Top 10 Metal Songs....Ever!

[TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER]

You're not metal.

I concur with that assessment.

This will help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrYA845A_K4

 

[Mardoch]

Tad Morose- Anubis

Nice pick! That's my favorite Tad Morose song...and my wife still remembers it and thinks it's hilarious.

 

[Fire breath]

This took a while but here's a collated list. If I'm right I can see 70 different bands so far mentioned with 108 different songs. If you haven't voted don't be lazy and post a top 10. Full current breakdown:

Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name, Flight of Icarus, Revelations, Killers, The Trooper, Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, 2 Minutes To Midnight - 7

Judas Priest - Painkiller x 4, Dreamer Deceiver / Deceiver, Freewheel Burning x 2 - 7

Megadeth - Symphony Of Destruction x 2 Hangar 18 x 2, Tornado Of Souls, Holy Wars - 6

Metallica - Master of Puppets x 4 The Outlaw Torn - 5

Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King x 3, Sirens - 4

Black Sabbath - Paranoid x 2 Born Again, Sign of the Southern Cross, Into The Void - 4

Helloween - Power, I Want Out, How Many Tears, Push - 4

Dio - Don't Talk to Strangers, Holy Diver, Stand Up And Shout - 3

Testament - Disciples of the Watch, Alone in the Dark, Practice What You Preach - 3

Accept - Losing More Than You've Ever Had, Too High to Get It Right, Balls To The Wall - 3

Mercyful Fate - The Oath, Evil, Satan's Fall - 3

Manowar - Warriors of the World United, Guyana (Cult of the Damned), Battle Hymn - 3

Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill, Cowboys from Hell x 2 - 3

Iced Earth - Stormrider, Dante's Inferno - 2

King Diamond - Welcome Home, The Invisible Guests - 2

Slayer - Angel of Death x 2

Motorhead - We are the Roadcrew, I'm So Bad Baby (I Don't Care) - 2

Venom - Bloodlust, Buried Alive - 2

Saxon - The Eagle Has Landed, Denim & Leather - 2

Blind Guardian - Valhalla, The Last Candle - 2

Ayreon - Day Eleven: Love, The Two Gates - 2

Dream Theater - Change of Seasons, The Glass Prison - 2

Virgin Steele - The Burning of Rome - 1

Lost Horizon - Pure - 1

Sepultura - The Hunt - 1

Paradise Lost - The Last Time - 1

Voivod - Jack Luminous - 1

Y&T - Forever - 1

Metal Church - Badlands - 1

Raven - All For One - 1

Rainbow - A Light In The Black - 1

Grim Reaper - See You In Hell - 1

Carcass - Incarnated Solvent Abuse - 1

Angel Witch - Angel Witch - 1

Dark Tranquillity - Punish My Heaven - 1

Dissection - Where Dead Angels Lie - 1

Entombed - Left Hand Path - 1

Pagan's Mind - Through Osiris' Eyes - 1

Krokus - Screaming in the Night - 1

Ozzy - Flying High Again - 1

Fates Warning - Guardian Fates Warning Damnation - 1

Led Zeppelin - Immingrant Song - 1

Opeth - The Moor - 1

Enslaved - Midgards Eldar - 1

Death - Perennial Quest - 1

Agalloch - In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion - 1

Ulver - Hymn II: Of Wolf and the Devil - 1

Wintersun - Death And The Healing - 1

Stratovarius - Legions - 1

Overkill - Skullcrusher - 1

Gamma Ray - Beyond The Black Hole - 1

Periphery - Racecar - 1

Circles - Responses - 1

Tesseract - Eden - 1

Fortiori - Sun - 1

Lalu - Potboy: The Final Fantasy - 1

Ihsahn - The Barren Lands - 1

Jakub Żytecki - Euphoria! - 1

Zero Hour - Demise and Vestige - 1

Armored Saint - Aftermath - 1

Scorpions - We'll Burn the Sky - 1

Edguy - Theater of Salvation - 1

Suicidal Tendencies - You Can't Bring Me Down - 1

Amorphis - Sambo - 1

Symphony X - The Odyssey - 1

Vicious Rumors - Don't Wait For Me - 1

Metal Church - Start The Fire - 1

Tad Morose - Anubis - 1

Queensryche - Walk In The Shadows - 1

Yngwie's Rising Force - Disciples Of Hell - 1

 

[edgeofthorns]

This is a ridiculous task, but I'll bite...

10. Judas Priest - Painkiller
9. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys
8. Iced Earth - Burning Times
7. Megadeth - Holy Wars
6. Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
5. Queensryche - Suite Sister Mary (Overall, Operation Mindcrime is the best metal album of all time IMO)
4. Savatage - Prelude To Madness/HOTMK
3. Iron Maiden - Wasted Years
2. Dio - Holy Diver
1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

I just can't stray away from the veterans on lists like this! Personally, I think Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath should be at the top spot on everyone's lists. No, it's not my favorite song, but at the time, it had to sound like Hell was unleashed on mankind! LOL

~Brian~

 

[therabbitking]

I concur with that assessment.

