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Bang your head folks with a muxtape of metal, a logical progression from my last muxtape. Mainly old school metal but a few modern numbers. Get out the leather, grab the air guitar and turn it up. Familiar Territory - The Mark of Cain TMOC are one brutally heavy Aussie band. Their 2001 release This is This is one monster riff after another. They are recording a new album at the moment after a period of repose. I suppose you need it after pummeling riffs like Familiar Territory all the time. Bang Your Head - Quiet Riot Quiet Riot were an important band in the early 80s as they helped make metal mainstream. Graduates from the school of good time Los Angeles hard rock they made the career covering Slade tunes. But that didn’t mean they lacked tunes of their own. The lyrics won’t help you gain enlightenment but it is all in good fun. Let your inner rock god or goddess out! Demolition Boys - Girlschool Girlschool were an English New Wave of British Heavy Metal (TNWOBHM) band that showed the guys that women rocked just as hard. If you look up at the RnR D logo, the woman with the bangs and Les Paul is the late Kelly Johnson from Girlschool. One of my first rock’n'roll crushes and for sentimental and musical reasons, I’ll always be fond of this band. Peace Sells-Megadeth Featuring Dave Mustaine who was kicked out of Metallica, Megadeth played in the shadow of that band. But they were state of the art metal in the 80s and the Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying? album is one of my all-time favourite metal albums. Plenty of crunch and slippery solos not to mention Mustaine’s wry lyrics. The Trooper - Iron Maiden The difficulty here was to decide which Maiden song to include. The Kings of TNWOBHM have some all time classic tunes. I was leaning to the Number of the Beast album but for some reason The Trooper won out. About the Crimean War, the song gallops along with very direct lyrics. Metal at is finest. And if you are studying history, why not let the Irons help you out? Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne Ozzy! Ozzy Ozzy! Leaving the Sabbath sludge behind, Ozzy’s solo career with the help of the late but influential Randy Rhoads defined the American metal sound. The Blizzard of Oz is one of metal’s finest platters. New World Order - Ministry The Ministry’s industrial strength metal album Psalm 69 was one intense album. I used to clean my apartment with it. Just turn it up for a few hours and anything that wasn’t in the right spot would go to where they should be. Crawly critters would just leave. Oh, that is not George W Bush you hear during the samples. It is his dad. Which is just as depressing. In The Beginning - Heaven Heaven where an Australian metal band that emerged in the early 80s with some success in the US. The lead singer, Alan Fryer was even mooted as a possible replacement for Bon at one stage. In the Beginning is a cheesy song, name checking a whole host of rock and metal bands. But as the Lord said, “Go bang a head.” You can find their album on eMusic if interested. Stand Up and Shout - Dio A mighty midget of metal, Dio is well known as the vocalist for Rainbow as well as Ozzy’s replacement in Sabbath. Dio’s album Holy Diver is regared as an 80s metal classic. This track is taken from Holy Diver Live. Balls to the Wall - Accept The first gay metal band? Hard to say as they denied any such notions (not that there is anything wrong with that) but the lyrics did wander down interesting late night alleys. Some classic Teutonic metal moves here. Love the Russian volga boatmen bit after the solo. Udo Dirkschneider is most likely the unlikely metal god ever. Dam that River - Alice in Chains The Seattle Grunge movement did not spring original from Kurt Cobain’s forehead. Metal was an important part of the sound as Soundgarden and Alice in Chains showed. AIC’s album Dirt was a harrowing excursion into the abyss of drug addiction. An album I place above Nirvana’s Nevermind to be honest. Layne Staley did eventually succumb to his demons but left an important testimony behind. In Distortion We Trust - Crucified Barbara And why not trust in distortion? You get the same benefit of trusting in god (bugger all really) but with added riffage. All win in my book. Crucified Barbara are Swedish metal band that illustrates the maxim that Swedish women rock. Currently recording a new album, the title song of their 2005 album is a fitting end to a metallic muxtape.