✅ Rock Hard Magazine: The best 250 rock and metal songs (Germany, 2011)
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 2:53 pm
Finally a list of hard and metal songs that is definitely eligible. Found it here:
http://www.rakekniven.de/node/250
Unfortunately, they managed to make it a one-song-per-artist list. I hate those.
1 | Metallica | Master of Puppets
2 | AC/DC | Hells Bells
3 | Iron Maiden | Hallowed Be Thy Name
4 | Rainbow | Stargazer
5 | Motörhead | Ace of Spades
6 | Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath
7 | Deep Purple | Highway Star
8 | Rush | Tom Sawyer
9 | Slayer | Angel of Death
10 | Led Zeppelin | Kashmir
11 | Judas Priest | Victim of Changes
12 | Thin Lizzy | Emerald
13 | Queen | Bohemian Rhapsody
14 | Saxon | Heavy Metal Thunder
15 | Van Halen | Runnin' with the Devil
16 | Savatage | Hall of the Mountain King
17 | Kiss | Detroit Rock City
18 | Aerosmith | Toys in the Attic
19 | Megadeth | Wake Up Dead
20 | Scorpions | In Trance
21 | Manowar | Bridge of Death
22 | Accept | Balls to the Wall
23 | Pantera | Cowboys from Hell
24 | Ozzy Osbourne | Mr Crowley
25 | Mercyful Fate | Evil
26 | Dream Theater | Afterlife
27 | UFO | Lights Out
28 | Fates Warning | Guardian
29 | Dio | Don't Talk to Strangers
30 | Armored Saint | Last Train Home
31 | Sanctuary | Future Tense
32 | Overkill | Feel the Fire
33 | Blind Guardian | Imaginations from the Other Side
34 | Queensrÿche | Revolution Calling
35 | Kreator | Pleasure to Kill
36 | Def Leppard | Billy's Got a Gun
37 | Whitesnake | Don't Break My Heart Again
38 | Psychotic Waltz | Another Prophet Song
39 | Candlemass | Samarithan
40 | Machine Head | Davidian
41 | Rage Against the Machine | Killing in the Name
42 | Bolt Thrower | The IVth Crusade
43 | Guns N' Roses | Sweet Child O Mine
44 | Helloween | Ride the Sky
45 | King Diamond | Sleepless Nights
46 | Sepultura | Roots Bloody Roots
47 | Journey | Separate Ways
48 | Anthrax | Indians
49 | Nirvana | Come As You Are
50 | Death Angel | Thrashers
51 | Metal Church | Metal Church
52 | Jethro Tull | Aqualung
53 | Rose Tattoo | Nice Boys (Don't Play R'n'R)
54 | Exodus | Bonded by Blood
55 | Tool | Stinkfist
56 | W.A.S.P. | Animal (**** Like a Beast)
57 | Nine Inch Nails | March of the Pigs
58 | Bathory | Enter the Eternal Fire
59 | Testament | Alone in the Dark
60 | System of a Down | B.Y.O.B.
61 | Iced Earth | Melancholy (Holy Martyr)
62 | Mötley Crüe | Live Wire
63 | God Machine | She Said
64 | ZZ Top | La Grange
65 | Virgin Steele | Noble Savage
66 | Alice in Chains | Would
67 | Triumph | Fight the Good Fight
68 | Venom | Black Metal
69 | Entombed | Left Hand Path
70 | The Michael Schenker Group | Attack of the Mad Axeman
71 | Pearl Jam | Alive
72 | Rammstein | Mein Teil
73 | Celtic Frost | Into the Crypt of Rays
74 | Porcupine Tree | Trains
75 | Magnum | One Sacred Hour
76 | Alice Cooper | Elected
77 | Ministry | Just One Fix
78 | Bad English | Forget Me Not
79 | Type O Negative | Christian Woman
80 | Sacred Reich | Surf Nicaragua
81 | Twisted Sister | What You Don't Know (Sure Can Hurt You)
82 | Paradise Lost | As I Die
83 | Annihilator | Alison Hell
84 | Amorphis | Black Winter Day
85 | Tiamat | Sleeping Beauty
86 | Lynyrd Skynyrd | That Smell
87 | Immortal | Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)
88 | Faith No More | Last Cup of Sorrow
89 | Monster Magnet | Spacelord
90 | Running Wild | Under Jolly Roger
91 | Down | Stone the Crow
92 | Morbid Angel | Maze of Torment
93 | Death | Symbolic
94 | Soundgarden | Rusty Cage
95 | Foreigner | Jukebox Hero
96 | In Flames | Only for the Weak
97 | Billy Talent | Living in the Shadows
98 | Böhse Onkelz | Heilige Lieder
99 | Rage | Refuge
100 | Tytan | Blind Men and Fools
101 | The Sex Pistols | God Save the Queen
102 | Diamond Head | Am I Evil?
