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The Oni
2013-12-30, 02:22 AM
Popped into my head when I remembered the Cadaver Collector, one of my favorite monsters ever.

For those that don't know, this is a D&D monster that's basically a big golem covered in spikes, and it puts dead people on the spikes to bring back to its necromancer masters. If there aren't any dead people, it puts live people on the spikes (they'll be dead when they get there). It's pretty good for crowd control because while its enemies are impaled, it can fight hands-free.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/iw/20040912b&

That's pretty @%*#!ing metal. It might be the most metal monster in D&D, but I can't be sure. So I challenge you, to present me with a monster more metal than this.

Scow2
2013-12-30, 02:34 AM
Shadesteel Golem.

Or Iron Collosus.

Arkhosia
2013-12-30, 02:54 AM
Soulspike Impaler

An undead soul-eater that impales the souls of it's victims on spikes on irs body and then eats em

DeusMortuusEst
2013-12-30, 03:06 AM
Based on the number of times they've been on different album covers I'd say dragons. Or demiliches.

Rhynn
2013-12-30, 03:14 AM
Ghouls are actually pretty dang metal.

Yora
2013-12-30, 03:17 AM
What about Quth-Maren? Skinned elves who spit and bleed acid.

Scow2
2013-12-30, 03:19 AM
Ghouls are actually pretty dang metal.Actually, they're more Rock'n'Roll (Or is it Rock 'n Gnoll, since The King is subservient to Yeenoghu?)

Yes, the King of Ghouls has a lot of nods/references to Elvis Presley.

The Oni
2013-12-30, 03:37 AM
A Shadesteel Golem is too subtle, that makes it less metal. Iron Colossus is powerful, but not that metal (unless you mean *literally* metal, in which case most golems win forever).

I couldn't find a Soulspike Impaler, but the Soulspike Devourer is really quite metal. Could be a contender.

Ghouls don't seem to be any more metal than your average undead. I mean, they do eat people, which is a plus. Quth-maren, though? Killing someone with your own blood is very metal. Also they have the horror factor in general.

Liches tend to rely too much on minions and armies, and authority isn't metal. Dragons are a given.

Pokonic
2013-12-30, 03:46 AM
Nemesis Devils (https://sites.google.com/site/pathfinderogc/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/devil/devil-nemesis), from Pathfinder.

They are former false deities who fed on the faith on early humanoids for a time, and feed on blasphemy and have armor made out of defiled holy relics. Did I mention that there default forms are giant red reptilian centaur creatures with bat wings?

The Oni
2013-12-30, 03:53 AM
I can say with confidence that Nemesis Devils are definitely more metal than the Cadaver Collector. Thank you, Pokonic.

But can we acquire even MOAR METAL?!

inexorabletruth
2013-12-30, 04:19 AM
Orc Bard.

Doesn't sound like much, but my friend built an Orc Bard from level one, and by level six, took Leadership so he could build a band of orcs that pretty much travelled the world, rockin' out.

Their hit song was Orc Bard, which was sung to the tune of Dethklok's Deththeme:
"Doo anything for Orc Bard! Dooo anything for Orc Bard! Orc bard, ORC BARD!"

We did. We did anything for Orc Bard. He wasn't very hi-op, but damn it if he wasn't a golden god of metal.

Also… since the question was about monsters… not monster/class combos… how about the Shadar-Kai?

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Shadar-Kai_(3.5e_Race)
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Shadar-kai

AMFV
2013-12-30, 04:19 AM
Orc Bard.

Doesn't sound like much, but my friend built an Orc Bard from level one, and by level six, took Leadership so he could build a band of orcs that pretty much travelled the world, rockin' out.

Their hit song was Orc Bard, which was sung to the tune of Dethklok's Deththeme:
"Doo anything for Orc Bard! Dooo anything for Orc Bard! Orc bard, ORC BARD!"

We did. We did anything for Orc Bard. He wasn't very hi-op, but damn it if he wasn't a golden god of metal.

Also… since the question was about monsters… not monster/class combos… how about the Shadar-Kai?

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Shadar-Kai_(3.5e_Race)
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Shadar-kai

Half Golem Orc Bard... Half IRON GOLEM!!!

A Cleric or Paladin of an aquatic race. A blind Iron Golem. A mummy, who's now bound to a God of Death. Anything with the Shock Trooper feat.

Rhynn
2013-12-30, 04:33 AM
Whales.

Everyone knows whales = metal.

Yora
2013-12-30, 04:38 AM
Is it even possible that anything could be more metal than Pyramid Head?
http://videogamewriters.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/pyramid-head1302755485.jpg

AMFV
2013-12-30, 04:43 AM
Is it even possible that anything could be more metal than Pyramid Head?
http://videogamewriters.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/pyramid-head1302755485.jpg

It's still not as metal as an aquatic Paladin, particularly one with a Tiger mount.

