if you were to make a playlist of metal/thrash/hard rock (whatever the heck you call the genre) what would you consider a MUST?

Raining blood - slayer
Laid to rest - lamb of god
anything by Threat Signal (Look it up best band ever!)
Black hearts now reign - Unearth
The Air I Breathe - All that remains
Pray For Villains - Devildriver
Skip The Breakup Get With THe Make Up - Killwhitneydead (For the amazing metal lulz)

Iced Earth:

Disciples Of The Lie

Something Wicked, Pt. 3: The Coming Curse

Megadeth:

Burnt Ice

Gears Of War

Good Mourning/Black Friday

Peace Sells

Hangar 18

Holy Wars... The Punishment Due

Rust In Peace... Polaris

United Abominations

Washington Is Next!

Metallica (I'm biased in favor of this band):

...And Justice For All

All Nightmare Long

Battery

Blackened

Creeping Death

Damage, Inc.

Jump In The Fire

Master Of Puppets

Ride The Lightning

The End Of The Line

The Four Horsemen

The Judas Kiss

The Thing That Should Not Be

Whiplash

Slayer:

Angel Of Death

Eyes Of The Insane

Jesus Saves

Jihad

Raining Blood

Seasons In The Abyss

South of Heaven

Trivium:

Becoming The Dragon

Contempt Breeds Contamination

Into The Mouth Of Hell We March

Kirisute Gomen

To The Rats

Torn Between Scylla And Charybdis

I think that should tide you over for a while.

Gojira:

Remembrance

Flying Whales

Backbone

Vacuity

Ocean Planet

The Heaviest Matter of the Universe

Wisdom Comes

Lamb of God: any song

Metallica: anything before black album

Slayer: any song

As I Lay Dying:

Nothing Left

The Sound of Truth

Trivium:

Kirisute Gomen

Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis

Like Light To Flys

Machine Head:

Aesthetics of Hate

A Life Once Lost:

Firewater Joyride

Detest

The Wanderer

Pantera: any song

and of course you could check out my band: www.myspace.com/onyxstoneband we arent metal but you MIGHT like hahaha

Blinded by Faith - Reptilian Shudders
Decayed Remains - A Divine Funeral

THRASH/TRADITIONAL METAL
Testament:
Practice what you Preach
The Formation of Damnation

Lamb of God:
Ruin
Vigil
Laid to Rest
Omerta
Walk with Me in Hell
Blackened the Cursed Sun
Grace

Slayer:
Ghosts of War
Altar of Sacrifice
Angel of Death
South of Heaven

Sanctity:
Beneath the Machine
Zeppo

Pantera:
Mouth for War
Drag the Waters

Nevermore:
Riverdragon
We Disintegrate
Enemies of Reality
Born

Megadeth:
Ashes in Your Mouth
Go to Hell
My Last Words
The Conjuring
Peace Sells
In My Darkest Hour
Washington is Next
Reckoning Day
Holy Wars
Take No Prisoners
Hangar 18
TORNADO OF SOULS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Machine Head:
Halo
Clenching the Fists of Dissent

Iron Maiden
Fear of the Dark
The Wicker Man
Brave New World
The Evil that Men Do
Wasted Years
The Trooper
Powerslave
Hallowed be Thy Name

Into Eternity:
Severe Emotional Distress
Paralyzed

PROG METAL
Dream Theater
The Shattered Fortress
Caught in a Web
Pull Me Under
Under a Glass Moon
The Root of All Evil
Never Enough
The Glass Prison
As I Am
This Dying Soul
Stream of Consciousness
Endless Sacrifice

Symphony X:
Of Sins and Shadows
Inferno
Evolution

Opeth:
The Leper Affinity
Ghost of Perdition
The Grand Conjuration
Demons of the Fall
Heir Apparent

MELODIC DEATH METAL
Dark Tranquility
Lost to Apathy
One Thought
Single Part of Two
Cathode Ray Sunshine
Damage Done
Nothing to No One
Lesser Faith
The Wonders at Your Feet
Feast of Burden

In Flames:
Brush the Dust Away
Swim
Colony
Insipid 2000
Artifacts of the Black Rain
System
Cloud Connected
Jotun
Gyroscope
Food for the Gods
Episode 666

