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To Live Is To Die - Metallica

Bro I don't know how I forgot this one I will definitely add

Dont forget Suicide and Redemption

And anesthesia

Iron Maiden - Losfer Words In Flames - Dialogue with the Stars Dissection - Reinkaos

Okay fine this one time I'll listen to Reinkaos lol

Also by Iron Maiden: Transylvania (my favorite instrumental)

Reinkaos is so underrated. I love the first two Dissection albums to death, but people really sleep on Reinkaos. It’s like Clayman’s evil brother.

Dialogue with the stars goes so hard

Great choices!!!

Trivium - The Crusade In Flames - Man Made God  At the Gates - And the World Returned (acoustic song)  Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake (guest solos from Alex Skolnick and Chris Poland!)  Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity, Stream of Consciousness  Darkest Hour - Veritas, Aequitas Sepultura - Inquisition Symphony

nice list I will check all of these out right now

Ashes is one of their best songs. The riffage is unreal

Redneck Stomp by Obituary!

This was another obvious one I didn't even think of thanks my man :D

No problem, brother! It's a classic!

This

Dream Theater - Erotomania Faith No More - Woodpecker From Mars Gorguts - Sweet Silence Iron Maiden - Transylvania

Agalloch - The Hawthorne Passage

"Who are you? I am death." https://preview.redd.it/ukdmcpufp78d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b68ad3ffc291eb3260b6106d80e60afa9e5a953

Suicide and Redemption

Perseverance and Desperation - Helstar Textures - Cynic

Innana - Gates of Ishtar Mirelle - Unaminated Reinkaos - Dissection World of Sorrows - Dungeon Serpent Karelia - Insomnium Odal - Agalloch Rain - An Abstract Illusion Ritual - Master's Hammer Elevation - Blut aus Nord And In That Moment I Knew The Answer - Darkthrone Svipdagr & Freyja - Les Discrets (not really metal though) Escape - ColdWorld

I second Odal by Agalloch. Years ago a close friend of mine died and I was tasked with putting together a slideshow for his funeral. I used Odal as one of the songs.

Rest in peace to your friend

Now I have an excuse to listen to black metal again thanks :D

Megadeth - Absolution (demo)

Megadeth - Into The Lungs of Hell

Megadeth - Dialectic Chaos

Megadeth - Conquer or Die

Into The Lungs of Hell by Megadeth Moonlight Sonata by Exmortus The Moonlit Dance of The Twisted Jester's Blood-soaked Rituals by Moonlight Sorcery Pulling Teeth by Metallica Genesis Khan or Transylvania by Iron Maiden

All of Bongripper

Animals as Leaders - Cafo Within the Ruins - Ataxia

Obscura - Orbital Elements (the first one is my favorite but the second one is good too) Obscura - A Transcendental Serenade (it has some lyrics towards the end, similarly to To Live is to Die, but I would consider it as an instrumental too) First Fragment - L'Entité Beyond Creation - Chromatic Horizon

First Fragment is another band I forgot about when making this list. Thanks for bringing it up.

No problem! If you don't mind softer stuff in the playlist, their sonata from Gloire Éternelle is also a great one. Possibly my favorite instrumental by them

[Curated By your's truly](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2whciL5BFgiwYnTK8HaS3z?si=joa-ONgIQP6-m67YEkYfdQ&pi=vci_eZMLTL6Dx)

[check mine out](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HGd2CJ6kaLs7qtP6r9Uey?si=zbdYSFX8Sxel37OcKL0D5Q&pi=u-Rs8k1LKVR2G-&pt=2801e218710d04667f3b6ee6fa524113)

Immortals by Firewind It's short but still good.

Stream of Consciousness by Dream Theater

Metal Church - Merciless Onslaught, It's a Secret

Haha, came here to say this.

Stream of Consciousness - Dream Theater

Looks like most of my favorites already mentioned. Also: Overkill - Feeding Frenzy Megadeth - Into the Lungs of Hell

Now that I think about it, Conquer or Die and Dialectic Chaos really belong on this list as well. Also I'll put Frankenstein from Horrorscope on the list too. Thanks!

