Top Ten Classic Metallica Songs

Metallica at its best. 80s Metallica will always be better. Songs like Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters.
The Top Ten
1 Master of Puppets

I was a Metallica fan long before they became popular. I recall this release being very special. I also had Orion in our set list at bars, which wasn't that easy to play. But glad to see Hit the Lights in this list too. All great bands have roots.

Definitely Metallica's best song and in my opinion the best metal song ever. Hard riffing, kick ass lyrics, and the best musicianship anyone could ever hope for. This definitely deserves the top spot.

I can't believe it's number 6!
It's their number 1 song, it's so classic and heck great!
Come on - this list is weird... :-O
I mean, MASTER OF PUPPETS = METALLICA!

The riff is amazing but the 1st solo just gives it a sad and imotional feeling like the guitar is weeping 4 the pupets... And the lyrics really show the horrors of drugs as good as words can.

2 One

This should definitely be in their top three. Come on people. VOTE. It is inspired by the movie/book johnny had a gun. Amazing and easy to play intro. Deep lyrics and classic Metallica solo. This song has it all. Definitely the most balanced Metallica song I have ever heard.

This, and a handful of others, the unforgiven II and sanitarium to name a few, are the best Metallica songs, and some of the best songs, ever. EVER.
The lyrics, the calm beginning, the kick ass ending, Metallica had done it yet again.

This song is about a soldier who has lost his arms legs and his entire face, leaving him unable to communicate or sense anything other than touch. His brain is left completely intact, a prisoner in his own body.

I listen to this song every 2 or 3 days maybe everyday and whenever I do I just let no emotions go except the crazy side of me when the guitar goes from calm to total metal that's what I call AAWEESOME

3 For Whom the Bell Tolls

The song that opened me to Metallica's finest songs! Anyone who said black album songs should be in the top 3 are idiots... Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets will always be the best albums of Metallica and For Whom The Bell Tolls will always be in the top 3 of Metallica's songs

Awesome song. Heavy and deep, it throws you in a heavy, dense and tense atmosphere. It is one of my all time metallica favorites.

I've listened to this song probably 200-300 times and it never. Gets. Old.

It's even better when you see it live. So much energy, so much awesomeness.

High School football pre-game tune! I sucked but felt like I could run through a wall after listening to this song.

4 Orion

Their best instrumental song. RIP Cliff Burton.

Cliff Burton ended his music carrier with the most fantastic instrumental ever with him nailing the bass solos. at least you did not take yourself away from thrash metal roots and not replace it with modern hard rock like the rest of Metallica in the 90s ( But they are finding that way back with Death Magentic)
RIP CLIFF BURTON

It is definitely the best song I've ever listened to: the riff is the greatest you can find in Metallica's songs, and Cliff solos are simply gorgeous! MoP and One are not the only songs which represent Metallica: Orion is the best.

I've listened to Metallica for 2 years now, and started discovering their older songs a while ago. This song is so good that once I start the song, I can't pause it or stop it.

5 Fade to Black

To me, Fade to Black is second to none. No other song comes close to it. It has the best intro, the best riffs, and the best solo. You get a feeling a immortality and power when listening to this song.

The most mesmerizing guitar solo ever! Especially the mixture of Distortion and classic guitaring. Probably the most beautiful piece of guitar work ever! Metallica forever!

MY FAVOURITE GUITAR SOLO OF ALL TIME. Above Comfortably numb, stairway, november rain. Nothing beats the ending solo

Just all around great. Everybody took everything and put into this one great masterpiece.

6 Nothing Else Matters

Are you serious? This is the best Metallica song... After about 70 Metallica songs. I don't get why it is so popular. Favorite song of the posers I think... Welcome Home (Sanitarium) is as just as soft and way better than this crap.

The best song by Metallica Can't believe its not there even in the top ten...

I don't really think the black album counts as Classic Metallica...

I would like to listen to this song when till my last breath...

7 Enter Sandman

How can this be so far down?! This is definitely the most classic Metallica song and by far the most identifiable.

Only a Metallica virgin would pick this. Do you even know their best songs?

And how is this #7 when it is pretty much Metallica's Biggest hit.

Really? I love this song! I get deep with this song dudes!

