🤘 METAL ROCK | A HARDCORE HEAVY METAL & ROCK PLAYLIST + stories behind each song

• Critics said about “Manifest” album that it is a Metal roller coaster 🎢.
• The truth is that the guys from Amaranthe, which was called Avalanche when it was founded in 2008, have carved a niche in Heavy Metal for themself, thanks to:

1) They introduce something that other bands don’t have, 3 singers with very disparate voices: clean female vocals + clean male vocals + growling male vocals (what my mother calls screams 😵)

2) They wisely mix metal sounds with EDM (electronic music) and Pop.

• “Archangel” tells the story of the fall of angel Lucifer, a story of greed, betrayal and pride.

• Martijn Westerholt, former Within Temptation keyboardist (you can listen to them in our Relaxing Playlist), founded Delain in 2002. It’s a symphonic and gothic metal band, whose members, after 8 albums, left the group. It was because Martijn didn’t want to tour anymore, and they did 👀.
• Heavy metal bassist and vocalist Marco Hietala situation is similar. In 2021, after reaching the top of heavy metal with Nightwish, he announced that he was retiring from public life. It is a great loss for the metal community, but we hope that, after a break, he will return.
• “Sing to Me” is the perfect definition of symphonic metal: catchy choruses, spellbinding melodies, and a good dose of guitar riffs.
• By the way, this is not the only time Delain and Marco Hietala work together. They already did it on ‘Lucidity‘ album.

• Do you know what a “Barracuda” is? It's a species of carnivorous fish that lives in deep waters and attacks very fast 🐟
• It's the perfect name for an aggressive track. The wrath can be felt both in the lyrics and the way the Wilson sisters (Ann and Nancy Wilson), leaders of Heart, play it.
• The song was crafted by Ann to release the anger she felt when a man approached her after a concert, asking her what her lover was like. The question was offensive, but Ann thought he was talking about her boyfriend, the band's manager, and didn't pay attention. The man insisted and told her he was talking about her sister Nancy Wilson, insinuating that the 2 of them were sleeping together, which made her explode with rage
• Out of that fury came the guitar riff 🎸 that you can hear throughout the track. It's brutal, like a herd of horses running at you, it's simply hard rock.
• Ann and Nancy Wilson are considered the first women to front a hard rock band, pioneers!

• Silver is a German band that between 2001 and 2005 released 5 albums. Its singer and best-known member is the British Gary Barden. He had previously been in 4 other bands, the most popular being Michael Schenker Group, and after Silver, continued singing solo.
• Silver's albums are a rarity, you won't find them on Spotify or any other streaming platform, but we have found them for you, just in in case you feel like getting to know them better:
  
  • Silver – Silver (2001)
  • Silver – Dream Machines (2002)
  • Silver – Intruder (2003)
  • Silver – Addiction (2004)
  • Silver – Gold (2005)
• Personally, I think they are worthwhile, so start by 'Creep' and then you'll see 🤤

• Mark Thomas Tremonti is a musical prodigy who has played in 3 legendary rock bands: Creed, Alter Bridge and Tremonti.
• The one that concerns us today is his Tremonti project. He started it in 2011, applying a more powerful sound than in his previous adventures, close to trash metal.
• The song 'Leave it Alone' belongs to his first album 'All I Was'. In it you will listen to his magnificent guitar work (there is a solo in the second part that makes your hair stand on end).

• I bet that with the title of the song you can already tell me what kind of music this band plays 😂. Yes, Lordi is a Finnish hard rock and heavy metal band founded in 1992.
• There are many factors that make this band super interesting: They are always dressed up like monster; the singer, who named himself Mr. Lordi, makes the costumes with his wife; they make a new set for each album, and they have already released 10! The costumes cover their whole body except their fingers and cost about 1,000 € each.
• They became incredibly famous when they won with 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens.
• It was Finland's first victory in the contest and unleashed the madness in the country, they were given the keys to the city of Helsinki, more than 80,000 people gathered to sing the song at once breaking the Guinness record for karaoke, etc.
• As you will notice in the video that they used quite a lot of pyrotechnics in their performance, but it was not within the Finnish public TV budget, so they made a collection among their fans to pay for it 💰.