Don’t know about the bad tunes but Jimi Hendrix is the stuff I listen to…
anything by Rollins Band
when Rollins writes music I bet he thinks about lifting weights.
Pantera and Slipknot/Stone Sour have been mentioned. They have the best angry music out there. “Rise” is a great song but don’t forget about “Fuckin’ Hostile”. That will get you going! The one band that I think that has been forgoten here is the Deftones. Their Adrenaline album is perfect to lift to.
I like the punk music when i life. I listen to pennywise, offspring, Blink, Drop Kick Murphys, Jake. But good ol’metalica is there for sure, and sevendust. You cannot forget “eye of the tiger”.
the cro mags - bad brains - Avail
Dear me, some terrible bands in that lot.
Good gym bands:
Motorhead
Chimaira
Hatebreed
Pantera
Pissing Razors
Muderdolls
Misfits
Susperia
Black Label Society
Sworn Enemy
Lamb of God
Machine Head
Suidakra
Strapping Young Lad
Arch Enemy
Pitchshifter
Anthrax
Children of Bodom
Vader
Jungle Rot
Annihilator
Exodus
The Haunted
Testament
Bloodbath
Grimfist
Misery Index
Norther
Shadows Fall
Witchery
Skyfire
Soilwork
Spot the metalhead.
I almost always listen to Eminem…mostly the new stuff is good for lifting. (I wont list tracks because nobody else really seems interested, but if you are, tell me and I’ll tell you the baddest of them)
This is what get?s played at my gym (Mayor?s Helsinki, Finland)
Metallica
Megadeth
AC/DC (and lots of it!)
Iron Maiden
Rammstein (another owner?s fav)
Eminem
Whitesnake
Nightwish
Stratovarius
Evanescence
And my preferences would be:
Metallica
Whitesnake
Rainbow
Deep Purple
Dio
Queensr?che
So that?s pretty close, eh?
Once they played the entire Rainbow Rising CD and I wasn?t able to train properly since I was concentrating so much on the music…
Some awesome Metal \m/ has been mentioned. Personally you can’t go wrong with
SLAYER
Bleeding Through
Fear Factory
Hatebreed
Machine Head
Cryptopsy
Nothingface
Chimaira
Atreyu
Underoath
Ministry
Cradle of Filth
Pantera
Slipknot
Zao
Six Feet Under
The Haunted
I won’t be breaking any new ground here, but I just thought I’d list some of my favorite lifting music. I also listed some specific songs that I could remember.
Mudvayne - Nothing to Gein, Under My Skin, -1, and some others
Slipknot - The Blister Exists, Three Nil, People = Shit, and many others
Soulfly - Pain, Canqaceiro
Ill Nino - Liar
Stone Sour
Element Eighty
Nothingface - American Love and Blue Skin
Drowning Pool
Metallica - Frantic or Fuel
Dry Kill Logic
Deftones
Hatebreed
Machine Head
Disturbed - Voices
Fear Factory - Shock
Anthrax - Superhero, What Doesn’t Die
Lets try to avoid repetition and break some new ground:
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andrew wk - party hard and we want fun
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billy talent - the ex and the river below
Rock on!
This is what I consider to be the Baddest Lifting Music:
1.) Metallica-Kill 'Em All to St. Anger
2.) Sevendust-Sevendust to Seasons
3.) Mudvayne
4.) Black Sabbath
5.) Ozzy
6.) Motorhead
7.) Misfits
8.) Mercyful Fate
9.) DiamondHead
10.) Kiss
11.) Queensryche
12.) Tantric
13.) Theory of a Deadman
14.) Nickelback
15.) Rob Zombie
16.) Godsmack
17.) Puddle of Mudd
18.) Sum 41 (they are known for their punk music but, these guys can also play thrash metal just like metallica did in their early records.)
megadeth, avenged sevenfold, iron maiden, pantera. those are my usual lifting cd’s. prop’s to whoever mentioned symphony x.
[quote]topher wrote:
- Conan The Barbarian, Soundtrack
This one is so underrated. But I guarantee, this will pump you up like nothing else. I had a friend give it a listen while he was working out. . . it took 3 weeks before he gave me my CD back, because he said it was the best lifting music he’d ever used. [Note: the sountrack for Conan the Destroyer is almost as good.]
PURE INSPIRATION!
“The Secret of Steel had always carried with it a mystery,
you must its secret Conan, you must learn its discipline,
for no one, on one on this earth can you trust,
not men, not women, not beasts,
lifts sword, this you can trust”
Hehehe… I got the Conan soundtrack, too. Listening to that makes me want to grab my bastard sword and go braveheart-style face painted blue kilt-wearing blood-soaked Scottish avenger on your ass!
[quote]lothario1132 wrote:
Hehehe… I got the Conan soundtrack, too. Listening to that makes me want to grab my bastard sword and go braveheart-style face painted blue kilt-wearing blood-soaked Scottish avenger on your ass![/quote]
Yeah, my old gym used to kick me out for that. They spouted some crap about kilts and claymores not be appropriate for the gym.
Bunch of pansy-ass sissies.
Actually the time I always feel my inner Conan coming out is when I’m pushing cars, and I look down at my legs pumping. It reminds me of the scene at the beginning where he’s on the wheel.
Hrm. . . it might be interesting to see what they’d say if I went into my local gym wearing a UtiliKilt[1]. I wonder if they would let me work out in that, of if they’d make me change. 
(I’m thinking squats might be a bit awkward.)
36 Crazyfists is really good. check it out.
atreyu!!! dude are you kidding me…that band is ass! If you want metal go to
human remains -
hope collapse -
Kreator -
discordance axis -
grief -
[quote]T-Stag wrote:
Rainbow
Deep Purple
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Ritchie Blackmore fucking rules. The solo from “Gates of Babylon” was absolutely amazing.
However, I personally prefer rap when I lift for the same reason you describe: it can become distracting. So I mostly go for Public Enemy, the first two N.W.A. albums, and Ice Cube’s earlier solo work (“Amerikka’s Most Wanted” was the best rap album EVER, bar none).
Although I have also been known to loop the Sugarhill Gang’s Eighth Wonder. “Well I’ll tell a little story 'bout the Sugarhill Gang, with a pow-pow boogie and a big bang bang…”
Yes he fucking does! My first memory of hearing Rainbow is when my cousin played “Death Alley Driver” for me for the first time. I just couldn?t believe the solo section where Richie borrows from Bach?s “Toccata And Fugue”. It just sounded too cool.
I also have to admit that Steve Morse is also one of my fav guitar player. His work on DP?s “Bananas” is great and they also play that album at the gym pretty often (today was the latest!).
As far as rap goes, I like P. Diddy?s “Kashmir” cover, “Come with me” from Godzilla movie, Eminem?s “Back In Black” cover and the “Eye Of The Tiger” rap version. All of those get played a lot at the gym.