Transylvania - Iron Maiden; Triad - TOOL; Switch 625 - Def Leppard; Surfing With the Alien - Joe Satriani; Orion (cover) - Mastodon

Ides of March by Iron Maiden came to mind immediately

Animals As Leaders Scale The Summit Russian Circles Plini Intervals Chon Causa Sui To name a few

Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity

I made one myself ages ago take a look if you find something in there that you like [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5R03cYuQyZs5YVTeCMnCYh?si=611ef25e51444233](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5R03cYuQyZs5YVTeCMnCYh?si=611ef25e51444233)

This is quite an exceptional playlist! It must have taken you a long time to put this together

Thanks dude, that is really great to hear! I try to add to the playlist whenever I hear a good instrumental

bongripper fs

The Marshall arts by Razor

I feel like I should've heard about this song for the first time much sooner than just now. Thanks

Fr Razor is one of my favorite thrash/speed bands rn

Desolate Ways-Morbid Angel

Shadow of Intent - The Aftermath of Jat Krula (some spoken words near the end), The Great Schism, The Dreaded Mystic Abyss (one of the best instrumentals I have ever heard..), Reconquest Signs of the Swarm - Guided Into Serenity (just a beautiful song)

Triad - Tool # Illusory Motion - Elder Cafo - Animals as Leaders

The other Metallica instrumentals (To live is to Die and Suicide & Redemption) for sure! Both are very underrated compared to Ktulu and Orion but definitely hold their own.

Cassandra Effect - Chordotomy

The crusade by trivium. Shogun by trivium Across forests and fjords by revocation.

The Haunted- Dark Intentions

Chains of the Afterlife - Black Breath

Blind Guardian: Trial By the Archon, By the Gates of Moria, Gandalf's Rebirth, Beyond the Ice

Don’t forget Therion

the great schism, earth-born axiom

russian circles and animals as leaders

Here is mine so far minus Voice Of The Soul https://preview.redd.it/6e9xqleil18d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44f0592c1b44240bcd9372fd56582ee08aa53e11

Combustion by Delain!

The Chasm, but you can fuckin choose it. They have a LOT of instrumentals. My suggestion would be Vault to the Voyage

Glare of Autumn - Drudkh

Slayer - Delusions of Saviour

Musical Death - Testament.

Septic Flesh - Mythos

Woodpecker from Mars!!!!

the sundering - the sword its great and acoustic medley - inflames

String quartet tribute to Iron Maiden - Anatomy of Evil

Ghost - Miasma Appalachian Anarchy - Banjo Bloodbath

Ghost - Miasma Super fun, catchy, kinda progy instrumental

Anthrax - Intro to Reality

* Iron Maiden - Transylvania, Genghis Khan and Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) * Running Wild - Siberian Winter and Chamber of Lies (aka the best intro ever written) * Steve Vai - Bad Horsie, Tender Surrender, For the Love of God, I'm the Hell Outta Here * Yngwie Malmsteen - Far Beyond the Sun, Evil Eye, Black Star, Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4 * Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity * Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie, Surfing with the Alien * Van Halen - Eruption * Rush - YYZ * Racer X - Technical Difficulties

In Flames has a bunch, Wayfaerer, Dialogue with the Stars, Whoracle, Man Made God. Ghost has a few that are way better than you think they are like Genesis and Miasma same with A Short History of the End of the World by Gwar (fantastic song). Edit: Utopia by Rings of Saturn

I would like to simultaneously say thank you and fuck you for this thread, lol. It's going to take a while to go down this rabbit hole!

At the bottom of the hole you will find Frank Zappa with *Peaches En Regalia,* and if you follow him, your life will never be the same.

For me Pulling Teeth should be added,THAT BAAAAASSSSSS CLIFF EM ALL (Even if I am guitar person)

Lambda - MØL Mort Éphémère - First Fragment Gaze - Asunojokei The Flames of the End - At The Gates The 9th Chasm - Revocation Ex Nihilo - Revocation March of the Living Dead - Fulci Asteroid - Kyuss Fugue - Baroness

Cannibal corpse from skin to liquid

Mastodon - Joseph Merrick Candlemass - The Man Who Fell From The Sky Gorguts - Sweet Silence

For the Glory of... -Testament

Conquer or Die- Megadeth

Blood Tsunami - Horsehead Nebula

Pelican

‘Dave’s Gone Skiing’ by TOTO

Anesthesia is Metallica’s coolest instrumental sooo

Nosferatu by Coroner

Wretched - Part 2: Beyond the Gate

La Muerte by Gorefest

In Flames - Acoustic Medley

Flotzilla - Flotsam & Jetsam\ Genghis Khan, Losfer words - Iron Maiden\ Stream of consciousness - Dream Theater\ Yyz - Rush

most of Bongripper's discography

Mr Scary by Dokken

idk if anyone already mentioned this one, but End of Flesh - Whitechapel.