103 | Volbeat | Mr. & Mrs. Ness
104 | Thunder | Welcome to the Party
105 | Heathen | Heathen's Song
106 | Anvil | Forged in Fire
107 | Medieval Steel | Medieval Steel
108 | Amon Amarth | The Pursuit of Vikings
109 | Uriah Heep | Easy Livin'
110 | Jane's Addiction | Been Caught Stealing
111 | Boston | More Than a Feeling
112 | Fifth Angel | Call Out the Warning
113 | Blackfoot | Good Morning
114 | Riot | Swords & Tequila
115 | D.A.D. | Sleeping My Day Away
116 | Vauxdvihl | Philosophia Mosaica
117 | Omen | Ruby Eyes (Of the Serpent)
118 | Great White | Rock Me
119 | Trouble | Revelation (Life or Death)
120 | Cannibal Corpse | Hammer Smashed Face
121 | King Crimson | 21st Century Schizoid Man
122 | Girlschool | Emergency
123 | Deftones | Digital Bath
124 | Malice | Stellar Masters
125 | Ratt | You're in Love
126 | Blue Öyster Cult | Don't Fear the Reaper
127 | Sammy Hagar | There's Only One Way to Rock
128 | Danzig | Mother
129 | Stratovarius | Hunting High and Low
130 | Heaven Shall Burn | Voice of the Voiceless
131 | Suicidal Tendencies | You Can't Bring Me Down
132 | Airbourne | Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast
133 | Demon | Don't Break the Circle
134 | Fear Factory | Slave Labor
135 | Warrior Soul | The Losers
136 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Crosstown Traffic
137 | Flotsam and Jetsam | Hammerhead
138 | Destruction | Bestial Invasion
139 | Jag Panzer | The Crucifix
140 | Savage Grace | Lion's Roar / Bound to Be Free
141 | Tankard | Empty Tankard
142 | In Extremo | Nur Ihr Allein
143 | Vicious Rumors | Digital Dictator
144 | Kyuss | Green Machine
145 | Hammerfall | The Metal Age
146 | Forbidden | Chalice of Blood
147 | King's X | Over My Head
148 | Emperor | Cosmic Keys to My Creations and Times
149 | Life of Agony | Other Side of the River
150 | Skyclad | Spinning Jenny
151 | Meat Loaf | Bat Out of Hell
152 | The Who | Baba O'Riley
153 | Gary Moore | Over the Hills and Far Away
154 | Sodom | Agent Orange
155 | Krokus | Long Stick Goes Boom
156 | Slade | Rock and Roll Preacher (Hallelujah I'm on Fire)
157 | Trust | Antisocial
158 | Pretty Maids | Future World
159 | Warlord | Lost and Lonely Days
160 | Bad Religion | No Control
161 | Social Distortion | Don't Drag Me Down
162 | Y & T | I Believe in You
163 | Symphony X | The Divine Wings of Tragedy
164 | Ramones | Blitzkrieg Bop
165 | Nightwish | Wishmaster
166 | Dokken | Kiss of Death
167 | Cheap Trick | Surrender
168 | Heavy Load | Heavy Metal Angels (In Metal and Leather)
169 | The Devil's Blood | The Anti-Kosmik Magick
170 | Status Quo | Roll Over Lay Down (Live) [not mentioned which live version, 1977 or 1984]
171 | Hypocrisy | Rosewell 47
172 | Exciter | Heavy Metal Maniac
173 | Soulfly | Prophecy
174 | Threshold | Long Way Home
175 | Primordial | The Coffin Ships
176 | The Cult | Fire Woman
