VH1's 40 GREATEST METAL SONGS

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Just watched this countdown was just wanting you metal heads opinion on the list...i will admit im a punker first and foremost but i love a bit of metal too...

40. "Breaking the Law" - Judas Priest
39. "I'm Eighteen" - Alice Cooper
38. "Balls to the Wall" - Accept
37. "Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple
36. "Wait and Bleed" - Slipknot
35. "Metal Health" - Quiet Riot
34. "Paranoid" - Black Sabbath
33. "High 'n' Dry" - Def Leppard
32. "Thunder Kiss '65" - White Zombie
31. "Rock You Like a Hurricane" - Scorpions
30. "Epic" - Faith No More
29. "Caught in a Mosh" - Anthrax
28. "The Beautiful People" - Marilyn Manson
27. "Run to the Hills" - Iron Maiden
26. "Refuse/Resist" - Sepultura
25. "Cowboys from Hell" - Pantera
24. "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" - AC/DC
23. "Freak on a Leash" - Korn
22. "Enter Sandman" - Metallica
21. "Paradise City" - Guns N' Roses
20. "I Wanna Rock" - Twisted Sister
19. "Man in the Box" - Alice in Chains
18. "Slave to the Grind" - Skid Row
17. "Live Wire" - Mötley Crüe
16. "Walk" - Pantera
15. "Bulls on Parade" - Rage Against the Machine
14. "Toxicity" - System of a Down
13. "Rainbow in the Dark" - Dio
12. "Bring the Noise" - Anthrax & Public Enemy
11. "Peace Sells" - Megadeth
10. "Ace of Spades" - Motörhead
9. "Crazy Train" - Ozzy Osbourne
8. "Raining Blood" - Slayer
7. "The Number of the Beast" - Iron Maiden
6. "Detroit Rock City" - KISS
5. "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" - Judas Priest
4. "Back in Black" - AC/DC
3. "Master of Puppets" - Metallica
2. "Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns N' Roses
1. "Iron Man" - Black Sabbath

Pretty good list i thought..except for a few things

*Ronny James Dio should NEVER be on ANY greatest list, end of story
*Skid Row's slave to the grind is too high, good song but too high..but Sebastian Bach was hosting so i guess they felt sorry for him..
*few notable songs that werent there...WHite ZOmbie's More Human Than Human, Slipknots People=Shit, Black Sabbath's War Pigs (classic!), Motorheads Born To Raise Hell (my all time fav!)

What do u guys think????
 
Oh and another couple that missed that i thought maybe could have made it...Sepultura's Arise, Rob Zombie's Dragula, Mudvayne's Dig
 
man if people can call:
faith no more - epic
acdc, dio, the anthrax cover and some of that other stuff metal than their is something wrong.
I love the 80s, Scorpions, Van Halen, Whitesnake, Gunners, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper but i would call most of the bands i named hard rock.
Cowboys from hell should be higher,
Where is more metallica: One, For whom the bell tolls, Battery and so on and so on.
Two great Pantera tracks their thats a plus but should be listed higher.
This countdown to me sounds more hard rock and they are missing alot of pearlers.
music has changed since the 80s and heavy metal is 10 times heavier these days in most cases.
not a bad list, but no great
i could give you a better metal 40 including the new era
 
