Best Heavy Metal Songs Before 1970

The Top Ten
1 Triumphatus Sad - Jacula
2 Old Man Going - The Pretty Things
3 Hang Up - The Wailers
4 Voodoo Child - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
5 Just a Little Bit - Blue Cheer

Very heavy song but not metal

6 Helter Skelter - The Beatles

The list title is so misleading. They are just a hard rock songs which influence metal. The title should be best proto-metal songs.

7 Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin

This might very well be the first metal song. It is certainly the best candidate to draw the line between non-metal rock and metal

8 All Along The Watchtower - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
9 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
10 My Generation - The Who
The Contenders
11 You Really Got Me - The Kinks

No. Just no. Please...

12 Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf

I voted for this because it's the closest thing on the list, but even it's very far from metal. It's bluesy hard rock.

Literally none of the songs on this list are metal

13 Wring That Neck - Deep Purple
14 In A Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly

This is the only metal song on the list

15 Child in Time - Deep Purple

A metal song which was recorded in 1969.

16 Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones

I never saw anyone who classified this song as metal what

17 Kick Out the Jams - MC5
18 Double-Decker Bus - Count Five
19 Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
20 Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin

It's heavy but it's more like early punk than metal.

21 Liar - Iron Maiden

I checked this song right before because I never heard of it, but of course it's not metal either

22 Race with the Devil - The Gun
23 The Train Kept A-Rollin' - The Yardbirds
24 Spoonful - Howlin' Wolf
25 Cotton Crop Blues - James Cotton
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