Exploring Heavy Metal and all its glory. Heavy Metal is often misunderstood and thought to be just a bunch of guys banging and screaming when in fact it can be extremely thoughtful, intelligent, and sincere. Expect some throw-down-head-banging, chill mood metal, and gloomy death metal that you're probably not going to hear on the radio. On the weekends we'll mix things up with a Weekend Wildcard and an Easy Like Sunday Morning Track to get you over your hangover!
Today's Metal Track is brought to you by Swedish progressive metal legends Opeth. The Drapery Falls is the gateway song for listeners not quite into progressive death metal with growling. The transition from clean vocals to growls, a signature of Opeth songs, is on full display here. This track pulls you in for a good 5 minutes before hitting you with the first growl. It's a beautiful, brooding song and shining example of what makes Opeth the cream of the crop when it comes to metal.
10 YEARS of Metal Tracks, Weekend Wildcards, and Easy Like Sunday Morning Tracks! I can't believe I made it this long. With no repeats (few exceptions), that equates to roughly 3,600 different tracks with roughly 2,600 of those being metal tracks.
I've thought about hanging it up a few times over the last few years because it has been a challenge to post EVERY SINGLE DAY. Can't tell you how many times I've posted from my phone sitting in bed at midnight haha.
I think I'm going to keep it going for a little while at least because I love metal and enjoy promoting and talking about it. It's one of my passions that I shared first with my brother, then my friends, and now my kids. But after 10 years I think it's okay to start playing some repeats. There is still a ton of great metal coming out that I plan to share but I will get back to some of my favorites that I've posted through the years.
With that being said, today's Metal Track was the first track I played back on March 27 2013. The one I chose to kick things off and boy it does not disappoint. Tornado of Souls comes out swinging and doesn't stop. It's fast, tight, groovy, and has one of the best solos ever brought to you by the magnificent Marty Friedman. Released in 1990, Rust In Peace is considered by many as Megadeth's best album and one of the greatest metal albums of all time.
Today's Instrumental Metal Track is Red Miso by the 8-string playing, progressive metal trio Animals As Leaders. This is off of their latest album Parrhesia which came out last year. Very cool video.
Today's Metal Track is new music from Devildriver. Through the Depths is off of their upcoming album Dealing with Demons Volume II set to be released May 12.
Happy album release day for Periphery! Today's Metal Track is Atropos from their new album, Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre. Great track and very cool, trippy video. Hope to catch these guys live again soon. Enjoy!
RIP Gary Rossington. You, and the rest if the founding members are all free as a bird now. Just know that we will still remember you. But you must be traveling on now 'cause there's too many places you've got to see.
Today's Track is the iconic Free Bird by the legendary southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. This performance is from 1977 at the Oakland Coliseum and features a young Gary Rossington with his flower jacket, his Gibson SG, his glass slide, and one of the most iconic riffs in rock history.
Three months after this performance, tragedy struck the band when their plane crashed killing singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines.
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