Top 800 heavy metal songs list 2025 edition

 1 3 Inches of Blood -- Deadly Sinners from Advance and Vanquish ( 2004 )
2 3 Inches of Blood -- Battle and Brotherhood from Here Waits Thy Doom ( 2009 )
3 36 Crazyfists -- The Heart and the Shape from A Snowcapped Romance ( 2004 )
4 A Forest of Stars -- God from The Corpse of Rebirth ( 2008 )
5 Absu -- Pillars of Mercy from Tara ( 2001 )
6 AC/DC -- Live Wire from TNT ( 1975 )
7 AC/DC -- Whole Lotta Rosie from Let There Be Rock ( 1977 )
8 AC/DC -- Sin City from Powerage ( 1978 )
9 Accept -- Fast as a Shark from Restless and Wild ( 1982 )
10 Accept -- Princess of the Dawn from Restless and Wild ( 1982 )
11 Accept -- Balls to the Wall from Balls To The Wall ( 1983 )
12 Aerosmith -- Nobody's Fault from Rocks ( 1976 )
13 After Forever -- Follow in the Cry from Prison of Desire ( 2000 )
14 Agalloch -- In The Shadow of Our Pale Companion from The Mantle ( 2002 )
15 Agent Steel -- Taken By Force from Skeptics Apocalypse ( 1985 )
16 The Agonist -- Thank You, Pain from Lullabies for the Dormant Mind ( 2009 )
17 Alchemist -- Single Sided from Organasm ( 2000 )
18 Alchemist -- Alpha Cappella Nova Vega from Austral Alien ( 2003 )
19 Alestorm -- Wolves of the Sea from Black Sails At Midnight ( 2009 )
20 Alice Cooper -- I'm Eighteen from Love It To Death ( 1971 )
21 Alice Cooper -- School's Out from School's Out ( 1972 )
22 Alice Cooper -- Poison from Trash ( 1989 )
23 Alice In Chains -- Rooster from Dirt ( 1992 )
24 Amaran -- Atropine from Pristine in Bondage ( 2004 )
25 Amon Amarth -- Cry of the Black Birds from With Oden On Our Side ( 2006 )
26 Amon Amarth -- With Oden On Our Side from With Oden On Our Side ( 2006 )
27 Amorphis -- My Kantele from Elegy ( 1996 )
28 Amorphis -- Skyforger from Skyforger ( 2009 )
29 Anal Cunt -- You're a Fucking Cunt from 40 More Reasons To Hate Us ( 1996 )
30 Anathema -- Judgement from Judgement ( 1999 )
31 Andrew WK -- Party Hard from I Get Wet ( 2001 )
32 Angel Witch -- Angel Witch from Angel Witch ( 1980 )
33 Annihilator -- Alison Hell from Alice In Hell ( 1989 )
34 Anthrax -- I Am The Law from Among The Living ( 1987 )
35 Anthrax -- Indians from Among The Living ( 1987 )
36 Anthrax -- Antisocial from State of Euphoria ( 1988 )
37 Anthrax -- Be All, End All from State of Euphoria ( 1988 )
38 Anvil -- Metal On Metal from Metal On Metal ( 1982 )
39 Apocalyptica -- One from Inquisition Symphony ( 1998 )
40 Arch Enemy -- Nemesis from Doomsday Machine ( 2005 )
41 Arcturus -- Ad Astra from La Masquerade Infernale ( 1997 )
42 Armored Saint -- Can U Deliver from March of the Saint ( 1984 )
43 Arsis -- The Face of My Innocence from A Celebration of Guilt ( 2004 )
44 Ashent -- Eve from Inheritance ( 2012 )
45 At The Gates -- Blinded By Fear from Slaughter of the Soul ( 1995 )
46 At The Gates -- Slaughter of the Soul from Slaughter of the Soul ( 1995 )
47 Atheist -- Unquestionable Presence from Unquestionable Presence ( 1991 )
48 Autograph -- Turn Up The Radio from Sign In Please ( 1984 )
49 Autopsy -- Ridden With Disease from Ridden With Disease ( 2000 )
50 Ayreon -- Dawn of a Million Souls from Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator ( 2000 )
51 Ayreon -- Ride The Comet from 01011001 ( 2010 )

52 Babes In Toyland -- Bruise Violet from Fontanelle ( 1992 )
53 Babylon Bombs -- Jaded Heart from Doin' You Nasty ( 2006 )
54 Backyard Babies -- UFO Romeo from Total 13 ( 1998 )
55 Bal-Sagoth -- Atlantis Ascendant from Atlantis Ascendant ( 2001 )
