - nothing to say
43. death - spirit crusher
44. axel rudi pell - mystica
45. edguy - The piper never dies
46. kamelot - march of mephisto
47. gamma ray - strange world
48. dokken - mr scary
49. anvil - metal on metal
50. stratovarius - destiny
51. katatonia - brave
52. blind guardian - imaginations from the other side
53. impellitteri - stand in line
54. racer x - Scarified
55. steel panther - death to all but metal (chorus)
56. hidden memories - over the edge
57. nevermore - we disintegrate
58. yngwie malmsteen - caught in the middle
59. grave digger - Valhalla
60. hammerfall - renegade
61. slayer - war ensemble
62. evile - thrasher
63. sodom - napalm in the morning
64. exodus - a good day to die
65. savatage - edge of thorns
66. nanowar of steel - giorgio mastrota
67. symphony x - serpents kiss
68. kreator - Phobia
69. meshuggah - bleed
70. tool - the pot
71. metallica - the thing that should not be
72. cradle of filth - nymphetamine fix
73. annihilator - king of the kill
74. pain of salvation - fandango
75. mayhem - chimera
76. gothminister - monsters
77. nightwish - I wish I had an angel
78. nocturnal rites - awakening
79. rage - soundchaser
80. lamb of god - hourglass
81. firewind - breaking the silence
82. finntroll - trollhammaren
83. dying fetus - your treachery will die with you
84. children of bodom - downfall
85. destrage - my green neighbour
86. funeral - the architecture of loss
87. celtic frost - a dying god coming into human flesh
88. strapping young lad - love?
89. behemoth - ov fire and the void
90. dream theater - as I am
91. freak kitchen - snap
92. zimmers hole - alright
93. temperance - save me
94. toxic holocaust - acid fuzz
95. system of a down - byob
96. devin townsend - hyperdrive
97. november’s doom - harvest scythe
98. mastodon - the motherload
99. my dyng bride - the cry of manking
100. dream evil - the book of heavy metal