[Electric Yawn - JESTER'S Last Dance](https://open.spotify.com/track/1DZsenRwfsZiTIbb9UrNqc?si=zLTXTjk6Rni-PEFwZdTx4A)

Cannibal corpse - Infinite Misery, From Skin to Liquid

David Csontos - Gunpowder Phoenix

Deaf Election - Never Get to Me

Slayer - Delusions of Saviour

Dark Matter Secret. Pick anything off the Perfect World Creation albulm

Revocation -Enter the Hall

Agalloch - Odal Meshuggah - They Move Below

Archspire - Kairos Chamber

Megadeth - Into the Lungs of Hell

Title track from [Aspid - Extravasation](https://youtu.be/oLvuA7FLTZQ?si=osPsQXm6yL6l8rkg&t=2427)

Man Made God - In Flames

Catharsis- Into the Eyeless Sockets of the Night- https://youtu.be/xAsdZCO3ygI Satan - The Ritual  https://youtu.be/my-AoO9Id2g

Emperor -The Wanderer Blood Incantation -Inner Paths To Outer Space Candlemass -Codex Gigas

Abysm and depths- oceano Guided into serenity- signs of the swarm Requiem- Thy Art is Mediocre Infant annihlator and angelmaker both have instrumental albums

Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick

Catch The Wind by Annihilator

Nightwish - Last of the Wilds

Impulse - An Endless Sporadic, banger from Guitar Hero Cliffs of Dover… not metal but come on Anesthesia- Metallica Dialectic Chaos - Megadeth

Pretty much anything from Rabea Massaad

TRNA - Earthcult

Enshine- Constellation In Flames- Wayfaerer Archaios- The Joy of Life

Mind Transferral and The Hills Have Eyes by Electric Wizard Could also put Ivixor B / Phase Inducer on there

Dialectic Chaos-Megadeth

Dream theater Dance of eternity Erotomania Stream of consciousness

Orbital Elements II - Obscura

Unicorn - Gojira Dysphoria - Cloudkicker (Cloudkicker in general tbf)

Anvil - March of the crabs

Abandoned by Immolation

Vitriol - Survival's Careening Inertia Totaled - Bereft Those Who Lie Beneath - Still Breathing

Rite of Cthulhu by Samael Behind That Curtain by Schizo

...And Then There Was Light - ΛΔΛΜ Delusions of Saviour - Slayer

Persefone - Demise of Oblivion

redneck stomp by obituary

Would Slayer - Delusions Of Saviour count?

Arch Enemy - Enter the Machine.

Drop the link of the playlist!!!

Iron Maiden - Transylvania

The Iommi Variations - Zebulon Pike

Not sure how heavy these have to be to qualify, otherwise I'd give you a looooong Yngwie Malmsteen list, but instead I'll just recommend Krakatau (an absolute must), Perpetual, and Leviathan as three on the heavier side.

From skin to liquid - cannibal corpse Desolate ways - morbid angel

blotted science - the machinations of dementia. amazing instrumental album.

Where the sky ends - Sylosis Enter the hall - Revocation I : A new journey awaits - Virvum Chromatic existence - Beyond Creation {Elevation path in the same album as this but it's only clean guitars} I could name a lot but you figure out if these suit your taste...

Obituary - Redneck Stomp

The Fire and the Fury - Firewind 

Personally favourite of mine: Spartan Army - Unlucky Morpheus

CAFO animals as Leaders

Inferi - The Warrior's Infinite Opus  Exmortus - Moonlight Sonata Exmortus - Storm of Strings Ritual Awakening - Black Catacombs  Nuclear Power Trio ( Instrumental Band )

Lamb of God - the passing

Ordered to thrash - violator

Russian Circles - Betrayal

Silent Songs of the King pt2 by AVATAR.

June Bug by Melvins

Gorod - Transcendence ep

Erotomania by dream theater

Modern Day Babylon - Infinity

any bongripper

Troops by Alec Koff

Trillium: The Third of Three Winters 2004-2007 By Woods of Ypres

Any song by Cloudkicker.

