Metal

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music featuring intense, virtuosic, and powerful songs. It is the most commercially successful genre of rock music. The heavy metal genre itself has several sub-genres. Like, black metal, avant-garde metal, Celtic, doom, gothic, power, nu-metal, and more. The common characteristics running through these genres are heavy riffs, and aggressive distorted electric guitar sounds.

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music featuring intense, virtuosic, and powerful songs. It is the most commercially successful genre of rock music. This itself has several sub-genres. Like, black metal, avant-garde metal, nu-metal, and more. The common characteristics running through these genres are heavy riffs, and aggressive distorted electric guitar sounds.  Heavy metal rose into prominence in the 1970s. The pioneers include bands and musicians such as Jimi Hendrix, the Yardbirds, Cream, and the Jeff Beck Group, who started using heavier drums, bass, and distorted guitar sounds. The most popular metal CD of 1970s Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath. The top albums include “deep Purple in Rock,” “Led Zeppelin II,” and “Paranoid.” Metal CD of bands such as Alice Cooper, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Kiss, and Judas Priest, have become best-sellers across the globe.

Things you need to know about metal bands

The top-heavy metal bands include Metallica, Dimmu Borgir, Slipknot, Nuclear Assault, Scorpions, Aerosmith, Eddie Van Halen, Ozzie Osbourne, and others. Several black metal bands, such as Celtic Frost, Hellhammer, and more have also created their successful niche. The best CDs from all these bands has made powerful social impacts. Scorpions “Winds of Change” for instance, is associated with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Metallica’s “One” shot into fame as an anti-war song. Heavy metal CDs are the most commercially successful genre of rock. The fact that the heavy metal genre rose as a way to vent about social evils made the lyrics of most heavy metal songs controversial, but popular. Our retail search engine is the best place to buy metal CDs. We offer a host of cheap death metal CDs, collectables, and other metal CDs, of all leading bands.

Black metal CDs

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. The characteristic features of black music include a shrieking vocal style and raw lo-fi recording. Also, a fast tempo, heavily distorted guitars, and an emphasis on atmosphere. Most black metal tracks have unconventional song structures. This became popular in the 1980s. The CDs of the 80s, belonging to artists such as Bathory, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate, Hellhammer and Venom are still popular. Black metal CDs of the early 1990s, dominated by Norwegian bands such as Burzum, Darkthrone, Emperor, Gorgoroth, Mayhem, Immortal, and Satyricon and also extremely popular. The black metal CDs of Sweedish bands such as Abruptum, Dissection, Marduk, and Nifelheim, also belong to this period.

Metallica Greatest hits CD

Metallica is one of the biggest hard rock band in the last thirty years. The band has released several albums, such as “Hardwired… To Self Destruct,” “Death Magnetic,” and more. “Black Album,” released in 1991, ranks as one of Metallica greatest hits CD. The album features top tracks such as “Sad but True,” “Reload,” another top album, contains chartbuster tracks such as “Fuel,” “King Nothing,” “Until It Sleeps” and “The Memory Remains.” “Orion,” another top Metallica album features one of their most popular track, “Master of Puppets.” “For whom the Bell Tolls,” yet another Metallica greatest hits CD features another top track, “Ride the Lightning.” Other top Metallica hits include “One,” “Fade to Black,” “Creeping Death,” “Blackened,” “Welcome Home,” “Battery,” and “Seek and Destroy.”

Slipknot CD

Slipknot is one of the popular heavy metal bands from America. It was formed in 1995 by percussionist Shawn Crahan, drummer Joey Jordison and bassist Paul Gray. The band has since then expanded, with several high-profile joining and exits. The band rose to fame through its aggressive music, backed by attention-grabbing image, and hyper-energetic live shows. Apart from the debut album, the other slipknot CDs include “Iowa,”, “Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses,” “All Hope Is Gone,” and “The Gray Chapter,” and “We Are Not Your Kind,”. The band has also released live albums, “9.0: Live” and “Day of the Gusano: Live in Mexico,” a compilation album “Antennas to Hell,” and five other live records. Slipknot CDs have sold 30 million records worldwide.

Nuclear Assault Survive CD

Nuclear Assault is a popular American thrash metal band. “Survive” is the second studio album released by the band, and arguably one of the most popular heavy rock albums of the times. The album, released in 1988, rose to number 145 in Billboard 200 list, and remained on the list for ten weeks. Nuclear Assault Survive CD is now a collector’s item. The top track on the CD is “Brainwashed.” Other tracks in the album include “Rise From the Ashes,”, “Get Another Quarter,” “PSA,” “F#,” “Survive,” “Fight to be Free,” “Great Depression,” “Wired, ” “Equal Rights,” “PSA,” “Technology.” and “Good Times Bad Times.” The album features the band’s most accomplished and also lyrically controversial material. The main credits for the album go to John Connelly for the vocals and guitar, Anthony Bramante for the guitar, Danny Lilker for the bass, and Glenn Evans for the drums.