Best Traditional Heavy Metal Songs

The Top Ten
1 Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden

Yeah, I'm a Metallica fanboy, but this song rightly deserves to be #1. It builds and builds and builds...epic track from Iron Maiden's greatest album.

I can spend my whole life with this guys music - the best band on earth. I love maiden - thanks for giving such a great music - Karthik Blore

A lot of Iron Maiden songs deserve to be in this list. But Hallowed be thy name for the win!

If you love metal,but didn't heard this song.
Please go away and throw your "metalhead" tag.

2 Painkiller - Judas Priest
3 The Trooper - Iron Maiden

Better than Painkiller

4 Stargazer - Rainbow

The way Blackmore uses the phyrigian dominant scale is crazy. He uses it to bring us back to the time of an Egyptian slave. Then, Dio's vocals bring us into the world of a man who worked his whole live for nothing when the man he was working for fails in his quest.

Epic. Dio and Blackmore killing it.

5 Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath

Simply gorgeous and complex

6 Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden

This classic is longer than the poem that inspired it. Epic Maiden.

7 Phantom of the Opera - Iron Maiden
8 Holy Diver - Dio

Favorite is Hallowed be thy name but this comes really close and deserve top 3

9 Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden
10 Aces High - Iron Maiden
The Contenders
11 Mr. Crowley - Ozzy Osbourne
12 Rainbow in the Dark - Dio
13 Battle Hymn - Manowar
14 Metal Meltdown - Judas Priest
15 The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
16 Metal Heart - Accept
17 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

It's doom metal, not Traditional Heavy Metal

The first metal song the world ever heard

18 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Iron Maiden

Great vocal line, great guitars and bass. The drums are ok, but I could imagine rhythm and sound of drums if it was played by original and inventive Clive Burr R.I.P.

19 Powerslave - Iron Maiden
20 Ram It Down - Judas Priest
21 Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
22 Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath
23 22 Acacia Avenue - Iron Maiden
24 Angel Witch - Angel Witch
25 Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
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