35 OTHER CRAZY FISTS
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 at 12:00pm by D.X. Ferris
In honor of Alaskan metalcore band 36 Crazyfists’ new DVD, Under a Northern Sky (in stores October 27), a list of 35 other famous, metal, heavy, and/or crazy fists:
- Motorhead’s “Iron Fist.”
- Marvel Comics character Iron Fist.
- Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars.
- W.A.S.P.’s “A Fistful of Diamonds.”
- “Fistfuck,” old-school hardcore from Oxnardard California’s Dr. Know, which featured vocalist Brandon Cruz, the reformed Dead Kennedys first stand-in vocalist and former star of The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.
- Nine Inch Nails, “Fist Fuck.”
- Aerosmith’s “My Fist Your Face.”
- Anthrax’s cover of “My Fist Your Face.”
- Fistula, according to Wikipedia: “an abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.”
- Fistula, the Ohio stoner-metal band, rippin’ shit up.
- Disturbed’s onetime number-one album 10,000 Fists. (But are they crazy fists? Whaa-aah-aah-ahh!).
- Blood Duster, “Fisting the Dead.”
- S.O.D’s “Fist Banging Mania.”
- Exodus’ “Sealed with a Fist.”
- Fists of Fury (1974 martial-arts flick featuring Bruce Lee).
- Defunct New York metalcore band 36 Deadly Fists, with hits including “I Kill.”
- 17 Crazyfists (featuring just under half the metal fury).
- “Five-sided fistagon,” a epitet used by Rage Against the Machine to describe the Pentagon in “Bulls on Parade.”
- Mr. Bungle, “Love is a Fist.” (Ask your momma about this one.)
- Rancid’s “Crane Fist,” presumably a gutterpunk hand-to-hand combat technique.
- Old maxim: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fist it.”
- MEFISTO, an air-traffic control project.
- Chief Crazyfist. (There’s a good chance we made this one up.)
- Sepultura’s “Clenched Fist.”
- Five Finger Death Punch’s War LP – number SEVEN on the Billboard album chart this week, motherfuckers.
- The Foot Fist Way. Still haven’t seen it, but that Danny McBride dude is friggin’ genius as the belligerent sociopath jock in HBO’s Eastbound & Down, so check it out.
- Pee Wee Fist, a Boston sextet unaffiliated with Paul Reuben.
- 1977 Sylvester Stallone pro-union political drama F.I.S.T.
- NWOBHM band Fist, from Tyneside, England.
- Fist, rejected name for VH1’s Supergroup.
- Supergroup lead guitatist Ted Nugent’s solo track “Fist Fightin’ Son Of a Gun.”
- Marilyn Manson’s “Use Your Fist and Not Your Mouth” (ambiguously titled track from The Golden Age of Grotesque).
- Anthrax debut LP Fistful of Metal, featuring future Nuclear Assault bassist Dan Lilker and soon-to-be-canned shrieker Neil Turbin.
- Raise Your Fist and Yell, 1990 diehards-only Alice Cooper LP.
- Kid Rock’s “Fist Of Rage” (edited version available at Wal-Mart).
- D.X. Ferris
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When did Anthrax cover “My Fist Your Face”?
I forgot about Clenched Fist. Now I’m listening to it.
Thanks, D.X. Ferris!
fuck yes fistula
That is some of the most kickass art I’ve ever seen…but I’m a sucker for anything with a maritime theme.
Prong – Whose Fist Is It Anyway?
“A Fistful Of Yen” (from Kentucky Fried Movie)
Oh my fucking god that is the first movie i ever beat off to. You are my fucking hero!!!
U FORGOT STINKFIST BY TOOL
You forgot me sucka, I pity the fool.
Never really though of 36 as a metalcore band but whatever.
Agreed.
never really thought of 36 as a good band, but whatever.
Agreed
Agreed agreed.
I have been a huge fan of this band since their first album and have liked every CD since then (A Snow Capped Romance was the peak so far though, fucking great CD) Can’t wait to pick up the DVD
does the world really need a DVD from a horribly mediocre band like this??? Thanks for helping to kill off your own business, idiots!
A Fistful of Teeth – Gwar
Just sayin’
No love for Zimmers Hole – Fista Corpse?
The best song I’ve ever heard about fisting the dead…
shocked that cannibal haven’t covered that subject yet…
didnt u say u werent mentioning 5FDP anymore?
yeah, axl didn’t write this
LOOOOOOLzer.
I love how 5FDP gets under the whole MS staff’s skin. #7 (Motherfuckers) – LOL
I’m somewhat neutral to the hating party, but definitely amuzed by it. You got to admit, they are doing something right if they get that kind of reaction. You can’t just ignore them, they force you to react. They force people to Love ‘em or hate ‘em and that’s power. They may just figured out something we didn’t see coming.
#7 ? Fuck me. Megadeth wasn’t even that high up. I predict these guys aren’t going anywhere but up man, and we’ll have plenty of threads here to unleash the fury. When their next record goes number one, Axl will explode and shit will fly plenty.
44K firts week? Fuck! They seem to have the last laugh but I wonder if they know about Metalsucks existence. Did anyone ever asked them?
What about ‘Love Fist’, that fictional band from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City?
Forgot Fist Faced from Dethklok you suck at making fist lists I should fist you where the sun don’t shine.
It’s called Face Fisted. Looks like you’re the one who needs a good fisting.
Not to be a dick, but “Raise Your Fist and Yell” was from 1987. While it’s not all great, it does have “Roses On White Lace”, of which Arsis did a pretty awesome cover.
Dude, Eastbound & Down is the best shit I’ve ever seen!
Tankard is unfortunately missing from this list.
Fistful! Fistful! Fistful of love!
Into your poopshoot! Into your ass!
“Full Moon Fistbanger” by Cranium.
Wicked Wisdom’s song about the ten thousand pound fist is conspicuously absent, and that makes me sad.
Fuck yeah, Fistula and S.O.D.
Rage against the machine lyric “fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy”
Tool – Stinkfist…