Best and most definitive song by different artists?

[CiG]

Ozzy era Black Sabbath- Electric Funeral

Random choice, great song but it's really their only song like it.

Darkthrone - Kathaarian Life Code

Yes. This 100 times over. I meant to also mention it but I forgot. This song also still haunts me since I heard it fucking 15 years ago.

 

[no country for old wainds]

not even attempting 'definitive' mainly because i don't give a fuck

sodom - burst command 'til war
hellhammer - buried and forgotten
celtic frost - morbid tales
destruction - devil's soldiers
exodus - deliver us to evil
holy terror - a distant calling
overkill - kill at command
razor - evil invaders
vio-lence - phobophobia
d666 - shadow

 

[no country for old wainds]

definitive sabbath song for me: NIB

 

[Slayed Necros]

Absu - An Equinox of Fathomless Disheartenment
Blasphemy - Nocturnal Slayer
Blut aus Nord - Day of Revenge (The Impure Blood of Theirs)
Dawn - Soil of Dead Earth
Deicide - Lunatic of God's Creation
Demilich - Inherited Bowel Levitation
Dream Death - Sealed in Blood
Eucharist - Floating
Grand Belial's Key - Foul Parody of the Lord's Supper
Hades - Alone Walkyng
Impaled Nazarene - Condemned to Hell
Necromantia - The Feast of Ghouls
Overkill - Overkill
Running Wild - Soldiers of Hell
Sabbat - Mion's Hill
Satan - Alone in the Dock
Sortilege - Bourreau
Tormentor - In Gate of Hell

 

[Baroque]

I haven't posted in this thread because you either have

1) bands that have the same consistent sound on every or nearly every song, in which case you can choose any of their songs
or
2) bands that have at minimum 2 varieties of songs, in which case choosing only 1 song is insufficient.

I suppose there is the case that a band has at minimum 2 varieties of songs, and they have 1 song that contains parts of each variety. I'm pretty sure that's not what people are posting though.

 

[EspaDa]

You people seem to forget At the Gates have two different incarnations, a song from TRitSiO can't be definitive of the band's entire career. For me it would be like this:

Early AtG - Windows
Newer AtG - Blinded by Fear

 

[Phylactery]

Well I thought this thread was about listing personal favourite songs from bands and that's what I've done. With that in my mind, there's absolutely no way I'd be picking "Blinded by Fear".

 

[EspaDa]

Anthrax - Deathrider
Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Dream Theater - Pull Me Under
Metallica - Creeping Death
Shining (SWE) - Besvikelsens dystra monotoni
D666 - Lone Wolf Winter
Judas Priest - Electric Eye
Stratovarius - Hunting High and Low
Slayer - Black Magic
Sodom - Nuclear Winter
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Morbid Angel - Chapel of Ghouls
Amon Amarth - Death in Fire
Early In Flames - Moonshield
Later In Flames - Where the Dead Ships Dwell
Deathspell Omega - Carnal Malefactor
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Immolation - Into Everlasting Fire
Dismember - Override of the Overture

 

[EspaDa]

Well I thought this thread was about listing personal favourite songs from bands and that's what I've done. With that in my mind, there's absolutely no way I'd be picking "Blinded by Fear".

That's why I divided it for 'early' and 'later'. No one who owns a common sense would choose Blinded by Fear as his fav AtG track.

 

[Phylactery]

Forgot Morbid Angel.

It's a close one between Immortal Rites, Maze of Torment, Fall from Grace and The Ancient Ones.

 

[EternalMetal]

The thread title is a little off if people are just listing their favorites, but it would kind of be boring if people were to just list the most iconic and definitive songs from each band (not saying those cant be favorites, but it takes the personality of the picks if this is the whole goal of the thread).

Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
Slayer - Die by the Sword
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Judas Priest - The Ripper
Bathory - A Fine Day to Die
Celtic Frost - Dethroned Emperor
Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
Manilla Road - Hammer of the Witches
Fates Warning - The Apparition
Mercyful Fate - Into the Coven/A Dangerous Meeting - could never decide between Melissa and Dont Break the Oath as a fav
Asphyx - Serenade in Lead
Cianide - Mindscrape
Cryptopsy - Slit Your Guts
Gorguts - Nostalgia
Immolation - Of Martyrs and Man
Destroyer 666 - Unchain the Wolves
Morbid Angel - Chapel of Ghouls
Satan - Blades of Steel

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Random choice, great song but it's really their only song like it.

Fair point. I've changed to Into the Void.

 

[CiG]

Fair point. I've changed to Into the Void.

Great song too.

Cianide - Mindscrape

 

[EspaDa]

Black Sabbath - N.I.B.
Dead Congregation - Teeth Into Red
Beyond Creation - Omnipresent Perception
Clutch - The Mob Goes Wild
Helloween - Eagle Fly Free
Isis - So Did We
Neurosis - Locust Star / The Doorway
Witchfinder General - Death Penalty

 

[no country for old wainds]

angel witch - sorceress (but 'angel witch' is just as good and way more iconic so maybe that)
satan - alone in the dock
blitzkrieg - buried alive
cloven hoof - mistress of the forest
saracen - four horsemen of the apocalypse
holocaust - death & glory
diamond head - lightning to the nations
pagan altar - judgement of the dead
sledgehammer - sledgehammer
venom - don't burn the witch

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Pentagram - Forever Be My Queen (duh)
The Obsessed - River of Soul
Thin Lizzy - Wild One (or maybe Cowboy Song, or Waiting for an Alibi)
Wino era Vitus - Born Too Late
Reverend Bizarre - Doom Over the World
Revelation - Release

 

[CiG]

Thin Lizzy "Emerald" come at me.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Honestly, Waiting for an Alibi should be it. It clearly represents that dual-guitar lead, catchy hooks, and popping bass.

 

[EspaDa]

Deep Purple - Never Before
Angel Witch - Angel Witch
Cryptopsy - Crown of Horns
Suffocation - Liege of Inveracity
Obituary - Slowly We Rot / Cause of Death
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade / When Cannons Fade
Pestilence - Out of the Body
Malevolent Creation - Multiple Stab Wounds
Necrophagist - Fermented Offal Discharge / Advanced Corpse Tumor

 

[Talos of Atmora]

This is easily my least favourite Dissection song from the first 2 albums, and one of the reasons why I consider The Somberlain to be the better album.

I like it a lot but I still wouldn't say that it's better than any other song on SotLB.