For every underground track on Obituary bassist Frank Watkins' Random Shuffle list there's a guilty pleasure -- a track he probably wouldn't put on the stereo if he were trying to fire up a room full of hot cannibalistic metal chicks. Songs by Watain, Mercyful Fate, Righteous Pigs and Black Flag are plenty good for stoking the fires of hell, and you can't go wrong with a little AC/DC, Sex Pistols and The Clash. We're also okay with The Who, Johnny Cash and ZZ Top, but we never expected the guardian of booming death metal basslines to program Billy Idol's "Eyes Without a Face" or Ice-T's "Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous," let alone Frank Sinatra's "The Girl from Ipanema." On a scale of 100 we rate Watkins' random shuffle a "75." Click "more" to see the complete list and watch a video from one of the bands that's on there. Read more...

When we were young, we once saw an advertisement for a concert featuring Slayer, Venom and Exodus at the disco club Studio 54 in New York City. At the time we thought this was the heaviest, most insane metal bill ever conceived. Of course, that was 1985, and since then band after band have redefined the very definition of heavy, Since then, we've seen Possessed rip it up with Dark Angel, and we've watched Napalm Death, Carcass and Morbid Angel tear it up together on an Earache showcase, not to mention Deicide sharing a bill with, Obituary, Malevolent Creation and Cannibal Corpse. Read more...