Thursday, October 4, 2018

A List of The Best Metal Songs Humbles Me

I simply need to seek out a list like Loudwire's Best Metal Song of Each Year Since 1970 if I ever want to feel like I know nothing about heavy metal. I took their list, stripped out the years, the graphics, and consolidated the actual band / song name into the following list of 98 tunes. My hope is to make a playlist of these tunes so that I may educate myself. I apply the "hum" test to lists like this, which is, if asked to hum the melody of the song, could I do it? I scored a measly 41 out of 98 which, in my defense, I can recognize the three Tool songs in the list, but I'll be damned if I can separately hum them upon request. I also know I would recognize the more of the Judas Priest tunes but, again, I can't hum upon request. Some of the tunes on this list are from my favorite CDs.

Before getting to the list of tunes, here are the bands that have a tune in the list of tunes:
  1. Anthrax
  2. At the Gates
  3. Behemoth
  4. Black Sabbath
  5. Cannibal Corpse
  6. Code Orange
  7. Death
  8. Deep Purple
  9. Dimmu Borgir
  10. Dio
  11. Exodus
  12. Ghost
  13. Gojira
  14. Gorguts
  15. High on Fire
  16. In Flames
  17. Iron Maiden
  18. Judas Priest
  19. Killswitch Engage
  20. King Diamond
  21. Korn
  22. Machine Head
  23. Mastodon
  24. Megadeth
  25. Megadeth
  26. Meshuggah
  27. Metallica
  28. Morbid Angel
  29. Motorhead
  30. Neurosis
  31. Nine Inch Nails
  32. Obscura
  33. Opeth
  34. Ozzy Osbourne
  35. Pallbearer
  36. Pantera
  37. Queen
  38. Rainbow
  39. Rammstein
  40. Scorpions
  41. Septicflesh
  42. Sepultura
  43. Slayer
  44. Sleep
  45. Slipknot
  46. System of a Down
  47. The Dillinger Escape Plan
  48. Tool
  49. Type O Negative
  50. Vader

