Edge's been using "Metalingus" since 2004

[TCM]

It's been 'his theme' for so long, I forgot the song's nearly ten years old. Just shows how perfect of an entrance theme it is. I know others have been using themes for longer than that, but it goes to show that it'll likely be used for as long as he's making appearances for WWE.

[Brooklynpunk97]

Alter Bridge is just that f***ing awesome.

[Unaffiliated]

Agreed that it's a great theme. But Chris Jericho has been using "Break the Walls Down" for longer and to me that was never that great of a theme. Maybe that's just me, though.

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Even though it's not a song I'll go out of my way to listen to, it really is a great theme.

Sept 19, 2013 1:10:58 GMT -5 Unaffiliated said:

Agreed that it's a great theme. But Chris Jericho has been using "Break the Walls Down" for longer and to me that was never that great of a theme. Maybe that's just me, though.

I actually kinda liked "King of my World" for him, but I think he only used it once or twice.

[crowwreak was WRONG]

Sept 19, 2013 1:10:58 GMT -5 Unaffiliated said:

Agreed that it's a great theme. But Chris Jericho has been using "Break the Walls Down" for longer and to me that was never that great of a theme. Maybe that's just me, though.

Come to think of it, apart from about 3 weeks where he either used "King of my World" or "Don't You Wish You Were Me?", Jericho has had the same theme for his entire run. Not even Rock, Austin, HHH or Angle can say that.

[cool guy]

Hasn't Jericho has various re-recordings and remixes of his theme though?

Edge's has basically been the same as long as I can remember.

[crowwreak was WRONG]

Sept 19, 2013 4:03:47 GMT -5 cool guy said:

Hasn't Jericho has various re-recordings and remixes of his theme though?

Edge's has basically been the same as long as I can remember.

Apart from various changes of intro, it's been the same recording since a few months after he debuted. The only real variances were Jeri-Show's theme and the one from SVR09

[buttersock]

There was a rumor in 2007 during his injury that he was going to come back with Alter Bridge's "Coming Home" as his theme and use it at Survivor Series 2007 when he returned. It didn't happen of course. I love both songs but hearing "Coming Home" after Edge attacking Undertaker would have been a cool visual.

[wildojinx]

Aside from a period when he used the DX theme, HBK has had Sexy Boy since 1993 (and if you want to count the sherri version, then it goes back to 1992).

[Bootista]

I preferred his Never Gonna Stop theme

[Mesousa287793]

I'm more surprised that the title "Metalingus" is still not taboo. I'm more surprised that the band can even go as far as thinking of such a title, since they were once referred as a "Creed rip-off" despite having some of the same band members. Maybe they did the song just to prove it.

Oh yeah, the song's always been kick-ass.

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Sept 19, 2013 8:10:16 GMT -5 Bootista said:

I preferred his Never Gonna Stop theme

This


Metalingus is wank.


i'm not sure if it was the originator of that style of WWE theme or not, but it was one of the first in the batch of terrible cheesy generic hard rock songs with the same style of bland sound that at one point 90 of the roster seemed to have we have only recently started getting away from.

[Reflecto]

Sept 18, 2013 23:20:15 GMT -5 TCM said:

It's been 'his theme' for so long, I forgot the song's nearly ten years old. Just shows how perfect of an entrance theme it is. I know others have been using themes for longer than that, but it goes to show that it'll likely be used for as long as he's making appearances for WWE.

One of the random things to add to how long it's been used for comparison:

-If you play Chart Wars 3 with the original, default data, "Metalingus" is the song that the computer's AI releases as Alter Bridge's first single in the game.

Interesting, and says more for the age of the theme as well.

[Deleted]

Metalingus might be the only licensed song that I've become a fan of simply from WWE programming. It's really really good, and metal's usually not my thing. Was Edge a fan of the band and requested it as his new theme?

[cool guy]

Sept 19, 2013 14:10:38 GMT -5 @lovehater said:

Metalingus might be the only licensed song that I've become a fan of simply from WWE programming. It's really really good, and metal's usually not my thing. Was Edge a fan of the band and requested it as his new theme?

Calling Alter Bridge a "metal" band is a bit of a stretch, really.

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Sept 19, 2013 14:14:40 GMT -5 cool guy said:

Sept 19, 2013 14:10:38 GMT -5 @lovehater said:

Metalingus might be the only licensed song that I've become a fan of simply from WWE programming. It's really really good, and metal's usually not my thing. Was Edge a fan of the band and requested it as his new theme?

Calling Alter Bridge a "metal" band is a bit of a stretch, really.

Yeah I hear ya, they're kind of in that middle ground between hard rock and metal, for me if I hear chugga-chugga guitars my mind says metal. But metal's gotten really extreme now so stuff like Judas Priest is hard to even call metal anymore. Either way, it's heavier than what I'm usually into, but it's f***in awesome.

[Dave the Dave]

Lita was more in to punk music but whatever they call it is fine I guess.

[Bub (BLM)]

Sept 19, 2013 14:10:38 GMT -5 @lovehater said:

Metalingus might be the only licensed song that I've become a fan of simply from WWE programming. It's really really good, and metal's usually not my thing. Was Edge a fan of the band and requested it as his new theme?

Edge did specifically request their song, and because of that, the inside of all of their album booklets list him in their special thanks section. I think it's pretty cool that even on albums outside of their first one, it still says "Adam 'Edge' Copeland" in the thank yous.

[Young Game]

What is "Metalingus" exactly?
Sounds painful. Like a deleted scene from "Tetsuo: The Iron Man".

Cool song, though.