Best Metal and Hard Rock Songs by Black Sabbath, Dio, Rainbow and Ozzy Osbourne

You ever try to explain metal to someone who just doesn't get it? Like, you start playing a riff that changed your life and they look at you like you just turned into a goat? That's when you hit play on one of these bands: Black Sabbath, Dio, Rainbow, Ozzy Osbourne. This is the stuff that shaped heavy music into what it is today.

Think of this as the ultimate lineup of metal royalty. You've got the band that practically invented the genre. The vocalist who turned dragons and dungeons into anthems. The guitarist whose riffs sound like they crawled straight out of a volcanic cave. And the madman who bit a bat's head off and somehow still became a household name.

Between them, they've created some of the most iconic, weird, heavy, and straight-up epic tracks rock has ever seen.

The Top Ten

  1. War Pigs - Black Sabbath

    Greatest rock or metal song ever written, period. All the songs Black Sabbath has put out have a different beat, unlike some bands where their songs all sound the same. Tony Iommi is number one, hands down.

    Better is subjective. More people thought this album was worth buying than The Last in Line, Holy Diver, or even Heaven and Hell, which was very groundbreaking at the time.

    Black Sabbath's second release went 4x Platinum, unlike any in the Dio catalog.

  2. Holy Diver - Dio

    There's a truth that's hard as steel.

  3. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

    No metal song is more classic.

  4. Turn Up the Night - Black Sabbath

  5. Stargazer - Rainbow

  6. Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath

  7. Rainbow in the Dark - Dio

    So sad... 41 songs on this list, and I had to add this masterpiece at #42. I expected to see this song in the top 5, at least.

  8. Paranoid - Black Sabbath

  9. No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne

    This should be in the top 10 of Greatest Songs of All Time.

  10. A Light in the Black - Rainbow

    Another masterpiece... so sad it's too low.

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    All the Fools Sailed Away - Dio

    How can it be that this song is not on this list?

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    God is Dead? - Black Sabbath

    13. The Contenders

  13. Iron Man - Black Sabbath

  14. Perry Mason - Ozzy Osbourne

  15. Push - Dio

  16. Neon Knights - Black Sabbath

  17. Give Her the Gun - Dio

    Great track off of Strange Highways.

  18. Anno Mundi - Black Sabbath

  19. I Don't Wanna Stop - Ozzy Osbourne

    His older stuff is better than his newer albums, but this one is pretty good. Amazing, indeed!

  20. Death Alley Driver - Rainbow

  21. Anybody There - Rainbow

  22. Feels Good to Me - Black Sabbath

    This was a top ten single release.

  23. N.I.B. - Black Sabbath

  24. The Shining - Black Sabbath

  25. Bark at the Moon - Ozzy Osbourne

  26. Zero the Hero - Black Sabbath

  27. Eyes of the World - Rainbow

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