Kataklysm Radio on Pandora - Best workout music

Pandora is my favorite source of music during workouts. I love the random choices made by their "Music Genome Project." However, one of my challenges has been to find the perfect workout radio station.

With Amon Amarth being my personal favorite, it was logical I started with that. It was off to a good start, but began leading a little more into the depressive black metal of Immortal and Darkthrone, and the epic viking metal of Bathory. That would normally be fine by me, as I'm a huge fan of both genres, but I was looking for something a little more on the brutal edge of metal.

Kataklysm is a band that I've always known about, but have generally ignored for being somewhat generic metal. However one day while pumping iron, a Kataklysm song came on Amon Amarth Radio. It was perfect. The beat was solid, the guitars extremely crunchy, and the vocals just right.

That's when I created the Kataklysm Radio Station, and have been hooked ever since. It gives me the perfect blend of brutality, and even brings back some fond memories of Decapitated and Dying Fetus. It's also responsible for my guilty pleasure Devildriver.

Devildriver is another band I have ignored, primarily due to the direct history of terrible nu-metal. I admit, as a preteen I listened to Coal Chamber. It's just that most of the bands from the genre, which I refuse to name, seem stuck in a world of suck and shopping malls. Dez Fafara has really, in my opinion, broken out from that shell and created something great. Although they are still somewhat cliche' in some of their riffs, breakdowns, and even Dez's growls, they pull it off just right. They remain my guilty pleasure.

Here is a list of bands that appear on Kataklysm Radio, in no particular order (as Pandora likes it):

Kataklysm (duh)
All Shall Perish
Amon Amarth
Devildriver
Requiem
Decapitated
The Absence
Lamb of God
Behemoth
One Man Army & the Undead Quartet
Deicide
Dying Fetus
Misery Index
Goatwhore
This Ending
Arch Enemy

These bands are perfect for workouts, especially when you're lifting heavy. Right when you're feeling muscle failure and some brutal blast beat, crushing riff or breakdown comes on and you pull off that last rep, it's such a good feeling.

There really is power in the metal. (lol)