The Metal Project: My personal quest to find metal songs with "metal" in the title. Well it beats chasing about after a frigging great white whale, I suppose.
Happy Independence Day America. To celebrate, here's a selection of All-American metalheads, just for you. Enjoy.
This seems a good place to start.
Belial - American Metal (Demo 1985)
Honour to: heavymetaller1978
I don't normally do instrumentals but in this case, what the hell.
Features Marty Friedman (who went on to Megadeth) and Jason Becker (who became Dave Lee Roth's guitarist) duelling each other.
Sadly Becker's career was cut short by Lou Gehrig's Disease.
Despite being confined to a wheelchair, unable to play or even to speak, Becker continues to compose music. Respect is due.
Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony (Instrumental 1987)
(Shred-Metal)
Honour to: BollyRulez
I admit I might be pushing the boundaries of "Metal" with this next one.
What can I say? I'm basically an 80s kinda guy.
When I first got into this music, Bon Jovi and Def Leppard were considered Heavy Metal
Bang Gang - Pedal To The Metal (1990)
(Sleazy LA Glam)
Honour to: Daemonja81
Possessor - Metal Meltdown (2010)
(Buzzsaw Thrash)
Honour to: PossessorMetal
Band homepage; https://www.facebook.com/PossessorMetal
Virgin Steele - Metal City (1983)
(An early track from one of the founding fathers of US Power Metal
And it's pretty good too.)
Honour to: IstKriegUNM
Total Eclipse - Guardians Of Metal (1999)
(Mellow intro leads into epic but catchy Trad Metal that has a definite British air to it)
Honour to: ninja82hmrm
And finally, two tracks that seem to fit the spirit of the day quite well.
Skelator - Give Me Metal Or Give Me Death (2008)
(Thrash but with some nice, bluesy guitar action)
Honour to: rapanzel666
And I think I shall finish with...
Wild Dogs - Metal Free America (1987)
(Hardhitting USPM)
Honour to: CorryDMG
That's all folks and a Happy Fourth Of July to y'all.
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