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    Fellow DT members, you are assigned to a desert island where the tribe know as the Whosheers reside. They know what rock and roll is, but not what heavy metal is. You can only fit one single track in your bag. What one metal song would you take, and herald, as THE heavy metal anthem?



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    Man on the Silver Mountain - Rainbow
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    Maybe not anthemic in the way that Twisted Sister's "We're not going to take it," but I'd give them "Fade to Black" by Metallica. From a musical perspective, the song represents all the best aspects of metal in my personal opinion. Unconventional key shifts, mixolydian scale work, and open appregiated chord structures all serve to create melancholic undertones less obvious than the suicidal themes of the lyrics. Its an epic song, and the best representation of the genre that I've ever heard.

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    Yes, the complexity of the music is common to the genre. Well played.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    Yes, the complexity of the music is common to the genre. Well played.
    Big compliment, coming from you, sir.

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    Quote Originally Posted by obscurejude View Post
    Maybe not anthemic in the way that Twisted Sister's "We're not going to take it," but I'd give them "Fade to Black" by Metallica. From a musical perspective, the song represents all the best aspects of metal in my personal opinion. Unconventional key shifts, mixolydian scale work, and open appregiated chord structures all serve to create melancholic undertones less obvious than the suicidal themes of the lyrics. Its an epic song, and the best representation of the genre that I've ever heard.
    Whenever I hear that song, I typically stop what I'm doing and sit by the speaker. If I'm driving, I make everyone in the car shut the fuck up. It mesmerizes me. I love Metallica more than any other band; the vast range of their music means that there is something for every mood I am in.

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    Brilliant suggestion Ryan ...and one of my favorites by them. Since you beat me to it I'll go with Battery or Whiplash. Basically almost any song from the first three albums could represent the whole genre IMO.
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    I would also go Mettallica in the puppets album but I'd pick damage inc.
    if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do

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    To refresh my memory I just went to Youtube to have a listen and found some Gutair Hero version , now I cant stop laughing, or get that song fade to black out of my head

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brice View Post
    Brilliant suggestion Ryan ...and one of my favorites by them. Since you beat me to it I'll go with Battery or Whiplash. Basically almost any song from the first three albums could represent the whole genre IMO.
    Thanks man.

    Overall I prefer Master of Puppets to Ride the Lightning but "Fade to Black" will always be my favorite song by them.

    That being said, "Master of Puppets" (the song), is also a great example of their versatility. I absolutely love the middle interlude which Kirk used an extended neck on his guitar for. I'm also a big fan of "Sanitarium" but "Battery" is a great mood setter for the album Brice. You have that opening 12 string lullaby and then the song loses control like the victims of the rest of the songs.

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    I must say that I am deeply in love with Metallica's The Small Hours from the first Garage Days.
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    I would take them Opeth's 'Blackwater Park' to truly scare, enlighten, humble and numb them.

    I think it is one of the greatest albums ever made, is full of amazing riffs, beautiful modal soloing, some lovely chord progressions, amazing guitar tones ranging from the most sublime clean to the thickest distortion, and some of the best song writing known to man.

    If I had to pick an album that truly helped define heavy metal, I think it'd have to be Iron Maiden's 'Piece of Mind'

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    Deaf Forever by Motorhead. It's the epitome of what I look for in metal in both content and presentation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScottRiley View Post
    I would take them Opeth's 'Blackwater Park' to truly scare, enlighten, humble and numb them.

    I think it is one of the greatest albums ever made, is full of amazing riffs, beautiful modal soloing, some lovely chord progressions, amazing guitar tones ranging from the most sublime clean to the thickest distortion, and some of the best song writing known to man.
    Opeth ftw I really love 'em, saw them live last month

    But i'd go there with a blind guardian song..... i'm not sure that i'd dare to pick only one from those great songs.... but with the current mood i'd go with the bard's song..

    Or if real metal'ish metal is needed then i'd grab along Opeth - Demon of the fall! *or just something else from blind guardian - yeh i can't just stick with 1 *

    *i wouldn't take only 1 song anyway *

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    judas priest's screaming for vengeance.

    what?

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    I can't even answer, everytime I think I have one song another pops in my head....

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    Two words.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CPU View Post
    I can't even answer, everytime I think I have one song another pops in my head....
    same

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    It was a tough choice for me. it was odd to NOT pick an Iron Maiden song. But pick please...the Whosheers are awaiting you... the helicopter is running...gas ain't cheap ya' know!
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    I would pick either Metallica's Sanitarium or One
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    Good choices Odetta.

    I wish they'd re-record all the songs on Justice with heavier guitar tones and actual bass. I love the songs, but they remain the most poorly mixed in their catalog in my opinion.

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    Master of Puppets or Dyers Eve. But just to mix it up, Angel of Death by Slayer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by obscurejude View Post
    Good choices Odetta.

    I wish they'd re-record all the songs on Justice with heavier guitar tones and actual bass. I love the songs, but they remain the most poorly mixed in their catalog in my opinion.
    i can agree with that!!!!
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    Crazy Train by Ozzy maybe...
    or Back in Black by AC/DC...
    or... this is too hard!

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    if it were an ACDC song, it would have to be Hells Bells
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    I like Big Gun by ACDC myself.
    Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
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