Rock/heavy metal love songs

Love songs have been present in rock music since the early days of the genre; one of the most common examples of a rock love song is Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender". The 80's saw several rock love songs including "The Promise" by When in Rome. Common newer examples of love songs in rock include "Your Guardian Angel" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, "Iris" by The Goo Goo Dolls, and "Check Yes Juliet" by We The Kings. Love was a common theme in early hard rock, heavy metal and glam metal bands; like Guns 'N' Roses, Ozzy Osbourne and KISS in power ballads. From the emergence of thrash metal (which would become the standard style for most all metal to come), the genre's lyrical themes became centered around hate, horror and political unrest, leaving little room for sentiments of love. However, Metallica occasionally write what could be considered love songs (particularly "Nothing Else Matters"). Love songs in the primarily hateful genre of extreme metal are extremely uncommon, though "Symbiosis" by Mortification and "Diktat" by Napalm Death both speak of the value of marriage. Trivium's "The World Can't Tear Us Apart", "Mordecai" by Between the Buried and Me, and Zao's "Angel Without Wings" exemplify the most common way that metal bands write about love in a positive manner. "The World Can't Tear Us Apart" uses metal's typical dark imagery to describe life without love, while also pondering why the metal scene is usually so devoid of it. In "Mordecai", a depressed man on the brink of insanity questions the meaning of his existence, and finds comfort in "the lovely laugh from the love of my life". "Angel Without Wings" thanks a female friend for staying close to the singer during a near-death experience. Secondhand Serenade is a rock band whose lyrics almost always center around love. While neither of these bands typically create what could be considered a true "love song", two of the most famous modern rock bands, U2 and Coldplay, frequently write songs about being haunted by love. Gothic bands like Within Temptation, Evanescence, Nightwish and Leaves' Eyes often reflect on love and lost love, sometimes in a rather dreary manner. Another example of this is Demon Hunter's "My Heartstrings Come Undone", a dark expression of unconditional love. While death metal is perhaps the most notorious genre for hateful lyrics, the lead singer of band Novembers Doom wrote a love ballad to his daughter, in the form of "Twilight Innocence". There are many post-hardcore and metalcore songs about love; while Bullet for My Valentine and Bring Me the Horizon are known for writing about love and relationships in a negative light, almost every song by Killswitch Engage, Blessthefall and early As I Lay Dying speaks of the wonder of love. Love occasionally finds its way into the lyrics of the primarily positive genre power metal (Sonata Arctica being a prime example of this). Although the belligerent and restless genre of punk rock rarely yields love-themed lyrics, love songs of sorts are common among pop punk bands like Relient K, Green Day and New Found Glory.