Most Awesome(ly Bad) Metal Songs (Videos Required)

Big Phil · Post by **Big Phil** » 2007-03-10 11:07am

Inspired by the Dio thread in testing, and VH1's travesty of a special episode, I thought I'd ask you all to post your favorite most awesome(ly bad) metal songs of all time. It can either be awesome (like Motorhead's 'Ace of Spades') or awesomely bad (like Manowar's 'Warriors of the World United').

Oh yeah, and it has to be METAL, not this butt-rock crap they had in the VH1 special, and no whiny emo or goth-rock either. Metal, aka Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, etc. No Winger, no Stryper, no Britny Fox, and definitely no Poison (if you post Poison I will hurt you).

My entries for awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsMqZZHC23Q Motorhead - Ace of Spades
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4xjuebn-yE Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdcDvEg4mSw Andrew WK - Party Hard

And for cheesy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSPxTHP02Ww Manowar - Return of the Warlord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icAzyx8EsKU Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast The song rules, but the video is terribly dated.

EDIT - Don't know what I did wrong, so I just undressed the links

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-03-10 11:12am

So, your infact banning anything that Rye might like? Awesome

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2007-03-10 11:21am

Damn Sanchez, all your links contain malformed video id's. So we can't actually see the videos.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2007-03-10 11:38am

I must again post The Scorpions' Rock You Like a Hurricane live with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

For an actual music video (and still awesome metal), I must also put forth Ozzy Osbourne's Bark at the Moon.

EDIT: And how could I forget? Iron Maiden's Aces High is just beyond badass.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2007-03-10 12:38pm

Dartzap wrote:So, your infact banning anything that Rye might like? Awesome

I'll have you know, I hate most goth rock and emo along the lines of evanescence and alexisonfire and all that shit. You're getting your genres confused.

Anyway, as for awesomely bad, you can't beat black metal. It's just a fact of life. Here's immortal's old skool video to yakety sax: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehnRt3LaLUc

You can't let a thread like this go without mentioning Behemoth, either. Fucking awesome music, fucking silly video for "As above, So Below."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A73rV5v2dvc

Metal as fook.

Also, if Clive Barker had written a music video, you'd think it was From The Cradle To Enslave by Cradle of Filth. Their best song in my opinion. I might cover it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmHBZU2Ts0E

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2007-03-11 01:37am

Love the song, hate the video:

Dio Rainbow In The Dark

Vinnie Vincent Invasion Boyz Are Gonna Rock

KISS All Hell's Breaking Loose

Cool song, cool video:

Mcauley Schenker Group Gimme Your Love

Tom Petty You Got Lucky

Alice Cooper Freedom

Rob Zombie Phantom Stranger

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2007-03-11 03:41am

I like this song but the video is early 80s cheese.

Accept - "Balls to the Walls"

There are times when they are doing stuff on stage and I can't help but think of Spinaltap.

Civil War Man · Post by **Civil War Man** » 2007-03-11 11:02am

How about a newcomer in the realm of awesome metal?
Thunderhorse by Dethklok

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2007-03-11 11:17am

The video isn't amazing, but the song is one of the all time metal greats. Such fucking groove, such an outro, such an intro, such a tone and feel to the whole song. Proof that metal is king.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUNPqp9bRVw

Machine Head - Davidian

Big Phil · Post by **Big Phil** » 2007-03-12 12:34pm

Tsyroc wrote:I like this song but the video is early 80s cheese.

Accept - "Balls to the Walls"

There are times when they are doing stuff on stage and I can't help but think of Spinaltap.

The lead singer of Accept may possibly be the ugliest man in rock & roll.

Other awesome metal songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO5Xd7_MXn4 AC/DC - Thunderstruck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-pUvcbpF0 Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doTBT46wMvA Rammstein - Du Hast

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2007-03-13 09:30am

I can't believe no one mentioned the indomitable Dragonforce!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDesqj7HOgA : Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames. I've seen them live, and yes, they are really that insanely awesome.

Zadius · Post by **Zadius** » 2007-03-13 11:36am

My two favorite Rammstein songs:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W6tLz6fYqHU Rammstein - Spieluhr
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6KsSzo2vYq8 Rammstein - Ich Will

Civil War Man · Post by **Civil War Man** » 2007-03-14 08:46am

Oh, just in case anyone was in the mood
Unholy Warcry by Rhapsody of Fire. Narrated by Christopher Lee, bitches.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2007-03-14 11:08am

I just remembered Homage for Satan by Deicide, essentially an antichristian zombie vid. Heheh.

Also, Children of Bodom's Sixpounder and Downfall are quality metal that any guitar player should aspire to. Way better than ultrawank dragonforce.

