How would you introduce a normie to metal?
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The infamous Lorna Shore breakdown probably got more people into metal than we could ever imagine. The sheer wow factor and ridiculousness just gets people hooked. Also, the Pain Remains trilogy has a very good reputation among non-metalheads apparently.
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 90 year old, or "born in the wrong generation" elitist, hell yeah!
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147nice troll
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 Considering the reputation it has? 😂
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 ok? but that leads people to those bands, and ngl some of those bands you listed suck
I love when oldheads get mad over modern music and start listing and endless barrage of mid old school bands that have 1 good album but are still releasing new stuff or playing festivals 30years past their prime 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I "converted" my friend to a metalhead through A7X. Then I gave him my gym playlist and he started listening to that. He went from rap and radio rock to Shadow of Intent and Angelmaker within a year.
angelmaker slaps!
Yeah, I'd say city of evil is probably the album I'd show someone lol
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 Haven't seen any metal elitists in a while. Guess they finally came out of hibernation.
Of course, I've shown him other genres of metal, but he seems to prefer deathcore at the moment. He's coming from a background mainly in rap, so of course, a lot of the "not real metal" genres like nu metal and deathcore are going to resonate with him a lot more than all the ripping fast crazy genres like death metal or the slower genres like doom and black metal.
Im really surprised that no one mentioned trivium. Being realistic, almost everyone knows a little metallica, and trivium is metallica+7 string chugs and good scream to singing ratios depending on the album
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@@pickledpeckers7789 😅🤣
@@damsaucy I mean right now it's out for everyone, so it makes sense
I got my girlfriend into metal through Spiritbox, yes I know it's more metalcore, specifically I had her listen to rule of nines and then eventually constance. And then she ended up really liking circle with me, holy roller, etc. I came home one day and she was listening to the beauty of suffering and the mara effect trilogy. I was like, damn. Like she was just washing dishes and folding laundry to courtney screaming, lmfao.
Now we're in the car she listens to stuff like Bad Omens, Polaris, Caskets, Imminence, Currents, which is all fine by me, I enjoy all of it.
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 lol
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147Ah. You’re an elitist. A reminder that Metal started out as Black Sabbath. Just because you don’t like a metal band or they aren’t “heavy enough” for you doesn’t mean they aren’t metal
Once More 'Round the Sun by Mastodon. Clean vocals and complex riffs without getting rid of the heaviness of the music.
Sound of perseverance is a banger man changed my life getting into harsher vocals. And it made death metal more unique. Human was amazing too
I haven’t watched the whole video yet but I’m gonna throw in VOLA. Nice vocals, instrumentation that goes between nice and calm and pretty damn heavy
My first ever gateway album I got into on my own was "...and Justice for All". First time hearing the intro to Blackened was a euphoric experience, still gives me chills when I go back and relisten to it
Can't fucking believe that The Elysian Grandeval Galieriarch by Infant Annihilator wasn't here.
For me it was growing up listening to my dad's music. Black sabbath/Ozzie, iron maiden, van Halen, motley crue which opened me up instrumentally. Then late 90s early 00s nu-metal of course, then 2000s metalcore with As I Lay Dying, ABR, and oddly industrial metal with Static X and Fear Factory (old fear factory is heavy af like Obsolete and Demanufacture)
Getting a complete normie to get into metal is an extremely hard task. Consider how long it took for you personally to go from Metallica and iron maiden to cattle decap and meshuggah... it takes years!
Took me 2 years.
I was 6 (92) when my father introduced me to DIO, not only his music but Ronnie himself after a show with Dio, Motörhead and some local band. Meet Lemmy aswell.
2 years later, we attended an alternative rock show.
Refused, Meshuggah, Dissection and a couple of other bands.
I feel in love with these bands cause it was so weird and new.
Got Destroy Erase Improve for my 9th birthday 6 days after release.
Agree that it takes time for adults or kids in their upper teens to get into something like metal and you need to introduce them to something that is close to their taste and personality.
My brother's (7)first introduction to metal was Napalm Death and he hated it.
He got a bit older and started to listen to Rammstein(13) and PAIN.
My wife was introduced to metal by the then bassplayer of Hammerfall.
