Your Favorite Metal EP

Okay folks, tell me what your favorite Metal EP is. The one EP for that desert island for all eternity. Here are the rules:

1. Pick ONE and ONE only. I don't want a list of 10 million sub-genres with an EP for each. I know how you guys operate.
2. Your choice has to have been sold as, or generally considered an EP. I don't want you to tell me that Rainbow's Rising is your favorite EP because it's so short. No!

I am making this topic because I love EPs and the recent Down EP release got me thinking about them.

So have at it!!

My choice is this:

Breaker - Accept

That's the band Breaker from Ohio with their 1999 6 track (with one hidden track) EP. It's a great sampler of their Euro-sounding traditional metal.

Here's the song "Still Life" that is featured on the EP.



It also features their all-time classic, "10 Seconds In."

RIOT - "Riot Live" (1983 Elektra EP)

The first RIOT I ever heard and still my favorite. The Rhett Forrester lineup in all their glory, the versions of these songs on Restless Breed don't even come within a hundred miles of being this ass kicking.



The guitar/harmonica section in Loved By You is epic...



This video is from the same concert as the EP...

Sacred Reich-Surf Nicaragua

Nuclear Assault - Fight To Be Free/Brain Death

Sortilège -- Self-Titled EP -- 1983

I dare you to listen through this EP one time without your jaw dropping. In my opinion, Sortilège's EP and 2 full lengths rival just about any metal album released in the 80's. You could make comparisons to Queensryche's first EP here, but I think the material contained here destroys QR's debut. (And that's coming from a huge Ryche fan).

Queensryche - EP

Cuz it's got "Queen of the Reich" on it.

Nuff said.

Yeah, that QUEENSRYCHE EP is hard to beat.

Stryper - The Roxx Regime Demo's

I am not sure of this short album is considered an E.P. but it contains my all time favorite metal song - Com'on Rock. I love the rough version on this E.P. because it is a raw mix that gives it some serious balls.

This song alone beats everything represented in this thread Add 5 more killer tracks and you've got a perfect EP. Probably my favorite Lethal album.

Since when does "favorite" always mean "best"

Napalm Death - The Peel Sessions (1987)

S.D. wrote:

RIOT - "Riot Live" (1983 Elektra EP)

The first RIOT I ever heard and still my favorite. The Rhett Forrester lineup in all their glory, the versions of these songs on Restless Breed don't even come within a hundred miles of being this ass kicking.

As we have talked about before, that is a damn fine EP. Great choice!

Wurthless wrote:

Sortilège -- Self-Titled EP -- 1983

I dare you to listen through this EP one time without your jaw dropping. In my opinion, Sortilège's EP and 2 full lengths rival just about any metal album released in the 80's. You could make comparisons to Queensryche's first EP here, but I think the material contained here destroys QR's debut. (And that's coming from a huge Ryche fan).

Love it! I may enjoy the English versions more, but the music is superb.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Queensryche - EP

Cuz it's got "Queen of the Reich" on it.

Nuff said.

I am going to have to agree with you on that one!

Suicidal Tendencies - Controlled By Hatred / Feel Like Sh*t... Deja Vu

Queensryche is the first one that came to mind. Second might be Accuser - Confusion Romance. I listen to both fairly regularly.

Since its really the only EP I've listened to in recent years.
This Is The War by Vader.

Raven - Mad

This ep is great from start to finish. A nice return to form after the awful The Pack Is Back.

Impossible to answer, I think.

But the only two that instantly came to mind were Metallica's Garage Days Re-Revisted and Devin Townsend's Christine EP. Do I like one more than the other? No idea, but if I had to pick a favorite of the two, it'd be the Christine EP. It's got four so-called demos, and three of them are three of my favorite Devin Townsend songs.







Dude's demos make most band's albums sound like basement recordings.

Reverend - EP

One of the best ever !















Watch that last song,the video is 9 minutes long but the song is roughly 4:30 minutes long

Maiden Japan?

Anthrax's I'm the Man always got lots of spins from me. I don't have allot of stand-alone ep's.

Lazlo Toth wrote:

Maiden Japan?

That was my favorite at one time.....untill Queensryhce came out.

The Reverend EP is a good choice as well.