56 Baroness -- Rays On Pinion from Red Album ( 2007 )
57 Baroness -- A Horse Called Golgotha from Blue Record ( 2009 )
58 Baroness -- March To The Sea from Yellow & Green ( 2012 )
59 Baroness -- Take My Bones Away from Yellow & Green ( 2012 )
60 Basil Poledouris -- Anvil of Crom from Conan The Barbarian ( 1982 )
61 Bathory -- Hades from Bathory ( 1984 )
62 Bathory -- A Fine Day To Die from Blood Fire Death ( 1988 )
63 Bathory -- Twilight of the Gods from Twilight of the Gods ( 1991 )
64 Bathory -- Mother Earth, Father Thunder from Nordland I ( 2002 )
65 Battle Beast -- Armageddon Clan from Steel ( 2011 )
66 Battlelore -- Sons of Riddermark from Sword's Song ( 2003 )
67 Beatles -- Helter Skelter from The Beatles ( 1968 )
68 Beautiful Creatures -- 1 AM from Beautiful Creatures ( 2001 )
69 Between The Buried And Me -- White Walls from Colors ( 2007 )
70 Biohazard -- Wrong Side of the Tracks from Biohazard ( 1990 )
71 Biohazard -- Punishment from Urban Discipline ( 1992 )
72 Bitch -- Damnation Alley from Damnation Alley ( 1982 )
73 Black Sabbath -- Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath ( 1970 )
74 Black Sabbath -- Fairies Wear Boots from Paranoid ( 1970 )
75 Black Sabbath -- Iron Man from Paranoid ( 1970 )
76 Black Sabbath -- N.I.B. from Black Sabbath ( 1970 )
77 Black Sabbath -- War Pigs from Paranoid ( 1970 )
78 Black Sabbath -- Children Of The Grave from Master of Reality ( 1971 )
79 Black Sabbath -- Into The Void from Master of Reality ( 1971 )
80 Black Sabbath -- Symptom of the Universe from Sabotage ( 1975 )
81 Black Sabbath -- Die Young from Heaven and Hell ( 1980 )
82 Black Sabbath -- Heaven and Hell from Heaven and Hell ( 1980 )
83 Black Sabbath -- Neon Knights from Heaven and Hell ( 1980 )
84 Black Sabbath -- Falling Off The Edge of the World from Mob Rules ( 1981 )
85 Black Sabbath -- The Sign Of The Southern Cross from Mob Rules ( 1981 )
86 Black Sabbath -- Zero The Hero from Born Again ( 1983 )
87 Blind Guardian -- Mordred's Song from Imaginations from the Other Side ( 1995 )
88 Blind Guardian -- Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill) from Nightfall in Middle Earth ( 1998 )
89 Blind Guardian -- Punishment Divine from A Night At The Opera ( 2002 )
90 Blind Guardian -- The Bard's Song (In The Forest) from Somewhere Far Beyond ( 1992 )
91 Blind Guardian -- Bright Eyes from Imaginations from the Other Side ( 1995 )
92 Blind Guardian -- Imaginations from the Other Side from Imaginations from the Other Side ( 1995 )
93 Blind Guardian -- Mirror, Mirror from Nightfall in Middle Earth ( 1998 )
94 Blind Guardian -- Nightfall from Nightfall in Middle Earth ( 1998 )
95 Blind Guardian -- And Then There Was Silence from A Night At The Opera ( 2002 )
96 Blind Guardian -- Sacred Worlds from At The Edge of Time ( 2010 )
97 Blind Guardian -- Valkyries from At The Edge of Time ( 2010 )
98 Blitzkrieg -- Blitzkrieg from A Time of Changes ( 1985 )
99 Bloodbath -- Eaten from Nightmares Made Flesh ( 2004 )
100 Blue Cheer -- Summertime Blues from Vincebus Eruptum ( 1968 )
101 Blue Oyster Cult -- (Don't Fear) The Reaper from Agents of Fortune ( 1976 )
102 Blut Aus Nord -- Epitome XVI from 777-Cosmosophy ( 2012 )
103 Body Count -- Cop Killer from Body Count ( 1992 )
104 Bolt Thrower -- Eternal War from Realm of Chaos ( 1989 )
105 Bon Jovi -- Runaway from Bon Jovi ( 1984 )
106 Bon Jovi -- Bad Medicine from New Jersey ( 1988 )
