Top 10 Most Rebellious Metal Songs
Rebellious - showing a desire to resist authority, control, or convention.1) If a group of people are rebellious, they oppose the ideas of the people in authority and plan to change the system, often using force
2) If someone is rebellious, they are difficult to control and do not behave in the way that is expected.
Some songs on this list have direct rebellious messages while some others are about feeling rebellious. I gave preference to the first type of songs because their lyrics are more rebellious, although some songs from the second type are musically better.
One day the tortured stand up
And revolt against the evil
They make you drink your blood
And tear yourself to pieces
You better watch the damned (God bless ya)
They're gonna break their chains (Hey)
No, you can't stop them (God bless ya)
They're coming to get you
And then you'll get your
Balls to the wall, man, balls to the wall
By moonlight there's way... for rebellion
Here, the world has gone astray... revolution
Now, the time has come to pray... hallelujah
Deep, inside our minds we wait... for rebellion
Here in dreamland we will not obey the masters
What do you mean, "I couldn't be the President of the United States of America? "
Tell me something, it's still "We the people", right?
If there's a new way
I'll be the first in line
But it better work this time
Time has come, the world lies dying
Our faith has gone, our souls are crying
Resurrecting paradise, cry for freedom
Killing pain, a million lies,
Dethrone tyranny
Sons of Liberty is a solo project of Jon Schaffer, guitarist and primary songwriter for Iced Earth. He's the biggest rebel among metal musicians. Jon Schaffer is a backing vocalist in Iced Earth, but he is the lead singer for Sons of Liberty. His vocals remind me of Matt Barlow, Iced Earth's lead singer, and even though Matt is better, Jon is surprisingly good, especially considering he sang these songs in his late 40s.
Sons of Liberty features guest appearances by various members and associates of Iced Earth, including Jim Morris, Troy Seele, and Ruben Drake.
"You abuse your power
And you used all the others
But your tyranny will fall today.
I can see you beg, for the peace you had forgotten
Because you are alone, beg for mercy from us all."
Info:
It features Tim 'Ripper' Owens and Ralf Scheepers of Primal Fear as guest musicians (additional vocals). This is an epic vocal performance by three powerhouse singers.
Just play the song sample and you will get the idea. This is a short intro song (1:01) to their album 'No World Order' (2001) but it's so powerful musically and lyrically.
"Illuminati
You've come to take control
You can take my heartbeat
But you can't break my soul
We all shall be free
Illuminati
You'll never take control
Your new world order
Will lead to none at all
We all stand before you as one
Heaven is for everyone
To be free from the dark"
The Newcomers
This song is a very specific protest. It's about the glam metal scene that was popular in the Los Angeles area in the 80s. Metallica even moved from LA to San Francisco because "the metal scene in LA sucked." The song is named after a street in downtown San Francisco where the club that Metallica played in the 80s was located (444 Battery Street).
The lyric "Cannot kill the family, Battery is found in me" is a statement that while society at large doesn't understand the Bay Area thrash scene, those within it (i.e., "the family") will fiercely defend it as a show of solidarity against the glam scene in LA.
From our lives' beginning on
We are pushed in little forms
No one asks us how we like to be
In school they teach you what to think
...
People tell me A and B
They tell me how I have to see
Things that I have seen already clear
So they push me then from side to side
They're pushing me from black to white
They're pushing 'til there's nothing more to hear
But don't push me to the maximum
Shut your mouth and take it home
'Cause I decide the way things gonna be
I want out - to live my life alone
I want out - leave me be
I want out - to do things on my own
I want out - to live my life and to be free
Rise up! To define freedom
Rise up! To live in your own way
Rise up! To define freedom
Or will we let them take it away?
Liberty or tyranny?
It's your choice to make
This is an awesome and pretty funny song from 1980, but I put it at #10 because it sounds like hard rock to me and most probably is. (Accept had both metal and hard rock songs.)
"I'm a rebel - rebel
And they're all laughing at me
They say I'm a danger to the public and all
I only wish they would see
I'm just the product of a screwed-up world - but they're all
They're all laughing at me."
This song describes attempts to resist control on an individual, personal level.
"Everything is out of control
I am watching you, watching you, watching you, watching you, watching you, watching you, watching you, watching you...
Leave me alone
Isolation bears hope
[...]
Hey, mother stubborn
I really hate you
If you say yes, I will say no
Ashes to ashes
But dust won't be dust
If you go there
I will go back."
It's time for action, break through the matrix
Restore the vision of life and your liberty
The truth shall set you free
The Constitution, real solutions
We must defend it, whatever the cost may be
The best hope for humanity
Now the trap is set
Global order
Death and torture
Slavery and debt
Order-Chaos
Order-Chaos
Why have you let them steal your liberty?
You're just a slave to a criminal elite.
This is an Accept cover that Sodom did in 1999.
It's about Sparta.
"I see the signs
A tyrant on the rise
Will you fall to your knees?
Will you stand and fight?"