10 classic metal songs we can’t believe don’t get played live

Constructing a setlist is difficult enterprise – notably when your band has been around for  a long time and has extra albums than some bands have had excursions. Inevitably one thing has to offer as new materials is introduced out alongside anticipated hits – in any case, not taking part in these is “a little cunty”, to take phrases from Josh Homme – and a few songs can drop off setlists for many years.

Whereas Metallica and Iron Maiden have discovered artistic options to this on their most up-to-date excursions – the previous doing two-night profession spanning setlists on their M72 run, whereas Maiden have outright dropped a lot of the hits for a extra targeted, themed set – however there are nonetheless some songs which can be or have been stunning omissions in band setlists. That in thoughts, listed below are 10 songs we’re shocked have not cropped up in setlists extra over time.

Iron Maiden – Convey Your Daughter To The Slaughter (No Prayer For The Dying, 1990)

1990’s No Prayer For The Dying is hardly a beloved document in Iron Maiden’s again catalogue, so its not too stunning that few songs from the document have popped up in setlists roughly because it was launched. That mentioned, the actual fact the band have not performed the album’s largest hit – Convey Your Daughter To The Slaughter since 2003 is kind of spectacular, particularly contemplating that not solely is it their solely #1 within the UK, however in reality the primary ever metallic #1 single interval.

Sure, we all know it is a tacky track, however then that is Iron Maiden we’re speaking about – they of gong mishaps and “climb like a monkey” instructions – and who would not love a little bit of B-movie cheese each every so often? And also you’d suppose the track that actually conquered the UK would get one other look in in some unspecified time in the future.

Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone (All Hope Is Gone, 2008)

The final Slipknot album to function the basic 9 line-up, All Hope Is Gone is positively filled with large sing-alongs. To whit, Psychosocial has been performed at nearly each Slipknot present because it made its dwell debut on July 9, 2008 – two days after the one itself was launched. But one way or the other, the album’s title-track – and first single – has solely ever been performed as soon as, at that exact same present.

Granted, the actual fact Clown has brazenly admitted to hating the album might need one thing to do with it, saying: “It’s my least favorite [Slipknot album]: no stress, no ache – simply effectivity. With the ability to go dwelling, capable of sleep, shouldn’t be good, not for what we do.”

Mastodon – Curl Of The Burl (The Hunter, 2011)

As anybody who’s ever seen Mastodon at a competition can attest, they are not precisely the type of band to show up, play all of the hits and go away. As a substitute their setlists are sometimes an odyssey into album tracks intersperesed with private favourites, typically bypassing singles nearly fully. Even so, it is stunning that the band have ignored Curl Of The Burl for over a decade.

On launch, Curl Of The Burl was Mastodon’s highest charting single on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts and earned the band a Grammy nod for finest Arduous Rock/Steel Efficiency [though lost out to Foo Fighters’ White Limo]. But the track hasn’t appeared on a setlist since 2013, when the band kicked off the marketing campaign for his or her subsequent document, 2014’s As soon as Extra Round The Solar.

Cave In – Anchor (Antenna, 2003)

The one Cave In track to chart as a radio single, Anchor was launched at a degree the place it seemed just like the band would possibly nearly explode in recognition, notably after they had been picked up for excursions with the likes of Foo Fighters and Muse. Sadly, it by no means got here to go and the album stalled at No. 169 on the US Billboard 200, resulting in the band returning to their metalcore roots on subsequent album Good Pitch Black. 

With its gargantuan hook, you’d suppose that Anchor could be a mainstay of Cave In units, however the track solely sparingly appeared in setlists across the album launch, and has not been revived within the 20 years since.

Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, 1973)

When you may lay declare on having successfully laid the blueprint for heavy metallic, it stands to cause that you simply would possibly wrestle to suit each basic and fan favorite right into a setlist and there are inevitably going to be obvious omissions in any set. Large tunes like Gap In The Sky and Sabbra Cadabra could be defined away as being non-single casualties that might wrestle to suit right into a complete hits set, however the lack of the title monitor of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is a large void within the set.

