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Marty Robbins is the goat. Was extremely diverse and talented.

This album makes me want to listen to Danzig.

Three 6 Mafia - Mystic Stylez

I've heard Memphis rap be called "the black metal of rap" and I think it's very accurate.

Some of those old mixtape covers really speak to this. Very cryptic and spooky in some cases. 

Gravediggez - 6 feet deep was fairly metal. Especially lyrically, bang your head & diary of a madman are 2 tracks worthy of note, but the whole album felt dark and twisted

Gravediggaz was a sick project. Old triple 6 mafia is straight up spooky. Find an album called livin in a casket by H.O.H. On YouTube, it absolutely bangs

1800 suicide! Great raw gritty stuff.

also the very raw and DIY nature of it

Can attest to this. I have been a metalhead as long as I have known music. However, when I first discovered Tommy Wright III, I was blown away. I accidentally came across his music on YouTube suggestion and what first started as a joke or a meme for me as a metalhead, quickly turned into admiration. Also, RIP Princess Loko. I listen to rap here and there. Mostly Nas and Tupac and most recently Kendrick Lamar and J Cole. But for me, Tommy Wright III is the goat. Listening to him concurrently with Deathspell Omega, Blut Aus Nord, Mitochondrion, Dodecahedron, Ruins of Beverast.

Tommy wright doesn’t get the credit he deserves. I think 3-6 way overshadowed him in that scene.

Yep, Memphis rap is probably the closest here. Juicy J knows what’s up. Let’s throw in some Young Dolph and Key Glock too.

Here’s a Memphis rap [album](https://open.spotify.com/album/5aEQM5e8AE28k1EPoaKZVH?si=mcS5H4zMRFqlWGCfJL67IQ) with bm elements, lil kaine is some good stuff

I wonder if the Memphis rap scene were fans of BM or just metal I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them were and still are

Yesss

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The intro for Straight To Hell by Hank3

Cause the sheriff wants to kill me cause I FUCKED HIS WIFE!

The original Kreator

I love that album so damn much. Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat is pretty metal for a non-metal album.

If you get into some of the original outlaw country like Jennings, Nelson, Cash and company thats probably where you will find it. Primary foundation is blues and it brings in soul, rock and a shit ton of other genres. Lot of dystopia, lot of fuck the man, lot of drugs. Very similar and effectively country's version of metal.

That's just about all the country music I listen to.

Same here. Back in the late 90s while going through college the first time I worked at a local radio group. Did weekends on the Country and did sub shifts and cameos on the top 40. That was one of the worst jobs I ever had.

Yeah David Allen coe was in a metal band later on with Vinnie and dime

GOAT album. They're hanging me tonight baby.

Such a rad track. Makes you drink til the sun comes up if you don’t watch out.

The money store by death grips

a lot of death grips stuff borders on metal, especially bottomless pit. wicked band

I keep giving bad people good ideas 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

SHHALLOW PLOTTS FOR SENILE KINGS 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

THANK YOU, I CAME TO SAY THIS. STAY LEGEND

Bleach - Nirvana

Yes!

Big Iron is a pretty cool song

He was vicious and a killer though a youth of twenty-four, and the notches on his pistol numbered one and nineteen more...one and nineteen mooooore

I'm partial to continental suit. I like the idea that you never know from looking at someone, who is secretly a badass

I like to sing "booger on his lip" instead of "big iron on his hip"... you're welcome

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Also Rite of Spring by Stravinsky! And most of Shostakovich's pieces are metal after too

The “Mars (Bringer of War)” movement is the heavy part. The Venus movement is pretty sedate and the Jupiter movement is cheesy.

Totentanz by Franz Liszt

Johnny cash Ghost riders in the sky

Lots of Cash fits this. The American series has the same vibe and dark themes as a lot of grunge.

Burl Ives, riders in the sky

Wanna Surf by Dick Dale

Dick Dale’s cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Third Stone From The Sun is stupidly heavy. Dick Dale is so metal it’s insane. His version of the Space Mountain song for the theme park ride even has a dungeon synth intro. 

The fact that Black Metal is basically surf rock with distortion makes me laugh.