40. "Breaking the Law" - Judas Priest (Havent Heard)
39. "I'm Eighteen" - Alice Cooper (Better Copper songs Bed of Nails, House of Fire, Poison)
38. "Balls to the Wall" - Accept (Havent Heard)
37. "Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple (great riff maybe metal maybe hard rock)
36. "Wait and Bleed" - Slipknot (not a bad track at all but slipknot have better songs)
35. "Metal Health" - Quiet Riot (Havent Heard)
34. "Paranoid" - Black Sabbath (classic, 100% agree OZZY!)
33. "High 'n' Dry" - Def Leppard (not a bad track but i dont think def leppard are top 40 material)
32. "Thunder Kiss '65" - White Zombie (Havent Heard)
31. "Rock You Like a Hurricane" - Scorpions (great track, i love the Scorpions good metal/hard rock group that can play and sing)
30. "Epic" - Faith No More (good song but not metal)
29. "Caught in a Mosh" - Anthrax (classic balls out thrash song)
28. "The Beautiful People" - Marilyn Manson (nup)
27. "Run to the Hills" - Iron Maiden (better maiden songs and even than i would only have number of the beast in top 40)
26. "Refuse/Resist" - Sepultura (Havent Heard)
25. "Cowboys from Hell" - Pantera (One of the best metal songs their is, coolest solo at the end RIP Dime)
24. "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" - AC/DC (cmon, METAL and + that is one od aca daca's bader songs)
23. "Freak on a Leash" - Korn (How can Korn make a top 40 GREATEST METAL SONGS,)
22. "Enter Sandman" - Metallica (yes, classic rock track and can be passed as metal i guess :) )
21. "Paradise City" - Guns N' Roses (Good song, i would probally agree but in the 30's)
20. "I Wanna Rock" - Twisted Sister (nup, alrite song but not great)
19. "Man in the Box" - Alice in Chains (Havent Heard)
18. "Slave to the Grind" - Skid Row (Havent Heard)
17. "Live Wire" - Mötley Crüe (Havent Heard)
16. "Walk" - Pantera (one of the coolest sing a long songs when drunk their is)
15. "Bulls on Parade" - Rage Against the Machine (Havent Heard)
14. "Toxicity" - System of a Down (not top 40 nor top 200 metal songs)
13. "Rainbow in the Dark" - Dio (Only heard one Dio song and its not bad)
12. "Bring the Noise" - Anthrax & Public Enemy (good song and a good idea but flirting with hip hop hence public enemy, love the song and fil clip tho)
11. "Peace Sells" - Megadeth (great track one of megadeths best but a little too high)
10. "Ace of Spades" - Motörhead (better motorhead)
9. "Crazy Train" - Ozzy Osbourne (gotta love OZZY, top 100 but not 40 though)
8. "Raining Blood" - Slayer (one of the best thrash songs their is)
7. "The Number of the Beast" - Iron Maiden (classic track, worthy selection)
6. "Detroit Rock City" - KISS (yer maybe but still u might aswell just have the live version of cowboys from hell and u get the main cool riff without it dragging on)
5. "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" - Judas Priest (havent Heard)
4. "Back in Black" - AC/DC (AC DC's best track imo)
3. "Master of Puppets" - Metallica (Legendary, insult that the top 2 songs are higher)
2. "Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns N' Roses (not a fan of this song suprisingly)
1. "Iron Man" - Black Sabbath (how can that be 1 good song but just scrapes top 100 for me)

ill have to give a listen to the tracks i havent heard, i heard of the bands and a few of their stuff.
thanks for the post matty
 
you havent heard Bulls on Parade?!

I agree its more Hard Rock than metal...altho im not really into Metal, but not enough Sepultura in there..and yeh Wait and Bleed isnt Slipknots best effort...ooh and Jump da Fu*k up by Soulfly shoulda been in there, you heard that?
 
How did twisted sister get in? That song has about words in it and 3 are I wanna rock.........
 
what about st anger by metallica?? or about time by anthrax?
these are the Jason Richardsons of the rock world (underrated) :)
or motor breathe or chop suey or last resort or or or....
 
jump da **** up no where near top 40 lol
st anger top 40 thats a big call considerin evryone hates st anger album :eek:
the best song on that album though!

slipknot - (sic) or Pulse of the Maggots

last resort isnt metal lol
 
How the hell Enter Sandman got in as Metallica's number two song is beyond me! So many others of thiers that belong there instead.

Iron Man is number one because i gurantee you will be humming that tune all day now ;-)

Rage as metal??
 
OMG just saw that list and pissed myself laughing, what a joke. since when the **** was kiss ever considered metal??? GnR, awesome band, not metal though. same with acca dacca.

OK heres my list of top 40 metal songs, i wont put them in order cos thats just too time consuming.