And here is the actual list of 98 tunes, 41 of which I can hum upon request, annotated every 10 tunes with how many tunes in the above 10 I can hum.
  1. Anthrax, "Madhouse"
  2. Anthrax, "The Devil You Know"
  3. At the Gates, "Slaughter of the Soul"
  4. Behemoth, "O Father O Satan O Sun!" ('The Satanist')
  5. Black Sabbath, "Black Sabbath" ('Black Sabbath')
  6. Black Sabbath, "Children of the Grave"
  7. Black Sabbath, "Heaven and Hell"
  8. Black Sabbath, "Killing Yourself to Live"
  9. Black Sabbath, "Paranoid"
  10. Black Sabbath, "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" ('Sabbath Bloody Sabbath') 
    1. I can hum 5 of the above tunes
  11. Black Sabbath, "Supernaut" ('Vol. 4')
  12. Black Sabbath, "Sweet Leaf" ('Master of Reality')
  13. Black Sabbath, "Symptom of the Universe"
  14. Cannibal Corpse, "Make Them Suffer"
  15. Code Orange, "Forever" ('Forever')
  16. Death, "Crystal Mountain" ('Symbolic')
  17. Death, "Zombie Ritual" ('Scream Bloody Gore')
  18. Deep Purple, "Burn" ('Burn')
  19. Deep Purple, "Smoke on the Water"
  20. Dimmu Borgir, "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" ('Death Cult Armageddon')
    1. I can hum 3 of the above
  21. Dio, "Holy Diver" ('Holy Diver')
  22. Exodus, "Strike of the Beast" ('Bonded by Blood')
  23. Exodus, "The Toxic Waltz"
  24. Ghost, "Cirice" ('Meliora')
  25. Ghost, "Elizabeth" ('Opus Eponymous')
  26. Ghost, "Square Hammer" ('Popestar' EP)
  27. Ghost, "Year Zero" ('Infestissumam')
  28. Gojira, "L'Enfant Sauvage" ('L'Enfant Sauvage')
  29. Gojira, "Silvera"
  30. Gorguts, "An Ocean of Wisdom" 
    1. I can hum 4 of the above
  31. High on Fire, "Fertile Green"
  32. In Flames, "Jotun"
  33. Iron Maiden, "Hallowed Be Thy Name" ('The Number of the Beast')
  34. Iron Maiden, "If Eternity Should Fail"
  35. Iron Maiden, "Paschendale"
  36. Iron Maiden, "The Number of the Beast"
  37. Iron Maiden, "The Talisman"
  38. Iron Maiden, "The Trooper"
  39. Iron Maiden, "The Wicker Man" ('Brave New World')
  40. Iron Maiden, "Wrathchild" ('Killers')
    1. I can hum 3 of the above
  41. Judas Priest, "Beyond the Realms of Death"
  42. Judas Priest, "Hell Bent for Leather" ('Killing Machine')
  43. Judas Priest, "Lightning Strike"
  44. Judas Priest, "Sinner"
  45. Judas Priest, "The Sentinel"
  46. Judas Priest, "Victim of Changes" ('Sad Wings of Destiny')
  47. Killswitch Engage, "The End of Heartache" ('The End of Heartache')
  48. King Diamond, "Abigail"
  49. Korn, "Freak on a Leash" ('Follow the Leader')
    1. I can hum 2 of the above
  50. Machine Head, "Aesthetics of Hate"
  51. Mastodon, "Blood and Thunder"
  52. Mastodon, "March of the Fire Ants"
  53. Mastodon, "Oblivion" ('Crack the Skye')
  54. Megadeth "A Tout le Monde"
  55. Megadeth, "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" ('Rust in Peace')
  56. Meshuggah, "Bleed" ('obZen')
  57. Meshuggah, "Rational Gaze" ('Nothing')
  58. Metallica, "Creeping Death" ('Ride the Lightning')
  59. Metallica, "Enter Sandman" ('Metallica')
  60. Metallica, "Master of Puppets" 
    1. I can hum 5 of the above
  61. Metallica, "One" ('...And Justice for All')
  62. Morbid Angel, "Chapel of Ghouls" ('Altars of Madness')
  63. Motorhead, "Overkill" ('Overkill')
  64. Neurosis, "Times of Grace"
  65. Nine Inch Nails, "Wish"
  66. Obscura, "The Anticosmic Overload"
  67. Opeth, "Demon of the Fall"
  68. Opeth, "Ghost of Perdition" ('Ghost Reveries')
  69. Ozzy Osbourne, "Crazy Train" ('Blizzard of Ozz')
  70. Ozzy Osbourne, "No More Tears" 
    1. I can hum 5 of the above
  71. Ozzy Osbourne, "Over the Mountain"
  72. Pallbearer, "I Saw the End"
  73. Pantera, "Cowboys From Hell"
  74. Pantera, "I'm Broken" ('Far Beyond Driven')
  75. Pantera, "Mouth for War" ('Vulgar Display of Power')
  76. Queen, "Stone Cold Crazy"
  77. Rainbow, "Man on the Silver Mountain" ('Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow')
  78. Rainbow, "Stargazer"
  79. Rammstein, "Du Hast" ('Sehnsucht')
  80. Scorpions, "Lovedrive" 
    1. I can hum 6 of the above
  81. Scorpions, "Sails of Charon" ('Taken by Force')
  82. Septicflesh, "The Vampire From Nazareth" ('The Great Mass')
  83. Sepultura, "Refuse / Resist"
  84. Sepultura, "Roots Bloody Roots"
  85. Slayer "Angel of Death" ('Reign in Blood')
  86. Slayer, "South of Heaven"
  87. Sleep, "Giza Butler"
  88. Slipknot, "Psychosocial"
  89. Slipknot, "The Negative One"
  90. Slipknot, "Wait and Bleed" ('Slipknot')
    1. I can hum 5 of the above
  91. System of a Down, "Aerials"
  92. System of a Down, "BYOB"
  93. The Dillinger Escape Plan, "Milk Lizard" ('Ire Works')
  94. Tool, "Ænima" ('Ænima')
  95. Tool, "Lateralus" ('Lateralus')
  96. Tool, "Vicarious" ('10,000 Days')
  97. Type O Negative, "Black No. 1" ('Bloody Kisses')
  98. Vader, "Wings" 
    1. I can hum 3 of the above

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