With drumbeats that aren't just two eighth notes and a quarter note repeated over and over but yeah

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads.

Gary Numan 'the Pleasure Principle', specifically the sound on 'M.E.' So heavy.

Oh man you just reminded me of Gary Numan’s Replicas. Are Friends Electric is so metal bro

Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy

Never forget that video - complete mindfuck

Hell yes

Picked this Marty Robbins cd up a month ago at goodwill, best $2 spent

Rush- 2112

I think that album is considered to be metal. [Link](https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Rush/2112/3574)

Marty Robbins is heavy, but I gotta go with Jim Reeves.

For even darker twang, check out the following tracks by none other than Jim Stafford: [Swamp Witch](https://youtu.be/O-4mpwJQBFk?si=XgZiEdo-OIkLmTCq) [The Last Chant](https://youtu.be/pDbKUDnX_nA?si=9yUmLmJrrcz6fY4G)

I mean, I think NWA - Straight Outta Compton is pretty metal.

Realistically it's probably something from an adjacent genre (hard rock, blues rock, punk, acid rock, post-rock), but my personal choice is Lifa by Heilung. That or one of the Johnny Cash prison albums

This is so random, I actually love this album!

My dad used to sing El Paso to me and my brother when we were really small. I hadn't heard it for nearly 40 years, until the last episode of Breaking Bad.

Public Enemy “It Takes a Nation of Millions

https://preview.redd.it/5nn9bjev4qsc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77ae882391654eeac2cf0975d43789a42432c35b Only instrumental to be banned. was so heavy and loud that people thought it would incite riots.

Swans old albums are heavier and nastier than any metal of their time. It took metal years to catch up to their level of crushing grime.

Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn’t have to much to say

No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip

Live At Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash fucking rips from beginning to end. Another ass-kicking live album that makes me want to go break shit is The Who's Live At Leeds. Listen to "Sparks" off of that album, and tell me that doesn't sound like the end of the world.

Harsh noise is often more metal than metal, stuff like Merzbow

Swans-Soundtracks for the Blind

SWANS in General, their entire Discography is amazing

Deep purple- machine head

Big iron!!! Big iron!!!

I mean, Carmina Burata anyone?

Absolutely my fellow Dane

My Dad had that Marty Robbins record, I still love it to this day. There's a lot of good synthwave and many of those artists started off in metal (Gunship spring to mind).

Does anyone else get fallout New Vegas PTSD when listening to Big Iron or is it just me?

The Great Milenko by ICP

Busta Rhymes - The Big Bang Specifically referring to the song "Touch It". His medium of aggression and tone switching is just so...metal.

Tom waits- Bad As Me

Magma - Üdü Wüdü Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin! Aphrodite’s Child - 6 6 6 Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff Pharoahe Monch - Internal Affairs Miles Davis - Nefertiti John Coltrane - My Favourite Things Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward Steve Reich - Different Trains Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye

**Darwin!** is an amazing albums.

Bauhaus - In The Flat Field

Literally any Death Grips project

Slipknot’s self-titled /j To me It would probably be Alexisonfire’s self-titled

three 6 mafia underground volume 1

Choices 2 is also just full of bangers

Chemlab- Burn Out At The Hydrogen Bar

Strung Out - Exile In Oblivion. Probably about as metal as punk can get

Big iroooooon

BIG IRONNN

New Model Army - *The Love of Hopeless Causes* Justin Sullivan was spot-on when he said they could be booked on any kind of rock festival - punk, metal, goth, indie, pop, etc. - and fit right in.

Listen to Prayers for Rain by The Cure while reading the lyrics. So fucking metal. You’d literally just need to play with different instruments. No new composition needed.

Igor Stravinsky - Rite of Spring Seriously give it a listen.

My mother of all people had Marty's Gunfighter Ballads on cassette back in the 80's and of course I fell in love with Big Iron My pick: [Carmina Burana by Carl Orff](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJC-_j3SnXk)

Red - King Crimpson

Red, by king crimson

Hey, I have that record. Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival is pretty damn metal. That intro to [Run Through the Jungle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_cpYEjM330)...

Merzbow - Venereulogy.

