Hardest Guitar Hero III Songs

The Top Ten
1 Through the Fire and Flames - DragonForce

Love this song! This is difficult and there is a paper jamz guitar song where at the end there is notes where you hit them. Its difficult, but not as much as this song which blows off th awesome concept of rock. It smashes the top 26000 times! Just listen to it

The only song I've ever encountered on any guitar hero I can't seem to beat no matter how much practice I have. My highest difficulty I can beat it on Is hard on a good day

The Toughest part is defiantly The beginning where Their's JUST hammer-ons & I could NEVER seem To get That! I normally get 0% Or 1%!

2 Raining Blood - Slayer

Nearly impossible. "Mosh 1" is the hardest of all parts due to hundreds of pull-offs (about 14-15 notes/sec). Through The Fires And Flames is harder than this. I've gotten to at least 67-69% through it, and This song? Never got past 30-40%. Even if it is unbelievably short, it takes MONTHS of practice until you get it at least once.

Even on easy this song is harder than the others. When I played this when I was a noob to Guitar Hero I literally was like nope! I ended up doing all the bonus songs and all the other career songs before doing this song.

3 The Devil Went Down to Georgia - The Charlie Daniels Band

Why is this sixth?
Surely if there were enough Guitar Hero players out there who played the game on Expert then they would know how hard of a song this is, not Though the Fire and Flames. Which is only famous for it's beginning after that it's about as hard as let's say Before I Forget.

I never played it but I got guitar hero at home and I thing this is a LOT harder than Through the Fire and Flames, because it has an incredible solos... This song is just a one big solo, like Through the Fire and Flames, but this song is harder.

4 One - Metallica

I've been trying to beat this song for years. I think about it constantly. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, sweating, nervously singing Guitar Solo A. I've lost all my friends, my job, my passion. All I do is play One by Metallica on guitar hero.

I have beat this lots of times. When it gets to the freaky fast Hammer-ons, use all the stored star power and you should pass that part. If you pass this part with moderate ease, you should be able to beat it.

This is the whole song. Basically the same riff. You cannot live, that means you cannot die literally this makes no sense. I know, this should by one from the bottom! Ha! See what I did there?

5 Knights of Cydonia - Muse

This was personally an easy song for me. Like, really easy. I can see others have problems with it, but "near impossible on expert" just learn to play please.

This is the single greatest song ever. Before I first heard this, I had no idea who Muse was. But because I played this song, Muse is now my favorte band. Thank you Guitar Hero!

This song is very hard. The notes in some parts fly down the screen, and it is near impossible to play on expert.

6 Cult of Personality - Living Colour

This song needs 5th place (after TDWDTG, Through the Fire and Flames, Raining Blood and One), it's solo is so long and hard, that after passing it I'm making mistakes on the easy part just because my fingers are very tired.
Knights of Cydonia isn't hard, after you'll learn how to shred about 15 nps and you'll make it to the tapping part, rest of the song is very easy.
The number of the Beast is a bit harder than Knights of Cydonia, but still easier than Cult of Personality, after you'll pass the beginning, rest of the song is simple (until the repeat of the starting riff).

7 Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson

Fairly easy on expert if you get the first 2 star power sets. Even if you don't have the star power, if you are at least in the greens on the rock meter and you are a good strummer, pretty easy. The rest of the song you got to find the rhythm and it will be easy. I beat it almost every time I do it.

This song is easy on guitar and expert, except for the one part in the beginning where you need to like keep holding orange or something, but get past that and your home free

I dare anyone on this site to play this on an "Actual" guitar.

8 The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden

The song is Tough in The beginning, After The beginning, Verse 1 is not That Tough, Until it get's To The solo!

I can NOT do The song at all because The notes come at you VERY quick!

