Top Ten Hardest Metal Songs to Sing

The Top Ten
1 Painkiller - Judas Priest

Easy at first for a good singer, but to keep up with the song until the end note is almost impossible

2 Abigail - King Diamond

It's not hard if you have a vocal range of 4+ octaves and mad falsetto. But it's hard to find people with such skills!

3 And Then There Was Silence - Blind Guardian

And they played this song even live and did it great! The lyrics are like 5 miles long...

Imagine having to sing this plus the song is 14 minutes long that would be very hard

High notes, varied lyrics, and not so much time to breathe plus 14 min long

4 Child in Time - Deep Purple

That part with the high range is very hard to do. Ian Gillan voice is amazing.

5 My Last Sunrise - Demons & Wizards
6 Dante's Inferno - Iced Earth
7 Keeper of the Seven Keys - Helloween
8 Highlander - Lost Horizon

Only reason Highlander is not number 1 is because Lost Horizon is not as well known as these other bands.
Daniel Heiman is not only on another lever, or another world, he is on a different dimension entirely in terms of his vocal prowess.

Sick screams and transitions

No doubt this is the one

9 The Oath - Mercyful Fate
10 Queen of the Reich - Queensryche
The Contenders
11 March of Time - Helloween
12 Metal Meltdown - Judas Priest

Sinister harmonies on the vocals, so damn hard to sing

13 Cathedral Spires - Judas Priest
14 Octavarium - Dream Theater
15 Wages of Sin - Winter's Bane

Pretty hard stuff by Tim 'Ripper' Owens. In this song he sometimes reminds of Halford and King Diamond.

16 Golden Dawn - Edguy
17 Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden

Ridiculous speed with complicated melody singing in 4th and 5th octave.
I don't know how to speak it so fast, and singing this the way Bruce did is far beyond any human capabilities.

Also it tops at powerful G5 which is quite high, not impossible, but quite challenging as well.

Easily the vocally hardest Iron Maiden song up to date.

18 Beast and the Harlot - Avenged Sevenfold
19 Battery - Metallica
20 Panic Attack - Dream Theater
21 Sacrifice - Edguy
22 Burn - Deep Purple

The sustain on the word "burn" in the chorus is relatively hard - you can hear it on the song sample. I've heard cover versions of this song and only Jorn Lande did it properly.

23 Pure - Lost Horizon

This song is hard as a whole, hard transitions between mid to very high notes which can reach B5's and in the 6th octave in the background. The One is harder but this one is no pushover either.

24 To Dust We Will Return - Shagstars

The only hard part is the beginning where he hits a F6, the rest of the song are only black metal grunts and screams which are easier to accomplish.

25 Chemical Prisoner - Falling In Reverse
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