Took me one Mortal Kombat soundtrack cassette. Side B. It was nutso finding out the Goro song was Buckethead years later.
Took me probably a year, but I was very curious so I know I'm in the minority.
In a year I went from my favorite band being Iron Maiden, to Metallica, to Dream Theater, to Opeth and finally to Periphery xd
More or less this. Getting someone that doesn't care for metal, as most normies don't, doesn't start with metal. It starts with rock and works it's way up
@@Dr.Spatula facts, I got into metal pretty easily, but as a kid I jammed to GnR, Linkin park and ACDC so "heavy" guitars weren't a problem with me
I'd ease em in with Homesick by ADTR just for the mix of harsh vocals and breakdowns but catchy cleans and then hit em with some other stuff like underneath, veil of Maya, periphery.
My buddy showed me some Alternative Metal in 2007, so my gateway was SOAD, Disturbed, Korn and Slipknot.
A year later I had already left those bands behind for Thrash, Death and Black Metal, but I'll always appreciate them for getting me into it.
4:57 the look Austin gives when Austin calls Beartooth hardcore is pretty funny to me
I remember when hardcore described Black Flag and Bad Brains and such, and metal Core was stuff like Hatebreed. I don’t know how or why these definitions shifted, but what you guys call Metal Core was just Metal to us. I hadn’t really heard beartooth before, but just skimming through, I’d say they definitely fit into Metal more than any other face of rock music.
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 okay
Old school is the way, Sabbath, Dio - Holy Diver. Then Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
I am not a fan of Sleep Token at all, however, I can recognize that they're definitely helping get new people into the scene.
But they’re so bad
@@thepotatolord3052 ok Anthony fantano smh
I think a good album to introduce someone into metal is Fortitude by Gojira. The riffs is super catchy, the drums are amazing, and the vocals aren't too aggressive for people who aren't into super heavy vocals
I got a friend of mine into metal with this exact album, love to see it
iron maiden and strapping young lad.both of those.
I'm an old school metal head I started out with Ozzy, ACDC, Priest, and Iron Maiden then i bought Ride the lightning when I was 13 and was was hooked ever since
Dude holy shit Jared! Project 86 and Pillar!?!? I haven't thought about those bands in about 15-16 years lmao. Taking me way back with those mentions. The first two Project 86 albums were always spinning in my discman on the bus in middle school lol
Pillar's Where Do We Go From Here probably did more for my music taste than I realize. Still a banger of an album to me even though I'm not religious anymore.
The only Pillar album I ever had was called Fireproof I think.
These are some pretty easy answers. These may not be metal themselves, but are all great bands and will get people into heavier genres:
Bad Omens
A Day To Remember
Beartooth
Dayseeker
Issues
Dance Gavin Dance
BMTH
Thornhill
Sleep Token
It wasn't my first metal album but The Fall of Ideals is incredibly important to me. That album got me through my diagnosis of MS. The first year of my diagnosis I was in a very dark place mentally and specifically the songs Become the Catalyst and The Air That I Breathe helped me to come to terms with my illness. I would absolutely recommend that album to anyone that wants to try metal music but wants to have a more positive message. A mixture of singing, growling, solos, great rhythms all with lyrics that convey a positive message of struggle, strife, acceptance and determination
I love this conversation and content
Thank you guys
Its funny how I had only one pringle left in my can while watching this! Scary💀
I stand by my comment on Scar Symmetry's album Holographic Universe. Its heavy, melodic, has great singing, great screaming, cool synths, and great production. Ive introduced quite a few people to metal through Scar Symmetry.
Back then I got a mainstream pop fan guy to enjoy Morphogenesis. Unfortunately he didn't like the rest of the album but we take what we can get.
Scar Symmetry was one of my gateway bands, too
@@Eichro For me, it was Mayhem. Somehow, I jumped from Mudvayne and Avenged to Mayhem and Naglfar.
the first mainstream metal album i listened to was Firepower by Judas Priest back in 2019. was never the same since (in a good way)
Hit them with some Swallow the Sun, make them listen to a lot of the sub genres with one band.
