Writing Hard Rock/Metal?

don't stress out, writing songs os hard but once you get going you won't stop for a while, also, relax and think of what is going on in the world, read a book, play a video game, watch a movie, all of these have inspired great songs by amazing bands, think of similes and metaphors that go along with things that you end up thinking about to make the lyrics less straight forward. the guitar part is sort of harder, get the lyrics, set a mood to them, and go from that.

Hard Rock/Heavy Metal (because there's a very thin line between the two): John Bonham (Led Zep) Ian Paice (Deep Purple) Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden) Buddy Rich (The Buddy Rich Big Band) Terry Bozio (The Mothers of Invention) Metal (excluding Heavy Metal): Tomas Haake (Meshuggah) Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) George Kollias (Nile) Martin Axenrot (Opeth/Bloodbath) Vitek (Decapitated)

Well, when I listen to heavy metal, I notice the lyrics are mainly about something deep and sometimes disturbing.

Or your could add comedy and write a song on how you can't think of anything. You'd think those would suck, but most the time, people don't even know what your singing. lol.

The hard core songs I listen to are most the time about abuse, or revenge. Its pretty dark, sooo.....

good luck! Hope you find what you need.

I'm stuck on guitar too, But lyrics are easy. Don't be shy write what you feel you'd be suprised I have about 6 or 7 songs with lyrics but don't have any instramentals.