Top 10 Songs that are Heavy but Not Heavy Enough to Qualify as Metal

These songs are heavy but they aren't metal like at all. They might come close but there's some element from the song that makes them sound more like hard rock than metal.
The Top Ten
1 Down with the Sickness - Disturbed

I don't this song is heavy enough for metal standards.

2 Bodies - Drowning Pool

I don't need to explain this one to be honest.

This song is Nu Metal.

3 Bring Me to Life - Evanescence

The only modern song on this list I can actually agree with.

4 Freak on a Leash - Korn

It comes close but still qualifies as rock.

5 I Stand Alone - Godsmack
6 Get Through This - Art of Dying
7 Feed the Machine - Nickelback

It takes more than a heavy riff to qualify as metal.

8 Hail to the King - Avenged Sevenfold

Yes, I'd rather call Afterlife a metal song. This song is between punk rock and hard rock. Maybe Synyster Gates played hard rock lead and Zacky Vengeance punk rhythm.

Hard Rock but no where near Metal.

9 I Hate Everything About You - Three Days Grace
10 Monster - Skillet
The Contenders
11 B.Y.O.B. - System Of A Down

Hard Rock is what it comes down to.

12 You're Going Down - Sick Puppies
13 Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin
14 I Will Not Bow - Breaking Benjamin

Alternative Rock no where near Metal.

15 Chop Suey! - System of a Down

Still really heavy though.

16 In the End - Linkin Park

Hard Rock/ Alt. Rock at best.

17 Paranoid - Black Sabbath
18 Thunderstruck - AC/DC
19 Numb - Linkin Park
20 Feed the Machine - Red

Alternative Metal/Heavy Post-Grunge but not Heavy Metal.

21 Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N' Roses
22 This Means War - Nickelback
23 This Means War - AC/DC
24 Hot for Teacher - Van Halen
25 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
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