June 13, 2025 • 8 mins
It's another Friday Draft here on The A-Team as Wex, AC and Cole look to own the summer with their consistent picks. Today, in honor of Metallica coming to town, the boys pick the best Heavy Metal songs of all-time. Who walks away a winner this week? Listen and vote below!
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
All right, it's that time of the week where we
collectively basically try to make ourselves feel better about ourselves
by having you vote us as the winner of an
imaginary draft that has nothing to do with the grand
scheme of things in your life, but it's fun. We
call it the eighteen draft.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
With the first pick, and with the second pick, with
the third pick, with.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The second pick, with the first pick.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Friday Draft, and it starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So in honor of Metallica being in town, we thought
it would be a good idea today to draft the
best heavy metal songs. And obviously, as per usual, we
each get re choices. It's snake style draft, and in
order of things this week based on the prior weeks,
(01:07):
it appears as though our esteemed colleague and producer Cole
Thompson has the number one pick in this week's a
team Friday Draft best heavy metal Songs.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And then what who drafts next?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Well, actually I'm not for sure it would be you.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Next, Ac. And then Wexler gets to go ahead and get.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The Roundabout All right, go ahead, cool, all right, I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Think it's easy. It's my favorite song of all time
by this band. It has the best entry in college football.
I am a college football for Shnado. Something about hearing
it in Blacksburg, Virginia makes the floor shake. They just
performed there and they're performing this weekend. Give me Enter
Sandman by Metallica seems like a reasonable opening selection.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
The coffee of this week's draft dues.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I mean, that's what first picks should be there this
if you followed along with the A team through three
different selectors that have picked along with us. M hm, yes, four,
four different selectors, Cole being the fourth that have picked
along with us, so several years in the making. We
have a few drafts, like the vast majority of them,
(02:12):
where there is a selection that's the selection, it's going
to win you the draft. Sometimes it doesn't even get
taken first, and we're like, huh, what.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You're letting somebody else win when you had the first pick.
The drafts are always best when you know it doesn't
work out that way. Maybe this will be that, maybe
it won't, but I'll wait again to see what I
get to select with my first pick at three right.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
All right, So the chalk pick or the obvious pick,
or however you want to call it, has been taken,
and I thought about it long and hard, and I
was thinking about, you know, some of the all time greats,
the Mount Rushmore is if you will in this category
of music, And I thought to myself self, why don't
(02:59):
you get of Ozzy Osbourne his due? Why don't you
go with another song much like Inner sam Man, that.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Is a a.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Anthem if you will in stadiums to put him down
for my mom coming home. You just you're just the worst. No, No,
that's a good song. No, but I went with Crazy Training.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Of course you did.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yeah, it's awesome, especially the intro that one. I'm not
gonna lie. I almost won't with that.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Well, what you just said there at the end, to
me is kind of how I would make all of
the selections, kind of oh at the beginning or the
riff or the most bingo. And so I think Crazy
Train makes quite the quite the opening selection. I'm going
to use a little of Ozzy with my first pick.
(03:44):
He's familiar with this song. It's a little paranoid about it,
is is he He's familiar with it, and his bandmates
even more so. We'll take We'll take Sabbath's own paranoid
a's my first selection.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I knew you were going to do something with the
name of the band.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, I would guess when you look at like best
heavy metal songs, I feel like a lot of the
popular post nineteen ninety five songs they were so popular.
But I don't think of these great heavy metal songs.
But they were popular, and they had someone in the
(04:22):
band or the lead singer or somebody that is known
for that type of music. But it gained such great popularity,
I wouldn't think to ever put it on this list.
And then you look somewhere and it was seventeenth or
it was twenty first, I'm like, this doesn't feel right.
I feel like this whole list is nothing. But the
only bands were going to select over the next seven spots.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yes, in any of the lists like that that you
would look up, you're gonna see a lot of repeat offenders,
if you will. Even though like one of the opening
bands Tomorrow Night is Pantera. I put Pantera and Metallica
in the same like little pocket of my life.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Something was that pantheon of its own level.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well, I just they are just joined at the hip
to me because I listen to them together when I
got into that kind of music because they were in
that year range you're talking about. But I don't think
of Pantera as having one of these type of songs
even but I celebrate their entire totally weird.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Explain.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, I considered this for a while. Do I intentionally
not take a Metallica song? Do I intentionally take nothing
but Metallica songs? Is there any way I could avoid it?