177 | Prong | Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck
178 | Tank | The War Drags Ever On
179 | Warlock | Burning the Witches
180 | Bruce Dickinson | The Tower
181 | Angel Witch | Angel Witch
182 | Saigon Kick | Feel the Same Way
183 | Skid Row | Youth Gone Wild
184 | Dead Kennedys | Holiday in Cambodia
185 | Crimson Glory | Red Sharks
186 | Ayreon | Isis and Osiris
187 | Ted Nugent | Cat Scratch Fever
188 | Primus | Too Many Puppies
189 | Unleashed | The Immortals
190 | Tesla | Modern Day Cowboy
191 | Killing Joke | Pandemonium
192 | Bon Jovi | Living on a Prayer
193 | Backyard Babies | Stars
194 | Ian Gillian | No Laughing in Heaven
195 | Exhorder | (Cadence of) The Dirge
196 | Manilla Road | Dreams of Eschaton
197 | NOFX | Kill All the White Men
198 | Tygers of Tan Pang | Gangland
199 | Morgana Lefay | To Isengard
200 | Linkin Park | In the End
201 | Holocaust | Heavy Metal Mania
202 | Queens of the Stone Age | No One Knows
203 | Yngwie Malmsteen | Icarus' Dream Suite Opus 4
204 | Samson | Young Idea
205 | Grip Inc. | Hostage to Heaven
206 | Stormtrooper | Armies of the Night
207 | David Lee Roth | Yankee Rose
208 | Raven | Rock Until You Drop
209 | The Hellacopters | Soulseller
210 | Lamb of God | Walk with Me in Hell
211 | Voivod | Fix My Heart
212 | Anacrusis | Release
213 | Jameson Raid | Seven Days of Splendour
214 | Watain | Waters of Ain
215 | Leatherwolf | Thunder
216 | Opeth | The Baying of the Hounds
217 | Heir Apparent | Another Candle
218 | Tribe After Tribe | Remember
219 | The Darkness | One Way Ticket
220 | Impellitteri | Tonight I Fly
221 | Living Colour | Cult of Personality
222 | Nazareth | Telegram
223 | Corrosion of Conformity | Damned for All Time
224 | Slipknot | Wait and Bleed
225 | Mother Love Bone | Man of Golden Words
226 | Waysted | Heaven Tonight
227 | Jaguar | The Fox
228 | The Rods | Crank It Up
229 | Subway to Sally | Kleid aus Rosen
230 | Turbonegro | Are You Ready (For Some Darkness)
231 | Black Stone Cherry | Rain Wizard
232 | Carnivore | Carnivore
233 | Exxplorer | Run for Tomorrow
234 | Foo Fighters | Long Road to Ruin
235 | Korn | Freak on a Leash
236 | Kataklysm | Ambassador of Pain
237 | Little Caesar | Down n' Dirty
238 | Audioslave | Cochise
239 | Razor | Take This Torch
240 | Children of Bodom | Hate Crew Deathroll
241 | John Wetton | Battle Lines
242 | Temple of the Dog | Hunger Strike
243 | Stone Temple Pilots | Still Remains
244 | Filter | Hey Man, Nice Shot
245 | Riverdogs | The Man Is Me
246 | Satan | ...Trial by Fire
247 | The Sword | How Heavy This Axe
248 | Dimmu Borgir | The Mourning Palace
249 | Solitude Aeturnus | The 9th Day: Awakening
250 | Strapping Young Lad | All Hail the New Flesh
http://www.rakekniven.de/node/250
Unfortunately, they managed to make it a one-song-per-artist list. I hate those.
