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The film's theme song, "Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)" was sung by Don Felder. It was released as a single in the U.S. and reached number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100 [29] and number five on the Mainstream Rock chart on September 19, 1981.
- Slayer’s Angel Of Death in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) How do you follow up one of the single greatest comedy horror/critter movies of all time? You go bigger, grosser and way, way sillier.
- Metallica’s For Whom The Bell Tolls in Zombieland (2009) While the likes of Shaun Of The Dead and Braindead had already shown that zombie lore was ripe for gruesome laughs, Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland was the (literally) all-guns-blazing box office swing at a zom-com that many of us had been waiting for.
- Metallica’s Master Of Puppets in Zombieland: Double Tap. In fact, so well-received was that iconic opening for Zombieland that Ruben Fleischer shamelessly repeated the trick for his own sequel ten years later.
- Motörhead’s Ace Of Spades in Severance (2022) Apple TV+’s weird and brilliant Severance is centred around the mysterious Lumon corporation, whose workers’ brains are ‘severed’ - each time they leave their eerie, Facebook-like office, they basically become a completely different person.
Listen to all 18 songs from the Heavy Metal soundtrack, playlist, ost and score.
The first use of "heavy metal" in a song lyric is in reference to a motorcycle in the Steppenwolf song "Born to Be Wild", also released that year: "I like smoke and lightning / Heavy metal thunder / Racin' with the wind / And the feelin' that I'm under".
Jun 1, 2024 · The movie not only features a rocking soundtrack with songs from popular bands like Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, and Devo but also captures the rebellious, edgy spirit associated with heavy metal music.
May 20, 2019 · Movies such as Alone in the Dark, Tales from the Crypt, Leatherface, The Crow and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre have used heavy metal as part of their soundtracks to create a fantastic movie experience successfully.
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Jun 28, 2022 · Led Zeppelin's first album, released in 1969, was heavy metal mixed with the blues. The name "heavy metal" was first used by Steppenwolf in 1967 in the LP of the same name with the lyric (via uDiscover Music ): "I like smoke and lightnin', heavy metal thunder."