And there is no way. There's nine choices. I don't
think at least one of metallic only not least one
of Metallica's. I'll take Master of Puppets.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
That's good, That's very very good. It was on my
list as well. And since there have been two Metallica
songs taken, but the ultimate Metallica song hasn't been taken,
I'm taking it now. My second choice is one by Metallica.
There's a lot of Metallica on this list. I figured
that'd be the case with the concert that we're talking
(05:59):
about this because of.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
All right, finish up things for yourself.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Cole Um honestly my favorite drum intro of all time
by any band, and it just gets you pumped up
right before a workout.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't take him but I know some people do.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I want a painkiller getting pain Killer by Judas Priest.
That's my first pick. And then this just sounds like
the most heavy metal song of all heavy metal songs.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I've only listened to it a few times.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
But when you have it as like the back end
of your selections, and it's a band named Mega Death,
why not go with Tornado Souls.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Mega Death, the band fronted by the guy who couldn't
stay as the lead singer of Metallica.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
It's true, and.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
He's still not bitter about it. That's the good news,
all right. These are all good selections. Much like we
talked about before, the familiarity at the beginning, you hear
the riff or the drum or whatever it is is,
it goes a long way into picking my final selection.
And this is not an ode to a certain sports
(07:05):
talk show host either, who uses this song at nauseum
because of the name of his program. But I'm gonna
go with Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses
because Slash and his guitar at the beginning is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Would anyone meet that selection with hey man, they don't
fit the genre.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I almost did it but I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Uh, probably I can see that, But like, okay, if
they're not heavy metals.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
A rock band, this is a super great rock band.
But that's they live the rock lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Cole got very dangerously close to saying what some people
tried to put on them early, but it was completely
inaccurate because they're not they're not hair metal, but they
came out in the middle of just a total You know, is.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
There a difference between them and Motley Crue in this discussion?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
See Motley Crue could be called a hairband at times
because they actually wore making.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
A rock band, a hair band or heavy metal, I
call them hair band.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I don't know. That's tough.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's that's a question I can't answer in less than
ten seconds. Let's put it that way, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So that leaves the last selection for me. Yep, man,
I am torn.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Stop it.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I will leave only one Judas Priest song selected, and
I won't take breaking the law. I'll break the law
by going past time here and taking Immigrants song by Leeds.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
See, oh that's good. I like that. I like that
a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We get you guys to vote on it. See how
much Cole beats ac By and how bottom of the
barrel Number three I finish as usual in the Friday
eighteen draft.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety
All right, it's that time of the week where we
collectively basically try to make ourselves feel better about ourselves
by having you vote us as the winner of an
imaginary draft that has nothing to do with the grand
scheme of things in your life, but it's fun. We
call it the eighteen draft.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
With the first pick, and with the second pick, with
the third pick, with.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
The second pick, with the first pick.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Friday Draft, and it starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So in honor of Metallica being in town, we thought
it would be a good idea today to draft the
best heavy metal songs. And obviously, as per usual, we
each get re choices. It's snake style draft, and in
order of things this week based on the prior weeks,
(01:07):
it appears as though our esteemed colleague and producer Cole
Thompson has the number one pick in this week's a
team Friday Draft best heavy metal Songs.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And then what who drafts next?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Well, actually I'm not for sure it would be you.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Next, Ac. And then Wexler gets to go ahead and get.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
The Roundabout All right, go ahead, cool, all right, I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Think it's easy. It's my favorite song of all time
by this band. It has the best entry in college football.
I am a college football for Shnado. Something about hearing
it in Blacksburg, Virginia makes the floor shake. They just
performed there and they're performing this weekend. Give me Enter
Sandman by Metallica seems like a reasonable opening selection.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
The coffee of this week's draft dues.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I mean, that's what first picks should be there this
if you followed along with the A team through three
different selectors that have picked along with us. M hm, yes, four,
four different selectors, Cole being the fourth that have picked
along with us, so several years in the making. We
have a few drafts, like the vast majority of them,
(02:12):
where there is a selection that's the selection, it's going
to win you the draft. Sometimes it doesn't even get
taken first, and we're like, huh, what.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You're letting somebody else win when you had the first pick.
