Category: Media

It’s Monday morning which means it’s time for your weekly dose of metal. This week we’re venturing back into the realm of operatic metal with Phantom of the Opera by Nightwish:

I’m in a hair metal mood right now so that’s what you guys are getting for this week’s installment of Monday Metal. Today’s song is a classic from the ’80’s (the album this song debuted on was released in the same year I was born which is pretty awesome) which you’ve likely heard before. It back, relax, and bang your head:

Before they turned into complete talentless assholes (I’m sorry their last two albums sucked indescribably amounts of ass) Metallica was an amazing band. Even though they started suing their fan base after promoting music piracy through the copying of their cassettes (that’s how they became big actually) I won’t hold that against their old music. One of my favorite things about Metallica’s earlier stuff was their use of the guitar, I just flat out enjoy it. Thus I’m brining you a little lesser known song of theirs titled Orion. It’s entirely instrumental and awesome so sit back, relax, and listen to some amazing music.

I’m in the mood for some power metal right now so that’s what you’re getting this week on Monday Metal. Today’s song is Any Means Necessary by Hammerfall. You know a band is probably good when they have a picture of a big ass knight carrying a giant hammer on the covers of their albums. Anyways I haven’t much to actually say about this song or band as they’re music should make the best case for their awesomeness.

This week’s Monday Metal entry is from a band called Apocalyptica. Apocalyptica is a band consisting of four cello players who started off covering Metallica songs. I’m not a huge fan of covers but eventually Apocalyptica moved on to creating their own songs which are pretty awesome. I admit that it’s a stretch to call much of their material metal but alas they did start by covering one of the most successful metal bands ever which I consider good enough. Sit back, relax, and have a listen to over of my favorite Apocalyptica songs, Quutamo:

It’s Monday morning meaning it’s time for some metal to blast through your speakers. This week we’re going with Edenbridge. If you’ve never heard of Edenbridge they’re very similar to a far more popular band called Nightwish (whom also kick ass). But hey, why take my word for it, listen to it yourself:

The one great thing about metal is the fact that it mixes well with other genres. You can basically take other musical genres, increase the speed, add some electric guitar goodness, and you’ll have a new subgenre of metal. Take Epica for instance, they are basically a combination of symphony and metal and it sounds awesome as demonstrated by this song:

It’s once again time for Monday Metal and this going to be another one of those entries into the list of bands you’ve probably never heard of before. Today’s song is Po Syroi Zemle by Arkona, a Russian folk metal band who is not only a rare breed for being a folk metal band but also because they have a female lead singer:

Today’s entry for your dose of Monday Metal is Karma by Kamelot. It’s probably one of the least metal songs by Kamelot but it’s still my favorite of theirs.

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Last week there were no Monday posts and thus no Monday metal entry but I think I can make up for that by bringing something sufficiently awesome this week. Behold one of my favorite Queensrÿche songs off of my favorite album of theirs, Revolution Calling from Operation: Mindcrime:

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