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"Laser Cannon Death Sentence" by Dethklok

https://youtu.be/RIstK5xcHXw

Black Sabbath, by Black Sabbath, from the album Black Sabbath.

a classic: "Hallowed Be Thy Name" by Iron Maiden.

Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth.

One by Metallica, Ratamahatta by Sepultura, The Trooper by Iron Maiden are all up there

Special mention for Gimme Chocolate by Babymetal

Changes literally every day! At the moment I'm loving Witch Club Satan's new single You Wildflower.

Also (sorry for the spam), I co-present a metal radio show which plays music from explicitly antifascist and/or anti-bigotry artists called Contra Odium.

All time? Probably Dream Theater's A change of seasons. But there's way too many to choose from.

Katatonia - Old heart Falls

Caligula's Horse - Marigold

Soen - Martyrs

Swallow the sun - Falling World

Haken - 1985

Mastodon - Blood and Thunder

Rotting Christ - Ze nigmar

Draconian - Daylight Misery

Paradise lost - faith divides us /death unites us

Leprous - Rewind

Eons Enthroned - Stormblessed (for fans of the stormlight archive)

Rhapsody (of fire)- emerald sword

Ihsahn - Mass darkness

Gojira - Flying whales

The ocean - jurassic

Opeth - fuck.. can't even pick one.. but let's say ghost of perdition

Dragony - Magic

And many, many, many more..

Painkiller by Judas Priest will always have a special place in my heart due to the hours 11 year old me spent air-guitaring that solo.

https://youtu.be/nM__lPTWThU

Arbitrary choice, but Wherever I May Roam by Metallica never gets old for me.

One by Metallica

Helter Skelter by The Beatles

Thats a hard one. But im a sucker for Metropolis part 1 by dream theater.

Right now its still probably Killing Time and Space by Nekrogoblikon. Goblins, cosmic history, and a banjo? In my metal? Helllll yeah brother.

Like other people say, "favorite" depends on the context. Here are ones I've had on repeat at one point or another.

The Hammer - Kublai Khan TX

Contraband - Make Them Suffer

The Migrant - Shadow of Intent

Die Alone - A Pale Horse Named Death (this one is for a sad day)

In The Name Of God - Rotting Christ

(literally anything, Garden of Earthly Delights is a good place to start) - Apocalypse Orchestra

Looking Down The Barrel of Today - Hatebreed

Bullet With A Name - Nonpoint

WAKE UP - The Browning (whole album is good, intro is a fucking headbanger)

Where The Things Have No Color - Destrage

The Orphan - Paleface Swiss

I have to go do stuff, but that should get you started.

*I'm back and adding some more, cuz why not:

I Am The Mountain - Windrose

Captain Morgan's Revenge - Alestorm

Primo Victoria - Sabbaton

Vodka - Korpiklaani

Hardrádi - Hulkoff

Låt Napalmen Regna - Raubtier

Planet on Fire - Rob Sigurd

Hellhacker - Aaron F. Bianchi Jupiter

Destiny Crucified - Shokran

Tibet - Space of Variations

Homicide - Sammy Slamdance

Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony - Human

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB565-jTjI8

Dopesmoker by Sleep, listen to the whole thing it's a real jam

Fit For An Autopsy - Your Pain is Mine

Murmaider

Not much of a metal head, but the whole Nonagon Infinity album by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is great. Also their album PetroDragonic Apocalypse.

What got me even slightly into metal, and stays mainstays on my playlists, are the albums Black Hole Space Wizard Parts 1 and 2 by Howling Giant. Cannot reccomend those enough. Also, their album The Space Between Worlds is great too, but isn't like one long story.

I'm unable to pick a single one, as it shifts very often. So I opened my main Playlist to find something, so today I'll give you three very different suggestions:
In Flames - Only For the Weak.
Dimmu Borgir - Kings of the Carnival Creation.
Destiny Potato - Addict.

Ask me tomorrow and you'll get different answers

I’m not a huge metal head, but “Trapped Under Ice” by Metallica is probably my favorite. I’d strongly recommend the entire Ride the Lightning album though. Pretty much every song is great.

