Top 10 Songs with the Best Metal Breakdowns

A list of songs with the most memorable metal breakdowns. This is NOT a list for -core genres.
The Top Ten
1 Domination - Pantera

The one and only breakdown, nothing more to say.

Easily the best of the best

Live version is better

2 Raining Blood - Slayer

This one is from 1986 and it kicks ass!

3 Flying Whales - Gojira

Heavier than the supermassive black hole at the center of our universe

4 Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath

One of the earlier ones, not quite a breakdown as we know it today, but certainly inspired the others. 1971!

5 Human Harvest - Oceano

Is the shortest breakdown I know, but it's my favorite (the breakdown of the end)

The shortest, but the best to

6 Mysteria - Edguy

Power breakdown

7 Angel of Death - Slayer

Middle section is basically a breakdown.

8 I'll Cast a Shadow - Pantera

Not many people besides Pantera fans know this breakdown, very heavy.

9 Inversion of the Saviours - Tony Iommi & Phil Anselmo

Little known song, it has a brutal breakdown in the middle and the ending.

10 This Love - Pantera

Easily the best of all time, even better than Domination.

Still one of the heaviest of all time.

The Contenders
11 Brotherhood of the Snake - Testament

A rather unusual breakdown.

12 Floorboards - Oceans Ate Alaska

So short, so technical, SO Amazing

13 C**tcrusher - Infant Annihilator

One of the heaviest breakdowns, and one of the best to

14 Born in a tank - Candlemass
15 Dead Embryonic Cells - Sepultura
16 Drifts - After the Burial
17 I - Meshuggah
18 Freak on a Leash - Korn
19 Floods - Pantera
20 Roots Bloody Roots - Sepultura
21 Black Label - Lamb of God
22 Now You've Got Something to Die for - Lamb of God
23 Eye of the Beholder - Metallica

Not exactly a breakdown as we know it today but right before the solo it has a very cool rhythm.

24 Throes of Rejection - Pantera

After that insane solo and one more verse, this is one of the sickest sounding breakdowns ever, with those bends.

25 Hammer Smashed Face - Cannibal Corpse
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