107 Boris -- Naki Kyoku from Akuma No Uta ( 2003 )
108 Boris -- Farewell from Pink ( 2005 )
109 Boris -- Pink from Pink ( 2005 )
110 Botch -- C. Thomas Howell As The "Soul Man" from We Are The Romans ( 1999 )
111 Brocas Helm -- Cry of the Banshee from Defender of the Crown ( 2004 )
112 Bruce Dickinson -- Tears of the Dragon from Balls To Picasso ( 1994 )
113 Bruce Dickinson -- Jerusalem from The Chemical Wedding ( 1998 )
114 Bruce Dickinson -- A Tyranny of Souls from Tyranny of Souls ( 2005 )
115 Brujeria -- Matando Güeros from Matando Gueros ( 1993 )
116 Brutal Truth -- Godplayer from Need to Control ( 1994 )
117 Brymir -- Cycle of Flame from Breathe Fire To The Sun ( 2011 )
118 Brymir -- Unconquerable from Breathe Fire To The Sun ( 2011 )
119 Buckcherry -- Crazy Bitch from 15 ( 2005 )
120 Budgie -- Breadfan from Never Turn Your Back On A Friend ( 1973 )
121 Budgie -- Crash Course in Brain Surgery from In For The Kill ( 1974 )
122 Bulldozer -- Welcome Death from The Day of Wrath ( 1985 )
123 Burzum -- Dunkelheit from Filosofem ( 1996 )

124 Candlemass -- Solitude from Epicus Doomicus Metallicus ( 1986 )
125 Cannibal Corpse -- Hammer Smashed Face from Tomb of the Mutilated ( 1992 )
126 Carcass -- Corporal Jigsore Quandary from Necrotism: Descanting the Insalubrious ( 1991 )
127 Carcass -- Buried Dreams from Heartwork ( 1993 )
128 Carnivore -- Jesus Hitler from Retaliation ( 1987 )
129 Cathedral -- Ebony Tears from Forest of Equilibrium ( 1991 )
130 Cathedral -- Hopkins (The Witchfinder General) from The Carnival Bizarre ( 1995 )
131 Cathedral -- Night of the Seagulls from The Carnival Bizarre ( 1995 )
132 Celldweller -- Switchback from Celldweller ( 2003 )
133 Celtic Frost -- Procreation of the Wicked from Morbid Tales ( 1984 )
134 Celtic Frost -- Circle of the Tyrants from In Mega Therion ( 1985 )
135 Celtic Frost -- Babylon Fell from Into the Pandemonium ( 1987 )
136 Charon -- Little Angel from Downhearted ( 2002 )
137 Chimaira -- Salvation from Chimaira ( 2005 )
138 Chrome Division -- Bulldogs Unleashed from 3rd Round Knockout ( 2011 )
139 Cinderella -- Shake Me from Night Songs ( 1986 )
140 Cirith Ungol -- Nadsokor from One Foot In Hell ( 1986 )
141 Clawfinger -- Biggest & The Best from Clawfinger ( 1997 )
142 Clown Alley -- Pet of a Pig from Circus of Chaos ( 1985 )
143 Clutch -- Escape From The Prison Planet from Clutch ( 1995 )
144 Clutch -- Immortal from Pure Rock Fury ( 2001 )
145 Clutch -- Pure Rock Fury from Pure Rock Fury ( 2001 )
146 CMX -- Punainen Komentaja from Talvikuningas ( 2007 )
147 Coal Chamber -- Big Truck from Coal Chamber ( 1997 )
148 Coalesce -- What Happens On The Road Always Comes Home from 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening ( 1999 )
149 Collisions -- Fire Fire from Believe In This ( 2012 )
150 Conception -- Carnal Comprehension from In Your Multitude ( 1995 )
151 Converge -- Concubine from Jane Doe ( 2001 )
152 Converge -- Aimless Arrow from All We Love We Leave Behind ( 2012 )
153 Coroner -- Mistress of Deception from No More Color ( 1989 )
154 Corrosion of Conformity -- Dance of the Dead from Blind ( 1991 )
155 Corrosion of Conformity -- Vote With A Bullet from Blind ( 1991 )
156 Cowboy Prostitutes -- Outrageous from Let Me Have Your Heart ( 2009 )
157 Cradle of Filth -- Death Magick For Adepts from Midian ( 2000 )
158 Cradle of Filth -- Her Ghost In The Fog from Midian ( 2000 )
159 Cradle of Filth -- Born In A Burial Gown from Bitter Suites to Succubi ( 2001 )
