Metal for dummies

[Mordor]

Ok!
I've to prepare a metal cd to two guys to show them that metal kicks ass!I believe that I will start with easy listening power metal!I would like to have some suggestions for some songs!Let the metal flow! [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[zeegler]

Re: Metal for dummies

Fuck easy listening. Go for the jugular. How old are these guys?

[horns666]

Re: Metal for dummies

Dude to pull people into your metal world you got to impress them ...BIG TIME!!

So right off the top of my head..this warrants..

Iced Earth ..Something Wicked This way comes...or the Dark Saga

Brainstorm...just about anything they do..

Gamma Ray ...New world Order..

Nevermore....friggin' anything!

Kamelot...anything with Khan as singer

The last couple of Nocturnal Rites is very good..

possibly some Statovarius or Nightwish..Symphony X..

I haven't showed this stuff to anyone who didn't like it..

DON'T go all extreme on them...Metal is like a drug...start them off slow...then pull out the hard stuff when their hooked!!

[Big D]

Re: Metal for dummies

Give them some old school melodic Maiden. Even my 6 year old daughter likes that stuff. Then later bust 'em on the head with some BLS, Shadows Fall, and Master of Puppets.

[Child Of Norther]

Re: Metal for dummies

Rhapsody - Epicus Furor (leading to...)
Rhapsody - Emerald Sword
Angra - Temple Of Hate
Dragonforce - Fury Of The Storm
Gamma Ray - Damn The Machine
Fairyland - The Fellowship
Shaman - Distant Thunder
Hammerfall - Renegade
Firewind - Kill To Live
Blind Guardian - Mirror Mirror
Helloween - Eagle Fly Free

and End with

Dream Evil - The Book Of Heavy Metal

[jim777]

Re: Metal for dummies

What...nothing 80's?!

[Tekky]

Re: Metal for dummies

Savatage with Criss Oliva starting with when they started collaborating with Paul O'Neill.
(Hall of the Mountain King, Streets: A Rock Opera, Gutter Ballet, and Edge of Thorns)

**RIP Criss

[Newc]

Re: Metal for dummies

Start with Black Sabbath, up through Priest, Ozzy, Maiden, Motorhead, and early Metallica (Lightning, Puppets), then into Rust In Peace, Countdown, and then finish up with Testament's Souls Of Black.
If they dig all of that, then hit them with the harder stuff with cookie monster vocals.

Do NOT give them the Gay 80's Hair Metal stuff like Warrant and Poison.

[guitar geek]

Re: Metal for dummies

you guys... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] step out of your own frame [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] he is not given an complete metal education, just a short getting acquaintance CD. I'd say, go with Bills idea, it would exaclty be what I would have recommended. maybe some Sonata Arctica, but spoken in general; Bill had a good list!

Harrald

[Newc]

Re: Metal for dummies

When I first heard Puppets, I thought it sucked. Battery sounded like a Polka, and I didn't even give the rest of the disc a chance. Turns out that was the only song on the disc I didn't like, but it turned me off the whole thing for years.
So you don't just jump into the Hard Stuff with new people to get them interested if they don't already have a foundation in the early stuff like Sabbath or Priest, because they won't know where it came from.

[442w30]

Re: Metal for dummies

In Flames - Cloud Connected
Ratt - Lay it Down
Motley Crue - Looks that Kill
Black Sabbath - Wishing Well
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Accept - Screaming for a Love Bite
Van Halen - Mean Street
Iced Earth - Don't Fear the Reaper
Judas Priest - Desert Plains
Savatage - Power of the Night/Hall of the Mountain King
Lizzy Borden - Me against the World
Helloween - Just a Little Sign
Scorpions - No one like you
Dokken - Just Got Lucky
Queensryche - Queen of the Ryche
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Metallica - Master of Puppets

[Cleveland Metal]

Re: Metal for dummies

Ehh, just play Slayer: Reign in Blood about 20 times for them... That should effect them somehow...

[mwm70]

Re: Metal for dummies

Stay away from powermetal, it's way to technical and complicated to be understood or appreciated by non-players.
Cleveland Metal is right, then give some of the slower stuff off of South Of Heaven.

[DarkSaga]

Re: Metal for dummies

Anthrax- Belly of the Best
Exodus- anything from the Another Lesson in Violence live album
Savatage- Hall of the Mountain King
Iced Earth- Wolf, Hunter,etc
Iron Maiden- Hallowed be thy Name, The Trooper
Megadeth- Go To Hell
Metallica- Master of Puppets, Creeping Death
Testament- Souls of Black, Low,or Legacy Album
Judas Priest- Painkiller album
Slayer- South of Heaven
and some Ozzy for good measure. That should be agood start!

[guitarsjb]

Re: Metal for dummies

AC/DC-Back in Black, and go from there.