Swallow the Sun is gothic blackened death doom
Swallow the Sun is incredible, New Moon is a certified masterpiece
My mom won’t listen to any metal whatsoever but she loves the classical version of Moonflowers
I think it depends entirely on what the normie in question generally likes. If they like pop it would be a different band than if they like hip hop, or country, or blues..... you gotta meet people where they are if you wanna convert them.
Totally agree. Like for the Metallica example, that would be great for someone who already likes a lot of older rock music.
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 fair enough, I didn’t like Metallica though I got into metal through slipknot. Still don’t like Metallica to this day.
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147are you alright? I thought this was a friendly discussion about music. No need for weird personal assessments like that.
I don’t even like slipknot nowadays. Iron maiden was also a gateway band for me because they had a lot of proggy elements in some of their albums. Still love them though.
My mom and dad were the ones who really opened the gates to heavier music for me, my parents were blasting Van Halen, GNR, Ozzy, and Rush since I was born, got into the mid 2000s warped tour bands when I was like 11, discovered Sevenfold when I was like 14, then once I discovered ATR's Fall of Ideals the floodgates were open to all the bands in the AdamD extended universe...then when I was 19, I met this girl that was showing me "this cool band her brother saw last night" and from that point Animals as Leaders tossed me into the rabbit hole of prog metal Ive been into ever since
Hybrid Theory 100%. I was predominantly a teeny bopper and rap listener previously. My family was on a trip "up north" and all I had was an am/fm cassette player and had to flip through radio stations to find one available in the area when I stumbled upon "One Step Closer" playing clear as day and I was immediately enthralled. I sat in suspense, waiting and hoping the DJ would give up the song details after. I finally felt heard and understood, and I never looked back. RIP Chester.
Alice in Chains (any records)....great melody and harmony and Jerry has some pretty sick riffs
Can't believe I just heard someone bring up Project 86. What a throwback. And The Rest Will Follow used to be so sick.
I would introduce MCR's first album, it is more on the punk side but gerard's vocals are so full of emotion and the instrumentals are mixed so well
As a former youth group kid, project 86 was some of the heaviest stuff at the time. At least to a 13 year old me.
They really had to summon Amadeus for the Black Album lol.
Project 86. Demon hunter. Pillar. 12 stones. Disciple. Red. Skillet. August burns red. Thousand foot krutch. Youth group kids nailed it. Wow memories
Love you guys 🤘 Merry Chrysler! I'd go with As Daylight Dies in general, but I'd agree that it would depend on the person's taste
My Father always gave me "3 songs" on the way to school in his car. Back then i burned a cd with killswtch, a7x, and early bmth. He is an old guy that listens to David Gilmour live at pompei on repeat. But i also stole hybrid theory from his cd collection when i was a kid. I have since shown him all of the stuff i like and his favorite is oceans ate alaskas cover of shape of my heart. I showed him the offering by sleep token a few years back and he loved that as well. He absolutely loves sleep tokens stuff now. And another band i found from a metal blade compilation cd i found on the ground at warped is 3 or "the family 3" and he actually showed me they recently released a new album. Our thing now in my 30s is to sit on my patio and just vibe with some cigars and a drink trading music. Effing awesome that his influence on my taste circled back to him.
“What is up you empty can of pringles?” As I am looking at my now empty can of pringles
25:19 I started listening to INK right when The Silver Scream came out and the first song they released, in a string of awesome singles and videos which they do very well at too, was the song Thank God It’s Friday… that was like hearing master of puppets for the first time to me; it gave me that same rush. INK is very underrated and Spencer is one of the most underrated vocalists in metal.
early project 86 still fucks hard, especially their self-titled and Drawing Black Lines
As a Nightwish megafan, f*ck you, also accurate 😂😂😂
The sound of mushrooms growing.
I got in through TDG's One X (decent option) but I'd say Issues by KoRn. Minimal screaming, and also KoRn's style is just so unique whilst also accessible, you can't find it anywhere else.
I absolutely love your videos
The main selling point of metal is the genre fusion! You have to tailor your starting point from what they already listen to and what they like about it. Someone who is into pop might be more open to bands with catchy hooks and pop vocals like Dance Gavin Dance, Issues, Pierce The Veil, etc.
Someone into hip hop will probably like bands that draw from those influences like most nu-metal and some hardcore stuff like UnityTx.
