Top Ten Worst Metallica Songs

The Top Ten
1 We Did It Again

This song pretty repetitive but still catchy.
I cannot believe my eyes that No Leaf Clover is on this list at ALL! What in gods holy name who voted that in, ya know Mr Hammett improvised that guitar solo on the spot. Absolute blashpemy that its on this list and don't even get me started on To live is to die... You should be ashamed of yourselves people!

This Song Is Absolutely Awful, there's Nothing Good About It!, It all Sucks!, the Beat Is So Rushed And Horrible, Honestly This One Of The Worst Songs I've Ever Listened To Along With Watch Me, Anaconda, And Juju On That Beat, Negative 50/5

Songs like Phantom Lord, Frantic, To Live is To die, master of puppets, and the day that never comes do not deserve to be on this list. Those are all good songs and should not even be close to the worst Metallica songs

2 Brandenburg Gate

Worst song in lulu... and I agree with the 98% of the comments here, why the hell are so many songs in this list?

Do not listen to the sample below

Lulu is just bad in general

3 Frustration

Oh for gods sakes Lulu is not a Metallica album, it's more of a collaborative side project album done with Lou Reed. It basically stands alone, yes it's a bit of a history point in Metallica's career but it's still not Metallica.

This shouldn't be on here because it's a Lou reed album not a Metallica album.

This song is ugly as their style as musicians.

"Marry me, I want you as my wife, spermless like a girl". What the hell are those lyrics seriously?

4 Cheat On Me

What an elite rustler list. Triggered so many Metallica fan boy visitors. Just goes to show no matter how good a band is, there is no guarantee that they won't have a toxic fanbase

5 Purify

This song starts off with such a great riff and the chugging riff afterwards is cool too, but then it moves to the 6/4 riff with the vocals which gets me confused and then this chorus which is so horribly written and performed it gives me a headache.. and to think that this song came from the same band that wrote One and Battery.

I like some songs on St. Anger but this song is probably the worst on the album. It's just so loud and obnoxious. This and All Within My Hands should be at the top of the list in my opinion.

This is it. This should be #1. I would literally listen to Jonas Brothers over this "song", even though I love Metallica. Were they all drunk when they made this?

6 My World

Lars' drums gave me a headache in this song, so therefore I hate this song! This should be higher than 17. Why are there some awesome songs on the top 10 when THIS SONG ain't?! Come on! Please vote for this one.

I have not heard this song, when I asked my friends about this song, they said it sucked. After that, I decided to hear it; I made a mistake hearing this song so therefore my vote goes to you... My World!

Bad song to listen to! There's nothing interesting about this song. It doesn't go anywhere. Please vote!

7 All Within My Hands

I just don't like how repetitive this song is and the "kill kill kill" ending. This song could have been shortened down to about 5 minutes but it just drones on and on for about 9 minutes.

Masterpiece but the acoustic version is better

I like St. Anger. I can't stand this song, though.

8 The View

Joey Belladonna is the Law (Anthrax)
Tom Araya the Antichrist (Slayer)
Dave Mustaine the King (Megadeth)
Bruce Dickinson is a Powerslave (Iron Maiden)
Ozzy Osbourne is the prince (Black Sabbath/Solo)
Ronnie James Dio is the first in line (Black Sabbath/Dio)
Rob Halford is the Metal God (Judas Priest)
But James Hetfield chose to be a TABLE! (Obviously Metallica)

OUT OF EVERYTHING HE COULD OF CHOSEN TO BE THAT HASN'T ALREADY BEEN TAKEN, HE CHOSE A TABLE!

Close between this and Brandenburg Gate. WORST Metallica SONG EVER, and probably the worst song of all time. Makes Justin Bieber look like a LEGEND!

Oh and by the way, This also contains the Stupidest lyrics in any song I can think of. "I am the Progress!?! " "I AM THE TABLET!?! " This is just a complete Failure.

Oh and by the way I discovered what I am the table meant. He meant he is the table of the last supper. Still, this song sucks and why the table, not the food, not the people, it's more than a bit dumb.

