Top 10 Songs Dedicated to Metal Musicians (Dead or Alive)
Songs don't need to be metal songs. Any songs about metal musicians are eligible.Dedicated to Cliff Burton of Metallica who died in a car crash at 23.
This song is a long instrumental, over 9 minutes long.
I know almost everyone hates Nickelback but this song is about our very own Dimebag so lets forget about some things for a second. This song isn't a masterpiece but isn't bad either. Nickelback were even creative - they included in the song an unused original solo by Dimebag (the solo was given to Nickelback by Vinnie Paul - Dimebag brother).
Dedicated to Dimebag Darrell of Pantera whose death was extremely shocking - he was shot onstage while performing.
I can play this on the piano. Beautiful song.
Dedicated to Cliff Burton of Metallica.
"According to Dave Mustaine, due to hearing of Burton's death, he sat down and wrote the music for the song in one sitting. The lyrics, however, are unrelated to Burton's death. Mustaine was Metallica's lead guitarist in the early days and was a close friend of Burton at the time" (Wiki)
This song is dedicated to Dimebag Darrell after the band saw a article praising his death and dissing metal fans who respected him the band wrote this as tribute to him and as a retaliation against the people who made that disgusting article and this song even won a Grammy Nomination
Machine Head were so right because what kind of people can praise the murder of a great innocent musician who didn't do anything bad? A disgusting article written by disgusting people. What's next? An article praising the murder of John Lennon?!
Dedicated to Peter Steele - the vocalist and leader of Type O Negative, who died in 2010.
Obviously about Dimebag Darrell of Pantera.
Cross Canadian Ragweed was an American Red Dirt/Texas Country/Country rock band.
This is a song about Chester Bennington right?
To Criss Oliva, guitarist of Savatage - he was killed in a car accident by a drunk driver at the age of 30, in 1993.
This song is a short instrumental, a last minute addition to the album.
This is the second song on this album dedicated to Jon Lord (that I mentioned earlier on this list).
Who exactly is the metal musician here? Nobody.
I don't think this song was dedicated to a metal musician, sorry.
This was dedicated to original Floyd member, Syd Barrett.
I believe this song is dedicated to Ronnie James Dio and Dimebag Darrell
Dedicated to Jasmine You, former bassist of Japanese metal band Versailles.