Top 10 Bonus Tracks by Metal Bands

The Top Ten

1 Distant Memories - Blind Guardian

Bonus track from their 2015 album - I guess they decided the song was too soft for the album.

2 Aggressive Perfector - Slayer

3 Lords of Summer - Metallica

4 Duke Nukem Theme - Megadeth

That Moment when the Bonus Track is better than all the others on the album (Risk)

5 Wages of Sin - Theocracy

6 Theatre of Pain (Classic Version) - Blind Guardian

This song has 4 versions and this is the best one.

7 Piss - Pantera

8 God of Thunder - Death

It's a KISS cover, bonus track to the Japanese edition.

9 Lunar Lament - Demons & Wizards

When bonus tracks to albums of a side project are better than most of the popular songs, you know these musicians are great. And underrated. (Demons & Wizards is a supergroup, side project of metal musicians).

10 Harvest of Sorrow - Blind Guardian

This beautiful song has 7 different studio versions and 2 official live versions! But it has always been a bonus track to different albums. Vocals and vocal harmonies are pure bliss.

The Contenders

11 Martyr - Soilwork

12 Bury Me Under the Sun - Lamb of God

13 Shoulder of Your God - Lamb of God

14 Son of Alerik - Deep Purple

A very good instrumental by Ritchie Blackmore. It was a bonus track to the remastered and reissued version of the album Perfect Strangers (1999). This track was a B-side on the single "Perfect Strangers" in 1984 but wasn't included in the 1984 album.

15 Spatial Architects - Demons & Wizards