The Oni
2013-12-30, 04:51 AM
Also… since the question was about monsters… not monster/class combos… how about the Shadar-Kai?

*googl'd*

Wow. That is an entire race of beings that fights everything that moves just so they don't fade from existence. If that isn't metal I don't know what is.


A Cleric or Paladin of an aquatic race. A blind Iron Golem. A mummy, who's now bound to a God of Death. Anything with the Shock Trooper feat.

Ok, I get the Black Sabbath reference and maybe the Iron Maiden one too, but you lost me on the mermaid paladins, sry.

AMFV
2013-12-30, 04:52 AM
*googl'd*

Wow. That is an entire race of beings that fights everything that moves just so they don't fade from existence. If that isn't metal I don't know what is.



Ok, I get the Black Sabbath reference and maybe the Iron Maiden one too, but you lost me on the mermaid paladins, sry.

Dude, you can't be creating a thread about Metal if you've never listened to Ronnie James Dio... that's like some kind of blasphemy or something...

The Oni
2013-12-30, 04:57 AM
...Oh. Holy Diver. *headsmack* Now I get it.

Born On The Sun is better, tho.

AMFV
2013-12-30, 05:03 AM
...Oh. Holy Diver. *headsmack* Now I get it.

Born On The Sun is better, tho.

I like Holy Diver better than Lock Up The Wolves but that could be personal opinion.

Also you could have a cleric with Wind Walk, and Spell Thematics lightning, that would count. Animated Object, a bell (that'd work for a lot actually). A Saint Cancer Mage...

Edit: OOOh a Rust Monster Apostle of Peace!

Yora
2013-12-30, 05:03 AM
Eberron has Metal Country:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3nhelUNun1rv231do1_1280.jpg

tensai_oni
2013-12-30, 05:46 AM
Is it even possible that anything could be more metal than Pyramid Head?
http://videogamewriters.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/pyramid-head1302755485.jpg

1. Not a tabletop creature.
2. Extremely overrated, with a loud and annoying fanbase that is also full of Unfortunate Implications if you remember what Pyramid Head is supposed to represent.
3. Shoehorned into Silent Hill games other than 2. Doesn't fit but Must Be There because Fandom.

TheCountAlucard
2013-12-30, 07:47 AM
Not D&D, but an Infernal Monster of the Slayer Caste in Exalted would be a pretty good choice. A human empowered by the hatred of the Demon City, he channels that rage and fury into himself with verdegrised brass skin and blazing emerald radiation.

His fists discorporate gods and his wrathful strikes poison mortal souls. The poor fool who lays hands on him is made to kiss the sun, but only after being torn limb from limb. A sword-strike rebounds off his armored skin, breaking the arm that wields it.

He feels no pain, no fatigue; indeed, should he sleep, he experiences only nightmares. Should an attack break through his tarnished metal hide, beneath lies no flesh or blood, but blackened bones caging the light of a raging green sun.

Legions of demons are his to call to battle, and the secrets of the world obey his whims. Commands issue from beneath his crown of nuclear fire, and all who swear fealty to said crown are forever branded.

I think it's reasonable to say that's pretty damn metal.

Blackfang108
2013-12-30, 07:48 AM
Aboleths and Grell.

Raimun
2013-12-30, 11:35 AM
The most metal creature ever? That's easy...

The Barbarian! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw7E7Rkh_as)

some guy
2013-12-30, 11:55 AM
A barbarian with a woolly rhinoceros mount.

And skeletons.

Actana
2013-12-30, 01:16 PM
Unicorns.

Because you can't be metal without a proper power ballad, and unicorns make for the perfect power ballad material. :smalltongue:

FabulousFizban
2013-12-30, 01:16 PM
I was going to mock this thread but it is too full of win.

Ghouls on Nightgaunts
Wizards on Eagles
Wizards on Sharks... in space
Dagon

oh who am i kidding, nothing beats orc bard.

Sith_Happens
2013-12-30, 02:01 PM
*googl'd*

Wow. That is an entire race of beings that fights everything that moves just so they don't fade from existence. If that isn't metal I don't know what is.

Don't forget the cold iron armbands constantly impaling them for the same purpose.


[Snip]

This.

The Oni
2013-12-30, 03:40 PM
[snip]

Agreed, this is quite metal. Don't know how we'd go about translating it to D&D terms though.

Pyramid Head is right out; he'd be better in a system like Call of Cthulhu anyhow.

Yora
2013-12-30, 03:40 PM
Aboleths and Grell.

That needs some elaboration. They certainly are cool, but are they metal?

