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Rather than jumping in and playing songs, I would suggest you go and get a teacher who can structure practice patterns to play, or work through a normal guitar programme until you get competent enough to play Barre chords (moveable chord shapes). These are the bedrock of most rock and metal. Suddenly, playing along to everything from Nirvana and AC/DC to Metallica becomes in your sphere. I jumped straight into songs and realised after a year that all I could play were those songs I learned from the tab book, and had no idea how to apply that to anything else. I then spent another 3 frustarting year un-learning what I thought I knew. You need the basics before you can play anything else. Old school metal is pretty basic overall, so anything by AC/DC, Saxon, Motorhead, Sabbath would be in your sphere. A lot of modern metal is incredibly technical and would need a higher level of ability and repetitive practice. It isn't hard necessarily, just very precise and generally fast. The principle on playing fast relies on you being able to play slowly and build up the skill and speed by practice... You can't really change the fact that you need to know the basics. If online programmes are a bit boring to you then I will stress again... Go and get a teacher who can give you more interesting things to practice along to.

Paranoid is probably one of the easiest to begin with. If I can play it, anyone can.