The best and worst DT songs to listen to while doing cardio...

[ishak540m]

I always find it interesting to see which DT songs are good to listen to while doing cardio in order to get a good fast paced rhythm.  They're not always what you'd expect and some songs are just ridiculous, lol.  Your thoughts?

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

Honestly, if I wanted good workout music, I'd probably go with something other than DT, something more straightforward.

[genome]

The Dance of Eternity

[Zyzzyva17]

The Enemy Inside
Constant Motion
Just Let Me Breathe

Those 3 are probably the best for what you want.

[Lucidity]

The Dark Eternal Night 

[Lucien]

The Dark Eternal Night 

Oh yeah.

The Root of All Evil (or any of the 12SS other than Repentance really)

[Jaffa]

Caught in a Web, The Mirror, Lie, Honor Thy Father, War Inside My Head, The Test That Stumped Them All, Panic Attack, The Enemy Inside, and Bridges in the Sky all make regular appearances in my cardio playlists. 

[Laughingplace56]

The Enemy Inside, Bridges in the Sky, Caught in a Web, Constant Motion, As I Am, Panic Attack, The Root of All Evil, Build Me Up Break Me Down, and Raw Dog are all consistently fast and heavy so they work. Then parts of The Glass Prison, This Dying Soul, Honor Thy Father, ANTR (minus Beautiful Agony), Illumination Theory, Enigma Machine, TDEN, and others.

But for me, I listen to a few of those but mostly straight forward metal. A7X, Pantera, some Alter Bridge, Bullet For My Valentine, Memphis May Fire, BMTH, etc.


Worst songs? Vacant, Disappear, The Answer Lies Within, Eve, etc 

[Lucien]

You'd have the edit the ambient section out of IT though.

[Laughingplace56]

You'd have the edit the ambient section out of IT though.

I said "parts of". Everything from TGP on has parts that would be great, but then slow parts that would screw up your flow. Beautiful Agony in ANTR, first verse of HTF, slow part of EM etc.

[Aythesryche]

Interesting you should post this because I occasionally listen to DT while doing cardio. I found that a lot of ToT tunes gets me pumped up for a tough set of interval training. Can't go wrong with the Mirror/Lie combo, either. When I do my long stretches on the cardio machines, I find ACOS a great one to pass the time and the triumphant mid and ending really helps with a positive high while working out, too.

Once when I did an all day biking run during autumn by myself, I listened to SFAM in it's entirety during a stretch and it was a pretty epic day.

[YtseJamittaja]

Great topic!

I have been listening to DT almost 10 years now while doing sports (if somebody didn't know I am quite a whole-day athlete) and I can say it's maybe not the best music for workout but because it's my favourite band I have got chills many many times while running or in the gym.

The best songs for workout are in my opinion:
-Take the Time
-Lie
-Burning My Soul
-The whole 12 step suite
-As I Am
-Endless Sacrifice
-Honor Thy Father
-These Walls
-Panic Attack
-Constant Motion
-A Nightmare to Remember
-Lost Not Forgotten
-The Enemy Inside
-Behind the Veil

I have an iPod shuffle with something like 50 DT songs while I'm in the gym or running and it has been a quite unchangeable list many years now.

[MoraWintersoul]

Strange Deja Vu always made me do whatever it is that I'm doing twice as fast.

[Sacul]

 

[YtseJamittaja]

"traning? workout? Too hard, I eat pop corn and watch the newest Family Guy episode from my home sofa!" 

[Shade]

I do a lot of 2 or 3 hour runs, sometimes I've listened to the whole of SFAM simply to keep my mind entertained. Also got into a routine of doing a certain route to Octavarium, to the extent I was matching up parts of the song to where I was supposed to be on the route.

Bridges in the sky gets my vote for the best song to workout to though, along with the epic final 5 mins of ITNOG

[El JoNNo]

Worst, Goodnight Kiss.