AuraTwilight
2013-12-30, 03:42 PM
1. Not a tabletop creature.
2. Extremely overrated, with a loud and annoying fanbase that is also full of Unfortunate Implications if you remember what Pyramid Head is supposed to represent.
3. Shoehorned into Silent Hill games other than 2. Doesn't fit but Must Be There because Fandom.

Two of those are completely and totally not the monster's fault, and the first, well...there IS an extremely high-quality homebrew Silent Hill supplement for Call of Cthulhu d20.

The Oni
2013-12-30, 03:45 PM
That needs some elaboration. They certainly are cool, but are they metal?

Grell are...brains with beaks. That doesn't seem all that metal.

Aboleths are anti-deistic blasphemers which is definitely worth metal points, and they're ancient and incomprehensible too. Marginally more metal, but so far I think they're on the low end of the metal spectrum we've presented here.

Lord_Gareth
2013-12-30, 03:57 PM
Grell are...brains with beaks. That doesn't seem all that metal.

Aboleths are anti-deistic blasphemers which is definitely worth metal points, and they're ancient and incomprehensible too. Marginally more metal, but so far I think they're on the low end of the metal spectrum we've presented here.

You sell Aboleths short.

Aboleths aren't an ancient evil - they are the ancient evil. When the first human tried to murder its creators, the Aboleths were already old beyond imagining. When the upstart gods of the Elves brought forth their children, the Aboleths observed dispassionately. Their greed knows no bounds, their malice no mercy or pity. Their young devour the bodies and memories of their parents and wax fat and strong on might both magical and psychic, brooding on thoughts of ruin and devastation. Aboleths do not recognize 'lesser races'; they know of their own people, and of vermin. They have no respect or love for their creator or for the sniveling upstart gods who claim ownership of reality, no fear of the legions of Hell or the hordes of the Abyss. They remember a time before the demon princes whose names are whispered in fear and sneer in derision at the youthful rulership of Mount Celestia, so far removed from the world-destroying onslaughts that were their forebears.

When worlds burn, the Aboleths persist. Their evil cannot be healed. It cannot be bargained with, reasoned against, fought, or eradicated. They do not want your wealth, because they know it is already theirs. They do not need to prove their strength to you, because they already know that you are lesser in all ways. They will look quietly at you, and the only consideration in their mind is if you are worth the effort it will take to destroy. Their hate is as ancient as it is unstoppable.

Pretty freaking metal to me.

Yora
2013-12-30, 05:40 PM
Of all the aberrations, they are probably the most metal.

123456789blaaa
2013-12-30, 06:29 PM
DnD's take on the Queen of Air and Darkness:


Legend has it that in the time before history began, dwarven miners had unearthed a ten-faceted black gemstone of dark beauty, innocently deciding to present it to the queen of the fey as a gift. The fey princess who would become known as the Queen of Air and Darkness remained in court on this particular day while her sister Titania was bathing in the waters of the river Afon Bhlu, which fed the lake Cwm Glas. The gem, which is whispered to have been the creation of the Dark God, slowly corrupted the princess, eating away her physical body and destroying her soul. Ultimately she left the Seelie Court, absconding with her precious diamond and the great treasures of her race in a black chariot that belched smoke and fire. Soon after, the mountain from which the diamond was unearthed exploded, destroying the primordial fey realm of Ladinion and decimating the fey people. Since then the Seelie Court has been forced to wander the planes, never again finding a permanent home.

Myths of lost lands are common among the fey, and many speak of the Fading Lands that slowly disappear from the world of Oerth.

Yes she did ride down a mountain while it exploded behind her Vin Diesel style. Imagine it: the grand mountain that had been the beloved home of the Seelie Court for eons exploding while the Queen of Air and Darkness -half eaten by the corruption and oozing darkness- flew down like some unnatural bird of prey in a giant black chariot that blasted flames and smoke behind it. A chariot glittering with countless shining treasures and an enormous pitch-black diamond rocking in the back.

Is that not metal?

Blackfang108
2013-12-30, 07:42 PM
Grell are...brains with beaks. That doesn't seem all that metal.

Aboleths are anti-deistic blasphemers which is definitely worth metal points, and they're ancient and incomprehensible too. Marginally more metal, but so far I think they're on the low end of the metal spectrum we've presented here.

Lord Gareth did an excellent job of explaining Aboleths.

it looks like explaining the Grell is up to me.

To the Grell, there are three types of creatures:
1: Food
2: Food that eats back
3: Inedible moving things.

According to Lords of Madness:

Grell are not native to the natural world. They arose in some distant and horrible sphere in an alternate Material Plane. Driven to explore the multiverse in search of prey to sate their unending hunger, grell long ago embarked on migrations through world-spanning gates and across the dim wastes of the Plane of Shadow to colonize as many new worlds as possible. They are a fairly recent arrival in the world of humanoids, having crossed over from the Plane of Shadow after a long search for new worlds to infest.