8 Creeping Death

Awesome song with and Awesome guitar solo and the lyrics make me shout with joy. The beauty of it is that it is so simple, I have only been playing guitar for about 6 months and I can already play most of it.

The description said 80s, but then talked about two of the biggest hits from the black album... My Faith in humanity is slowly fading day by day -_-

It was the first Metallica song I have first heard. It simply made me to love Metallica further...

They play this awesome live

9 ...And Justice for All

Very underrated one of their greatest songs. A lot of people should listen to it. To the people that haven't listened to it. It's tells you why Metallica is one of the greatest bands ever. It's heavy has a awesome intro. An epic guitar riff an awesome solo. It then has a slow guitar riff that has to be one of the greatest and then ends in the most epic way this song deserves to be at least 3 or 4

Oh come one, Master is really overrated! Ok, it is a great song, one of the best, I know, but come on, there are other fantastic songs! This one has everything you want! Please, don't vote One and Master only because they great, because in this way you aren't a true fan!

10 The Four Horsemen

Why is it the best song off of kill em all isn't even in the top 10? Not one but two great solos in this song

Metallica's nickname and one of their best songs

The Contenders
11 Battery

very fast and also I like the guitar lick and loved the solo

Just like very fast part of Kirk. BUT IT MUST BE FIRST!

Battery is powerhouse of energy, so is the song!

Woah woah woah!

12 The Call of Ktulu

I think that this is one of the best Metallica's songs, and I suppose it should be in the first 10 positions.
Why? Because, despite it is an instrumental song, it can give lots of sensations, and it's like the Lovercraft's novels (the song is inspirated to them).

13 Blackened

The solo in Blackened (the fast one) is my fav piece of music ever, the main riff is my fav riff and the chorus is one of my 5 or so favorites, overall, my all-time fav song.

The Fire Scream, The Lyrics, The riff, this is by far the best song of metallica ever made also with fade to black and for whom the bell tolls

How can this masterpiece be here? There's the energy, in this song!

14 Ride the Lightning

This is one of the best heavy metal songs of all time. Very heavy, amazing vocals, nice bass and one of the most underrated legendary guitar solos I have ever listened to.

Very underrated song! Maybe people should give it a listen cause they obviously can't remember how great this song is.

Every time Metallica plays it at a concert the crowd says RIDE THE LIGHTNING!

Very good song intro riff and solo are spot on

15 Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

best lyrics metallica has and one of the best lyrics ever! just read them and think about them for a bit and you'll see it's incredible!

Something about this song really just amazes me. It's put together perfectly and is, by far, one of my favorite Metallica songs.

The description said classic 80s songs like enter sandman and nothing else matters -_-

16 The Frayed Ends of Sanity

So heavy, one of the best of the "and justice"

17 Dyers Eve

My favourite Metallica song ever. amazing drumming, amazing guitars, awesome singing. Metallica at its best

Metallica's heaviest song and one of their best. The drumming and guitar solo are the stars of this song

Their fastest song, with insane drumming

18 To Live is to Die

One of my favorites from Metallica off of the And Justice for All album

Very powerful and dark song

19 Damage, Inc.

This Is The Fastest Metallica Song Ever!

20 The God that Failed
21 Seek & Destroy

The song is about killing people could it get any better!?

Rememeber when Iggy did Search and Destroy? Metallica are crap.

This should be at least top 10!

Why is this down so low!

22 The Unforgiven
23 The Thing that Should Not Be

This is easily one of Metallica's greatest songs.

However, this list is automatically bull, seeing as how Seek & Destroy isn't #2 and Orion isn't #1.

Leper and Damage is higher than this!? Come on this is the best track on the best album ever!

24 Hit the Lights
25 Disposable Heroes

There is no way this song should be this low... This is my favorite Hammet solo. Not the fastest, not the most technical, but it just sounds so good! Such an underrated song, obviously, as this one needs WAY more votes...

This song deserves to be in the first place: it is absolutely perfect, and such an underrated song. Stop making Master of Puppets or One seem the only masterpieces by Metallica.

This song is really underrated, but it is definitely better than other Metallica songs!

Best song from their - head & shoulders above - best album

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