Someone into electronic music like edm or dubstep should be recommended stuff like The Browning or Electric Callboy.
Basically, just give thoughtful recommendations.
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 Cool. You think Nu metal isn't metal. Good for you
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 I thought I made it pretty obvious I didn't give a shit what you had to say. The fact you said more says a lot about you
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 you not liking a band doesn't make it "not metal". I don't like lots of bands but that doesn't make me king heavy metal. Go back to the loud wire comments section.
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 Those bands tour with other metal acts. They're listened to by metal fans, including both Jared and Austin. Their shows feature moshing and crowd surfing. The songs have double kick, breakdowns, heavy distortion, etc.
You're giving real "jazz fusion is not jazz" energy and I just need to make sure you know that A: you sound like a whiny bitch, and B: you are not the arbiter of metal.
Linkin park was the first band i listened too, but then i heard BFMV and The Poison album and fell completely in love with the band, they are still considered one of my all time favorite band, and hold the most special place in my heart and without them, i cant imagine who i would be.
22:13 AYO LETS GO! after YEARS I finally made it into one of y’all’s videos. Made my day yall, thank u 😭
Keep up the good work bois, love your stuff!
This calling was the first song with screaming i started to like. I HAAAAATED the scream vocals but had a friend thst loved it. But I liked the clean part So much. And after a while I liked the screams more and more and now the black dahlia murder is one of my fav bands 😅
Happy Holidays! I'm 39 and KoRn "Follow The Leader" & Pantera "Cowboys From Hell" were my two gateway bands & albums!
It’s either nü metal or classic bands. Depends on generation, their parents generation…
If they’re hip hop fans, start them with Limp Bizkit, if their parents are hip hop fans, don’t. If their mom likes Nickleback stay away from anything grungy, butt rocky or most nü metal.
Nobody wants to listen to their parent’s music, unless they already do (wchich is fine, if you share that with your parents).
My personal recs: Korn, Judas Priest, Limp Bizkit, black album era Metallica, selected Slipknot songs
For heavier shit, I mean extreme metal, I recommend Vader - the vocals are more comprehensible than any other death metal band, also they have cover of Raining Blood, so this is just logical next step.
Covers in general are safe bet. I know a melodeath cover of Bad Romance with trance elements, it truly feels like fever dream on first listen
Music to do homework to SLAYED me Austin
Honestly, one of the best ways is Need For Speed Most Wanted 2005
You got BFMV, Static-X, A7X, Disturbed, Mastodon, Celldweller, etc all within a fun racing game, which will just ingrain themselves in while you play
As Austin said the Comcast thing @ 18:00 I was thinking about being like 15 finding The Human Abstract - Vela together we await the storm, on Demand and being so enthralled and kinda was a gateway into finding alternative avenues of finding interesting music.
I was introduced to metal when i was a kid with Black Album and Rammstein, when grew up, in highschool i was into (yet so) J-rock, Power Metal, Avant Garde Metal. Some of de artist in my playlist goes from Band Maid to Diablo Swing Orchestra passing through Slipknot, Protest the Hero, Korn, Sonata Arctica, Mägo de Oz, Stratovarius and some weird fan remixes like Eminem ft Rammstein.
Mortal Treason. The singer was a Pro Bmx rider, Seth Kimbrough.
I saw Austin Dickinson play in As Lions, supporting Trivium in Scotland a few years back, and they were great. Austin came on to sing Pull Harder and I think I still have bruises
slipknot vol 3 back in 2004 I was just 13 and saw vermillion and thought it was intresting on fuse and before I forget just premeried too. I also saw them live last year with cypress hill.
The best gateway is NFS:Most Wanted.
wow pillar is not a band I would've expected to hear mentioned today^^ that story is funny but very cool btw
I’m pretty sure Adam D has produced most of the August Burns Red catalog
I don't think any other band has made more metal heads than Hybrid Theory.
Just by the sheer number of units sold its gonna be way ahead of anything else.
Love that Disturbed got a mention in this video, still my favorite band and The Night is a goddamn BANGER.
