10 Most Un-Metal Songs By Major Metal Artists

The art of making metal music tends to be pretty cut and dry most of the time. At the end of the day, all it really comes down to is loud guitars, screaming vocals, or any other musical venture that has the capacity to scare you to death. On the other hand, sitting in that same sonic space day after day tends to get pretty boring after a while.

Over time, plenty of metal acts took the opportunity to explore new sonic territory than what their fans are used to. Instead of slogging it out with a riff that they know might work, these songs threw caution to the wind by throwing their audiences a curveball, oftentimes sounding nothing like what they originally sounded like. It takes guts to release something like this, but they often end up working out for the band in question.

Make no mistake, there are some amazing works of cheese on here from time to time, and yet there's something endearing about them that keeps us coming back for more time and time again. Pretending to be a metal warlord day and night often has diminishing returns anyways. The real interesting parts come in when you buck the trend, which is metal enough as it is.

Any self respecting metalhead knows that your record collection isn't complete until you have Blizzard of Ozz by Ozzy Osbourne. After being seen as the casualty of heavy rock once he was kicked out of Black Sabbath, this was the first time the Prince of Darkness was really able to wow us with the help of guitar god Randy Rhoads. Then again, we could have gotten something a lot more user-friendly than Crazy Train.

Along with the more interlude tracks like Dee, You Looking At Me was a B-side that was ultimately left off the final mix. It's clear why too, given that most of this song is almost power pop in its delivery, complete with a melody that wouldn't feel out of place on a record by Cheap Trick. For all of his guitar prowess, Rhoads isn't really giving his all to this one either, with the solo being almost by-the-numbers by comparison to everything else.

Hell, even the ending guitar stabs feel like they're ripping a page out of the disco playbook, which is the stuff of nightmares for any other metalhead. All told though, this song is actually fairly legit for something that had to be thrown together in a couple of hours. While you could consider this a table scrap from the Blizzard sessions, rarely have leftovers actually been this awesome.