The 40 Greatest Metal Songs Ever.
 

I watched this last night on VH1. There were a few surprises and obviously some omissions. What do you think? Overall, pretty solid IMO.


Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
#40

I'm Eighteen - Alice Cooper
#39

Balls to the Wall - Accept
#38

Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
#37

Wait and Bleed - Slipknot
#36

Metal Health - Quiet Riot
#35

Paranoid - Black Sabbath
#34

High 'N' Dry (Saturday Night) - Def Leppard
#33

Thunder Kiss '65 - White Zombie
#32

Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions
#31

Epic - Faith No More
#30

Caught in a Mosh - Anthrax
#29

The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson
#28

Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden
#27

Refuse/Resist - Sepultura
#26

Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
#25

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC
#24

Freak on a Leash - Korn
#23

Enter Sandman - Metallica
#22

Paradise City - Guns N' Roses
#21

I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister
#20

Man in the Box - Alice in Chains
#19

Slave to the Grind - Skid Row
#18

Live Wire - Mötley Crüe
#17

Walk - Pantera
#16

Bulls on Parade - Rage Against the Machine
#15

Toxicity - System of a Down
#14

Rainbow in the Dark - Dio
#13

Bring the Noise - Anthrax
#12

Peace Sells - Megadeth
#11

Ace of Spades - Motörhead
#10

Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
#9

Raining Blood - Slayer
#8

The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
#7

Detroit Rock City - Kiss
#6

You've Got Another Thing Comin' - Judas Priest
#5

Back in Black - AC/DC
#4

Master of Puppets - Metallica
#3

Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N' Roses
#2

Iron Man - Black Sabbath
#1

It's a decent list. I'm pretty sure it is done by votes over the internet.

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I saw it on VH1 a week or so ago. It's a pretty good list, but I thought Pantera's "Walk" should have been higher than 18. And even more surprised to not see "Cemetary Gates" on the list.

I told you guys that RATM was metal.

Shut the fuck up, RATM is not metal. :nono:

Some of those songs should have been higher. Some of those songs, WTF?

Overall, not the worst list I've seen.

Dark Tranquillity-Monochromatic Stains is not on there, thus the list is woefully incomplete.

RATM is metal.

Freak on a Leash - Korn
#23

No.

According to VH1 they are. If Alice In Chains, Korn, and KISS are metal, surely RATM can be too.

Your definition of metal is woefully inaccurate.

www.metal-archives.com

Go learn what metal is.

:lol:

The thing that pissed me off about all this shit on VH1 is that they sell it to you that Rock = Metal, Metal = Rock. They are not interchangeable.

Lol thats what I thought as well

You might as well try arguing that The Ataris aren't punk or Fuel isn't rock.

That's because ThereIn is better

Ace of Spades should be higher

ummm Slipknot is on this list...it is now null and void.

Wait and Bleed is actually a very good song

lol

Nothing really wrong with that list at all.

It's an "alright" song...it should not even be near the top 40 metal songs of all time.

List is hit and miss, SOD, RATM, Korn and SLipknot have no business being on that list but it could have been a lot worse, reading the topic title I was prepared for a list full of Limp Bizkit and crap like that.

Wait and Bleed has no business being on this list.

Certainly Slipknot's best, anyway.

Which still doesn't make it a song worthy of coming anywhere near a top anything list.

lol "Wait and Bleed" is regarded as Slipknot's best? That's pretty brutal.

I would like to have seen "Domination" or "Mouth for War" on there.