9 Before I Forget - Slipknot

Who the hell stated Knights of Cydonia was harder than this one? Definitely the 5th hardest song in the game, due to the insane amount of 3 notes chords that you have to play pretty fast, and of course the demonic bridge. Every part of this track is atrociously overcharted, making it harder to beat than any of the previous tracks in the game

Pretty easy. The bridge is the hardest part, but kind of overrated. The only part that gives me any trouble with it is that towards the end of the bridge there is a fast alternation between the RB and YO chords, usually messing up any combo I originally had, making it hard for me at least to FC.

10 The Way It Ends - Prototype

This song requires a mastery of strumming and finger placement on top of that. It's ridiculous that Knights are higher than this. The fast parts on Knights only require consistent strumming and are there are only a few instances of it. Keeping stamina on that song may be hard for some but clearly they've never attempted this song. The majority of this song is the speed of Knights but with quick pauses between the columns, making it significantly harder to keep the strumming accurate to the BPM. On top of that, you have to not get thrown off by the three-note chords in the pre-chorus and chorus, which to make easier require you to treat the strumming segments like they are two-note chords and to swap between them makes the song that much more difficult. To wrap it all up it has a difficult solo, much harder than anything in Knights. Definitely deserves higher than tenth, and should steal Knights place in fifth, where it belongs.

The Newcomers

? My Curse - Killswitch Engage
The Contenders
11 Nothing for Me Here - Dope

Fast strumming and a tricky solo make it difficult but not impossible.

12 Take This Life - In Flames

Only song from basic GH3 I've never passed. Strumming is too intensive and there is no moment for rest. Way harder to beat (however probably not to FC) than Through the Fire and Flames. In terms of passing, here's my list (including only basic GH3 songs, excluding DLC, so TDWDTG is not here):

1. Take This Life
2. Through The Fire And Flames
3. The Way It Ends
4. Raining Blood
5. Before I Forget
6. Nothing for Me Here
7. Mauvais Garcon
8. Knights of Cydonia
9. F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X.
10. The Number of The Beast
11. Cult of Personality
12. One
13. My Curse
14. Impulse
15. Cliffs of Dover
16. I'm in the Band
17. Monsters
18. Pride and Joy
19. Holiday In Cambodia
20. The Metal

13 Stricken - Disturbed

I can make it through everything accept this song on hard difficulty. D: Devil's work.

14 Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan
15 F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. - The Fall of Troy

I can't believe this isn't even on the top 20... This is, by far, one of the hardest strumming songs IN THE GAME. The continuous 3 note back to back motion, and the insane solo at the end is crazy. Your fingers will hurt halfway through. But hey, maybe it's just me...

I can do all the songs on medium apart from this one..

16 Slow Ride - Foghat

This song. Literally can't believe this is how I lost to my guitar hero career. Full combo all guitar hero games. This song...

Holy crap, it took me a few years to be able to beat this one. I still shudder when I hear that nightmarish riff... *shudder*

17 3's & 7's - Queens of the Stone Age
18 Mauvais Garçon - Naast

Stupid chords... I hate these chords. I don't want to disgrace any of the other songs on this list by putting it up any higher but I've always struggled with the rhythm of this song and the speed at which you change between songs. Not even an enjoyable song to listen to, I have no idea what it's about and I don't care to. Only redeeming quality is that's it's like two minutes of suffering instead of more.

This song is really tricky to play, but its also fun.

19 Stockholm Syndrome - Muse

You download it genius. Ever heard of DLC? You probably just have a Wii.

This song isn't in guitar hero 3, why is it on the list?

20 Revolution Deathsquad - Dragonforce

What people, this song makes Through the Fire and Flames look like my morning coffee...

21 Bulls On Parade - Rage Against the Machine

Way to difficult.
Failed like 12 times.
Hardest song in game.

This is one of the easiest songs in the game one of the first expert songs I 5 starred

22 Monsters - Matchbook Romance
23 Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N Roses

If you just got this game, this song will be a pain!

24 Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions
25 Paranoid - Black Sabbath
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