INDUSTRIAL
Fear Factory:
Archetype
Replica
Damaged
Linchpin
Shock
Edgecrusher
Descent
540,000 Degrees Fahrenheit
Resurrection

FEMALE VOCALS
In This Moment
Prayers
Ashes
Beautiful Tragedy
The Great Divide

Luna Mortis
The Absence
Never Give In

The Agonist
The Tempest
Thank You, Pain

Old School Metal

Def Leppard
-Paper Sun
-Gods of War
-White Lightning
-Tonight
-Rock Briggade
-Action
-Photograph
-Rock of Ages
-Excitable
-Foolin'
-Women
-Die Hard the Hunter
-Billy's Got a Gun
-Now
-Too Late for Love
-Work it Out
-Bringing on the Heartbreak

Dokken
-Dream Warriors
-Into the Fire
-In My Dreams

Iron Maiden
-Flight of Icarus
-Run to the Hills
-The Trooper

Megadeath
-Sweating Bullets

Vixen
-How Much Love
-Edge of a Broken Heart

Enuff Z'nuff
-Fly High Michelle
-New Thing

Therion
-Birth of Venus Illigetima
-Rise of Soddam and Gamorrah

AC/DC
name a song, really...

Rainbow
-Stone Cold
-Man on a Silver Mountain
-Stargazer[longest version you can find]

King's X
-King

Queensrÿche
-any song from Operation Mindcrime(original not OM II)
-Jet City Woman
-Another Rainy Night (without you...)
-Empire
-Queen of the Rÿche

Gary Moore
-Victims of the Future
-Hiroshima

Dio
-Holy Diver
-Rainbow in the Dark

Hear N' Aid
-Stars

Loudness[very underrated band]
-Crazy Night
-Let it Go

Saxon
-Rock n Roll Gypsy

Anvil
-Forged in Fire
-Metal on Metal
-Tag Team
-Tease me, Please Me
-anything else ya can find by them, great band that never got big due to unfortunate circumstances.

Judas Priest
-Breaking the Law

Y&T
-Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
-Eyes of the Stranger
-Winds of Change

Quiet Riot
-Bang Your Head[Metal Health]
-Stay with me Tonight

Rough Cutt
-Dreaming Again
-Take Her

Black Sabbath
-Headless Cross

Accept
-Metal Heart
-Balls to the Wall

Deep Purple
-Perfect Stangers

Night Ranger[yes i classify these guys as metal]
-Don't Tell Me you Love Me
-4 in the Morning
-Tell Your Vision[from the new album]

Krokus
-Screaming in the Night

Alice Cooper
-Freedom
-Feed my Frankenstein
-Teenage Frankenstein
-Poison

Posion
-Nothing but a Good Time

Jackyl
-Down on Me
-Lumberjack Song

Scorpions
-Animal Magnetism
-The Zoo
-Rock You Like a Hurricane
-Big City Nights

Bon Jovi
-Give Love a Bad Name
-Living on a Prayer

Van Halen
-Human's Being

yeah my expertise is in OLD SCHOOL metal ie 70s and 80s which is what i listed above, yeah i got a bias to DL any of their songs are worth putting on ANY album, they RARELY make a bad song, even the ballads are worth listening to.

N.J.

There is a bunch of fantastic stuff above.

Thrash -
Megadeth
The Entire Rust in Peace Album (Arguably one of the top 5 Thrash Metal Albums ever)
Sweating Bullets <Cannot Stress this song enough>
<Then insert the rest of Matt's Megadeth list here

Exodus
The Toxic Waltz

Nuclear Assault
Critical Mass

Anthrax - With Joey Belladonna
Caught in the Mosh
I Am the Law
I'm The Man
Sabbath Blood Sabbath (Black Sabbath Cover)
Antisocial
Time
Got the Time
**Medusa**

Anthrax - With John Bush
The Entire Sound of White Noise Album

Anthrax - With Public Enemy
Bring the Noise <the definitive track that launched the entire wave of New Metal / Rap& Metal crossover>