A typical grell has a body about 3 feet in diameter and weighs about 200 pounds. Its tentacles are about 8 feet long.

And they're ambush hunters. I can easily see them as the subject of a few Metal Albums, both lyrically and artistically.

TheCountAlucard
2013-12-30, 08:17 PM
Agreed, this is quite metal. Don't know how we'd go about translating it to D&D terms though.What, you want I should stat one out for you? :smallconfused:

Kelb_Panthera
2013-12-31, 03:29 AM
What? No love for the mind-flayers?

Squid-headed brain-eaters from the future who live in cities deep below the earth with giant disembodied brains for leaders that twist the governments of surface dwellers to their will for their own amusement. Nevermind how wicked their reproduction is. Seriously, look up ceremorphosis and tell me that's not the most metal reproductive process ever.

Manly Man
2013-12-31, 04:38 AM
Liches tend to rely too much on minions and armies, and authority isn't metal. Dragons are a given.

Just saying, a bard can become a lich. (http://community.wizards.com/forum/previous-editions-general/threads/1116756)

Yora
2013-12-31, 04:42 AM
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50109.jpg

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mm2_gallery/88268_620_160.jpg

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mm4_gallery/98682.jpg

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50149.jpg

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM5_Gallery/106351.jpg

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50118.jpg

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mm2_gallery/88268_620_94.jpg

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM5_Gallery/106333.jpg

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mm2_gallery/88268_620_145.jpg

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/bovd_gallery/88161_620_40.jpg

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50169.jpg

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/bovd_gallery/88161_620_51.jpg

Manly Man
2013-12-31, 04:50 AM
Seeing the demon princes and Dukes of Hell makes me think of relating them to separate metal bands. Without a doubt, Graz'zt is the demonic incarnation of Rammstein.

EDIT: Also, for Kelb's mention of mind flayers, yes, I wholly support them as metal. The mind flayers of Thoon are even more metal.

Dhavaer
2013-12-31, 05:14 AM
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM5_Gallery/106351.jpg



Scizor? characters

TheCountAlucard
2013-12-31, 11:32 AM
Reminds me of how, years ago, I'd drawn Orcus, Nerull, and Vecna in a band together. Orcus was the drummer, Nerull had a scythe-tar, and Vecna was howling sorcerous blasphemies into the microphone.

Wardog
2013-12-31, 01:46 PM
Erfworld gölems (http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F087.jpg)?

Yora
2014-01-04, 08:51 AM
I missed one. Necronauts

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5MzvBqie5vs/T42PjSXNI4I/AAAAAAAABBg/WG3PPsh-eq4/s1600/necronaut.jpg

An undead tower of skulls that impales people with huge claws.

Slipperychicken
2014-01-04, 11:19 AM
Wendigoes seem pretty metal, like the kind of thing one would expect to see in a deathmetal forest.

Partly the look, partly the transformation sequence: having horrible dreams, slowly descending into madness, becoming a cannibal, and then running so fast that you run into the sky and your feet are burned into charred stumps. And then you gain the face of an animal to top it all off.

http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/tg/image/1378/31/1378317556904.jpg

Is Drow civilization metal? Nobody's mentioned them, but I figure that they should be, having whole underground cities of corrupted elves devoted to backstabbing, cruelty, and the worship of their terrible spider-god Lolth. And they're also a woman-dominated society dressed in skimpy S&M gear.

[NSFW]
http://www.canonfire.com/wiki/images/9/9a/Drow01.jpg

hamishspence
2014-01-04, 11:30 AM
Partly the look, partly the transformation sequence: having horrible dreams, slowly descending into madness, becoming a cannibal, and then running so fast that you run into the sky and your feet are burned into charred stumps. And then you gain the face of an animal to top it all off.

http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/tg/image/1378/31/1378317556904.jpg


In 3.0/3.5's Fiend Folio, they look slightly more human - but only slightly:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ff_gallery/50136.jpg

4E gives them a slightly different style (horns, red eyes, huge lipless mouth)- and no stumps but normal feet. In that, occasionally when a mortal commits cannibalism, they create a spiritual gateway to the Abyss, causing a wendigo demon to come through and transform the cannibal into another wendigo- the mortal's soul bound within a demonic form until the creature is slain:

For a mortal that consumed forbidden flesh out of desperation or dark need, existence as a wendigo is a never-ending nightmare. Trapped in that demonic form, the creature's consciousness endures only enough to maintain awareness of its hunger and the number of sentient creatures it has slain.

For mortals that indulge in cannibalism by choice, the curse of the wendigo can become a blessing. A wendigo created from a willing host maintains more of its old knowledge, and can use it to seek out bloody retribution against old enemies.