The drafts are always best when you know it doesn't
work out that way. Maybe this will be that, maybe
it won't, but I'll wait again to see what I
get to select with my first pick at three right.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
All right, So the chalk pick or the obvious pick,
or however you want to call it, has been taken,
and I thought about it long and hard, and I
was thinking about, you know, some of the all time greats,
the Mount Rushmore is if you will in this category
of music, And I thought to myself self, why don't
(02:59):
you get of Ozzy Osbourne his due? Why don't you
go with another song much like Inner sam Man, that.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Is a a.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Anthem if you will in stadiums to put him down
for my mom coming home. You just you're just the worst. No, No,
that's a good song. No, but I went with Crazy Training.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Of course you did.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yeah, it's awesome, especially the intro that one. I'm not
gonna lie. I almost won't with that.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Well, what you just said there at the end, to
me is kind of how I would make all of
the selections, kind of oh at the beginning or the
riff or the most bingo. And so I think Crazy
Train makes quite the quite the opening selection. I'm going
to use a little of Ozzy with my first pick.
(03:44):
He's familiar with this song. It's a little paranoid about it,
is is he He's familiar with it, and his bandmates
even more so. We'll take We'll take Sabbath's own paranoid
a's my first selection.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I knew you were going to do something with the
name of the band.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, I would guess when you look at like best
heavy metal songs, I feel like a lot of the
popular post nineteen ninety five songs they were so popular.
But I don't think of these great heavy metal songs.
But they were popular, and they had someone in the
(04:22):
band or the lead singer or somebody that is known
for that type of music. But it gained such great popularity,
I wouldn't think to ever put it on this list.
And then you look somewhere and it was seventeenth or
it was twenty first, I'm like, this doesn't feel right.
I feel like this whole list is nothing. But the
only bands were going to select over the next seven spots.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yes, in any of the lists like that that you
would look up, you're gonna see a lot of repeat offenders,
if you will. Even though like one of the opening
bands Tomorrow Night is Pantera. I put Pantera and Metallica
in the same like little pocket of my life.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Something was that pantheon of its own level.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well, I just they are just joined at the hip
to me because I listen to them together when I
got into that kind of music because they were in
that year range you're talking about. But I don't think
of Pantera as having one of these type of songs
even but I celebrate their entire totally weird.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Explain.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, I considered this for a while. Do I intentionally
not take a Metallica song? Do I intentionally take nothing
but Metallica songs? Is there any way I could avoid it?
And there is no way. There's nine choices. I don't
think at least one of metallic only not least one
of Metallica's. I'll take Master of Puppets.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
That's good, That's very very good. It was on my
list as well. And since there have been two Metallica
songs taken, but the ultimate Metallica song hasn't been taken,
I'm taking it now. My second choice is one by Metallica.
There's a lot of Metallica on this list. I figured
that'd be the case with the concert that we're talking
(05:59):
about this because of.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
All right, finish up things for yourself.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Cole Um honestly my favorite drum intro of all time
by any band, and it just gets you pumped up
right before a workout.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't take him but I know some people do.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I want a painkiller getting pain Killer by Judas Priest.
That's my first pick. And then this just sounds like
the most heavy metal song of all heavy metal songs.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I've only listened to it a few times.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
But when you have it as like the back end
of your selections, and it's a band named Mega Death,
why not go with Tornado Souls.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Mega Death, the band fronted by the guy who couldn't
stay as the lead singer of Metallica.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
It's true, and.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
He's still not bitter about it. That's the good news,
all right. These are all good selections. Much like we
talked about before, the familiarity at the beginning, you hear
the riff or the drum or whatever it is is,
it goes a long way into picking my final selection.
And this is not an ode to a certain sports
(07:05):
talk show host either, who uses this song at nauseum
because of the name of his program. But I'm gonna
go with Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses
because Slash and his guitar at the beginning is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Would anyone meet that selection with hey man, they don't
fit the genre.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I almost did it but I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Uh, probably I can see that, But like, okay, if
they're not heavy metals.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
A rock band, this is a super great rock band.
But that's they live the rock lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Cole got very dangerously close to saying what some people
tried to put on them early, but it was completely
inaccurate because they're not they're not hair metal, but they
came out in the middle of just a total You know, is.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
There a difference between them and Motley Crue in this discussion?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
See Motley Crue could be called a hairband at times
because they actually wore making.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
A rock band, a hair band or heavy metal, I
call them hair band.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I don't know. That's tough.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's that's a question I can't answer in less than
ten seconds. Let's put it that way, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So that leaves the last selection for me. Yep, man,
I am torn.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Stop it.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I will leave only one Judas Priest song selected, and
I won't take breaking the law. I'll break the law
by going past time here and taking Immigrants song by Leeds.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
See, oh that's good. I like that. I like that
a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We get you guys to vote on it. See how
much Cole beats ac By and how bottom of the
barrel Number three I finish as usual in the Friday
eighteen draft.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety
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