What Are Your Top 10 Favorite Metal Songs of All Time?

[WCannibal]

Not really of all time but for the mood I've had lately.

Zero Hour - Demise and Vestige
Death - Voice of the Soul
Swallow the Sun - Lights on the Lake
Edge of Sanity - Twilight
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
Between the Buried and Me - Swim to the Moon
Deathspell Omega - Sola Fide I
Augury - Brimstone Landscapes
Dark Lunacy - Lunacyrcus
Funeral Mist - Circle of Eyes

 

[Belligerent]

Augury - Brimstone Landscapes

 

[Slayed Necros]

something like this, in no particular order

Sacramentum - When Night Surrounds Me
Graveland - The Time of Revenge
Miasma - Morbid Knocking
Demigod - As I Behold, I Despise
Dark Tribe - The Seed is Rising
Therion - Cthulhu
Hail - War Must Go On
Liers in Wait - Maleficent Dreamvoid
Argentum - Pax Moriendi
Burzum - Det Som En Gang Var
Mütiilation - To the Memory of the Dark Countess
Epitaph (Swe) - Disorientation
Deathspell Omega - Succubus of All Vices
God Macabre - Into Nowhere

couldn't limit it to ten

I love all these songs, but holy shit

A better yet still not accurate list:

Gorgoroth - Crushing the Scepter (Regaining a Lost Dominion)
Mercyful Fate - Into the Coven
Slayer - At Dawn they Sleep
Candlemass - A Sorcerer's Pledge
Bathory - Enter the Eternal Fire
Merciless - Dying World
Aeternus - Black Dust
Solitude Aeturnus - Seeds of the Desolate
Rotting Christ - Exiled Archangels
Running Wild - Soldiers of Hell

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I like your prior list better tbh.

 

[optionthree]

Zero Hour - Demise and Vestige

Nice fucking choice, dude. My list:

Conception - A Million Gods
Queensryche - Neue Regel
Fates Warning - Prelude to Ruin
Judas Priest - The Sentinel
Kamelot - The Edge of Paradise
Carcass - Corporal Jigsore Quandary
Pestilence - Out of the Body
Zero Hour - Demise and Vestige
Meshuggah - Corridor of Chameleons
Atheist - An Incarnation's Dream

 

[DarkBliss]

Metallica-For Whom The Bell Tolls
Metallica-Call of Ktulu
Metallica-And Justice For All
Metallica-Eye of the Beholder
Metallica-The Frayed Ends of Sanity
Metallica-The Shortest Straw
Metallica-The Thing that Should Not Be
Varathron-Unholy Funeral
Candlemass-A Sorcerer's Pledge
Fates Warning-Epitaph

 

[Estellise Sidos Heurassein]

Judas Priest - Victim of Changes
Bathory - Equimanthorn
Slayer - Black Magic
Black Sabbath - Supernaut
Mercyful Fate - Into the Coven
Solitude Aeternus - Mirror of Sorrow
Fates Warning - The Apparition
Venom - Black Metal
Iron Maiden - Prowler
Possessed - Twisted Minds

They're not really in order and there are more.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Demilich - The Echo
Demigod - As I Hold I Despise
Adramelech - Heroes of the Godly Blaze
Cartilage - The Underworld
Valkyrie - Sunlight Shines
Mercyful Fate - Gypsy
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf
Pentagram - Day of Reckoning
Burzum - Dunkleheit
Drudkh - Summoning the Rain
Iron Maiden - Two Minutes to Midnight
Judas Priest - The Ripper
Wombbath - Prevent Anemia
Skepticism - The March and the Stream
Nihilist - Supposed to Rot
Death - The Philosopher
Opeth - Advent
Darkthrone - The Dance of Eternal Shadows
Slough Feg - Sky Chariots
Agalloch - Hawthorne Passege
Warning - Footprints
Sigrblot - Crisis of Faith
Edge of Sanity - Incantation'
Reverend Bizarre - Burn in Hell
Faustcoven - Under the Pagan Hammer
Sacramentum - Fog's Kiss
The Chasm - I'm the Hateful Raven
Excruciate - Confused Mind
Molested - Unborn Woods in Dooom
Hate Forest - Fullmoon
Isis - Backlit
Summoning - Elfstone
Hades - The Dawn of the Dying Sun
Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire

 

[JGMetalhead]

Demilich - The Echo
Demigod - As I Hold I Despise
Adramelech - Heroes of the Godly Blaze
Cartilage - The Underworld
Valkyrie - Sunlight Shines
Mercyful Fate - Gypsy
Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf
Pentagram - Day of Reckoning
Burzum - Dunkleheit
Drudkh - Summoning the Rain
Iron Maiden - Two Minutes to Midnight
Judas Priest - The Ripper
Wombbath - Prevent Anemia
Skepticism - The March and the Stream
Nihilist - Supposed to Rot
Death - The Philosopher
Opeth - Advent
Darkthrone - The Dance of Eternal Shadows
Slough Feg - Sky Chariots
Agalloch - Hawthorne Passege
Warning - Footprints
Sigrblot - Crisis of Faith
Edge of Sanity - Incantation'
Reverend Bizarre - Burn in Hell
Faustcoven - Under the Pagan Hammer
Sacramentum - Fog's Kiss
The Chasm - I'm the Hateful Raven
Excruciate - Confused Mind
Molested - Unborn Woods in Dooom
Hate Forest - Fullmoon
Isis - Backlit
Summoning - Elfstone
Hades - The Dawn of the Dying Sun
Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire

God damn man. Thats a long but nice list.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Yea, I don't feel top tens unless they involve ablums.