My 'WTF is this?!' music moment was Shoots and Ladders by Korn back in 95-96 and it has been a downward spiral of heavier and heavier ever since.
ill nino -one nation Underground
SOAD - hypnotize
AILD - An ocean between us
Divine heresy - bleed the fifth
Slipknot - vol 3
Miss may i - apologies are for the weak
BMTH - count your blessings
MIW - when love met destruction
Black Dahlia murder - nightbringers
In that order
Yo Mortal Treason were sick! The vocalist, Seth Kimbrough, was one of the sickest pro BMX riders as well. A walk thru the woods is one of their best tracks.
I am really surprised Sabaton didn't make the cut. You listen to the song, tell your buddy the story that the song is about and then when they dive in, the "suggested" algorithm gods do the rest of the heavy lifting.
I'd recommend TBA, Hail to the King, Untouchables, See You on the Other Side, Meliora, Rammstein self titled, Zeit, Hypnotize, and those wanting to go into an absolute deep end, Nothing or Relentless Mutation.
Definitely SOAD, Slaughter to Prevail, Meshuggah and Lorna Shore lol
I got my buddy (who listens to hiphop) into metal. I seen he was at the gym and sent him Alex Terribles DOOM covers lol
I renember getitng into Bullets album The Poison through a runescape montage around 15 years ago hahaha.
I was introduced to metal by my dad playing KISS in the car when I was little then I found Black Veil Brides around 6th grade & my interests grew from there into more heavier stuff. 😊
I think Imminence would be a great introduction to Metal. They're not too heavy, have great melodies, lyrics and both cleans and screams. They're a more recent band than most listed in the video, but I feel they'd be a great introduction for people. Would definitely open them up to harder stuff if they enjoy it, I feel.
3:53 that's like everyone's reaction to Pisces by Jinjer lol
My first metal bands that got me into heavier stuff, was breaking benjamin and disturbed. And what got me into way heavier stuff, was the Akeldama album by The Faceless. For anybody new getting in my first album recommendation would be Language by The Contortionist.
This may be a product of my age (26), but I was really surprised to not hear about A Day To Remember in this video. That’s what did it for me.
My intro to metal was tool, pantera, and smashing pumpkins. My sister and her boyfriend had great taste
I grew up on rap, so that will always be my first love musically it’s the music I chose for myself because my mom listen to a lot of Garth Brooks and Cher but the band that got me really into metal like my Gateway band was definitely Bullet for My Valentine The Poison. I remember hearing the song cries in vain and we’re just just thinking of myself whoa, what is this, it was like nothing I had ever heard that before and like I was smitten
Wow i have known adam D forever but did not know all these ties this actually explaines alot
The song that got me into metal was Subdue the Politician by Master
Dude I didn’t realize how influential Adam d was! I loved literally all the albums you listed 🤘the more you know
I mostly got introduced to metal through 80s hair bands as a kid. They have slower ballads that arent really metal, but the next song on the album can be something much more metal. They are radio friendly and upbeat, but can have some heavy riffs or drumming, along with more "extreme" vocals. My logical next step from there was metallica
The record that I would probably introduce to a non-metal fan is Stone Sour's "Hydrograd" album. Either that, Korn's "See You on the Other Side", Disturbed's "Ten Thousand Fists", or Slipknot's Iowa album.
Also the reason I specifiaclly chose Hydrograd is due to it being, like Dines said, a gateway to heavier stuff. From Stone Sour you could easily transition into Slipknot and from there the branches run wild.
Come whatever may would be better IMO, then on to vol 3 or .5 for slipknot
Hydrograd is my fav rock album of all time
The album for me was "The fundamental elements of Southtown" by P.O.D.
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My introduction to metal was As Blood Runs Black's Allegiance album. I like to show people Darkest Hour's Deliver Us album because DEMON(S) has one of my all time favorite guitar solos.
18:31 ah yes City of Evil was friggin’ huge. That came out in 2005 so I was 22/23 years old and I played that album for a good 6 months lol. Can’t believe I forgot about A7X.
On the topic of Adam D.
There's a reason Parkway Drive named a song "Gimme A D".
I barely remember exactly what got me into metal, aside from having parents that like rock and hard rock... The first more "extreme" thing I listened to was Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast. But at that point I had already listened to Pain, KoRn, Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Fear factory, Sepultura and Manson for a few years... Mostly Manson, Metallica and Pain by myself and the other stuff at friends houses.