160 Cream -- Sunshine Of Your Love from Disraeli Gears ( 1967 )
161 Crimfall -- Wildfire Season from As The Path Unfolds... ( 2009 )
162 Cro-Mags -- Death Camps from Best Wishes ( 1989 )
163 Crowbar -- Planets Collide from Odd Fellows Rest ( 1998 )
164 Cruachan -- Ride On from Folk-Lore ( 2002 )
165 Cryptic Slaughter -- Convicted from Convicted ( 1986 )
166 Cryptopsy -- Slit Your Guts from None So Vile ( 1996 )
167 The Cult -- Love Removal Machine from Electric ( 1987 )
168 Cult of Luna -- The Watchtower from The Beyond ( 2003 )
169 Cult of Luna -- Following Betulas from Eternal Kingdom ( 2008 )
170 Cynic -- Uroboric Forms from Focus ( 1993 )

171 D.R.I. -- Beneath The Wheel from Thrash Zone ( 1989 )
172 Damone -- Out Here All Night from Out Here All Night ( 2006 )
173 Danzig -- Mother from Danzig ( 1988 )
174 Danzig -- Twist of Cain from Danzig ( 1988 )
175 Danzig -- How The Gods Kill from Danzig III: How The Gods Kill ( 1992 )
176 Danzig -- Left Hand Black from Danzig III: How The Gods Kill ( 1992 )
177 Dark Quarterer -- The Colossus of Argil from Dark Quarterer ( 1987 )
178 Darkestrah -- Epos from Epos ( 2007 )
179 Darkthrone -- In The Shadows Of The Horns from A Blaze In The Northern Sky ( 1992 )
180 Daughters -- The Theater Goer from Daughters ( 2010 )
181 Dayglo Abortions -- Drugged and Driving from Here Today, Guano Tomorrow ( 1987 )
182 Deadguy -- Doom Patrol from Fixation On A Co-Worker ( 1995 )
183 Deafheaven -- Dream House from Sunbather ( 2013 )
184 Death -- Lack of Comprehension from Human ( 1991 )
185 Death -- 1000 Eyes from Symbolic ( 1995 )
186 Death -- Crystal Mountain from Symbolic ( 1995 )
187 Death Angel -- Voracious Souls from The Ultra-Violence ( 1987 )
188 Death Angel -- Bored from Frolic Through The Park ( 1988 )
189 Deathstars -- New Dead Nation from Synthetic Generation ( 2003 )
190 Decapitated -- The Fury from The Negation ( 2004 )
191 Deep Purple -- Highway Star from Machine Head ( 1972 )
192 Deep Purple -- Smoke on the Water from Machine Head ( 1972 )
193 Def Leppard -- Switch 625 from High 'n' Dry ( 1981 )
194 Deftones -- 7 Words from Adrenaline ( 1995 )
195 Deftones -- Around The Fur from Around The Fur ( 1997 )
196 Deftones -- Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away) from Around The Fur ( 1997 )
197 Deftones -- Rocket Skates from Diamond Eyes ( 2010 )
198 Deicide -- Dead But Dreaming from Legion ( 1992 )
199 Demons & Wizards -- Crimson King from Touched by the Crimson King ( 2005 )
200 Demons & Wizards -- The Gunslinger from Touched by the Crimson King ( 2005 )
201 Deströyer 666 -- I Am The Wargod - Ode To the Battle Slain from Phoenix Rising ( 2000 )
202 Destruction -- Thrash Till Death from The Antichrist ( 2001 )
203 Dethklok -- The Lost Vikings from The Dethalbum ( 2007 )
204 Devastation -- Deceptive Slaughter from Violent Termination ( 1987 )
205 Devin Townsend Project -- Hyperdrive! from Addicted ( 2009 )
206 Diablo -- Renaissance from Renaissance ( 2002 )
207 Diamond Head -- Am I Evil? from Lightning to the Nations ( 1980 )
208 Diamond Head -- Helpless from Lightning to the Nations ( 1980 )
209 Die Apokalyptischen Reiter -- Die Boten from Moral & Wahnsinn ( 2011 )
210 Dillinger Escape Plan -- 43% Burnt from Calculating Infinity ( 1999 )
211 Dimmu Borgir -- Mourning Palace from Enthrone Darkness Triumphant ( 1997 )
212 Dio -- Holy Diver from Holy Diver ( 1982 )
213 Dio -- Rainbow In The Dark from Holy Diver ( 1982 )
