Top 10 Rock and Metal Songs Featuring Cello

The Top Ten
1 Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

Page and Plant travelled to Bombay, India, and worked with Indian musicians / session players. These Indian session musicians played the string and horn sections for Kashmir.
John Paul Jones, who also used a Mellotron, commented:
"the secret of successful keyboard string parts is to play only the parts that a real string section would play. That is, one line for the First Violins, one line for Second Violins, one for Violas, one for Cellos, one for Basses."

2 Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
3 Painters of the Tempest (Part II): Triptych Lux - Ne Obliviscaris
4 Love's Tragedy Asunder - Demons & Wizards

Just play the song sample to hear the sad and lonely cello. It's a metal song but not extreme.

5 Sinner - Theocracy

A metal power ballad of 2003

6 Weltseele - Obscura
7 Libera, Pt. I: Saturnine Spheres - Ne Obliviscaris

One of the top metal songs of 2017.

8 Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Apocalyptica

Metallica cover on cellos. When I heard this I thought Metallica song sounded like a modern metal cover of this classical piece... This actually shows how much metal music is based on classical. Metal is classical music in the era of electricity.

9 Eyrie - Ne Obliviscaris
10 Hello - Evanescence

It has a short cello solo

The Contenders
11 Intra Venus - Ne Obliviscaris

Genre of the song: Extreme progressive metal.

12 Something in the Way - Nirvana
13 Drops of Jupiter - Train
14 Hymn to a Nocturnal Visitor - Obscura

Genre of the song: death metal.

15 Urn (Part II) - As Embers Dance in Our Eyes - Ne Obliviscaris
16 Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
17 Epilogue - Iced Earth
18 I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! at the Disco
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