Top 10 Metal Songs Featuring Keyboard Instruments

Keyboard instruments are: piano, organ, accordion, electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Yes, all instruments that use a keyboard count.

Keyboard instruments in metal are used to setup a progressive sound but they aren't used only in prog metal as you can see from this list.

I would like to quote a comment I've read on the Internet that is amusing but for many it would be also true:
"Pianos + Metal is a great combination. Makes you want to jump in a field of daisies and still feel straight".
The Top Ten
1 Highway Star - Deep Purple

At #1 because Deep Purple is where it all started (although their first song with this combination was Hard Lovin' Man, 1970).

2 Octavarium - Dream Theater
3 Rainbow in the Dark - Dio
4 A Light in the Black - Rainbow
5 Holy Diver - Dio
6 Empire of the Clouds - Iron Maiden
7 Chance - Savatage
8 Kingdom for a Heart - Sonata Arctica
9 The Coming Curse - Iced Earth
10 Iconoclast - Symphony X
The Contenders
11 Age of False Innocence - Blind Guardian

Real piano intro, some of the best vocals by Hansi ever. Sadly, it's one of the most underrated Blind Guardian songs. It's very proggy and a bit softer than their usual songs but it's very intense.

12 Last Rites / Loved to Deth - Megadeth
13 Rising Force - Yngwie Malmsteen

A great song and Jens Johansson is incredible.

14 Phobophile - Cryptopsy

Real piano in a technical death metal song

15 Mr. Crowley - Ozzy Osbourne

My favorite keyboard part, especially live. Just purely beautiful.

16 The Violation - Fleshgod Apocalypse

Real piano used in technical death metal

17 Fullmoon - Sonata Arctica
18 Morphine Child - Savatage
19 Everytime I Die - Children of Bodom
20 Gates of Babylon - Rainbow

The keyboard uses in this song is quite underrated.

21 Bare Bones - Overkill
22 Paradise Lost - Symphony X
23 Sacrifice - Edguy
24 The Unforgiven III - Metallica
25 Commissar - Savatage
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