Hard Rock

First off, I'm not an aggressive person. Far from it actually... But I ironically have a soft spot for hard rock. The crunchy guitars, throaty vocals, pounding drums, etc. I love it. I find it very motivating and I get out a lot of my pent up energy in a non-violent way. :) Sometimes, it's more the music itself that I love, but I often find hard rock songs with lyrics I love too. While I was driving tonight, the song "Awake and Alive" by Skillet came on the radio. I can't help singing at the top of my lungs every time that song comes on the radio, at the risk of looking like a complete idiot to the other drivers on the road. Haha.

"I'm at war with the world
'Cause I ain't never gonna sell my soul
I've already made up my mind
No matter what, I can't be bought or sold

When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again

I'm awake, I'm alive
Now I know what I believe inside
Now it's my time
I'll do what I want 'cause this is my life


(Here, right now)
Right here, right now
Stand my ground and never back down
I know what I believe inside
I'm awake, and I'm alive"




I have lots of songs that I love from the genre. :) Here is a list (Yet again) of some of my other favorites:

• "Testify" -  Rage Against the Machine
• "Fully Alive" - Flyleaf
• "Ladies and Gentlemen" - Saliva
• "Wasteland" - 10 Years
• "Far From Home" - Five Finger Death Punch
• "The Unforgiven" - Metallica
• "End of Me" - Apocalyptica w/ Gavin Rossdale
• "The Good Life" - Three Days Grace
• "Last to Know" - Three Days Grace
• "Time of Dying" - Three Days Grace
• "I Hate Everything About You" - Three Days Grace
• "Coming Undone" - Korn
• "Stand My Ground" - Within Temptation
• "Angels" - Within Temptation
• "The Only One" - Evanescence
• "Headstrong" - Trapt
• "Fine Again" - Seether
• "Hang On" - Seether
• "Almost Easy" - Avenged Sevenfold
• "Welcome to the Family" - Avenged Sevenfold
• "Battery" - Metallica
• "It's Been a While" - Staind
• "So Far Away" - Staind
• "Always" - Saliva
• "Blind Man" - Black Stone Cherry
• "Here Comes the Rain" - Black Stone Cherry
• "Sunrise" - Black Stone Cherry
• "Backwoods Gold" - Black Stone Cherry
• "I Don't Care" - Apocalyptica w/ Adam Gontier
• "Devour" - Shinedown
• "What a Shame" - Shinedown
• "The Crow and the Butterfly" - Shinedown
• "Sound of Madness" - Shinedown
• "Save Me" - Shinedown
• "Lips Like Morphine" - Kill Hannah
• "All the Same" - Sick Puppies
• "Insomnia" - Broke City
• "Not Strong Enough" - Apocalyptica w/ Brent Smith
• "Lords of the Boards" - Guano Apes
• "Open Your Eyes" - Guano Apes
• "Bricks" - Rise Against
• "Dancing for Rain" - Rise Against
• "Worth Dying For" - Rise Against
• "The Good Left Undone" - Rise Against
• "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana
• "Bulls on Parade" - Rage Against the Machine
• "Infected" - Bad Religion
• "Whispers in the Dark" - Skillet
• "Comatose" - Skillet
• "Those Nights" - Skillet
• "Collide" - Skillet
• "People That We Love" - Bush
• "Move" - Thousand Foot Krutch
• "Go" - Thousand Foot Krutch
• "Absolute" - Thousand Foot Krutch
• "Kick in the Teeth" - Papa Roach
• "Nemo" - Nightwish
• "Romanticide" - Nightwish
• "Over the Hills and Far Away" - Nightwish
• "Thinking Of You" - A Perfect Circle
• "Capital G" - Nine Inch Nails
• "Hypnotize" - System of a Down
• "I Don't Wanna Stop" - Ozzy Osbourne
• "Iron Man" - Black Sabbath
• "Breakdown" - Tantric
• "Live Your Life" - Tantric
• "Turn So Cold" - Drowning Pool
• "Hold On" - All That Remains
• "Lay Down" - Priestess
• "Isolation" - Alter Bridge
• "Life is Beautiful" - Sixx A.M.
• "Lacrymosa" - Evanescence