Listening to Metallica's Enter Sandman on the radio yesterday just confirmed to me that it is the best heavy metal song ever. And I'm not even a Metallica fan. There's really no discussion to be had here. Enter Sandman it is. Say your prayers little one don't forget, my son to include everyone tuck you in, warm within keep you free from sin till the sandman he comes sleep with one eye open gripping your pillow tight exit light enter night take my hand off to never never land something's wrong, shut the light heavy thoughts tonight and they aren't of snow white dreams of war, dreams of liars dreams of dragon's fire and of things that will bite sleep with one eye open gripping your pillow tight exit light enter night take my hand off to never never land now I lay me down to sleep pray the lord my soul to keep if I die before I wake pray the lord my soul to take hush little baby, don't say a word and never mind that noise you heard it's just the beast under your bed, in your closet, in your head exit light enter night grain of sand exit light enter night take my hand we're off to never never land
So ripping off a line from a prayer, pairing it with a horrible guitar line and a lazy drum beat makes the best heavy metal song ever? let metallica die the horrible death those pu**ies deserve. lars sux
Tool's version of the Led Zep song "No Quarter" easily takes this award IMO. download it here, hope it works, never used yousendit before
I'd have to go with Suicide Solution by Randy Rho...er, Ozzy Osbourne. It's dark (obviously), it has a great guitar riff to start the song, great middle section with Randy wailing as only he can do, and of course a great history with those kids killing themselves after hearing 'the devil' tell them to in the middle part.
motorhead - ace of spades, im so bad baby i dont care judas priest - breakin the law, you got another thing commin', the ripper guns n' roses - nighttrain black sabbath - war pigs oh yeah, and f*** metallica.
I don't know if it is considered the "best", but I have always liked "Snowblind" by Black Sabbath - probably my favorite heavy metal song ever, although there are several songs on Judas Priest's "Screaming for Vengeance" that challenge it such as "You've Got Another Thing Comin'", "Devil's Child", and "Electric Eye".
HAMMERED SMASHED FACE- BY CANIBAL CORPSE There's something inside me It's, it's coming out I feel like killing you Let loose the anger, held back too long My blood runs cold Through my anatomy, dwells another being Rooted in my cortex, a servant to its bidding Brutality now becomes my appetite Violence is now a way of life The sledge my tool to torture As it pounds down on your forehead Eyes bulging from their sockets With every swing of my mallet I smash your ****ing head in, until brains seep in through the cracks, blood does na distorted beauty, catastrophe Steaming slop, splattered all over me Lifeless body, slouching dead lecherous abcess, where you once had a head Avoiding the prophecy of my new found lust You will never live again, soon your life will end I'll see you die at my feet, eternally I smash your face facial bones collapse as I crack your skull in half Crushing, cranial, contents Draining the snot, I rip out the eyes Squeezing them in my hands nerves are incised Peeling the flesh off the bottom of my weapon Involuntarily pulpifying facial regions Suffer, and then you die Torture, pulverized At one with my sixth sense, I feel free To kill as I please, no one can stop me Created to kill, the carnage continues Violently reshaping human facial tissue Brutality becomes my appetite Violence is now a way of life The sledge my tool to torture As it pounds down on your forehead
I like the Styx song called Snowblind. Others in the running IMO: Efilnikufesin - Anthrax Peace Sells... - Megadeth Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden South of Heaven - Slayer Whiplash - Metallica
angel of death by anthrax - did they made that cover? never heard it, I only now the one and only angel of death by the mighty SLAYER.
What makes a heavy metal song great? I like "Bark at the Moon" by Ozzy alot, because it's such a blazing song. "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead is really more like punk, but since they consider themselves metal, I'll give the song a nod here as well. "Creeping Death" by Metallica is one massive riff after another and even has a "gang chant" vocal. Actually, pretty much all of Ride the Lightning is great metal (although "Escape" is kinda weak). "Symptom of the Universe" by Black Sabbath is often considered the heaviest (and most copied) riff ever. I still prefer "Sweet Leaf" however.
