This is that sublime mixture of crushing heaviness and melodious riffery. METAL! The songs are listed in no particular order... just in case you were wondering....
Click on the album artwork to read the Rock Realms review of each particular release.
Metalium
Dream Of Doom (1999)
The daddy of all power metal tracks. Lars Ratz's bass playing is so voluptuously heavy it should come with a health warning.
Impellitteri
Slay The Dragon (2000)
He of the difficult to spell surname comes up trumps on this absolute corker. Biblically heavy and makes Rob Rock sound like the best singer that's ever existed. Awesome.
Dream Evil
M.O.M. (2004)
Very, very silly song. Also very, very brilliant.
Rob Rock
I'm A Warrior (2005)
Featuring one of the most memorable guitar sounds of any song ever, I'm A Warrior is up there, not only with Rob Rock's finest work... but with everyone's.
Jorn
War Of The World (2008)
Owner of categorically the best guitar sound in the history of metal. No, really.
Dream Evil
In The Night (2010)
Yowser! Now this is heavy!
Ozzy Osbourne
Perry Mason (1995)
You wouldn't expect a song about a fictional detective to be this good, but it is. And then some.
Dream Evil
Made Of Metal (2003)
You have to hear this song live to appreciate just how heavy it is. The album version still tears your skull in two though.
Brainstorm
Invisible Enemy (2005)
Chugs like a steam train pulling a nuclear reactor up the side of Mount Everest... which is a good thing.
Saxon
Justice (2004)
If only Saxon could always be this heavy and this brilliant. Double kick drums and insanely downtuned riffing suits them like you wouldn't believe.
Brother Firetribe
I Am Rock (2008)
This song should be called 'I Am F*cking Metal', but we'll let them off. Wonderful.
Disturbed
Ten Thousand Fists (2005)
David 'Monkey Boy' Draiman gives the track a slightly comedic edge, but it's still as heavy and groovy as a platinum volcano in a rah-rah skirt.
Soil
Halo (2001)
Louder than an atomic bomb exploding through a stack of Marshalls, Halo WILL make you get up and head bang. If you don't you must be dead.
Judas Priest
Painkiller (1990)
Ah those drums, ah that insane guitar playing... ah all of it. Judas Priest's heaviest song by a million miles. Brilliant.
Rob Rock
Slayer Of Souls (2005)
Music pertaining to God should not be this good. Almost makes you want to go to church.
Just missing the cut, honourable mentions in no particular order go to I Let Go by Eighteen Visions and Mirror Mirror by Helloween.