As for what I'd use to get people into metal... depends on the person. But it is hard to go really wrong with something like Nightwish or Epica. Pretty easy listening, and sounds pretty too. If they are into rap mostly, maybe some of Ghostmanes latter stuff. Metallica - Black Album is also a nice starter. As is Electric Callboy - Tekkno. I guess In Flames is not a bad choice either, not a band I've listened to much myself (more into At the Gates and Dark Tranquillity, same city and same time period and some of the same people early on) but their latter stuff is pretty easy on the ear.
Or if you wanna scare someone... Infant Annihilator - The Elysian Grandeval... or Graystone 🤣
Honestly, Disturbed and Foo Fighters is a good gateway to metal, heavy but catchy/poppy enough to be what's playing on the radio. You cant just drop Gloryhammer and Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship on them day1 and not expect it to be treated as a meme. For the country fans there's a genre called Dark Country which is like a mix of country and metal, might be a good gateway for them.
I never thought I would hear a Mortal Treason reference lol. I am one of the many youth group kids that got into heavy music via skillet, and went wayyyyy down the rabbit hole of heavy Christian bands back in the day.
The lack of Deftones is very surprising. They were the predecessor to Sleep Token being metal but also not metal.
Some of those were so freaking good! Brought back a lot of memories of, oh shit I totally forgot about xyz. Electric callboy is so good because it's fun, then super heavy, then fun again 😂
I agree it depends on what people were listening to beforehand. Like if people like artists like doja cat or post malone. I would recommend a band like Issues. Tyler Carter’s singing would get me hooked after Michael Bohn would do all the light screams. Mixed with the synths and the breakdowns fit so well
And yea you need those not quite metal bands as a gateway a lot of the time. For me i went classic rock - pop punk - punk - and then i was introduced to like post metal, prog and then like stoner doom sabbathy stuff, and it got heavier from there. But i was also never turned off by extreme music because of the rock background already.
From Autumn to Ashes stayed the night at my house back in like 2004ish. Had no idea who they were then. (My mom worked at a bar/ venue and offered them place to crash after a show) anyways at that time I was listening to entry level punk bands. I think the punk energy sort of gears you up for all kinds of weird stuff. Ended up a big fan of from autumn to ashes a few years later.
for me it was nirvana, then primus, then tool, then rage against the machine, then system of a down, then caligulas horse, and then meshuggah, then spirit, box, then invent animate, and then it was all over. Kind of specific i guess
my life changed forever when I heard A Day to Remember for the first time
My introduction to metal was when when I was little I heard Run To The Hills by Iron Maiden and I was hooked. These days I’d recommend the first BFMV album
Great nostalgia train talk, thanks >> Nirvana + Metallica + RCHP + Offspring ->>> RATM + SOAD + Korn + Linkin Park + POD ->>> Slipknot, nu metal, ->>> 2005-2010 metalcore(Adam D) + some Dream Theater + Roadrunner United (made me check a lot of”classic” deathmetal) ->>> Periphery + Animals As Leaders ->>> everything djent ->>> modern metal/ metalcore
Still love everything from the list, very hard to get into something new after 2016, maybe I am just too old now :)
Thanks for the great podcast one more time, cheers!
@ghostfacekurdkillah4147 the transitions were more about adding/discovering new stuff, not switching to )
It's hard for me to really know what's a good gateway, because my mom raised me on hair metal and classic rock growing up. I was always in that heavy music space. Then I discovered grunge and thrash, then nu-metal. So for me, all the stuff that I'd probably suggest (Poison, Megadeth, Sabbath, Dio, Soundgarden, Sevendust) would probably be too old for these kids these days. They'd have to work backwards to it. So I'd have to go, "Well, what have I listened to from 2003 onward?" So the list I've come up with is:
Atreyu-Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses
Killswitch-The End of Heartache
Trivium-The Ascendancy
A7X-Waking the Fallen or City of Evil
Sleep Token-Take Me Back to Eden
Any of the Headbanger's Ball compilations
Godsmack-Faceless
Ghost-Prequelle
Babymetal-Metal Reistance
Mastodon-Leviathan