“Cold Metal” by Iggy Pop

"Cold Metal" led the charge for Instinct, Iggy Pop's eighth album, which A&M put out in 1988 hoping for another hit after Blah Blah Blah. Iggy had other ideas and went heavy, and this was the first single, a hard-rocking Pop original with Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones slashing away and Bill Laswell producing. Leigh Foxx plays bass, Paul Garisto drums and Seamus Beaghen keyboards, with Jason Corsaro and Robert Musso on the mix.

It reached 37 on the mainstream rock chart and brought Pop a Grammy nod for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance in 1989, and it was about the only thing on the album commercial rock radio would touch. A&M made a video for it, and it later popped up briefly in the 1990 sci-fi horror film Hardware, where Pop also voiced a radio DJ called Angry Bob.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.