1. A Heavy Metal song that defines the genre: "Ace of Spades"
2. A Heavy Metal band that defines the genre:Black Sabbath
3. One Heavy Metal album you would want on a desert island: Ride the Lightning
4. One Heavy Metal song that makes you dance: "Problem Child" by AC/DC (who aren't just a heavy metal band, but certainly have been a major part of the development of the genre nonetheless).
5. One Heavy Metal song that makes you drink: "Victim of Changes" by Judas Priest (the Unleashed version of course!)
6. A band that should be thought of as Heavy Metal, but rarely are: MC5 (they're at least as "proto-metal" as they are "proto-punk" anyway).
7. A band that shouldn't be thought of as Heavy Metal, but regularly are: Iron Maiden for the last ten years or so have been significantly more prog-rock than metal.
8. British or American: Hessian!
9. Sonic Youth's most Heavy Metal song (no covers): "Brother fucking James" hands down
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