Granted, the band did at the very least acknowledge the track by together with an instrumental phase of it of their 2010s comeback units alongside Supernaut and Megalomania, however the unique monitor by no means returned to Sabbath setlists after airings throughout their 90s reunion and was performed sparingly even throughout Ozzy’s heyday with the band within the 70s.

Kind O Unfavorable – I Do not Wanna Be Me (Life Is Killing Me, 2003)

Type O Negative’s final album with Roadrunner data, 2003’s Life Is Killing Me was hampered by an absence of promotion regardless of being one of many band’s most simple efforts. Even so, the album’s solely single I Do not Wanna Be Me was an iconic entry within the band’s canon, and made common rotation at radio stations and metallic golf equipment around the globe.

Contemplating the epic size of many different Kind O tunes, you’d suppose the band would relish having a (comparatively) shorter track that might get out and in in 5 minutes. Sadly, it wasn’t to be: I Do not Wanna Be Me was solely performed on the album promo tour, and promptly dropped from setlists of their closing years.

Metallica – The Outlaw Torn (Load, 1996)

Metallica have greater than their justifiable share of epic album closers, to not point out some of the impressively loaded discographies in heavy metallic interval. So it isn’t stunning some songs have taken the backseat over time, notably when the father or mother album is hardly beloved – Some Sort Of Monster, anybody? – however we’re at a loss to clarify why Load nearer The Outlaw Torn hasn’t cropped up in additional setlists.

A spotlight from 1996’s Load, The Outlaw Torn was later reimagined for S&M, but languishes on the decrease finish of Metallica’s setlist picks, popping up sometimes. Contemplating simply how expansive Metallica’s setlists on the M72 run have been, we would have anticipated it at the very least as soon as. C’mon lads.

AC/DC – It is A Lengthy Method To The Prime (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll) (T.N.T., 1975/Excessive Voltage, 1976)

Contemplating they modified singers in 1980, AC/DC have nonetheless ensured that loads of Bon Scott-era hits remained of their setlists over the following a long time. However maybe one of many band’s most iconic hits – and a track that has change into a worldwide favorite intro monitor for everybody from Saxon to Metallica – It is A Lengthy Method To The Prime (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll) has by no means been carried out by the Brian Johnson iteration of the group.

Experiences that Johnson did not carry out the track out of respect for his predecessor provide some rationalization as to its rarity, however 40 years since he joined the band it is nonetheless astounding the band have by no means dusted off their bagpipes.

Ozzy Osbourne – Diary Of A Madman (Diary Of A Madman, 1982)

We have already acknowledged the difficulties of balancing a setlist when you could have recent materials alongside an arsenal of previous hits, however Ozzy Osbourne would have been hit doubly laborious within the early 80s, making an attempt to squeeze songs from his tenure with Sabbath in alongside his newer, brisker solo hits.

One of many extra stunning omissions nonetheless is Diary Of A Madman, the title-track and shutting variety of his 1982 document. Granted, Diary… was by no means launched as a single, however the monitor has popped up on plenty of compilation releases and is an iconic entry in Ozzy’s catalogue. But, the track was apparently performed solely as soon as the yr of launch, and appeared very sometimes since, its final airing coming in 2000.

Rob Zombie – Cunning Cunning (Educated Horses, 2006)

The lead single from 2006’s Educated Horses, Cunning Cunning additionally gave Rob Zombie his third high 10 hit on the US Mainstream Rock singles charts after Dragula and Dwelling Useless Lady and helped propel the album again to a high 5 place on the Billboard 200 within the US after Sinister Urge didn’t match the success of Hellbilly Deluxe.

However whereas plenty of Educated Horses songs have endured within the units over time, Cunning Cunning was dropped pretty shortly after the album promo was accomplished in 2007. Whereas as eminently danceable as different Zombie tunes, the track’s extra laborious rock flavours maybe would not at all times slot in with the sheer bombast of a Dragula or American Witch, however we’re nonetheless suprised it hasn’t popped up once more at the very least as soon as over the past 16 years.