Headbanger Songs

[OPBASSMAN1994]

So what songs can you just not help but headbang to?

for me, it's Anthem by Rush. The message isn't my favorite ("Live for yourself, there's no one else worth living for....bleeding hearts and begging hands will just cry out for more" etc.), but there is just something about Geddy's Pure, unadulterated rock screaming of "Wonders in the world they wrouuuuuuuuggggggggghhhhhhhhhttttt!!!!!!!" ,

Cult of Personality by Living Color. One of the most heavy riffs of all time,

Paranoid by Black Sabbath. Again, heavy riffs and killer chops,

Etc. So what are yours?

[MrGotBass]

Metallica's version of Breadfan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msg5co4Xtpc

I love the Budgie original too, but Metallica's cover just makes we want to get pumped and break stuff. In a good way

[Snazzy Jazzy]

How about Quiet Riot's "Bang your head"? Head banging is implied in the title...

[Barkless Dog]

99% of Joe Satriani music.

[shackled]

Penetration by The Nefilim

[Pollinator95]

Obscura - Anticosmic Overload. Even if I were good enough to play it, I wouldn´t be able to for the headbanging.

[jollygiantchris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwA7KW-uSIE

When the main verse riff kicks in is a damn instant classic.

Mastodon - Oblivion

[Joe Gress]

A Day to Remember

Four Year Strong

Everytime I Die

Dillinger Escape Plan

Horse The Band

[Demon_Hunter]

Course of Empire-Infested

[Joe Gress]

Oh yeah, and:
Melvins

Bongripper

High On Fire

ISIS

Red Fang

[OPBASSMAN1994]

Forgot:

Run To the Hills by Iron Maiden

2112 by Rush

[champbassist]

Master Of Puppets.

[/thread]

Additionally I could name at least 20 songs off the top of my head. Limiting myself, I'd say Solitude by Candlemass and Lack Of Comprehension by Death are a couple.

[zachoff]

Twisted Sister - I Wanna Rock. It's silly, but every time I hear this song I pump my fist and bang my head. ROCK!!!

Same holds true for Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart WOAH!!! YEAH!!!

Fist pumping, head banging materpieces of rock!

[ZachM]

+1 to Mastodon, and I would also add maybe some Boris.

But for me, I immediately go into wide-grinning-headbanging-furious-air-drumming mode when I see/hear this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Phj_FTugY

Not the most original choice maybe, but it's a great song, totally killer tight band/performance, and that audience is about as excited a crowd gets!

[OPBASSMAN1994]

Thunderstruck is awesome indeed.

[TomA1234]

Hatredcopter by Dethklok


I still think it's awesome.

also +1 on obscura

[DeathFromBelow]

Traces of reality by DHG...

[Codymb]

It's hard to get me to actually head bang to anything these days. But in the past six months I've really gotten into one band that does the trick right away, every time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZEPiZbYcRo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRtB_tw_kCc

(Also pretty much all the stuff Joe Gress mentioned works on me as well.)

[DLKasim]

White Zombie's "Welcome to Planet MF" is the all-time winner for me. Enter Sandman or Skin O' My Teeth are close runners-up.

[Momus]

Silence Calls the Storm - Quo Vadis

Peace Sells - Megadeth

Into the Pit - Testament

Kings of Metal - Manowar

Powerslave - Iron Maiden

And hundreds of other songs, these are just the first 5 that came to my mind.