It's so bad I couldn't get through the preview on iTunes. This has the dumbest lyrics ever like "I am the table". What does that mean!? Were Lou Reed and Metallica drunk when they made his album?

9 Mama Said

They must have been drunk when they made this crap. Seriously, the lyrics are just laughably terrible, there are no kirk solos, and the guitars sounded like it was recorded by a beginner. Even Nickelback would cringe at this noise fest. I'd rather listen to Paralyzed by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy 10 times in a row than listen to half of this noise. It would at least sound much better. I seriously don't know why they had the nerve to make such a song with such an awful vocal performance, and crappy guitars. This abomination is just hilariously bad. James' "singing" is like a drunk guy trying his best to be Freddy Mercury. I actually love the guitar riff on Cheat On Me and Frustration. This isn't even a guitar riff. It's just a drunk guy playing simple chords over and over again. This should be number one. Everything about this song is just stupid.

To Live Is To Die is one of the most complicated songs meaningwise. It's all about Cliff's death, and the stages of depression and agony Metallica went through. Most people don't know it, but the different tempos in the song all mark a different stage of depression. The bass is also part of Cliff's unused bass practicing. The lyrics is Cliff's favorite poem. If more people knew what it was about, it wouldn't even be on the list.

10 Mistress Dread

This is just terrible and one of the worst things ever. The riff is just stupid and the lyrics are just terrible and a disaster. Seriously I don't even hate Lulu but this is horrible!

Great Song! Shouldn't be on here!

The Contenders
11 St. Anger

The downfall of lars Ulrich as a drummer. How does he go from the really technically complex stuff from and Justice For All to this. It sounds like he is just banging on all pots and pans in his kitchen. Is Kirk even playing here? This is just trash. I do respect the fact that they took all their anger out on this album and that they learned not to omit solos in Death Magnetic.

This isn't music, this is noise pollution that would make even a deaf person cringe. And to anyone who compares this to Nickelback, stop. Even Nickelback is better than the worthless and pathetic excuse for "music" that is this "song". You'd be better off sticking your head into a branch shredder.

So many different directions in this. It starts off with a sloppy guitar riff then speeds up into a tin can snarefest before slowing into a slow chord progression then going into a dance pop style chord progression and then just repeats itself. Honestly, there’s no appeal in this at ALL. There’s no punch and the lyrics. St anger round my neck? I feel my world shake like an earthquake? I need to set my anger free? You flush it out? I need to flush my brain out.

12 Little Dog

There are acoustic guitars, but the "singing", really drunk sounding spoken word, and lyrics ruined it, who wants to hear an old man say, and I quote, bend over and sniff

The only guitars in this song is a string buzz, and amp feedback, all static. The spoken word, is lame, and the lyrics are atrocious

What the hell is this?

13 Slither

Why the hell are there some good songs in the Top 10 worst, when this crappy song isn't?! Most of the songs in the top 10 shouldn't even be on there while this one should. And how is Mama Said the worst song on here?! It's a beautiful song.

I hate this song! In my opinion, I think this is easily one of Metallica's worst songs. Why is Master Of Puppets on this list?! Master Of Puppets is one of the best. Please vote for Slither as one of the worst!

BAD SONG! Why are there some awesome songs on the top 10 list when this crappy song isn't?! I hate pretty much everything about this song. Please vote!

14 Junior Dad

This song seems like it will never decide to end and it has no reason at all to be 19 minutes long...

15 Dragon
16 Frantic

Just a horrible song, and before any of you say this shouldn't be on here, you are dead wrong. This isn't even the worst song in this album. It's actually one of the best, and still horrible. The lyrics are just stupid, with off-key vocals, and Frantic tick tick tock!?! If that is not all, you have to hear Trash Can drums and horrible guitars. This is also in my opinion the WORST Metallica album opener excluding "Lulu", and I'm guessing the purpose for this song was to warn you about whats coming up, and after this, I don't even bother listening to St. Anger.

