is metallica's 'one' - the greatest metal track of all time ?

[Moen]

Ain't death metal, friend.

Some say death metal, some say thrash metal, I say semantics, who cares  

[tu_holmes]

Yep! Fade to black is definitely the best 'metal ballad' though.

I'd have to say that would go to "November Rain" by GNR.

[Moen]

November rain = metal? 

[tu_holmes]

November rain = metal? 

Yes... GNR is in fact a hard rock / metal band.

No, they aren't thrash or death or gothic doom, but they are in fact metal.

Just like White Snake is in fact "Hair Metal".

[Kulutues]

[bighead]

To answer the original question of thread... YES!

[Arnold jr]

Yeah one is good but Master of Puppets I prefer. I'd say:

Master of Puppets
Sanitarium
Disposable Heroes
Ride The lightning
Unforgiven
Seek and Destroy
Fade to black
Nothing Else Matters....

....Are all on a par or better, I love all the unsung atmospheric album track gems as well, like trapped under ice, Dyers Eve, My Friend of Misery, Metal Melitia, all of them, I don't give a fuck what people say the Black album is clearly awesome, they lost something from Load onwards, too self-conscious maybe. Like someone said Creeping Death is a contender as well!

Agreed. Anyone who says the Black album isn't metal has no idea what they're talking about. That album has the best production of just about any album ever, which is probably what turns a lot of people off....they're not used to metal albums having such good production....that and it bothers them that non-metal fans like Enter Sandman. Sad But True, Unforgiven, Wolf and Man and The God that Failed, how anyone can say that's not metal makes no sense.

I've said this before about the Load albums....they're really not that bad, especially Load. They're nowhere as good as their other albums and in a lot of ways the wrong sound for them and a lot of their fans, but any other band records Load and I'd bet it wouldn't get the heat and flack it does.

BTW, Trapped Under Ice, great track....good call on that one.

Metallica is unbeatable...true, plain and simple.

[Soul Crusher]

best metal song of all time is probably Angel of Death - Slayer , Paranoid/Iron Man Black Sabbath, Holy Diver Dio, Master of Puppets Metallica, Run to the Hills Maiden, Crazy Train Ozzy, or something like that.

[Fortress]

Most in this thread have at best a modest knowledge of popular heavy metal music.

I mean, Metallica this and Def leppard that ... what the hell?

I have been buying hard rock and metal albums, cassettes, CDs for over 30 years. I average two or three per week, every week.

There is a whole world beyond Metallica, Leppard and AC/DC.

I'd suggest a majority here just shut up.   

[Soul Crusher]

slayer - Angel of Death probably takes the title.   Nothing comes close really. 

[Fortress]

slayer - Angel of Death probably takes the title.   Nothing comes close really. 

Case in point

*yawn*

[tu_holmes]

Most in this thread have at best a modest knowledge of popular heavy metal music.

I mean, Metallica this and Def leppard that ... what the hell?

I have been buying hard rock and metal albums, cassettes, CDs for over 30 years. I average two or three per week, every week.

There is a whole world beyond Metallica, Leppard and AC/DC.

I'd suggest a majority here just shut up.   

Get off your horse man... People know about Maiden, Saxon, Candlemass, Chastain and a slew of fucking other metal bands that are great, but so fucking what?

The bottom line is when you look at longevity, great tracks, and a host of other things, you can not possibly say that any of those bands are not at the top of the heap.

Just because someone knows a bunch of tunes by UFO, Overkill, Sepultura, and Testament doesn't mean that the other bands are any less great.

You sound like a prick... Tossing around your "30 years" shit... You're not the only one.

[Soul Crusher]

Case in point

*yawn*

some garage band w some masterpiece no one ever heard of does not fit TJE bill.  Sorry bro. 

[Grape Ape]

Most in this thread have at best a modest knowledge of popular heavy metal music.

I mean, Metallica this and Def leppard that ... what the hell?

I have been buying hard rock and metal albums, cassettes, CDs for over 30 years. I average two or three per week, every week.

There is a whole world beyond Metallica, Leppard and AC/DC.

I'd suggest a majority here just shut up.   

It's a thread about a Metallica song.

[Fortress]

Get off your horse man... People know about Maiden, Saxon, Candlemass, Chastain and a slew of fucking other metal bands that are great, but so fucking what?

