Top 10 Rock and Metal Songs About Historical Events

The Top Ten
1 One - Metallica
2 Angel of Death - Slayer

The Song Is About The Experiments Done During The Holocaust

3 The Trooper - Iron Maiden

Based On Battle In British History In The 1850s

4 For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica

Based On A Book Which The Book Was Based On The Spanish Civil War

5 Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden

About The Conflicts Between European Settlers And Native Americans

6 Aces High - Iron Maiden
7 Wind of Change - Scorpions

Its About The Berlin Wall Falling

8 Indians - Anthrax
9 Alexander the Great - Iron Maiden

Title Is Self Explanatory

10 Screaming Eagles - Sabaton
The Contenders
11 Como Estais Amigos - Iron Maiden

Finally. This beautiful song gets recognition

12 Paschendale - Iron Maiden
13 Empire of the Clouds - Iron Maiden
14 Mona with the Children - Doug Cameron
15 L'affaire Dumoutier - The Box
16 I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
17 Sniper - Harry Chapin
18 Rasputin - Boney M
19 Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple

This song is based on a fire accident. in a concert of Frank Zappa.

20 1916 - Motorhead
21 Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
22 Russia's on Fire - Stormwitch
23 Primo Victoria - Sabaton

"through the gates of hell, as we make our way to heaven, throught the nazi lines"

24 Manhattan Project - Rush

The whole song’s about the Manhattan project, which was the secret American project that saw the development of atomic bombs. Two were later used on Japan at the end of World War II.

25 Test for Echo - Rush
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