Top 10 Most Apocalyptic Rock and Metal Songs

The Top Ten
1 Black Prophecies - Dark Angel
2 The Four Horsemen - Metallica
3 The End - The Doors
4 Imperiled Eyes - Annihilator
5 Ænema - Tool
6 Pure F**king Armageddon - Mayhem
7 Disciple - Slayer
8 Armageddon - Gamma Ray
9 World War Now - Kreator
10 Apocalypse - Hypocrisy

A less known death metal song but its sound is one of the most apocalyptic ones on this list.

The Contenders
11 2 Minutes to Midnight - Iron Maiden

"The body bags and little rags of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song
To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun."

12 Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Lyrics are dark but music - not very much (compared to the metal songs on this list). Music even sounds upbeat to me. Music and lyrics aren't matched. But the song is great and popular.

For those not familiar with the song, a "Bad Moon Rising" is a thermonuclear detonation; which is pretty darn apocalyptic.

13 As It Was, as It Soon Shall Be - Exodus
14 Into the Void - Black Sabbath

How is bad moon rising more apocalyptic than this?

15 Goodbye Blue Sky - Pink Floyd
16 Fight Fire with Fire - Metallica
17 Seventh Sign - Yngwie Malmsteen
18 Seven Seals - Primal Fear
19 Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
20 All Nightmare Long - Metallica
21 The Prophet's Song - Queen
22 Apocalypse Dreams - Tame Impala
23 Skeletons of Society - Slayer
24 The Antichrist - Slayer
25 Hammer to Fall - Queen
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