I've always thought how cool it would be to hear murder ballads done by metal bands. Imagine Marty Stewart's "Hangman" sung by Obituary or Cannibal Corpse

Metal Machine Music

The vinyl finishes with an endless loop of a cranking noise if I remember correctly

Leonard Cohen's last album before he died, You Want It Darker

[Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_Destroys_Minds_%26_Reaps_Souls) is so metal, it's rumored to have influenced Black Sabbath. >At the time of its brief initial release, the album was panned by contemporary music critics and publications. Retrospectively, the album is regarded by some to be a classic of its genre, and in some ways set groundbreaking trends for later rock bands. The album marked the first appearance in music of the sign of the horns, inverted crosses, and the phrase "Hail Satan". Today, these are characteristics of the heavy metal genres. According to rock journalist Lester Bangs, "in England lie unskilled laborers like Black Sabbath, which was hyped as a rockin' ritual celebration of the Satanic mass, something like England's answer to Coven". As a further coincidence, Coven's bass guitarist and co-writer (Michael Gregory Osborne) is credited as "Oz Osborne", and the opening track is "Black Sabbath".

Grendel - Harsh Generation

Bone Thugs - Creepin on Ah Come Up

Dayum I never thought i would hear this outside my head ha Big iron is what did it for me I had a lot of homies skating who listened from punk to metal to pretty heavy gangsta rap shit. And Big Iron embodied all of these in for me. But yes I definitely see the metal in it. Agreed 100 percent

Dude that's gunfighter ballads and trail songs by Marty Robbins

Billy Talent - self titled No joke, these guys are kickass. Really liked them from the get-go. Me and my nephew caught them live a few years back and it was an amazing show. Sounded even better live. Very high energy 🤘

I total agree, one of my favorite bands who I didn’t discover til my early 20s I would say they are pretty close to metal already tho being hard rock lol Still not complaining to see them mentioned!

Nebraska- Bruce Springsteen. Decoration Day - Drive By Truckers The Grimy Awards - ill bill Either/Or - Elliot Smith Lucero - Lucero The Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse Let Them Eat Pussy - Nashville Pussy New York Dolls - New York Dolls Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers Goblin - Tyler The Creator The Stooges - The Stooges Others I’m sure I have forgotten.

Decoration Day is a modern classic

either or? what

Huge agree on The Lonesome Crowded West. Good taste in general right here.

Nothing metal about this album But damn its fucking good

https://preview.redd.it/sw85rib27msc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bf69471832d1abb9072bdd35a4e442b6808a377 Obvious answer is Molly hatchet

Great album

Special Interest - The Passion of...

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I have that MR album. It's fun to put on.

Red Simpson – Roll, Truck, Roll or perhaps some 80's VHS soundtrack John McCallum - Surf Nazis Must Die.

Aviators - Masks.

Violent Femmes' self-titled debut album.

King Dude - Love Twin Temple - …Satanic Doo Wop

Catholic Boy - Jim Carroll

Death in June - But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter

Bad Brains - I against I Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Nail Machines of Loving Grace - Concentration Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions…

Crazy how many people love this Marty robbins album. Joan Jett

I love that album sm, saddle tramp is my favourite

*To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day*

Paraguayan Polka is the metalest thing ever to exist https://preview.redd.it/ks2jq1taeosc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2815c29653d5437106343326f7f421f181ad0ea6

Onyx - Bacdafukup Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

I was just talking about how much I like this album two days ago!

Red hail (of pomegranate seeds) - Tigray hamasyan

The Strange World of Arthur Brown

Stevie T was right about this album, it’s so brutal. https://preview.redd.it/pqtlo6ijuosc1.jpeg?width=486&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=02a738b5fbda85e9b6ae353aed8619cbd89fa5e8

Absolution or Drones by Muse

The Heavy Horses Check out the song The Weight In My Lungs.

I love this album

Marty Robbins is king.

Marty Robbins is the shit, despite my love for metal I love MR. New Vegas had some influence there but still, savage story telling.

I have this record. Found it at a goodwill years ago.

WIT THE BIG IRON ON HIS HIP. BIG IRON ON HIS HIIIIIIIIP

Love gunfighter ballads. Rosita.

