The Metal Project: Metal + Punk = Metalpunk!

The Metal Project began when I decided to see how many Metal songs I could find on Youtube that had "Metal" in the title. A 100-odd posts later, I'm not even close to being finished. 

 I'm going to take a break from the chronological posts for the moment to have a look down one of Heavy Metal's intriguing side alleys.
 Heavy Metal and Punk have always had people within each scene peering over the fence to see what the neighbours were doing and this has led to all sorts of cross-pollination: Thrash Metal, Hardcore, Grunge, Black Metal, Grindcore and certain of  the snottier LA Glam/Sleaze bands all resulted from fans taking a little from here and a little from there and seeing what crawled out of the incubation chamber.

Today's post is devoted to bands proudly wearing their Punk influences right alongside the Metal.  Some of them seem to be Punk bands playing Metal, others are Metal bands playing Punk and a few cheerfully describe themselves as "Metalpunk".
So if you want a no-nonsense racket with lashings of "F*** You" attitude, grab some cheap cider and step this way.

 Antichrist Hooligans - Heavy Metal Attack (Brazil 2009)

Honour to: diniz77

Crepusculo Maldito - Necro Metal Punks (Portugal 2010)

Honour to: PunkPtDiy

Hellcharger - Metal Punk Warriors (Mexico 2011)

Honour to: hellchargerMTY

Invierno Nuclear - Thrashing Metal Punk (Chile 2012-I think)

Honour to: suicinyyandel

Iron Fist - Metal Punk Mania  (Demo-USA 2012)

Honour to: Iron Fist

Massendefekt -Heavy Metal Superstar (Germany 2006)

(I suspect if I understood German this would turn out to be a Punk band

taking the piss. Screw it. it's a cool song regardless)

Honour to: boehserlumpi

Speedboozer - Metal Punk (USA 2012)

Honour to: Speedboozer

SubCaos - Metal Punx For Life (Portugal 2010)

Honour to: Proisse

The Ugly - Black Metal Punks (Sweden 2008)

Honour to: MuertePorNapalm

Tiger Junkies - Metal Punk (Japan 2008)

Honour to: felopunk

And finally, a song from Devin Townsend's 1996 Punk project.

 Punky Bruster - Metalheads Are Punk Rockers (Canada 1996)

Honour to: NihilSubSole

If you happen to be after a bit more info on Metalpunk, the latest edition of Iron Fist magazine isn't a bad place to start. I'll freely admit that their article gave me the idea for this selection of songs. 

Link is here: http://www.ironfistmag.com/