~~*Best Heavy Metal Songs of all time!*~~

Here is my list. Doubt anyone here has heard of them, but here they are in order.

Demons and Wizards - Gallows Pole
Iron Maiden - Rainmaker
The Scorpions - Deep and Dark
Iced Earth - Gettysberg
Helloween - Halloween
Blind Guardian - Blood Tears
Gamma Ray - Heart Of The Unicorn
Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Savatage - Morphine Child
Alice Cooper - Poison
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven
Deep Purple - Soldier of Fortune

new bands (also in order)
Rammstein - Spieluhr
Rhapsody - The Dark Tower Of Abyss
System of a down - Aerials

Where's the Pantera? I figured at least somebody would've said them by now, maybe i missed it.

But c'mon tell me "Walk" -Pantera isn't one of the most kick arse metal songs.

Some of those 80s bands that have been mentioned I wouldn't ENTIRELY call "heavy metal"...anyways...here's a few of my favs which also cross a few rock/heavy metal boundaries:

Prong: The whole Rude Awakening album...especially "Mansruin" and "Controller"


Tool: "Aenema" of the Aenema album (and almost all the rest of their stuff )


Megadeath: "The Killing Road" on the Youthanasia album


Sepultra: "Roots Bloody Roots" on the Roots album


Corrosion of Conformity: "King of the Rotten" on the Wiseblood album


Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads: "Paranoid" on the Tribute album



[Edited on 9/22/2004 by EnronOutrunHomerun]

I read somewhere that when Pantera started out they were intially a glam rock band.

Oh well, hell. Why not?

"Classic" metal

Holy Diver-Dio
Nightcrawler-Judas Priest
Metropolis-Motorhead
Over the Mountain-Ozzy


More recent songs

Be driven by demons-Pantera (Yes, they did start out as a hair band)
F**king Hostile-Pantera
Snap your Fingers(snap your neck)-Prong
Bringer of Death-Danzig
God Machine-Acid Bath
Finger Paintings of the Insane-Acid Bath
The Morticians Flame-Acid Bath (oh hell, anything off the "When the Kite String Pops" CD)

DISPOSABLE HEROS! by metallica

I'm gonna have to say three bands that have many of the same members:
Corrosion of Conformity, Pantera, and Down. I'm prolly very biased. More recently, I'd have to say these three bands have put out some of this era's best metal songs. Oh and voivod. Ahh yes voivod!

Originally posted by The Last Patriot
Oh well, hell. Why not?



Holy Diver-Dio

I looked all thru this thread looking for someone who acknowledged this guy .... five feet tall and twenty feet of voice . I used to work with his cousin ( who sings opera )

Last In Line - Dio

Any early Metallica music is great For whom the bell tolls master of puppets theres to many to choose from.

1) Cum on feel the noise. By Quiet Riot! Quiet Riot Made history by being the first Band to Hit 1 on the billboards!

From the department of Ignorance Denial and credit where credit is due:

Noddy Holder and the camp glam rockers of Slade were responsible for the true and listenable version of Cum On Feel The Noiz, more than a decade earlier.

Metal merchants are some of the greatest rip-off artists, be they Metallica treading the well worn epic path or Led Zeppelin outright stealing 1930s blues without citing their sources.

Long live metal. There is nothing new in rock and roll.

[Edited on 27-9-2004 by MaskedAvatar]

Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but I'd just as soon not start a new one.

Odd's Top Eleven (in alphabetic order):


Aina: The Beast Within
Aina: The Siege of Aina
Black Sabbath: War Pigs
Blue Oyster Cult: Veteran of the Psychic Wars
GWAR: We Kill Everything
Iron Maiden: The Thin Line between Love and Hate
Manowar: Warriors of the World United
Metallica: Enter Sandman
Metallica: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ozzy Osbourne: No More Tears
Rhapsody: Angels of Darkness


Obscure? Sure. Cheesy? Of course. But does it rock? Hell yes.

Okay, I'm a BIG fan of good old '80s metal, and there's some killer stuff on all of these lists, but no-one's mentioned SKID ROW!!

Ozzy - Shot in the Dark
Metallica - Orion
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Rhapsody - Sacred Power of Raging Winds
Nightwish - Ghost Love Score
Stratovarius - We Are The Future
Dragonforce - Prepare For War
Gamma Ray - Eagle
Hammerfall - The Way of the Warrior
Kamelot - Black Tower
Sonata Arctica - San Sebastian
Rhapsody - Gargoyles Angels of Darkness
Symphony X - The Oddyssey
Nile - Execration Text
Iron Maiden - Flight of Icarus

Iron Maiden's Women In Uniform, turning cheesy Aussie glam into New Wave British Heavy Metal!

Anything by Rammstein.

Hell, anything by Maiden.

Everything by Acca Dacca.

That first list flashed me back to boarding school. All that hair on Rage every Saturday morning. There hadn't been that much make-up on men since the New Romantic period! Funny how all those bands died when I finished school in '91. Wierd coincidence?!?

Appetite For Destruction, great debut album.

Anything by Poison is pure cheese now. Although Every Rose was quoted by Bill and Ted to God!

Razor's Edge, brilliant "comeback" album.

Warrant? Warrant! Oh please...Cherry Pie is heavy metal? Why not vote for Winger? (serious laughter) Or Europe?

My vote goes to Wierd Al for giving us Bedrock Anthem and Smells Like Nirvana! "He doesn't like to shave, he wears cave-man stubble!"

Iron Maiden - Killers
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Deicide - Deicide
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Kiss - Animalized

Man the best metal band is Children of Bodom!
I cant believe no one posted anything from them! I had to register just to make this post... Children of Bodom rock, like all of their songs. Here are a few...

Sixpounder
In your face
Follow the Reaper
Aces high
Were not gonna fall
War heart

And many others! They are more metal then the stuff you guys posted. Here are some other good songs

Static-X - Destroyer
Static-X - Destroy all
Disturbed - Stricken
Disturbed - Meaning Of Life
Lamb of god - as the palaces burn
In flames - Only for the weak
Bullet For My Valentine - Hit The Floor
System of a Down - Dreaming

so yeah listen to these! Very good stuff here!

Originally posted by Snoogans
Okay, I'm a BIG fan of good old '80s metal, and there's some killer stuff on all of these lists, but no-one's mentioned SKID ROW!!

As Skid Row will tell you they made only one album in the 80's and that was the debut in 89. Lol, but "Skid Row" and Slave to the Grind were good albums.

Hail and Kill - Manowar
Painkiller - Judas Priest
Hot For Teacher - Van Halen
Becoming - Pantera
Take This Life - In Flames
Lick It Up - Kiss
Devils Plaything - Danzig
Rainbow in the Dark - Dio
Beelzeboss - Tenacious D
Black Fire - DragonForce
Mirror, Mirror - Blind Guardian
War is All We Know - Gwar
Snowblind - Black Sabbath
Teenage Frankenstein - Alice Cooper
Wait and Bleed - Slipknot
Enter Sandman - Metallica

Just too many to list!

Heres a great one from Kiss. I remember seeing it for the first time on MTV.




Awsome ballad man it was the first time a lot of us had seen their actual faces. The lighting on the set was cool too. Heh



[edit on 7-7-2007 by Voyager1]

holy wars-megadeth
lucretia-megadeth (their best)
tornado of souls-megadeth
(all Rust In Peace best album)
regular people-pantera
walk-pantera
master of puppets-metallica
millenium-stratovarius
black diamond-stratovarius
anti-social-anthrax
madhouse-anthrax