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Beginner's Guide: Metal

This is a beginner's guide represented by important albums for all Metal music genres from the 80s until today, such as Heavy Metal, Alternative Metal, War Metal, etc.
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20h 15mDuration
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MetalBlack MetalDeath MetalAlternative MetalThrash MetalDoom MetalSpeed MetalNu MetalSludge MetalPost-Metal
2020s
2010s
2000s
1990s
1980s

Popular Artists

Popular artists in this playlist.
Linkin ParkMetallicaSystem Of A DownDeftonesSlipknotRammsteinKornBlack SabbathGhostIron Maiden

Also Featuring

Artists you might not have heard of.

Popular Songs

Popular songs in this playlist.
Round and RoundRatt
Twilight Of The Thunder GodAmon Amarth
Pull Me UnderDream Theater
CiriceGhost
Hammer Smashed FaceCannibal Corpse
CarrionParkway Drive
Jerry Was A Race Car DriverPrimus
Freezing MoonMayhem
Killing In the NameRage Against The Machine
Inis MonaEluveitie

Hidden Gems

Songs you might not have heard before.
Hallucinatory Black Breath of Possession (Mountain-Eye Amalgamation)Tchornobog
BURN MY HEARTGALNERYUS
Sun//EaterLorna Shore
The DissentienceProtest The Hero
Death Rides a HorseRussian Circles

All Songs

1
Heaven and HellBlack Sabbath
6:57
2
The Number of the Beast - 2015 RemasterIron Maiden
4:50
3
A Dangerous MeetingMercyful Fate
5:12
4
PainkillerJudas Priest
6:05
5
CiriceGhost
6:02
6
Angel WitchAngel Witch
3:23
7
Live Like an AngelVenom
3:58
8
Long Live The LoudExciter
4:18
9
Agents of SteelAgent Steel
3:03
10
Shout At The DevilMötley Crüe
3:14
11
Round and RoundRatt
4:25
12
18 and LifeSkid Row
3:49
13
NecropolisManilla Road
3:11
14
Beyond the BlackMetal Church
6:21
15
BloodstreetsRiot
4:38
16
The Tempter - Remastered 2020Trouble
6:36
17
Death RowPentagram
4:14
18
Sentinels of HatePagan Altar
7:14
19
The UsurperCeltic Frost
3:24
20
Master Of PuppetsMetallica
8:35
21
Raining BloodSlayer
4:15
22
Inner SelfSepultura
5:09
23
Hangar 18Megadeth
5:14
24
Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)Power Trip
3:45
25
SolitudeCandlemass
5:38
26
The Five Year Plan - RemasteredD.R.I.
4:00
27
Sex and ViolenceCarnivore
3:49
28
Set to DestructMunicipal Waste
2:01
29
I Want OutHelloween
4:40
30
Imaginations from the Other SideBlind Guardian
7:19
31
Land of the Free (Remastered 2017)Gamma Ray
4:37
32
Think Not ForeverLost Horizon
5:58
33
When the Lights Are DownKamelot
3:41
34
Display To MeNapalm Death
2:43
35
WorldcraftNasum
2:34
36
The NecropolitanDiscordance Axis
1:42
37
Towering FleshPig Destroyer
3:34
38
SeizuresWormrot
2:51
39
AltitudesJason Becker
5:39
40
Slowly We RotObituary
3:38
41
Left Hand PathEntombed
6:39
42
RaptureMorbid Angel
4:17
43
Father, You're Not A FatherImmolation
5:02
44
Anti-Tank (Dead Armour)Bolt Thrower
4:15
45
Alison HellAnnihilator
5:01
46
Semtex RevolutionCoroner
5:30
47
Charging the VoidVektor
9:11
48
Fear Of NapalmTerrorizer
3:01
49
Denial of ExistenceBrutal Truth
4:24
50
Forced Gender ReassignmentCattle Decapitation
3:53
51
Like RatsGodflesh
4:28
52
Jesus Built My HotrodMinistry
4:52
53
DemanufactureFear Factory
4:12
54
DetoxStrapping Young Lad
5:37
55
Anatomy of the UnknownRed Harvest
3:28
56
ValhallaBathory
9:34
57
Cemetery GatesPantera
7:02
58
Laid to RestLamb of God
3:50
59
HaloMachine Head
9:03
60
Jerry Was A Race Car DriverPrimus
3:10
61
Presence of the DeadPestilence
5:50
62
Unquestionable PresenceAtheist
4:07
63
SymbolicDeath
6:32
64
StabwoundNecrophagist
2:48
65
We Are NilUlcerate
5:41
66
A Funeral RequestCathedral
9:16
67
Trail of PestilenceSaint Vitus
5:10
68
FootprintsWarning
7:31
69
AuroraeTriptykon
6:17
70
Dark HorseMessa
7:28
71
Infecting the CryptsSuffocation
4:49
72
Hammer Smashed FaceCannibal Corpse
4:02
73
NarakaDefeated Sanity
5:07
74
In the Shadow of the Horns - StudioDarkthrone
7:01
75
Freezing MoonMayhem
6:23
76
Withstand The Fall Of TimeImmortal
8:29
77
AbscissionDeathspell Omega
6:02
78
Exercises in Futility VMgła
8:15
79
Midlife CrisisFaith No More
4:19
80
Change (In the House of Flies)Deftones
4:59
81
SchismTOOL
6:43
82
AerialsSystem Of A Down
3:55
83
PhenomenonDIR EN GREY
4:01
84
Pull Me UnderDream Theater
8:13
85
Seventh WaveDevin Townsend
6:50
86
BleakOpeth
9:15
87
OblivionMastodon
5:46
88
And Plague Flowers the KaleidoscopeNe Obliviscaris
11:32
89
Killing In the NameRage Against The Machine
5:13
90
DragonautSleep
5:43
91
AlbatrossCorrosion Of Conformity
5:20
92
LiferDOWN
4:39
93
FuneralopolisElectric Wizard
8:43
94
GeminiElder
9:40
95
Seven AngelsEarth
15:35
96
Night GoatMelvins
4:41
97
Blank - remastered 2007Eyehategod
7:06
98
The BlueAcid Bath
6:13
99
To Build a MountainCrowbar
3:58

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