Deftones- Be Quiet and Drive

It’s so hard to pick a favorite, with so many great songs out there.

Meshuggah - Demiurge

Haken - Nil by Mouth

Mick Gordon - The Only Thing They Fear is You

Tesseract - King

Animals As Leaders - Tooth and Claw

Gojira - Silvera

What kind of metal do you like?

Meshuggah - Bleed

Rotting christ - ze nigmar

Wheel of Time by Blind Guardian. It's symphonic metal, which is a tiny subgenre that may not be your cup of tea, but I love it!

Idk how I can just pick one,

But the stage by avenged sevenfold is a good contender

Depends on what subgenres you're into.

I really enjoy power metal, and Gloryhammer is one of my faves. He has returned, Keeper of the celestial flame, Land of unicorns, Masters of the galaxy, and Rise of the chaos wizards are all ones I really enjoy.

Prog metal is another really good genre, and Between the Buried and Me is amazing and have some fantastic concept albums. Coma Ecliptic has The Coma Machine and Memory Palace being a hell of an earworm. The Great Misdirect has Obfuscation and Feed from Cloud Mountain as those two slots, and The Parallax double album is great (part 1 is a good ep, part 2 is the main album), with Astral Body being one of the main singles and so many tracks that get stuck in my head.

I listed a bunch of other bands in this comment as well that are really good as well: https://lemmy.world/comment/19203007

Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience III - The Extermination

Blind Guardian - Valhalla is also really good.

Trollfest Kaptein Kaos

Uncle Acid and the deadbeat Melody Lane

Blood ceremony The weird of Finistere

Actually, if I need to name only one, I'd say the latest

Discipline - Nine Inch Nails

Not really a metal guy. I like beautiful music. I remember asking people why people who play metal don't play beautiful music. And I got no good answers. No one introduced me to Iron Maiden, who would have fit the bill. As someone who does not like metal, I can listen to every minute of "Brave New World" (2000) and enjoy the whole thing. I also like Number of the Beast and Powerslave from the 1980s, and the one that released between them.

The metal band I really love is Nightwish. They're from Finland, but I think they only have one song in Finnish? The opening to Imaginaerum. Over the Hills and Far Away is not only a cover, but it's about The Count of Monte Cristo... sort of. It's not exactly the same, but it's basically the same energy. Love triangle sends an innocent man to prison. Except in the book (and many films) the girl was his and it was the jealous lover who set him up. In this song, he messed with his best friend's wife and that's why he set him up.

And if you wanna hear how they sound live — the true indicator of what a band can do — here's Wishmaster from their final tour, I think, before they changed singers for the first time. Their composer/keyboard player is a bit of a drama queen, much like Eddie Van Halen was, and similarly, his personality would clash with diva singers over who "leads" the band. Neither of them can keep a singer. Not taking a side — incredible talent all around. Just band drama keeps them from having a consistent lineup. It happens to the best of them (see: Fleetwood Mac). So you enjoy what you can as it comes. But sadly they basically suck now. Their second singer was good too, but their third singer either isn't working for them or they're out of ideas, because their last few albums have been duds.

The entirety of their Imaginaerum album is good, but it's a bit weird. It was always meant as a companion piece for their movie, which never saw distribution in the US. So you have to watch it online. I won't help you do that, but if you're savvy, you can find it. Or maybe you're in Europe and you can just pick it up. I think you absolutely should if you can. For a while it was on YouTube (unofficially but in HD), not sure if it still is or not. Worth looking for, and it's just under an hour and a half. Much like Pink Floyd's The Wall, it's about how a musician has been driven crazy. Here, his adult daughter tries to reconcile with him before his death. Watch the movie trailer here

Hmm, probably Vermilion by Slipknot, either part is fine...

at the moment aaj by bloodywood

Changes all the time but right now I'm into Stoner Metal so:

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gila Monster

https://youtu.be/YQX2CsMCB9M

Kickstart my Heart by Motley Crue

"Postmortem" by Slayer.