Top 5 Heavy Metal Rock Songs of All Time?
 

Here's my list:

1. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zepelin
2. Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath
3. Sweet Child 'O Mine - Gins 'N Roses
4. Dream On - Aerosmith
5. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Iron Man
War Pigs
Electric Eye
Crazy Train
Over the Hills and Far Away

#1 Pimp Juice - Nelly.:winkwink:

living in a gangstas paradise

'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is another great rock song. Wasn't it recently ranked the #1 song of all time in the UK or something like that?

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Free Bird is probably my favorite song, but I duno if I would consider it Heavy Metal, more just Southern Rock.

Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills would probably be my favorite.

hehe, that is the shit, but lets stop chaning the topic, my apologies digressing so much off your topic Boobmaster.:1orglaugh

Not really heavy metal, you are right. I just wanted to eliminate the Elvis type stuff

Metallica - One
Led Zepelin - Stairway to Heaven
Suicidal Tendencies - You can't bring me down
Slayer - War Ensemble
Metallica - Master of Puppets

good tunes

Also forgot -- AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Rock and Roll all nite Party Everyday

National Anthem:glugglug

18 and Life - Skid Row
Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
for the obligatory Metallica entry I prefer Sanitarium
Rock and Roll All Night - KISS
You Shook Me - AC/DC

Slayer - evil has no boundaries

Slayer - reign in blood

Black sabbath - children of the grave

Ozzy Osbourne - crazy train

Guns n Roses - sweet child o' mine

Great song!

No question asked THE best song is :
Ace of Spades by Motorhead

Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills is right up there on my list

someone else said ST's - you can't bring me down - but i dont know if regard that as heavy metal i always thought of it as skaterpunk - but if it counts then that is right up there along with their song Pepsi

anythign by ACDC

Hmm! Two votes for that song! I love that song but I like 'Two Minutes To Midnight' better.

Metallica "one"

Megadeth - Holy Wars
Metallica - Battery
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
Slayer - South of Heaven
Pantera - Walk

AC/DC - TNT
Metallica - Master of puppets
Metallica - For whom the bell tolls
Motörhead - Ace of spades
Ironmaiden - Run to the hills

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Rammstein - Du Hast

Those are all great songs, from real metal bands :thumbsup

I'll make this a top 3:

Wheels of Confusion - Sabbath
Back in Black - 'DC
Sick Again - Zep

nice list! :thumbsup

Slayer - Angel of Death

Motorhead - Ace of Spades (Lemmy IS GOD)

Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire ( Cliff Rules)

Suicidal Tendencies - Instituitionalized

Venom - Buried Alive

How about Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple, I realise a lot of you were still in diapers when that was out:1orglaugh

I'm not much into heavy metal, but these two are worth listening:

Motorhead - Born To Raise Hell
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill


not just the song, the full albums

18 and live - skid row :thumbsup

The Best maiden Song is Number of the Beast. the Intro is Wicked!!

my TOp 5 would be

1.Black Sabbath Walpurgus(Original War pigs)
2.AC/DC Highway to Hell
3.Corrosion of Conformity-Big America
4.Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast
5.Ozzy-Flying High again

Definately, fuck Im jammin some UFO right now and it never sounded better:glugglug

Great classic hard rock tune...... but I wouldn't think of it as heavy metal.

Here's my list....

Priest - electric eye
Sabbath - neon knights
Maiden - run to the hills
Ratt - round and round
Skid Row - we are the youth gone wild

I agree with Ace Of Spades..it just feels like metal. Mind you,many of my friends would aruge that most of the songs in this thread aren't metal enough for them. There are so many types of metal today that it is hard to pick a group of songs that represent them all. When I am in the mood for Cradle of Filth or Rammstien then Motorhead isn't going to fit the bill but sometimes I just want to sit back and listen to some GnR.

Neither is RATT but there one of my top 5 favorites, they were very talented even though getting started in the 80's in LA. Warren De Martini is a great guitarist:glugglug

is led zeppelin really considered heavy metal? i thought heavy metal was crappy motorhead stuff

My top 5:

01. Metallica - Seek & Destroy
02. Motörhead - Born to raise hell
03. Accept - Balls To The Wall
04. Kiss - Detroit Rock City
05. Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast

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Actually several "top 50 metal bands" sites on the net list Ratt in the top 10. Some classified them as "glam metal", but still metal.


I'll add here regarding Metallica...... I've never liked them, and on searching for "top metal bands of all time" most of those lists agreed with me, surpisingly enough.

My Woman From Tokyo
Rock and Roll
Sunshine of Your Love
Layla
Highway to Hell

- Iron Man
- Ace of spades
- Stairway to heaven
- Hells bells
- Born to be wild

Priest - Breaking the Law
AC/DC - Back in Black
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Rammstein - Du Hast
Dream Theater - Voices

For heavy metal i don't know ... for hardrock i would say

1) Hear n' Aid - Stars
2) AC/DC - TNT
3) Deep Purple - Smoke on the water
4) Led Zepplin - Stairway to heaven
5) Guns'n'Roses - Paradise City

some good ones there. I think I'd add something from AC/DC to the list aswell. I used to like them in the late 80's :glugglug

Welcome to the Jungle - Guns n Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns n Roses
NIB - Black Sabbath
Number of the Beast - Iron Madan
Run to the Hills - Iron Madan
Seek and Destroy - Metallica
99 Ways to Die - Megadeth
Peace Sells - Megadeth
Killing is my business - Megadeth
Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
Hell Bent for Leather - Judas Priest
Ace of Spades - Motorhead

Sorry couldn't just do 5...I would have kept on going to LOL

Great taste :thumbsup

:thumbsup One of my faves.

I hate shit old metal why can't we count out anything before like 1990 and have some fear factory, slipknot, machine head, tool etc for the top five

Fucking great thread. We need like a top 25 to be fair, but here are my votes.

1. Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
2. Metallica - Fade to Black
3. Iced Earth - Melancholy
4. Cradle of Filth - Hallowed Be Thy Name (Iron Maiden cover, better than the original)
5. Too many good songs deserve #5, I can't decide :ak47:

Ride the lightning- metalica
shout at the devil-motley crew
love is a fist - Mr. Bungle
walk- Pantara
Snap your finger snap your neck-prong

Just had a debate about that song the other night and yes, I agree it is better than the original. I just don't think it is the best CoF song but yet it is the only that is ever played at a club I go to.

Few people will ever forget the day when Metallica decided the best way to stop napster was to start suing the people who were swapping their songs. This pissed off many long-time fans and critics.