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4 Heavy Metal Melodies I Can’t Get Out of My Head

There are heavy metal songs with such compelling melodies, like Iron Maiden’s ‘The Wicker Man’, that you can’t get them out of your head.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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Some melodies just worm themselves into your ears and attach to your brain. They become, like Thanos, inevitable. For me, this has happened a lot with heavy metal songs.

I think sometimes people don’t associate metal with melody the way they do with other genres. Which is disappointing because you are cutting out an entire section of incredible songwriting by being presumptuous.

Before I get too high and mighty, let me share with you a few metal songs with incredible melodies that really stand out and linger in my head. Read on!

“My Last Serenade” by Killswitch Engage

Discovering Killswitch Engage in the early 2000s, for me, was my entrance into the world of melodic metalcore. Their self-titled debut (2000) was a remarkable first record. It was, however, the follow-up, Alive or Just Breathing (2002), that put them on the map.

Among that flawless tracklisting sits “My Last Serenade”, a true rose of a metal song. Sure, the stem is covered in........

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