This will help:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrYA845A_K4

I retract my selections and instead offer this:

 

[Prog_Please]

Probably could've filled this entire list with just "pre-Watershed" Opeth songs (and the one Leprous song).

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Leprous - Forced Entry
3. Opeth - Bleak
4. Dream Theater - Glass Prison
5. Agalloch - In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion
6. ISIS - Weight
7. Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks
8. Pain Of Salvation - Beyond The Pale
9. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
10. Ihsahn - On the Shores

 

[Keir]

Scorpions We'll Burn the Sky

Awesome! I may try to come up with a top 10, but that is the only song that immediately comes to mind that I can say with 100% certainty belongs on my top 10 list.

 

[euleria]

Dream Theater A Change of Seasons
Fates Warning A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Judas Priest Victim of Changes
Scorpions Sails of Charon
Queensryche Roads to Madness
Rainbow Gates of Babylon
Dio Egypt
Black Sabbath Children of the Sea
Loudness In the Mirror
Iron Maiden Hallowed Be Thy Name

 

[Palabra de Dios]

1. Iron Maiden – The Evil That Men Do (or another song from Seventh Son)
2. Judas Priest – Metal Meltdown (or another song from Painkiller)
3. Bolt Thrower – The Killchain
4. Agalloch – Falling Snow
5. Kamelot - Forever
6. Impaled – Raise the Stakes
7. Soilwork – Soilworker’s Song of the Dead
8. Inquisition – Hail the King of All Heathens
9. Carcass – No Love Lost
10. Sanctuary – Battle Angels

This list could easily change over and over, I just went with gutshot favorites, across all genres.

Honorable mentions - literally dozens of songs.

 

[Mardoch]

7. Soilwork – Soilworker’s Song of the Dead

Nice! I was trying to find a spot for one of theirs, but as much as I love them they got beat out in a top 10 list. Glad someone got one. I almost dropped something for Parasite Blues though.

 

[AngraRULES]

Don't know if I could pick 10 songs because ultimately, they wouldn't be the best metal songs ever - only my favorite metal songs ever. I won't even bother.

 

[TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER]

Don't know if I could pick 10 songs because ultimately, they wouldn't be the best metal songs ever - only my favorite metal songs ever. I won't even bother.

No problem. It would go something like this:

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[Mardoch]

Don't know if I could pick 10 songs because ultimately, they wouldn't be the best metal songs ever - only my favorite metal songs ever. I won't even bother.

You're trying too hard to be objective. Best songs to you! That's what most of us are doing anyway.

 

[AngraRULES]

No problem. It would go something like this:

1. Andre
2. Andre
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4. Andre
5. Andre
6. Andre
7. Andre
8. Andre
9. Andre
10. Edu.

Close.

 

[TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER]

I retract my selections and instead offer this:

That's not the real Milli Vanilli

 

[Magius]

I'll play:
Judas Priest- Night Crawler
Amorphis- Shaman
The Black Symphony- Death
In Flames- The Quiet Place
Kamelot- March of Mephisto
Iron Maiden- The Flight of Icarus
The Scorpions- The Zoo
Gamma Ray- The Guardians of Mankind
Mercenary- Firesoul
Crimfall- The Crown of Treason

 

[OrionSon]

5. Kamelot - Forever

Ooh, I forgot this one. It's the first power metal song I ever heard, and the only reason I checked out my new favorite genre.

 

[Keir]

I found a top 10 metal bands list I did recently, so to make things easier I picked my favorite song from each of those bands. That means I had to ignore such incredible songs as "Metal Life", "Eden Lies Obscured" or "Seven Days Of Splendour" because those bands didn't release enough material to make my top 10 bands list. However, picking my favorite Queensryche or Blind Guardian song was hard enough!

Blind Guardian - When Sorrow Song
Dio - Rainbow In The Dark
Helloween - I Want Out
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Judas Priest - Dreamer Deceiver
Lizzy Borden - Rod Of Iron
Manowar - Kingdom Come
Queensryche - Queen Of The Reich
Savatage - When The Crowds Are Gone
Scorpions - We'll Burn The Sky

 

[MysticX9]

The usual disclaimer, impossible list and I could do a hundred of these and come up with different songs but here are 10 I quite like:

Judas Priest - Victim Of Changes
Rush - Hemispheres
Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare
Dokken - When Heaven Comes Down
Black Sabbath - Falling Off The Edge Of The World
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
Scorpions - He's A Woman, She's A Man
Queensryche - Child Of Fire
Michael Schenker - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Yngwie Malmsteen - Soldier Without Faith

 

[SF Metal Man]

The usual disclaimer, impossible list and I could do a hundred of these and come up with different songs but here are 10 I quite like:

Judas Priest - Victim Of Changes
Rush - Hemispheres
Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare
Dokken - When Heaven Comes Down
Black Sabbath - Falling Off The Edge Of The World
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
Scorpions - He's A Woman, She's A Man
Queensryche - Child Of Fire
Michael Schenker - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Yngwie Malmsteen - Soldier Without Faith

I don't consider Rush metal, but if I did I would have included Hemispheres.