Metallica - <I'm very loathe to put them on here due to what they did to their fans surrounding Napster>
Motorbreath
Whiplash
One
Trapped Under Ice
<Their first 4 albums are Thrash Metal staples>

Industrial:
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult -
A Daisy Chain for Satan
After the Flesh

Skinny Puppy -
Assimilate
Smothered Hope
Love In Vein
jaHer
Rodent (Ken "Hiwatt" Marshall Remix) (DDT Mix)

Ministry -
The entire Rio Grande Blood CD
The entire Psalm 69 CD
The entire In case you didn't feel like showing up <live> CD

Revolting ***** -
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy
The entire You Goddamn Son of a ***** <live> CD

10,000 homo DJ's
Supernaut

<I feel so guilty, I'm leaving so much good stuff off of the industrial section>

Overall Metal Experience that I'm not going to try and classify into Subgenres

Dethklok-
Just get the entire Dethalbum Brendan Small has been able to distill the essence of Metal, and it is Dethklok

System of a Down -
Snow Blind <From the Nativity in Black II Sabbath Tribute Album>
Chop Suey
B.Y.O.B <The entire Mezmerize Album is amazing>

Black Label Society
What's In you
In this River
Bored to Tears
Taz
No More Tears

Pantera
Cowboys from Hell

Queensryche:
<In addition to NJ's List>
Liquid Sky
London
Screaming in Digital
Or just cheat and get the Live Evolution Double Live CD

WASP:
Chainsaw Charlie (Murders in the New Morgue) <The Crimson Idol which this comes from is an amazing Album [Concept/Rock Opera]>
I Wanna Be Somebody
School Daze
Blind In Texas

Judas Priest:
Painkiller <The Single or the Entire Album, it's Metal>

Volbeat:
Hallelujah Goat
Wild Rover of Hell

Suicidal Tendencies:
You Can't Bring Me Down
Send me Your Money
How Can I Laugh Tomorrow When I can't even Smile Today?
Institutionalized

Motorhead:
Ace of Spades

The problem with something like this is there is so much good Metal. I'm shaking my head at how much stuff I'm leaving off this list.

i'm assuming most of the fantastic stuff was my post brian, lol; yeah i'm young but i listen to 70-80's hair metal so yeah i am WIERD.

also Add Wild Child to WASP.

N.J.

NJBrock22 said:

Weird? Nah... most of your list was Solid... I just have to question listing Poison under Metal. Glam sure... Metal... I gotta be honest... I'm cringing.

On the otherhand - Mad props for listing Anvil - Canadian Metal at its finest.

Antigoth said:

Link said:

Sounds good. I'll peak into it.

I have to admit - the Canadian Metal Scene is very Healthy with stuff like:

F__k the Facts - Ottawa
Dreadnaught - Winnipeg
Distorted Memory - Winnipeg
Voivod - Quebec (granted these guys are long time legends)
3 inches of blood - Vancouver

and the list goes on and on and on.

isnt Protest The Hero from Canada?? i know they are the ****!! and yes Rust In Peace is one of the Greatest thrash metal albums ever!!!

Wurm-Z said:

Rust in Peace is the best thrash album imo. Peace Sells. . .But Who's Buying? is really great too.

mattkohls said:

I quite loved Endgame.

So...I noticed nobody here posted any Maximum the Hormone...

fail...*******...******* fail. Miserably.

Also, besides everything Maximum the Hormone ever made, check out Korean Thrash Metal Band Crash. I never thought I'd enjoy Smoke on the Water, but...

I'm not going to list any songs, but I'll throw a few bands out there.

DevilDriver

Soilwork

Unearth (Why has nobody listed this yet?)

Children of Bodom (Same.. why?)

As far as more recent stuff goes....

Five Finger Death Punch

Killswitch Engage

I don't really know if I'd call The Sword metal so much, but they've got some pretty good stuff that I really like.

Bullet for My Valentine

Static-X (More industrial, but still good)

Anything by Trivium. Although The Crusade sounds more like a Metallica album..

didnt know so many people in UFS liked metal

Hayamachop said:

Are you seriously astonished that gamers like a genre of music that is known to be as ostracized as gaming by societal standards?

I listen to dance music all the time.