 

[DarkBliss]

Neither do I. Hence the inclusion of many tracks from one album. Mixes kill the flow and atmosphere of the music.

 

[challenge_everything]

Apotheosis: The Maimed God
Agalloch: Fire Above, Ice Below
Disillusion: The Sleep of Restless Hours
Alcest: Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
Opeth: The Leper Affinity
The Chasm: A Portal to Nowhere
Ne Obliviscaris: Forget Not
Windir: Heidra
Burzum: Det Som En Gang Var
At the Gates: Kingdom Gone

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Metallica-For Whom The Bell Tolls
Metallica-Call of Ktulu
Metallica-And Justice For All
Metallica-Eye of the Beholder
Metallica-The Frayed Ends of Sanity
Metallica-The Shortest Straw
Metallica-The Thing that Should Not Be
Varathron-Unholy Funeral
Candlemass-A Sorcerer's Pledge
Fates Warning-Epitaph

Um... I'm guessing you like Metallica?

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Since no one apparently liked my hair band/Bathory juxtaposition joke, here's my real list:
Dissection - "Thorns Of Crimson Death"
Cannibal Corpse - "The Spine Splitter"
Black Sabbath - "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
Iron Maiden - "Aces High"
Judas Priest - "Sinner"
Slayer - "Evil Has No Boundaries"
Emperor - "Thus Spake The Nightspirit"
Morbid Angel - "Angel Of Disease"
Darkthrone - "Triumphant Gleam"
Amorphis - "Black Winter Day"

 

[DarkBliss]

Um... I'm guessing you like Metallica?

Among other things, sure. Will your list be full of Slayer? Kill'em All is completely neglected in that roster, but I couldn't squeeze it in.
Superlative topics are pointless and silly anyway. Do I actually consider those songs the epitome of metal? Not really.

 

[Rumpole]

Maybe something like this...

Iron Maiden - Killers
Manowar - Battle Hymn
Judas Priest - Beyond The Realms Of Death
Cerebus - Too Late To Pray
Queensryche - Queen Of The Reich
Slayer - Crionics
Satan - Avalanche Of A Million Hearts
Venom - Red Light Fever
Mercyful Fate - The Oath
Manilla Road - Flaming Metal System

Picking individual songs is bloody hard.

 

[JGMetalhead]

Far Beyond the Sun - Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
Accolade I & II - Symphony X
Beyond Abilities - Warmen
Warheart - Children of Bodom
Black Fire - DragonForce
A Question of Heaven - Iced Earth
Stargazer - Rainbow
Eyes of a Stranger - Queensryche

Dude that Yngwie Malmsteen song kicked so much ass on the Denver DVD.

Edit:

My favs in no order:

Firewind - The Fire And The Fury
Firewind - Northern Sky
Yngwie Malmsteen - Far Beyond the Sun (G3 Live In Denver)
Behexen - Fist Of The Satanist
Devourment - Baby Killer
Devourment - Fed To The Pigs
Asphyx - Last One On Earth
Asphyx - M.S. Bismarck
Symphony X - Sea Of Lies
Symphony X - Fallen

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Among other things, sure. Will your list be full of Slayer? Kill'em All is completely neglected in that roster, but I couldn't squeeze it in.
Superlative topics are pointless and silly anyway. Do I actually consider those songs the epitome of metal? Not really.

I was being silly... not insulting. Honestly its impossible for me to have a top 10 fav metal songs... but if I did there would most likely be a Slayer tune in there... Hell Awaits I think.

 

[King Dedede]

Hard to pick just 10 songs, but here's a list of my favorites in no particular order:

Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Neurosis - Eye
In Flames - Ordinary Story
Katatonia - Brave
Opeth - Deliverance
Opeth - Bleak
Death - The Philosopher
Death - Symbolic
Agalloch - She Painted Fire Across the Skyline
Cynic - Textures

 

[redscot]

Bit of a cop-out mine, technically some of these aren't metal songs; they're just by metal bands. Also I have metal songs by bands that aren't trad metal.

1. Katatonia - A Premonition
2. ISIS - Celestial (The Tower)
3. Tool - Vicarious
4. Tool - Eulogy
5. Mastodon - The Tsar
6. Opeth - Bleak
7. Katatonia - Liberation
8. Dream Theater - The Glass Prison
9. Opeth - Deliverance
10. Mastodon - Oblivion