Your Personal Metal Deep Cuts
Your Personal Metal Deep Cuts
Last week we had a great thread about metal without growls. In reading suggestions, and conjuring up some of my own, I re-realized a bunch of stuff.
I wanna see your top 3 metal deep cuts.
What do I mean by deep cut? I mean the formative shit. The stuff you found and loved along the way but lost track of, that when you revisit you go "fuck what happened to these guys?" The ones that helped guide you but fell off the face of the earth (or just your radar).
Ooh. Nice topic!
Uh... Def Leppard. I was a huge fan of them up to and including Pyromania, then ... I stopped. I know glam metal doesn't get a lot of respect, but it was my gateway drug into the heavier stuff and Def Leppard was ... a lot of my youthful turn into a metalhead.
Saxon. They were my stepping stone from glam metal into the harder stuff, together with old Black Sabbath. Unlike Black Sabbath, however, which has remained on my playlist almost constantly—rarely does a week go by without me dropping a Sabbath album into the headset—I hardly ever listen to Saxon any longer.
For something a bit more modern, Gloryhammer. Absolutely hilariously fun power metal cheese that I enjoyed like crazy ... and then stopped after the shenanigans with their lead singer. I followed the lead singer as Angus McSix later, but simply stopped listening to Gloryhammer because the whole situation left a bad taste in my mouth.
My own?
The solo which gets intro'd around 3:20 is dope. Kiuas never got the love they deserved.
flutes and shit. Simple, head banger. Chanty. These guys are what all folk metal should aspire to be. Check out their stuff, they fucking rule. Their most recent (2013 lol) album is heavy.
This 2003 finnish gem ruled when I was in high school, and it rules now. Vocals leave a bit to be desired, but I think they were probably following in Alexi Laihos vocals (RIP), in which case... improvement? 😂
Regardless, this song rips hard.
Honorable mention:
Curriculum Mortis - Walls Of Ice
This song... if you can find it, send it my way. (holy f I found it) It was a band formed of the original Amon Amarth drummer started. They had a demo. It was dope, very Amon Amarth but less viking/kitsch. Just melodeth despair.
Edit: HoLY FUCK.
Timeghoul - Occurrence on Mimas - https://youtu.be/oDbAQRMG4zE?si=606V35wlwt2nPoMD
- Holocaust - Heavy Metal Mania
- Angel Witch - Angel Witch
- Tygers of Pan Tang - Killers
I guess my age is showing, nwobhm was a big part of my formative years.