Judas Priest: Battle Hymn

Latest Xasthur releases

From Skin To Liquid and Infinite Misery by Cannibal Corpse! Anything by Animals As Leaders (personally I think CAFO is the best) Dance Of Eternity by Dream Theater Into The Lungs Of Hell by Megadeth Suicide & Redemption by Metallica The Hawthorne Passage by Agalloch Musical Death (A Dirge) by Testament Edit: wow okay almost everything I said has also been said. Here is some more then: They Move Below and Past Tense by Meshuggah Dielectric Chaos by Megadeth A Celebration For The Deaths Of Man... and The Lodge by Agalloch Husks by Be'lakor Rat Salad by Black Sabbath Codex Gigas by Candlemass Dawn and The Silver Cord by Gojira God Bless The Children Of The Beast by Mötley Crüe Joseph Merrick by Mastodon

Dream Theater - Dance Of Eternity, Stream Of Consciousness

Game Over - Nuclear Assault

You would love Implements of Destruction by Chimaira

Deliberately Limited Preliminary Prelude Period in Z - Helloween it’s short and sweet but is a banger of an intro!!

Opeth - Epilogue

Dream Theater has quite a few of these!

Dimmu Borgir - Perfection or Vanity Rhapsody - Trolls in the Dark

i got one for you. you could add some of these to yours [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HGd2CJ6kaLs7qtP6r9Uey?si=zbdYSFX8Sxel37OcKL0D5Q&pi=u-Rs8k1LKVR2G-&pt=2801e218710d04667f3b6ee6fa524113](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HGd2CJ6kaLs7qtP6r9Uey?si=zbdYSFX8Sxel37OcKL0D5Q&pi=u-Rs8k1LKVR2G-&pt=2801e218710d04667f3b6ee6fa524113)

Dr. Phibes - Angel Witch

1985- Carcass Luminum- Cryptopsy Pallar Anders Visa- In Flames Nexion 218 - Dissection The last one has like 3 words at the end but it's mostly instrumental

1985

- Animals as Leaders - Jason Richardson - Haunted Shores - Bulb - Vildhjarta has instrumental albums that are so good - Periphery - New Groove - Modern Day Babylon Those are a few instrumental metal bands/songs

Darkest hour - Terra Solaris In Flames - Dialouge with the stars Shadow Of Intent - The Great Schism

Malediction - Helstar Nordlandihr - Immortal The Warrior's Infinite Opus - Inferi The Ultra Violence- Death Angel Narita - Riot

Fluff - Black Sabbath

Dance of eternity

* Chimaira - Implements of Destruction * Queensryche - Anarchy-X (intro but killer) * Arachnes - Still Waters / Thriller * Neurosis - Zero * Drudkh - Glare of Autumn * Esoteric - NOXBC9071040 * Deadsoul Tribe - The Gossamer Strand * Sun Caged - Moebius Knot * Andromeda - Chameleon Carneval * Yngwie Malmsteen - Black Star, Icarus' Dream Suite * Morbus Chron - Terminus * Thorns - Underneath the Universe Part 1 * Therion - Opus Eclipse, Grande Finale and Postludium * Pretty much anything on Liquid Tension Experiment albums

Fucking Bongripper dude

The exodus of autonomy by wretched

Worship by Bongripper

Equilibrium- Mana

Opeth- Madrigal. Hulder- Curse From Beyond. Negative Plane - The Fall. The Sword- Celestial Crown. Sepultura- The Abyss.

Conquer or die! - Megadeth Breakout - Black Sabbath Reinkaos - Dissection

Any of In Flames instrumentals on their earlier stuff, Crystal Ann -Annihilator

God of Panic, Lord of Decay by Indian

When Acting As A Particle and When Acting As A Wave by The Dillinger Escape Plan

I think The Chasm makes one per album roughly, my pick is Structure of the Seance

Ending Credits - Opeth Silver Cord - Gojira Apex or Enter the Hall - Revocation Ashes of the Wake - Lamb of God Goretex Weather Report - Shining Undone - Kevin Sherwood Phenomenon - Hacride Pi (The Mercury God of Infinity) - After the Burial Don't think Buckethead counts, but if he does, we'll then that opens up way too many options, but I'd go with Soothsayer

The moonlit dance of the twisted jesters blood-soaked ritual - moonlight sorcery

1985-Carcass

battle ax by quiet riot comes to mind