When metal was born, in the late 60's and early 70's, they didn't have the same equipment for making extreme distortion with their amps, they had to push the limit and doublejack their speakers. It doesn't get more metal than that. Pounding all the sound you can make from what you have available.

Let's start with a real classic of the classics, Deep Purple - Fireball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MANZfk8Et9Y

And then a really heavy one, considered the first heavy metal song by many!
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BkhtJM8CqE

One of the finest, heaviest and most powerful metal monsters..
Judas Priest -…

Ok, before anyone read this: I'm not an elitist. For some reason I have to say that every time I write a journal entry. Sad, but true.
I despise elitism, I just like metal to be metal-related :

The decline of Heavy Metal - happening now ?

What's happening today? Have I missed the whole meaning of metal?
The magazine "Metal Hammer" for the last few years for one instance, has become everything else than a metal magazine. What the fuck happened? For the last years they have been advertising with bands like atreyu, my chemical romance, bullet…

As a very enthusiastic and long-time experieced listener, appreciater and student of what is heavy metal, hard rock and rock music in general, my level of nerdness has become what is known to man as genre-fascism.

This is very nessescary, BECAUSE, there is a lot of mistagging out on last.fm, and there are a lot of newbies, kids and ignorants that think everything with a distorted guitar is metal. This is wrong. Metal is defined by roots in the oldschool genre and a metal subgenre is defined by how big the share of roots still are in the metal area…

This is a complete (*) list of every single band and artist I have ever listened to which I liked more than two songs from. This is an absolutely hones and complete gathering of band names, and it will be under constand updating, since I'm discovering new bands for each day.

Rating system:

No star = A band I'm not that familiar with, but which I like and know some songs of/ bands I've liked when I heard the songs but have not checked out completely

* = A band or artist I have heard at least one cd of…

This is complication of the very best bands coming from the northern area, the nations of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and surroundings!

There's no ranking. These are just all the most magnificent bands from the nordic area! All these bands are among my absolute favourites!

Sabaton
Country: Sweden
Genre: Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Epic Metal
Lyrical themes: History, Warfare, World wars, Strategy, Heroism
http://www.meritum-news.com/KULTURA/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sabaton.jpg

Pagan's Mind
Country: Norway
Genre(s): Progressive Metal, Power Metal
Lyrical themes: Mythology, Paganism, Science fiction, Philosophy
http://fil.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.6399734!f169CropList/img650x367.jpg

Ensiferum
Country: Finland
Genre (s): Folk Metal, Viking Metal, Epic Metal
Lyrical themes: Folklore,…

Here's a list of the best Norwegian singers. These guys make me proud to be a Norwegian!

1. Nils K. Rue - Pagan's Mind
Genre (s): Progressive Metal, Heavy Metal

Nils Rue has an enormous range, a well-trained melodic voice with a wide specter, and he can scream better than most vocalists in his league. Like a crossover between Rob Halford and James LaBrie. A wonderful singer with an amazing voice!

2. Jørn Lande - Jorn, Masterplan, Ark, Beyond Twilight, Avantasia
Genre(s): Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Progressive Metal, Power Metal, Progressive…

This is a list of reasons why "hardcore kids" suck. This is fully written based on my own personal experiences, both local, on meetings with larger groups and on internet forums.

Everyone who listens to metal experiences these little faggots (yes, I'm not fully heterosexual, so I have the right to use this word). These annoying, bitter, arrogant little walking wordbombs called "hardcore kids".
I love music, and I try not to generalize it. I love many kinds, but my main attraction is energy, therefore, around 70 % of my musical taste contains of metal music, hard rock and rock…

1.What's the first song you heard by 15? (Dio)
- Must have been Rock & Roll Children, which still is my favourite song by mr. Ronnie James.

2. How did you get into 20? (Opeth)
- In High School, a friend recommended them. I thought they were boring at first, but later I discovered how fantastic they really are!

3. Who is your favourite member in 1? (Judas Priest)
- Well, Priest is my life, and I don't like to rate members above the other in the band. But Rob Halford is my living,…

This is part II of the fanastic bands and artist list I've created. Yo-ho!

Sabaton
Genre (s): Heavy Metal, Power Metal
http://szubrycht.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/sabaton.jpg
Sabaton is a six-piece band from sweden with the power of metal in one hand and the force of history in the other. They usually have historical themed songs, and especially from the second world war or other wars. They show the lyrics in a very personal point of view, but they also teach their fans something about epic battles, warfare and war history with their fenomenal insight.
The music is bombastic, loud, powerful and some cliche-laden,…

This is the first part of a list of my favourite bands and why I love them. There will be 4 or 5 parts all together.

Judas Priest
Genre (s): Heavy Metal, Speed Metal, Classic Metal
http://dietrichthrall.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/judas-priest.jpg
My all time favourite band, and one of the originators of the Heavy Metal genre. The Judas Priest we know today was first formed in 1969 as the Freight, but changed name in 1970 to Judas Priest, because Al Atkins (now ex-vocalist) had a band before named the same and he had the rights to the name. Known for their energic…