Simple Metal Pleasures

[Bürggermeister]

Those brief momwnts which encompass all you love aboout metal

That "Owwwwwwwwwwwww!" about 22 seonds in, over that fucken riff. Jesus it's everything I want in a Metal tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcp3Pf6rqHw

[Maggot Colony]

That bit near the end of 'The Majesty of the Nightsky' where Ihsahn shrieks, "Now I am one with the night sky majesty!". 

[Ducky]

I've said it many a time, but Reifert's delivery of "amputation for your rations" at 2:08 is the greatest vocal in death metal.

[The Great Cull]

53 seconds into Moloko Mesto by Sepultura.

What's it gonna be then? Hey!

[The Heretic]

The transition from 3.05-4.00, one of my all time favourite moments in metal...

[astfgyl]

53 seconds into Moloko Mesto by Sepultura.

What's it gonna be then? Hey!

Good fuckin call!!! Sometimes I forget how ripping that album is. It's the definitely the most vital of the Greene albums for me. Like I've a real soft spot for Against but they were very much their own band on this one

[Mithrandir]

Nothing in the world of metal gets me going more than a slick soaring heavy metal vocal melody that just hits the right spots in my brain. The opening verse in this comes to mind. Incredible.

I need to start a USPM thread one of these days..

[The Wretch]

Maiden's most underrated tune IMO. It encapsulates all that is great about classic, traditional heavy metal at it's most strident and exuberant. Inspiring, uplifting and fun without being twee or silly.

Everything I personally love about 90's death metal. Particularly the chugging riff that comes in around 42 seconds.

The riff that comes in around 2.05. The first time I heard it as a young lad I almost jumped out of my skin. It still makes me grin from ear to ear. 

[Mithrandir]

Another morbid Angel one is when Fall from grace opens on BATS, still gives me goosebumps, I can't even begin to imagine what it would have been like to have gotten that album on release and the blasts start. The gaf would have been wrecked. Insane.

[Squigs]

Wanting to move beyond calling out specific moments in songs (even though I'm gonna do it myself), but a well placed EUGH!/ARGH!/YAAH! is a satisfying something that you don't get in any other music style. Celtic Frost are the obvious leaders, but this week I was listing to both Eternal Champion and House of Atreus who have two class examples.

The opening roar is good, but the YEEOW! at about 30secs in is perfect -

https://youtu.be/tHZkq8u-dII?si=3IEcNa2ELKV3Vihg


Nearly 2mins of zero vocals until we get a HYEEH!
https://youtu.be/uZRi_9HwMbE?si=DpJvMtjXdissgt_2

[londonleatherboy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LxgQmV_OsU

The transition into the gallop on Tankards Dont Panic always gave me an instant steel boner at 1:48

[mishima]

It hasn't happened in forever, but it was always really satisfying to recognise a few distorted notes playing in some ad or TV show.




I remember thinking that there must have been a metalhead working in RTE around 2005 or 2006, as a travel show that was doing a piece on Egypt used Nile's Dusk Falls upon the Temple of the Serpent on the Mount of Sunrise to accompany the intro footage.

[Mithrandir]

The closing solo in The Oath, one of the most satisfying solos ever

[Pentagrimes]

The "Unholy black metaaaaal" shout in "In The Shadow of the Horns"

[ochoill]

I know it has came up here somewhere before but a well time EUGH can really bust in a song.  One I came across lately is on Couch Slut's The Weaversville Home For Boys at about 3:20 - whole song meanders into something more cohesive just before here and the build up is needed for effect but the one little pin of vocals pivots the riff around.  It's lethal.  The whole song is lethal.  The whole album is lethal but I love little touches like this on things.