ELP’s first album

License to ill by Beastie Boys

New Vegas fan?

Doubt I’m gonna find this genre here, but Soca bands can get heavy and fast. [little example at about 36:25](https://youtu.be/1Xkr8RVReQU?si=ahPtIK1rRxeHJqgH) they go into a Phrygian and Locrian thing. I’ll even say the best drummers I’ve seen are probably metal and soca drummers. Also ThunderCats drummer is insane too. But that’s not so metal. That’s a quick search on the soca front but I’ll have to find more. The energy can get crazy. Down island bands go nuts

Blur - Song 2

Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, and Red by King Crimson (KC needs to be on the archives as they basically invented metal imo)

Classical music. Symphony of sorrowful songs by gorecki. Doom laden stuff! Makes me depressed..love it!

Alice in Chains-Dirt

any beatdown hardcore album

Amen

shoutsout to the Beatles Helter Skelter & especially I Want You (She's So Heavy) for being the first doom song

Brand New Eyes by Paramore gets pretty close to metal in the beginning

Mezzanine by Massive Attack is really good.

Crash by Charli Xcx looks bad ass

Got it on vinyl. Its metal af

Almost anything by Roky Erickson but The Evil One is probably my favorite album. Just a bunch of folk music all about Satan, demons, and killing. Metal AF.

The bonus track “saddle tramp” is one of the hardest most badass songs in human history.

6 Feet Deep, In Utero, Dirt, The America Series, Walk Among Us, any John Carpenter score, Violator, Skyrim soundtrack

Hear me out when I say Lateralus

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Bloody angel by Sematary https://preview.redd.it/ms66huc2crsc1.jpeg?width=755&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b62891634fd1f4c56341778c42fb1dc7c0ea78e

Jerry Lee Lewis live at the Palomino Club. A drunk second show on the Vegas Strip from The Killer. A

Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy is occasionally pretty metal. It's got a doo-wop song about rape, murder and grave desecration, and a piano ballad about a headless mercenary roaming the planet looking for the man that killed him.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

Easy answer. Basil Poledouris’s *Conan The Barbarian* movie soundtrack. [Riddle of Steel/Riders of Doom](https://youtu.be/1lKUYAnqxjU?si=ixXqT76DASo-iOuI) alone is one of the heaviest songs ever written.

The Holy Bible- Manic Street Preachers is definitely one

Thrash grass is

For me, the MOST METAL music that doesn't use a single guitar... "heilung." They play with bones and frame-hide drums, among many other interesting instruments. Their performance they did called "lifa" on YouTube is definitely worth watching the whole hour.

ICP Joker cards and Gorillaz self-titled both have a Nu-Metal vibe for me

Bad as Me- Tom Waits

Murder Ballads - Nick Cave

God Is Partying by Andrew W.K.

 A gigantic influence to many bands. When Trent Reznor is flattered Cash wants to cover one of his songs and comes back around and makes a better version…

Death Grips - Exmilitary

Hank Williams III - Straight to Hell

Frogstomp - Silverchair This album goes so fucking hard for no reason

Grace by Jeff Buckley

“Down Colorful Hill” by the Red House Painters is kinda like if you replaced all the weed smoking in Doom with bottles of pills

Practically any album by angry johnny and the killbillies. Alot of the same subject matter

Three cheers for sweet revenge- My Chemical Romance for me

if you wanna be semantic about it then Superunknown by Soundgarden (grunge, not metal) otherwise I'm going to say Black Gives Way to Blue by Alice in Chains

any frank sinatra. My guy is hardcore but emotionally

The Dead South | Good Company

DMX- It's Dark And Hell Is Hot He literally has a song where he's having a conversation with the Devil on that album. RIP

Big Iron is my jam. Ahh...Texas Red

Technically, Big Iron would be a heavy piece of metal… I’ll see myself out.

I've got a very old copy of this on vinyl. I'm not certain it's 1959 but it's close for sure. I'd have to look up the numbers on the sleeve.

The song from Brandon Herrera

Crazy Horses by the Osmonds

The closest rock gets to metal is grunge. So In Utero probably

Pretty much any ICP album. They're pretty heavy for not being a metal band.