Top 10 Best Metal Instrumentals

This is a list of compositions in which musicians try to express their thoughts and feelings of the language of music, not words. These songs are the benchmark of musical excellence for metal guitarists, bassist and drummers.
The Top Ten
1 Orion (Metallica)

A tough choice between this and The Call of Ktulu, but I like this song just a bit more. Both pieces are absolutely amazing. Incredible work by the great Cliff Burton. May his soul rest in piece. I would even go so far as to say it's the best song on the entire album if Master of Puppets wasn't on the album.

Cliff Burton is the BEST!
This is the best instrumental metal/rock song of all time! No questions asked, no lies told, it's just the best one!

It's hard to put all these beautiful Metallica master pieces in order. However, I more often choose Orion over others.

2 Voice of the Soul (Death)

Orion is great, but Voice of the Soul is the absolute, untouchable masterpiece. No other instrumental can make ANYONE cry their eyes out. To Live Is To Die would be second best.

Definitely this is the best instrumental ever! It brings out emotion in me every time I listen to it.Orion is also legendary but this, this one is a masterpiece of a song!

One of the most powerful pieces of music I've ever heard. This song is a masterpiece which will make any metal head cry.

3 The Call of Ktulu (Metallica)

God tier, better than Orion. The theme is so creepy and mysterious; it tells a whole story. You can feel as the distortion kicks in, the ktulu rising out of the sea, and with the epic final notes you can feel him hitting the seabed once again after being defeated by his opponent.

My favorite instrumental of all time. Suicide and redemption should not be on here though when you consider songs like musical death and hypnosis by testament, into the lungs of hell, dialectic chaos, and absolution by megadeth, and DEFINITELY pulling teeth.

Orion is great, but Ktulu is incredible. The bass work on Orion is better than the already amazing bass work on Ktulu; but on Ktulu, the rest of the band is far better than they are on Orion.

4 Black Star (Yngwie Malmsteen)

Some of the most amazing guitar playing that I have ever heard. Neo-classical guitar at its best. It just sounds dark and evil and just simply awesome. There is real emotion and incredible technicality in this song. Live version is even better.

5 To Live Is to Die (Metallica)

Seriously, listen to this with subwoofers, volume cranked, all the way though, and tell me it's not an amazing experience.

Masterpiece with some sad, but badass melodies!

The 4 metallica instrumentals are amazing, and suicide & redemption is the most underrated

6 Transylvania (Iron Maiden)

One of Steve Harris' best works, Dave Murray had a fun time writing another legato solo on this track and Dennis Stratton, my favourite instrumental song from the best band in the world

Amazing, Steve Harris is on a different level than any other bass player on the earth

7 Stream of Consciousness (Dream Theater)

You can really see the technical prowess of Dream Theatre in this song. Just close your eyes & let the song take you over

This song is a life-changing experience.

It Is because of popularity three Metallica songs are above this, I don't care but I'll suggest you to listen this, I'm sure you'll love it

8 Eruption (Van Halen)
9 Musical Death (Testament)
10 Dialogue With the Stars (In Flames)
The Contenders
11 Suicide & Redemption (Metallica)

All of death magnetic is underrated, fans don't like it, even metallica seems to forget about it, but hey they played a few songs from it, so that's a good sign, but this one is just a gem, one of the greatest instrumentals I've ever heard.

Very Underrated just because it's on Death Magnetic. I would place it at number 6. It's a beautiful song!

This, orion and the dance of eternity are the best
Also love voice of soul, transylvania, to live is to die, ktulu, stream of consciousness and many others

12 The Dance of Eternity (Dream Theater)

This song changes time signatures more often than Guns And Roses changes members.

Fun fact: this song has 108 time signature changes!

13 The Ultra-Violence (Death Angel)

They were all teenagers when they recorded this, and their drummer was 14. Not to mention it's 10 minutes of pure thrash awesomeness.

14 Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) (Metallica)
15 Conquer Or Die (Megadeth)
16 Losfer Words (Big Orra) (Iron Maiden)

The guitars on this track sound like pure ear candy.

17 Red (King Crimson)
18 The Hawthorne Passage (Agalloch)
19 Genghis Khan (Iron Maiden)
20 Dialectic Chaos (Megadeth)

Underrated, COME ON! Who were the idiots that didn't vote for this!

21 Arc-Lite (Coroner)
22 Slania (folk medley) (Eluveitie)
23 Man Made God (In Flames)
24 Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) (Savatage)
25 Odal (Agalloch)
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