The bottom line is when you look at longevity, great tracks, and a host of other things, you can not possibly say that any of those bands are not at the top of the heap.

Just because someone knows a bunch of tunes by UFO, Overkill, Sepultura, and Testament doesn't mean that the other bands are any less great.

You sound like a prick... Tossing around your "30 years" shit... You're not the only one.

Biggest prick with which you'll ever come into contact, that's for sure.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand ... I recognize that select songs from Priest, Metallica, Maiden, Leppard, etc. are bonafide classics, sure, but there have been tunes from as recent as five years ago that could easily be considered as being some of the very best the style has to offer. It's just lame to read the same 10 tunes mentioned over and over again as if there aren't groups well and beyond the biggies.

Take "Angel of Death" by Slayer. Classic song, no doubt. But it's pulled like a knee-jerk without a second's thought given to the THOUSANDS of other great classics in all substyles of metal.

[Fortress]

It's a thread about a Metallica song.

No, it's a thread about whether others agree that "One" is the greatest metal song of all time.

Fuck me. Read much?

[Soul Crusher]

Seek and Destroy, No remorse, whiplash, ride the lighting, for whom The bell tools, battery, master of puppets, creeping death, et al are. Fucking masterpieces!  


BUT.


Slayer still takes the cake for angel of death, reign in blood, and black magic.

[Fortress]

some garage band w some masterpiece no one ever heard of does not fit TJE bill.  Sorry bro. 

No, not "garage" bands, but rather, groups that in some cases have perhaps six or more professional recordings to their name. Some even dozens. And as far as others not having heard them, well, judging by the "fans" in this thread, I don't doubt this one bit.

[King Shizzo]

Whitesnake is the best band mentioned in this thread.

[tu_holmes]

Biggest prick with which you'll ever come into contact, that's for sure.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand ... I recognize that select songs from Priest, Metallica, Maiden, Leppard, etc. are bonafide classics, sure, but there have been tunes from as recent as five years ago that could easily be considered as being some of the very best the style has to offer. It's just lame to read the same 10 tunes mentioned over and over again as if there aren't groups well and beyond the biggies.

Take "Angel of Death" by Slayer. Classic song, no doubt. But it's pulled like a knee-jerk without a second's thought given to the THOUSANDS of other great classics in all substyles of metal.

First, let me roll my eyes at your comment about your prick...

I guess I don't see much in the past 10 years that's not a bunch of growling that no one understands.

I mean, you could go on about Cradle of Filth or Trivium, maybe, but they don't do shit for me.

Now Lacuna Coil and Nightwish are pretty good, but to go as far as to say any of them will be considered classics is a huge stretch.

[Soul Crusher]

Scabbia is epic in the number of metal heads who want to bang her! 

[The Showstoppa]

Voivod....I'm Bored

[Moen]

Most in this thread have at best a modest knowledge of popular heavy metal music.

I mean, Metallica this and Def leppard that ... what the hell?

I have been buying hard rock and metal albums, cassettes, CDs for over 30 years. I average two or three per week, every week.

There is a whole world beyond Metallica, Leppard and AC/DC.

I'd suggest a majority here just shut up.   

Share some vids and enlighten us instead of merely bitching 

[tu_holmes]

Whitesnake is the best band mentioned in this thread.

David Coverdale was a raspy voiced god... Plus their blues melodies over top of power chords was pretty freaking sweet.

Definitely an underappreciated band from that era.

[Arnold jr]

I agree with Fortress that there are a lot of metal bands that are fantastic, far superior to many of the ones named here. Metallica and Pantera are probably my two favorites all around of all time, but bands like Children of Bodom and Lamb of God are hard to beat. Bodom is just good hard metal, and LOG is just the epitome of southern metal thrash...kind of Pantera to the extreme.

I have to say, bands like Iron Maiden, Def Lep, Ozzy and Priest, these bands don't even begin to enter the same category as the four bands I just mentioned above. Sure, taste dictates a lot and everyone's is different, but the Maiden's. Ozzy, etc., none of these could be put into the same metal category as the above four.

Metallica
Pantera
Children of Bodom
Lamb of God
Sepultura
Divine Heresy
Agony Scene
Omnium Gatherum
Arch Enemy
In Flames
Scar Symmetry

That's a metal playlist of bands...real, true metal.