Are there any fellow metal head lifters out there? What are some bands you all listen to that you feel helps keep you focused and pumped during training? My go to’s lately heavy been Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Death and Slayer.
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Screamo doesn’t count
spliknot, i like three days grace and foo fighters but its not real heavy metal
Here’s some of the bands on my heavy playlist.
Wouldn’t call these next guys metal, but they’re pretty Sabbath-esque.
Some of my go to bands are: Machine Head (been really hooked on these guys at the moment), DevilDriver, Impending Doom, With blood comes cleansing, Suicide Silence, fear factory and I second slipknot but specifically their Iowa album. AC/DC, Pantera are also goodies as well.
Pantera, Shadows Fall, Disturbed, Metallica, Wintersun, Killswitch Engage, plus alot of Greenday.
And lately a heap of Rage Against the Machine, Offspring
It’s been way too long since shadows fall made a new album
Fear factory and slipknot are good every now and then. Have you ever listened to ‘Bled for days’ by static X? Feel like that would be up your alley
Wisconsin Death Trip is an amazing album, brings back a lot of memories from when I was a teenager lol. Wayne Static was awesome and too bad he died so young.
Behemoth, Hoods, Terror, Hatebreed, Pantera, Darkthrone, Thy Art is Murder, Black Dahlia, Carnifex, old Slipknot, Gojira, Lamb if God, Slayer, Whitechapel, Oceano, I could go on for days
Do you mean the sub genre of screams music, or anything with guttarals and screaming vocals? I feel like these get confused a lot.
Really depends on the lifts for me. Some of these aren’t quite metal, but here goes: Pantera is an all around go-to. Great Southern Trendkill album for legs and Reinventing the Steel or Far Beyond Driven for upper body. On accessory movements, I’m a lot less picky, but for the main movements I’m very particular. Four Horsemen by Metallica if I’m attempting to break a max.
For deadlifts, I like Tool and some of the slower Deftones songs. These seem to have emotional content that works for me.
Bench work will generally see more aggressive stuff. Lamb of God, Suicidal Tendencies, Gojira.
Squats are typically Pantera, but dynamic days I’ll throw in Metallica and Slayer.
Overhead work seems to go good with Clutch. Something about the sound.
Back days I’ll play a lot of classic rock… Def Lep, Van Halen, ACDC, Led Zeppelin. It’s usually more of a body building workout on these days so it works.
I prefer soft jazz and NPR to get into the zone. Sometimes I’ll sprinkle in some singer-songwriter solo acoustic tunes if I really need to get amped up.
I had a PR earlier this week, and I honestly don’t think I could have got the weight up without the collector’s edition of Hanson’s epic MMMbop blaring in the background. Talk about an adrenaline rush!
I typically like Death Metal, Deathcore, Slam, etc day to day; but prefer lighter stuff mixed in when lifting. I’d rather be motivated and hyped, than in a bloodrage with 300+ lbs.
Also I dont know what you classify as “screamo” so take these with a grain of salt. I dont think slayer exactly sounds unlike screaming, just not quite -gargling gravel through plastic wrap-
Currently on playlist:
Sepultura
As I lay Dying
Trivium
Before the Dawn
ASG (good local band with some moderate nationwide notice)
Slayer
Children of Bodom
Veil of Maya
Angelmaker
Carnifex
Lorna Shore
Elysia
Black Label Society
Bury Your Dead
WhiteChapel
Rings of Saturn
Chelsea Grin
Blacktide
Mastadon
Rage Against the Machine (not metal but w/e)
Rob Zombie
Throwdown (great for any Pantera fans)
Gojira- My favorite band. They range from utterly brutal death metal to some much proggier work. It’s all good.
Obscura- Frantic, manic, and complex
Alkaloid- Very similar to Obscura. Not surprising since most members at one point were part of Obscura.
Meshuggha- Brutally oppressive and soul crushing. There really isn’t another band that creates such a strong visceral sinking sensation throughout my gut and mind.
Slugdge- All will kneel before the greatest of all slugs, No, of all beings, the great and terrible Mollusca… and despair.
I like to listen to In This Moment, Five Finger Death Punch, Flaw, old Godsmack and old Korn. I don’t go much harder than that.
Chuck Mangione FTMFW!
Yeah the genre where the guys straighten there hair, wear tight jeans and play the top string of the guitar redundantly lol
If you’re not listening to metal when you’re lifting then you’re not maximising your gains. Fact.
I’ve been listening to a ton of Iron Maiden recently for teenage nostalgia reasons but my usual workout playlist is a lot of Pantera and Lamb of God, as well as some of the heavier/less melodic-y Dream Theater/Opeth songs and some other miscellaneous stuff. There might be a touch of Babymetal in there as well…
When I first built a gym in my basement when I was 13 I had the seventh son of a seventh son album on repeat. I still listen to lamb of god but I try to save them for when I’m going really heavy. I find bands like megadeth and Metallica to be better for volume workouts, all the steady riffage is great for banging out 5-8 rep sets. What do you consider ‘baby metal’?
Holy shit I just saw this thread, I’ve been a metalhead since I was about seven years old. It depends what kind of training you’re doing or what mood you’re in. Believe it or not, if I’m doing low intensity cardio I prefer post-hardcore style music, when lifting heavy I prefer thrash and/or melodic death metal/death metal. Give these following bands a try for heavy lifting and or bodybuilding, the heavier the song the heavier the lift. I tend to use toxic holocaust for all workouts tho, they’re really great
Toxic holocaust (blackened thrash metal)
Parasite Inc (melodic death metal)
Sodom (black metal early then thrash metal)
Slayer (thrash metal)
Motley Crue (heavy metal/hard rock)
Dark tranquility (melodic death metal)
Orbituary (death metal)
In flames (early, melodic death metal)
Book of black earth (blackened death metal)
Black Sabbath (heavy/doom metal)
Judas priest (heavy metal)
Pantera (groove metal)
Cursed (hardcore punk/ sludge metal)
All pigs must die (grindcore/metalcore/hardcore punk)
Cattle decapitation (deathgrind)
Vortex (thrash metal)
Miss May I (metalcore/ thrash metal)
Metallica (early, thrash metal)
Megadeath (thrash metal)
Pain (industrial metal)
For cardio try these bands out
Pierce the veil (post-hardcore)
While she sleeps (metalcore)
I preveil (post hardcore)
A day to remember (post hardcore)
Bad religion (punk rock/ hardcore punk)
Hatebreed (hardcore/metalcore)
Ghost (not the new album, heavy metal)