1. One, Metallica
2. Cowboys from Hell, Pantera
3. Master of Puppets, Metallica
4. Territory, Sepultura
5. Ashes of the Wake, Lamb of God
6. Holy Wars, Megadeth
7. Hangar 18, Megadeth
8. Peace sells, megadeth
9. roots bloody roots, sepultura
10. sanitarium, metallica
11. old, machine head
12. davidian, machine head
13. this love, pantera
14. seasons in the abyss, slayer
15. serenity in murder, slayer
16. self bias resistor, fear factory
17. laid to rest, lamb of god
18. declaration, trivium
19. ascendancy, trivium
20. rain, trivium
21. ruin, lamb of god
22. rose of sharyn, killswitch engage
22. end of heartache, KE
23. when darkness falls, KE
24. my last serenade, KE
25. chapter four, avenged sevenfold
26. mouth for war, pantera
27. resurrection, fear factory
28. zero signal, fear factory
29. doomsayer, hatebreed
30. enter sandman, metallica
31. for whom the bell tolls, metallica
32. sad but true, metallica
33. denial, sevendust
34. waffle, sevendust
35. hollow, pantera
36. floods, pantera
37. domination, pantera
38. 5 minutes alone, pantera
39. im broken, pantera
40. great southern trendkill, pantera

feel free to piss on that list but you better know what your talking about, as each and every one of those is a friggin classic.
 
not a great list 4 me but thats just because i would of preferred other songs well some of them anyway by the bands , to each their own
 
pantera with out a doubt no.1 mouth of war and heresy
whould of like some mudvayne songs like not falling and maybe some old skool dry kill logic...
 
jono said:
pantera with out a doubt no.1 mouth of war and heresy
whould of like some mudvayne songs like not falling and maybe some old skool dry kill logic...
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DKL narrowly missed my list, id probably call them hard rock though, but ive never rated mudvayne much.
 
what no system, linkin, disturbed, or bizkit- this sucks! i think undead and young by hollywood undead are both ten times more kickass than all the other songs on this list! so screw you!
 
vh1 are losers. who voted this one.
holy wars and hangar 18 should be there. reason being those two songs were so technically challenging and quick for the time.
 
haha that list is shizer house..

seriously... cant believe you guys are missing pantera - cemetary gates... dimebag does some rediculas things with his axe in that song.

i would prolly have paranoid on top and agree that half the bands are rock rather then metal.

I would have a top10 looking something like this

1. Paranoid
2. Cemetary Gates
3. Hallowed be thy name
4. To live is to die
5. Fade to black
6. Reigning Blood
7. Cowboys from Hell
8. Angel's Don't Kill
9. Arise
10. Seasons in the abyss

it is a very bias list, however these aren't my favourite bands, just the songs i consider the best of my era of metal. Its soo hard for me to leave out favourite bands like nevermore,behemoth and co. but for the sake of me atleast attempting to make an objective top10 i had to leave them off

LOL @ kse in any top list
 
ths is just a popularity list. for instance, enter sandman is garbage compared to a lot of their stuff. and where is fear factory twats?

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lol you put metallica in there even though they apparently suck your balls...
infestacide said:
haha that list is shizer house..

seriously... cant believe you guys are missing pantera - cemetary gates... dimebag does some rediculas things with his axe in that song.

i would prolly have paranoid on top and agree that half the bands are rock rather then metal.

I would have a top10 looking something like this

1. Paranoid
2. Cemetary Gates
3. Hallowed be thy name
4. To live is to die
5. Fade to black
6. Reigning Blood
7. Cowboys from Hell
8. Angel's Don't Kill
9. Arise
10. Seasons in the abyss

it is a very bias list, however these aren't my favourite bands, just the songs i consider the best of my era of metal. Its soo hard for me to leave out favourite bands like nevermore,behemoth and co. but for the sake of me atleast attempting to make an objective top10 i had to leave them off

LOL @ kse in any top list
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westriot said:
ths is just a popularity list. for instance, enter sandman is garbage compared to a lot of their stuff. and where is fear factory twats?

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lol you put metallica in there even though they apparently suck your balls...
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yeah dude, as i said they arent my favourite bands, just what i would consider the top 10

this list was 3 years old anyway lol
 
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