Monday Metal Moment

Rush – “Working Man”

This song was when Rush was still planning on being a metal band and it was working for them but they had yet to meet the visionary lyricist drummer Neil Peart who would alter their direction just enough. http://bit.ly/TDW-MMM

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Pantera “Walk”

Since we just re-listened to Marilyn Manson “The Beautiful People” I thought I should post this one as well. This band really moved guitar tones and production forward. Clearly a pretty major influence on Marilyn’s sound, although obviously a much different vocal style.

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Monday Metal Moment

Motorhead “Ace of Spades”

This singularity in the history of metal stands a head and shoulders above all others as the coolest of cool.

Incidentally Fathead and I once had the honor of sitting next to Lemmy on a flight from Berlin to London. It was shortly after his 60th birthday and he announced to us that he had a heart attack recently. I told him that was horrible and he said no it’s not its a fucking outrage.

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Metallica “Enter Sandman”

Arguably the queen mother, numero uno, the last Samurai of metal tracks, I felt that before we head into Goth-tober we should all go back and listen to this nuclear warhead of shred…

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The Scorpions – “Blackout”

It’s another one from the amazing class of ’82. My friends and I covered it when we were about 14. This track avoids pervy lyrics that embarrassed the shit out of me in their later big hits of the hair metal 80s and their Eddie Van Halen style new (ish) guitar player Mattias Jab is in perfect balance with the moustached classic rock style of Rudy Schenker.

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