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Revolver Magazine Fan Poll: Top 5 Acoustic Songs By Heavy Bands

Even the hardest headbanger sometimes needs a break from the sonic excess. Our ears and our necks can only take so much. That said, “heavy” is not always about volume and aggression — sometimes the quietest songs are actually the most devastating. (Give Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” another spin if you don’t know what we mean.) With that in mind, we asked you to pick the “best acoustic song by a heavy band” and you offered up some truly stellar choices that exemplify the wide expanse of what “heaviness” really means. Below are the top five vote-getters.

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Hear Philip Anselmo’s acoustic “Depression Core”

The world first got to know Philip H. Anselmo as a work in progress, inspired and enraged, prepared to either rise above or crash into the abyss. As the explosive, wild-eyed frontman for Pantera, he was a central force in one of the most essential metal acts of the Nineties, but his first decade in action also revealed a combative young man of serious internal demons, physical agony and restless creative (and often destructive) appetites.

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