Julhelm · Post by **Julhelm** » 2007-03-22 10:03pm

Manowar - Gloves of Metal

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2007-03-22 11:49pm

Civil War Man wrote:How about a newcomer in the realm of awesome metal?
Thunderhorse by Dethklok

It's uncanny how much the vocalist sounds like Cookie Monster.

Civil War Man · Post by **Civil War Man** » 2007-03-22 11:57pm

RedImperator wrote:
Civil War Man wrote:How about a newcomer in the realm of awesome metal?
Thunderhorse by Dethklok
It's uncanny how much the vocalist sounds like Cookie Monster.

It is part of the promise made to make everything metal. Blacker than the blackest black times infinity. That includes cookies.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2007-03-23 06:35am

Vader - Hellelujah (God is Dead)

Some of the fastest, most accurate drumming around, and a well memorable chorus. If you're walking around on your lunch break or something, sing it and it should cheer you up. I keep doing it when I go to Greggs to get my dinner during the day, "God is Dead, DEAD! Hellelujah!"

Also, the video is cheesy as hell. Excellent.

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2007-03-23 08:13pm

Dartzap wrote:So, your infact banning anything that Rye might like? Awesome

Er, I think you're confusing gothrock and emo with death-metal, which, from what I've seen, is more to Rye's tastes.

Anyways, Dir en Grey's 'Clever Sleazoid', simply because it spawned one of the best misheard-lyrics videos out there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK9XCJxwRbI

You can't wear that sweater!

Big Phil · Post by **Big Phil** » 2007-03-25 09:56pm

Oni Koneko Damien wrote:
Dartzap wrote:So, your infact banning anything that Rye might like? Awesome

Er, I think you're confusing gothrock and emo with death-metal, which, from what I've seen, is more to Rye's tastes.

Anyways, Dir en Grey's 'Clever Sleazoid', simply because it spawned one of the best misheard-lyrics videos out there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK9XCJxwRbI

You can't wear that sweater!

I probably should have addressed this two weeks ago, but I didn't, tough... Death metal, though it's not my cup of tea, counts as metal. Butt rock (Winger, Warrant, Ratt) is not metal; gothrock (wussies with makeup bitching about their mommies) is not metal; modern "prog-rock" (like that shit Coheed and Cambria) is not metal.

Rye's tastes are kind of weird, and I don't really like any of the bands he posted, but they're all metal in my opinion.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2007-03-26 11:06am

SancheztheWhaler wrote:
Oni Koneko Damien wrote:
Dartzap wrote:So, your infact banning anything that Rye might like? Awesome

Er, I think you're confusing gothrock and emo with death-metal, which, from what I've seen, is more to Rye's tastes.

Anyways, Dir en Grey's 'Clever Sleazoid', simply because it spawned one of the best misheard-lyrics videos out there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK9XCJxwRbI

You can't wear that sweater!
I probably should have addressed this two weeks ago, but I didn't, tough... Death metal, though it's not my cup of tea, counts as metal. Butt rock (Winger, Warrant, Ratt) is not metal; gothrock (wussies with makeup bitching about their mommies) is not metal; modern "prog-rock" (like that shit Coheed and Cambria) is not metal.

Rye's tastes are kind of weird, and I don't really like any of the bands he posted, but they're all metal in my opinion.

Of course they aren't Metal, there's nothing in the genre names that suggests they are either really. They are more about injecting pop sensibilities into the metal genres (immediately removing any possible metal-ness from it) so as to make it more accessible to people with the exception of a few of the Prog-Rock genre who really do push some boundaries.

But i'm instantly excused from any further comment on this thread, about from some older classic-metal my tastes sit very much on the left (punk rock and it's various sub-genres

)

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2007-03-27 03:00am

Holy crap! How could I forget the Japanese metal band, EZO? "Flashback Heart Attack"

Spin Echo · Post by **Spin Echo** » 2007-03-27 03:18am

Heavy metal and Curling. What else could you ask for?

TithonusSyndrome · Post by **TithonusSyndrome** » 2007-03-29 01:00pm

A good cross-section of real metal from all eras:

Immolation - Harnessing Ruin
Brodequin - Slaves To The Pyre
Incantation - Dying Divinity
Razor - Evil Invaders
Randy Black (ex-Annihilator) practising "Cold Blooded"
Overkill - Wrecking Crew (live)
Dismember - Dreaming In Red
Carcass - Heartwork
Monstrosity - Final Cremation
Hate Eternal - The Victorious Reign
Testament - Over The Wall
Rob Halford - Betrayal
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Bruce Dickinson - Abduction
Tankard - The Morning After
Destruction - The Ravenous Beast

TithonusSyndrome · Post by **TithonusSyndrome** » 2007-03-29 01:23pm

And for the awesomely bad part of this thread, here's the shit-riff stylings of pseudo-metal weenies, Slipknot!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1HO2U5TfbY0