1 | Metallica | Master of Puppets
2 | AC/DC | Hells Bells
3 | Iron Maiden | Hallowed Be Thy Name
4 | Rainbow | Stargazer
5 | Motörhead | Ace of Spades
6 | Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath
7 | Deep Purple | Highway Star
8 | Rush | Tom Sawyer
9 | Slayer | Angel of Death
10 | Led Zeppelin | Kashmir
11 | Judas Priest | Victim of Changes
12 | Thin Lizzy | Emerald
13 | Queen | Bohemian Rhapsody
14 | Saxon | Heavy Metal Thunder
15 | Van Halen | Runnin' with the Devil
16 | Savatage | Hall of the Mountain King
17 | Kiss | Detroit Rock City
18 | Aerosmith | Toys in the Attic
19 | Megadeth | Wake Up Dead
20 | Scorpions | In Trance
21 | Manowar | Bridge of Death
22 | Accept | Balls to the Wall
23 | Pantera | Cowboys from Hell
24 | Ozzy Osbourne | Mr Crowley
25 | Mercyful Fate | Evil
26 | Dream Theater | Afterlife
27 | UFO | Lights Out
28 | Fates Warning | Guardian
29 | Dio | Don't Talk to Strangers
30 | Armored Saint | Last Train Home
31 | Sanctuary | Future Tense
32 | Overkill | Feel the Fire
33 | Blind Guardian | Imaginations from the Other Side
34 | Queensrÿche | Revolution Calling
35 | Kreator | Pleasure to Kill
36 | Def Leppard | Billy's Got a Gun
37 | Whitesnake | Don't Break My Heart Again
38 | Psychotic Waltz | Another Prophet Song
39 | Candlemass | Samarithan
40 | Machine Head | Davidian
41 | Rage Against the Machine | Killing in the Name
42 | Bolt Thrower | The IVth Crusade
43 | Guns N' Roses | Sweet Child O Mine
44 | Helloween | Ride the Sky
45 | King Diamond | Sleepless Nights
46 | Sepultura | Roots Bloody Roots
47 | Journey | Separate Ways
48 | Anthrax | Indians
49 | Nirvana | Come As You Are
50 | Death Angel | Thrashers
51 | Metal Church | Metal Church
52 | Jethro Tull | Aqualung
53 | Rose Tattoo | Nice Boys (Don't Play R'n'R)
54 | Exodus | Bonded by Blood
55 | Tool | Stinkfist
56 | W.A.S.P. | Animal (**** Like a Beast)
57 | Nine Inch Nails | March of the Pigs
58 | Bathory | Enter the Eternal Fire
59 | Testament | Alone in the Dark
60 | System of a Down | B.Y.O.B.
61 | Iced Earth | Melancholy (Holy Martyr)
62 | Mötley Crüe | Live Wire
63 | God Machine | She Said
64 | ZZ Top | La Grange
65 | Virgin Steele | Noble Savage
66 | Alice in Chains | Would
67 | Triumph | Fight the Good Fight
68 | Venom | Black Metal
69 | Entombed | Left Hand Path
70 | The Michael Schenker Group | Attack of the Mad Axeman
71 | Pearl Jam | Alive
72 | Rammstein | Mein Teil
73 | Celtic Frost | Into the Crypt of Rays
74 | Porcupine Tree | Trains
75 | Magnum | One Sacred Hour
76 | Alice Cooper | Elected
77 | Ministry | Just One Fix
78 | Bad English | Forget Me Not
79 | Type O Negative | Christian Woman
80 | Sacred Reich | Surf Nicaragua
81 | Twisted Sister | What You Don't Know (Sure Can Hurt You)
82 | Paradise Lost | As I Die
83 | Annihilator | Alison Hell
84 | Amorphis | Black Winter Day
85 | Tiamat | Sleeping Beauty
86 | Lynyrd Skynyrd | That Smell
87 | Immortal | Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)
88 | Faith No More | Last Cup of Sorrow
89 | Monster Magnet | Spacelord
90 | Running Wild | Under Jolly Roger
91 | Down | Stone the Crow
92 | Morbid Angel | Maze of Torment
93 | Death | Symbolic
94 | Soundgarden | Rusty Cage
95 | Foreigner | Jukebox Hero
96 | In Flames | Only for the Weak
97 | Billy Talent | Living in the Shadows
98 | Böhse Onkelz | Heilige Lieder
99 | Rage | Refuge
100 | Tytan | Blind Men and Fools
101 | The Sex Pistols | God Save the Queen
102 | Diamond Head | Am I Evil?
