What Are Your Favorite Metal Workout Songs?

Once upon a time a baby was brought into this world, and he was fat. The baby steadily grew older, but he still remained fat. The boy's fatness was never too big of a deal to him until he entered high school, when he realized that being fat got in the way of him getting chicks, yet he was too lazy to do anything about it and decided to play the Legend of Zelda over and over again instead of making an honest effort to get in shape. Then, the boy went to college, and his fatness truly began to interfere with his relationships with women, and the boy decided "fuck this I'm tired of being fat," and decided to get in shape.

The boy in question is me. I have decided once and for all to rid myself of my exploding gut in recent weeks and have made an honest effort to get in shape. There is an exercise bike which I ride in my house almost every day now, and recently I have taking a liking to listening to music when I ride. Whilst looking through my New Stuff playlist I came upon Impending Doom's most recent album, There Will Be Violence. Upon listening to that album now I realize the musicianship is nothing to fawn over, and its nothing but slightly less generic deathcore, but goddamn if I didn't have the most intense workout that day listening to that album.

So, I decided to make a playlist of songs to workout to, took it for a few test runs and finalized it. The list in question contains many deathcore songs, not because I necessarily love the bands, but because the whole tough guy vocals on top of breakdowns are great for getting the blood pumping as much as I hate to admit it. The list is as follows:

Abominable Putridity - Sphacelated Nerves
The Acacia Strain - Beast
The Acacia Strain - The Impaler
After the Burial - My Frailty
After the Burial - Bread Crumbs and White Stones
All Shall Perish - When Life Meant More...
All Shall Perish - Black Gold Reign
All Shall Perish - Never... Again
All Shall Perish - Gagged, Bound, Shelved, and Forgotten
All Shall Perish - Herding the Brainwashed
All Shall Perish - Wage Slaves
All Shall Perish - There is no Business to be Done on a Dead Planet
All Shall Perish - The True Beast
At the Gates - Suicide Nation
August Burns Red - Your Little Suburbia is in Ruins
Behemoth - Slaves Shall Serve
Behemoth - Conquer All
Between the Buried and Me - (B) The Decade of Statues
The Black Dahlia Murder - Christ Deformed
The Black Dahlia Murder - I Will Return
The Black Dahlia Murder - What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deathmask Divine
The Black Dahlia Murder - Climactic Degradation
The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
Born of Osiris - Elimination
Born of Osiris - Exist
Born of Osiris - Empires Erased
Born of Osiris - Open Arms to Damnation
Born of Osiris - Abstract Art
Born of Osiris - Brace Legs
Born of Osiris - Bow Down
Chimaira - Secrets of the Dead
The Contortionist - Vessel
Converge - Dark Horse
Converge - Cutter
Despised Icon - MVP
Despised Icon - All for Nothing
Despised Icon - Entre Le Bien Et Le Mal

Drewsif Stalin's Musical Endeavors - Warface

Equilibrium - Blut Im Auge

Fleshgod Apocalypse - In Honour of Reason 

Hatebreed - Doomsayer

Impending Doom - Orphans

Impending Doom - Peace Illusion

Impending Doom - The Great Fear

Impending Doom - Walking Through Fire

Impending Doom - Children of Wrath

Job For A Cowboy - Entombment of a Machine

Job For A Cowboy - Knee Deep

Job For A Cowboy - Embedded

Job For A Cowboy - Unfurling a Darkened Gospel

Krisiun - Combustion Inferno

Krisiun - Bleeding Offers

Lamb of God - Ruin

Lamb of God - Laid to Rest

Lamb of God - Now You've Got Something to Die For

Lamb of God - The Faded Line

Lamb of God - One Gun

Lamb of God - Black Label

Lamb of God - Walk With Me in Hell

Lamb of God - Redneck

Lamb of God - Beating on Death's Door

Lamb of God - Blacken the Cursed Sun

Lamb of God - In Your Words

Lamb of God - Set to Fail

Lamb of God - Reclamation 

Meshuggah - Rational Gaze

Meshuggah - Bleed

Metallica -  Whiplash

Metallica -  Hit the Lights

Metallica -  Disposable Heroes

Metallica -  Ride the Lightning

Pantera - Domination

Pantera - Revolution is My Name

Pantera - Fucking Hostile

Pantera - Rise

Periphery - The Walk

Periphery - Totala Mad

Periphery - Zyglrox

Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name

Returning We Hear the Larks - II: The First to Fall

Rings of Saturn - Abducted

Rings of Saturn - Embryonic Anomaly

Slayer - Skeleton Christ

Suffocation - Abominations Reborn

Suicide Silence - Wasted

Veil of Maya - Dark Passenger

Veil of Maya - Namaste

Whitechapel - Vicer Exciser

Whitechapel - Possession

Wolfmother - Joker and the Thief

There you have it. Put that bad boy on shuffle and you're sure to get a nice sweat going. I'm curious however, what music do you guys listen to when you workout? I'm always looking for new additions to the playlist and I'm generally interested in your guys' opinions, so comment below and I'll try to fit some of your songs into my playlist. I hope this comes in handy for any other fat metalheads aspiring to be slightly less fat metalheads.