Top 10 Early Metal Songs with the Best Riffs (1970-1979)

Keep in mind that NOT ALL songs by these bands of the 70s are metal songs. Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Rainbow, Deep Purple, and so on, have many songs that aren't metal. But for this list we need metal songs.

The Top Ten

1 Dissident Aggressor - Judas Priest

2 Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath

3 Stargazer - Rainbow

4 Gates of Babylon - Rainbow

5 Ride the Sky - Lucifer's Friend

6 A Light in the Black - Rainbow

7 Bird of Prey - Uriah Heep

8 Highway Star - Deep Purple

9 The Ripper - Judas Priest

10 Eyes of the World - Rainbow

The Contenders

11 Iron Man - Black Sabbath

This was one the first Metal songs I have heard and it still kick ass to this day even if it is simplistic who cares it's better than Paranoid which is overrated and Not Metal

12 Stained Class - Judas Priest