103 | Volbeat | Mr. & Mrs. Ness
104 | Thunder | Welcome to the Party
105 | Heathen | Heathen's Song
106 | Anvil | Forged in Fire
107 | Medieval Steel | Medieval Steel
108 | Amon Amarth | The Pursuit of Vikings
109 | Uriah Heep | Easy Livin'
110 | Jane's Addiction | Been Caught Stealing
111 | Boston | More Than a Feeling
112 | Fifth Angel | Call Out the Warning
113 | Blackfoot | Good Morning
114 | Riot | Swords & Tequila
115 | D.A.D. | Sleeping My Day Away
116 | Vauxdvihl | Philosophia Mosaica
117 | Omen | Ruby Eyes (Of the Serpent)
118 | Great White | Rock Me
119 | Trouble | Revelation (Life or Death)
120 | Cannibal Corpse | Hammer Smashed Face
121 | King Crimson | 21st Century Schizoid Man
122 | Girlschool | Emergency
123 | Deftones | Digital Bath
124 | Malice | Stellar Masters
125 | Ratt | You're in Love
126 | Blue Öyster Cult | Don't Fear the Reaper
127 | Sammy Hagar | There's Only One Way to Rock
128 | Danzig | Mother
129 | Stratovarius | Hunting High and Low
130 | Heaven Shall Burn | Voice of the Voiceless
131 | Suicidal Tendencies | You Can't Bring Me Down
132 | Airbourne | Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast
133 | Demon | Don't Break the Circle
134 | Fear Factory | Slave Labor
135 | Warrior Soul | The Losers
136 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Crosstown Traffic
137 | Flotsam and Jetsam | Hammerhead
138 | Destruction | Bestial Invasion
139 | Jag Panzer | The Crucifix
140 | Savage Grace | Lion's Roar / Bound to Be Free
141 | Tankard | Empty Tankard
142 | In Extremo | Nur Ihr Allein
143 | Vicious Rumors | Digital Dictator
144 | Kyuss | Green Machine
145 | Hammerfall | The Metal Age
146 | Forbidden | Chalice of Blood
147 | King's X | Over My Head
148 | Emperor | Cosmic Keys to My Creations and Times
149 | Life of Agony | Other Side of the River
150 | Skyclad | Spinning Jenny
151 | Meat Loaf | Bat Out of Hell
152 | The Who | Baba O'Riley
153 | Gary Moore | Over the Hills and Far Away
154 | Sodom | Agent Orange
155 | Krokus | Long Stick Goes Boom
156 | Slade | Rock and Roll Preacher (Hallelujah I'm on Fire)
157 | Trust | Antisocial
158 | Pretty Maids | Future World
159 | Warlord | Lost and Lonely Days
160 | Bad Religion | No Control
161 | Social Distortion | Don't Drag Me Down
162 | Y & T | I Believe in You
163 | Symphony X | The Divine Wings of Tragedy
164 | Ramones | Blitzkrieg Bop
165 | Nightwish | Wishmaster
166 | Dokken | Kiss of Death
167 | Cheap Trick | Surrender
168 | Heavy Load | Heavy Metal Angels (In Metal and Leather)
169 | The Devil's Blood | The Anti-Kosmik Magick
170 | Status Quo | Roll Over Lay Down (Live) [not mentioned which live version, 1977 or 1984]
171 | Hypocrisy | Rosewell 47
172 | Exciter | Heavy Metal Maniac
173 | Soulfly | Prophecy
174 | Threshold | Long Way Home