Frantic, along with the rest of the St. Anger album, is probably one of the most horrifying pre-Rebecca Black songs ever written. Trash can drums, off-key vocals, and the guitars sound out of tune. I don't get why people hate Mama Said so much. It isn't my style, but its really heartfelt. Songs 3-9 are all really good.

God, this is just torture to my ears, Frantic tic tic tic tic tic (ugh! ), can't stand it, it is a dishonor to albums like "master of puppets" and "... and justice for all", but it is still better than many things (like bieber) you see out there XD

17 Ronnie

Ronnie is one of the worst Metallica songs ever in my opinion! It should be in the top 5 at least! Most of the songs on here shouldn't even be on here at all! There are more good songs than bad songs on this list. Vote.

I really like Load. For me, it's one of their best albums ever. However, the riff on this song is just awful. It's really sad to say this, considering the rest of the album to me is so great.

My list of my 5 least favorite Metallica songs (not including Garage Inc. or Lulu):
1) Ronnie
2) Slither
3) Invisible Kid
4) Purify
5) Cure

18 Pumping Blood
19 Iced Honey

They Weren't Even "Singing"

20 Cure

A very boring song that sounds unfinished. Like they started with a bad song idea and the got halfway done and decide this is going to suck anyway so lets just call it a day.

It is not as good as the others. Still a great song, but...
It kinda bores me after a while listening to it. And how are some really great songs are on this list?! Come on! Please vote.

I don't hate many Metallica songs, but this one isn't good at all.

21 Invisible Kid

Metallica is a great band but this one is no. Thr drums sounds like a milk can. It's repetitive as hell. Boring at all.

Not too bad, there are worse songs on St. Anger, but this one still isn't great.

If they made this song a few years earlier or later it would be great

22 Temptation

This should totally be number one. When songs don't make albums, they typically aren't all that bad, like the songs on "Beyond Magnetic" weren't terrible, but this song didn't make ST. ANGER. If that there doesn't say enough, how about the fact that it is less than 2 minutes, but even in that short of an amount of time you still would chose a gun to your head over this song. It's quite impressive that a song this short still has the strong impact that it does to drive you to suicide over hearing it again.

I think the only reason this isn't at the top of this list is because people don't know about it. Here's the story: it's a reject from St. Anger. Yup. The album that brought you "Purify", "All Within My Hands", and "Invisible Kid". A demo of this song is on Youtube. I wouldn't listen to it if I were you.

Most people haven't heard of this song because it didn't make it onto the Saint Anger album, and is only heard on the soundtrack of their movie, but it is terrible.

Worst Metallica song ever, even worse than THE VIEW (Which he says that he is a Tablet). Didn't even make it to St. Anger. Worse than Purify and All Within my Hands.

23 Bad Seed

Note how this song, despite being at #33, is top 10 excluding St. Anger, non-album tracks, unreleased stuff, collabarotion, covers and other black magic. I.e. voters's logic: only bad album Metallica has is St. Anger, every other bad song of theirs can be blamed on someone else. Almost every studio song outside St. Anger has aggressive comments like "Whoever put this here, die! ". People should start rating the songs themselves and not the album/period they come from, because Metallica fan behaviour is like "the best song from a bad album must be worse than the worst song on a good album"

24 Attitude

This song is so cheesy. The lyrics in this song are really bad and this is sort of a rip-off of Better Than You from the same album. This is the worst Metallica song if we don't include St. Anger, or Garage Inc. , or Lulu...

25 Poor Twisted Me

This song is not good, but not terrible either, just okay. But I do think this should be in the top 20. However, there are some Metallica songs that are MUCH worse than Poor Twisted Me. Slither, for example, has some of Metallica's most crappy lyrics ever and the song is just f***ing boring! But it's already in the top 10, so I voted for this one instead just because it should be a little higher on the list.

The lyrics of this song are so hilariously bad and the whole song sounds unfinished and on autopilot.

I actually like this song. It's one of my favorite songs off of Load. Hugely underrated.

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