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.
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.
There's a truth that's hard as steel.
No metal song is more classic.
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.
This should be in the top 10 of Greatest Songs of All Time.
Another masterpiece... so sad it's too low.
The Newcomers
How can it be that this song is not on this list?
Great track off of Strange Highways.
His older stuff is better than his newer albums, but this one is pretty good. Amazing, indeed!
This was a top ten single release.
