Top 10 Most Rebellious Metal Songs

Rebellious - showing a desire to resist authority, control, or convention.

1. If a group of people is rebellious, they oppose the ideas of those 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 others are about feeling rebellious. I gave preference to the first type of song because their lyrics are more overtly rebellious, although some songs from the second type are musically better.

The Top Ten
  1. Balls to the Wall - Accept

    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

  2. Rebellion in Dreamland - Gamma Ray

    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

  3. Peace Sells - Megadeth

    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

  4. Dethrone Tyranny - Gamma Ray

    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

  5. We the People - Sons of Liberty

    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.

    We the people must unite

    Reject this global scheme

    The thought of world governance

    And the evil that can bring

    The tactic of financial meltdown

    The crisis that they need

    ...

    We the people

    Surround them

    Rise up and seize the day!

    We the people

    Surround them

    End the tyrant's reign!

  6. Hook in Mouth - Megadeth

  7. Begging for Forgiveness - Helker

    "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.

  8. Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath

  9. Chemical Youth - Queensryche

  10. You Don't Have to Be Old to Be Wise - Judas Priest

  11. The Newcomers
  12. ?

    Don't Tread on Me - Metallica

  13. ?

    War Pigs - Black Sabbath

  14. The Contenders
  15. Induction - Gamma Ray

    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"

  16. Revolution is My Name - Pantera

  17. We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister

  18. Stand My Ground - Within Temptation

  19. Battery - Metallica

    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.

  20. You’ve Got Another Thing Coming - Judas Priest

  21. I Want Out - Helloween

    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

  22. The Cleansing Wind - Sons of Liberty

    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

  23. Full Spectrum Dominance - Sons of Liberty

    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.

  24. I'm a Rebel - Sodom

    This is an Accept cover that Sodom did in 1999.

  25. Molon Labe - Sons of Liberty

    It's about Sparta.

    "I see the signs

    A tyrant on the rise

    Will you fall to your knees?

    Will you stand and fight?"

  26. F****** Hostile - Pantera

  27. Dyers Eve - Metallica

  28. I'm a Rebel - Accept

    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."

  29. Bright Eyes - Blind Guardian

    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."

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