In other words: trying to find a pure, earnest metal song about love that isn’t a total cheeseball or just a double entendre about humping is pretty much impossible. Which makes for a pretty boring playlist. So strip all that away and what do you get? Some love songs are about, um, hate (Pantera’s “This Love” does not belong).

Some love songs are about cracking open a cold one with the boys (the homoeroticism is strong in this subject).

In fact, there are enough songs about sex that they might make their own playlist in the future. The Scorpions and Judas Priest outperform in the love song department, but most of their material is really about making the beast with two backs (of these two, Priest makes far and away sexier songs on average – “Evil Fantasies” is especially raunchy). In all rock music ‘love’ is mostly a euphemism for sex. To make matters worse, a whole lot of love songs are not really about love. Power ballads are great, but today is a hallmark holiday-I can only take so much cheese. Power ballads take up the lion’s share of metal love song territory. That means no Foreigner, Journey, Van Halen, Whitesnake, KISS or the like. I did my best to ignore any bands which, in my subjective view, fall more into the hard rock category. Many of these songs hail from the time period when heavy metal and hard rock were, if not overlapping genres, then at least Siamese twins. Turning back the clock only makes finding metal love songs a tiny bit easier. Aw, crap.” Lemmy aside, I can’t find many instances of this trope in extreme metal, either.Īs such, this playlist leans heavily on pre-extreme metal or bands that openly harken back to that style. I can find one “aw, crap I’m in love” song trope: “I’m a total dog for promiscuous sex, but now I am emotionally attached to one person who would prefer if I changed my ways. While “aw, crap” remains an appropriate reaction to many things in life, it is almost never the appropriate reaction to love. The ruling elites will never cede power to me nor accept my white boy dreadlocks. I have an uncontrollable desire to consume human flesh. Black, death, thrash, sludge, grind - they all pretty much boil down to one sentiment: “Aw, crap.” Extreme heavy metal ignores love almost entirely. The challenge came in finding good songs that suit Decibel. There are probably more songs about romantic relationships than any other single topic, and sex is probably a close second. There is no shortage of metal songs about love. Metal excels at many things that most popular forms of music are not good at: darkness, intensity, drama. Premium ink.Picking a solid playlist of metal love songs posted a difficult task. A personal tribute to a masterpiece and a must have for any Type O Negative fan. Item: 282503425962 Type O Negative October Rust Love You To Death Lyrics Poster Art Print.

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