214 Dio -- The Last In Line from The Last In Line ( 1983 )
215 Dio -- Sacred Heart from Sacred Heart ( 1985 )
216 Discharge -- War's No Fairytale from Why? ( 1981 )
217 Discordance Axis -- The Necropolitan from The Inalienable Dreamless ( 2000 )
218 Dismember -- Casket Garden from Massive Killing Capacity ( 1995 )
219 Dissection -- Starless Aeon from Reinkaos ( 2006 )
220 Disturbed -- Down With The Sickness from The Sickness ( 2000 )
221 Disturbed -- Indestructible from Indestructible ( 2008 )
222 Doomsword -- Death of Ferdia from My Name Will Live On ( 2007 )
223 Dope Stars Inc. -- Theta Titanium from Neuromance ( 2005 )
224 DOWN -- Bury Me In Smoke from NOLA ( 1995 )
225 DOWN -- Stone The Crow from NOLA ( 1995 )
226 Dragonforce -- Through The Fire And Flames from Inhuman Rampage ( 2006 )
227 Dream Theater -- Pull Me Under from Images and Words ( 1992 )
228 Dream Theater -- 6:00 from Awake ( 1994 )
229 Drowning Pool -- Bodies from Sinner ( 2001 )
230 Earth -- Seven Angels from Earth 2: Special Low-Frequency Edition ( 1993 )
231 Earthtone9 -- Tat Twam Asi from arc'tan'gent ( 2000 )
232 Edge of Sanity -- Crimson from Crimson ( 1996 )
233 Edguy -- Vain Glory Opera from Vain Glory Opera ( 1998 )
234 Edguy -- Hallowed from The Savage Poetry ( 2000 )
235 Edguy -- Jerusalem from Mandrake ( 2001 )
236 Edguy -- The Piper Never Dies from Hellfire Club ( 2004 )
237 Eilera -- The Angel You Love, The Angel You Hate from Fusion ( 2007 )
238 Einherjer -- Ironbound from Blot ( 2005 )
239 Eisbrecher -- Eiszeit from Eiszeit ( 2010 )
240 Electric Boys -- All Lips And Hips from Funk-O-Metal Carpet Ride ( 1990 )
241 Electric Wizard -- Return Trip from Come My Fanatics ( 1997 )
242 Electric Wizard -- Funeralopolis from Dopethrone ( 2000 )
243 Electric Wizard -- Witchcult Today from Witchcult Today ( 2007 )
244 Elle Bandita -- Barbies and Zombies from Queen of Fools ( 2009 )
245 Eluveitie -- A Rose for Epona from Helvetios ( 2012 )
246 Emperor -- I Am The Black Wizards from In The Nightside Eclipse ( 1994 )
247 English Dogs -- Premonition from Where Legend Began ( 2009 )
248 Enslaved -- Havenless from Below The Lights ( 2003 )
249 Enslaved -- Roots of the Mountain from RIITTIIR ( 2012 )
250 Entombed -- Hollowman from Wolverine Blues ( 1993 )
251 Entombed -- Wolverine Blues from Wolverine Blues ( 1993 )
252 Entombed -- To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth from DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth ( 1997 )
253 Ephel Duath -- The Unpoetic Circle (Bottle Green) from The Painter's Palette ( 2003 )
254 Epica -- Mother of Light from Consign to Oblivion ( 2005 )
255 Epica -- Cry For The Moon from The Phantom Agony ( 2003 )
256 Epica -- Sancta Terra from The Divine Conspiracy ( 2007 )
257 Eths -- Voragine from III ( 2012 )
258 Evereve -- Suzanne from E-mania ( 2001 )
259 Evergrey -- As I Lie Here Bleeding from Recreation Day ( 2003 )
260 Evile -- Cult from Five Serpent's Teeth ( 2011 )
261 Ex Deo -- Romulus from Romulus ( 2009 )
262 Exilia -- The Hunter from My Own Army ( 2009 )
263 Exodus -- The Toxic Waltz from Fabulous Disaster ( 1989 )
264 Exodus -- Bonded By Blood from Bonded By Blood ( 1985 )
265 Exodus -- Culling The Herd from Tempo of the Damn ( 2004 )
266 Extreme Noise Terror -- Take The Strain from A Holocaust In Your Head ( 1988 )
267 Eyehategod -- Blank from Take As Needed For Pain ( 1993 )
268 Eyehategod -- Sisterfucker (Part 1) from Take As Needed For Pain ( 1993 )