175 | Primordial | The Coffin Ships
176 | The Cult | Fire Woman
177 | Prong | Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck
178 | Tank | The War Drags Ever On
179 | Warlock | Burning the Witches
180 | Bruce Dickinson | The Tower
181 | Angel Witch | Angel Witch
182 | Saigon Kick | Feel the Same Way
183 | Skid Row | Youth Gone Wild
184 | Dead Kennedys | Holiday in Cambodia
185 | Crimson Glory | Red Sharks
186 | Ayreon | Isis and Osiris
187 | Ted Nugent | Cat Scratch Fever
188 | Primus | Too Many Puppies
189 | Unleashed | The Immortals
190 | Tesla | Modern Day Cowboy
191 | Killing Joke | Pandemonium
192 | Bon Jovi | Living on a Prayer
193 | Backyard Babies | Stars
194 | Ian Gillian | No Laughing in Heaven
195 | Exhorder | (Cadence of) The Dirge
196 | Manilla Road | Dreams of Eschaton
197 | NOFX | Kill All the White Men
198 | Tygers of Tan Pang | Gangland
199 | Morgana Lefay | To Isengard
200 | Linkin Park | In the End
201 | Holocaust | Heavy Metal Mania
202 | Queens of the Stone Age | No One Knows
203 | Yngwie Malmsteen | Icarus' Dream Suite Opus 4
204 | Samson | Young Idea
205 | Grip Inc. | Hostage to Heaven
206 | Stormtrooper | Armies of the Night
207 | David Lee Roth | Yankee Rose
208 | Raven | Rock Until You Drop
209 | The Hellacopters | Soulseller
210 | Lamb of God | Walk with Me in Hell
211 | Voivod | Fix My Heart
212 | Anacrusis | Release
213 | Jameson Raid | Seven Days of Splendour
214 | Watain | Waters of Ain
215 | Leatherwolf | Thunder
216 | Opeth | The Baying of the Hounds
217 | Heir Apparent | Another Candle
218 | Tribe After Tribe | Remember
219 | The Darkness | One Way Ticket
220 | Impellitteri | Tonight I Fly
221 | Living Colour | Cult of Personality
222 | Nazareth | Telegram
223 | Corrosion of Conformity | Damned for All Time
224 | Slipknot | Wait and Bleed
225 | Mother Love Bone | Man of Golden Words
226 | Waysted | Heaven Tonight
227 | Jaguar | The Fox
228 | The Rods | Crank It Up
229 | Subway to Sally | Kleid aus Rosen
230 | Turbonegro | Are You Ready (For Some Darkness)
231 | Black Stone Cherry | Rain Wizard
232 | Carnivore | Carnivore
233 | Exxplorer | Run for Tomorrow
234 | Foo Fighters | Long Road to Ruin
235 | Korn | Freak on a Leash
236 | Kataklysm | Ambassador of Pain
237 | Little Caesar | Down n' Dirty
238 | Audioslave | Cochise
239 | Razor | Take This Torch
240 | Children of Bodom | Hate Crew Deathroll
241 | John Wetton | Battle Lines
242 | Temple of the Dog | Hunger Strike
243 | Stone Temple Pilots | Still Remains
244 | Filter | Hey Man, Nice Shot
245 | Riverdogs | The Man Is Me
246 | Satan | ...Trial by Fire
247 | The Sword | How Heavy This Axe
248 | Dimmu Borgir | The Mourning Palace
249 | Solitude Aeturnus | The 9th Day: Awakening
250 | Strapping Young Lad | All Hail the New Flesh