Metal Hammer Staff Top Ten: Mosh-Pit Anthems
OK, so our moshing days might be few and far between these days. Our backs aren’t as strong as they used to be, our knees are giving out, and our very own Beez occasionally refers to moshing as ’slam dancing’. Nevertheless, here are our ultimate songs to get us surging into the pit. Bring that shit on!
Add your own mosh-pit anthem lists into our comments suggestions! Check out our previous Metal hammer Staff Top Ten’s!
Alexander Milas (editor)
Pantera – Fucking Hostile
Sepultura – Inner Self
Machine Head – Davidian
Metallica – Seek And Destroy
Slayer – Raining Blood
Anthrax – Antisocial
Megadeth – Holy Wars
Mastodon – March Of The Fire Ants
Slipknot – (sic)
Rage Against the Machine – Bulls On Parade
Caren Gibson (deputy editor)
Alice In Chains – We Die Young
Soundgarden – Jesus Christ Pose
Machine Head – Imperium
Metallica – Whiplash
Slayer – Raining Blood
Pantera – Domination
Lamb Of God – Black Label
Kyuss – 50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up)
Corrosion Of Conformity – Vote With A Bullet
Crowbar – All I Had I Gave
James Gill (editor at large)
Trivium – Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr
Bullet For My Valentine – 4 Words To choke Upon
Every Time I Die – The New Black
Lamb Of God – Redneck
In Flames – Take this Life
36 Crazyfists – Slit Wrist Theory
As I Lay Dying – Nothing Left
Pantera – 5 Minutes Alone
A Day to Remember – Speak Of The Devil
Blessed By a Broken Heart – Don’t Stop (demo version)
Jonathan Selzer (reviews editor)
The Young Gods – Envoyé!
Isis – So Did We
Jane¹s Addiction – Stop! (I did get to see them once)
Killing Joke – Asteroid
Neurosis – Burn
Primordial – As Rome Burns
Front 242 – Headhunter
Skinny Puppy – Human Disease (S.K.U.M.M.)
Slayer – Angel Of Death
Usurper – Kill For Metal
James Isaacs (art editor)
White Zombie – Thunderkiss 65
Slayer – Hell Awaits
Iron Maiden – Run To The Hills
Pantera – 5 Minutes Alone
Lamb of God – Redneck
Clutch – Texan Book of the Dead
Hatebreed – I Will Be Heard
Machine Head – Davidian
The Sword – Freya
Mastodon – Mother Puncher
Terry Bezer (web editor)
Pantera – Mouth For War
The Bronx – History’s Stranglers
Devildriver – Meet The Wretched
Black Flag – Nervous Breakdown
Limp Bizkit – Break Stuff
Hatebreed – I Will Be Heard
Testament – Into The Pit
Lamb Of God – Contractor
Glassjaw – Pretty Lush
Dillinger Escape Plan – Milk Lizard
Lynsey Wright (office contributor)
Pantera – I’m Broken
Slipknot – Spit It Out
My Ruin – My War
Deftones – 7 Words
Glassjaw – Cosmopolitan Bloodloss
Sepultura – Roots Bloody Roots
Slayer – Raining Blood
RATM – Killing In The Name Of
NIN – Starfuckers Inc.
Helmet – Milktoast
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Caught In A Mosh – Anthrax
Rock Out – Motorhead
Substitute Creature – Municipal Waste
Into The Pit – Testament
1996 – Marilyn Manson
Whiplash – Metallica
Unearth- This Glorious Nightmare
Sick Of It All- Disco Sucks Fuck Everything
System Of A Down- War?
Metallica- No Remorse
Rage Against The Machine- Know Your Enemy
Amon Amarth- Death In Fire
Lamb Of God- Ruin
Shadows Fall- Destroyer Of Senses
Fear Factory- H-K (Hunter-Killer)
Megadeth- Mechanix
metallica-master of puppets
machine head-take my scars
pantera-suicide note 2
slipknot-heretic anthem
mudvayne-determined
system of a down-sugar
slayer-angel of death
death-sympolic
korn-blind
soulfly-bleed
Pantera: Im Broken
Metallica: Master of Puppets
Dethklok: Thunderhorse
Lamb of God: Redneck! (thanks defenders of the faith)
Gojira: To sirius
Practically ANYTHING by Chimaira is a good pit song!
But for my top 10 I’ll say: Chimaira – The Dehumanizing Process.
Lamb Of God – Redneck.
Strapping Young Lad – Aftermath.
Soulfly – Eye For An Eye.
DevilDriver – These Fighting Words.
Daath – War Born (Tri-Adverserenade).
In Flames – Artifacts Of The Black Rain.
Bleeding Through – For Love And Failing.
Funeral For A Friend – Streetcar.
Lostprophets – Shinobi Vs. Dragon Ninja.
Exodus – Toxic Waltz
Sepultura – Roots
1.Lamb Of God – Black Label
2.Machine Head – Imperium
3.Chimaira – Pure Hatred
4.Slipknot – Heretic Anthem
5.Hatebreed – I Will Be Heard
6.Slayer – Raining Blood
7.Pantera – Fucking Hostile
8.Any Municipal Waste song lol
9.Metallica – Creeping Death
10. Gojira – Toxic Garbage Island
Basically anything heavy and bloody angry!
dillinger escape plan – panasonic youth
NIN – Big Man with a gun
cancer bats – hail destroyer
Bleeding through – beneath the grey
motorhead – runaround man
slayer – cult
pantera – death rattle
trivium – to the rats
avenged sevenfold – eternal rest
children of bodom – tie my rope
lamb of god – contractor
metalica – my apocolypse
Devildriver – These Fighting Words
Machine Head – Imperium
Pantera – I’m Broken
Sepultura – Roots
Metallica – Creeping Death
Turisas – Battle Metal
Rammstein – Keine Lust
Malefice – Traitor To All You Know
Dimmu Borgir – The Serpintine Offering
Children Of Bdom – Warheart
There are loads more but these 10 make me go nuts.
Destruction – The Butcher Strikes Back
Slayer – Raining Blood
Cannibal Corpse – Hammer Smashed Face
Testament – Over The Wall
Pantera – I’m Broken
Kreator – Pleasure To Kill
Napalm Death – Breed To Breathe
Sepultura – Arise
Prong – Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck
Metallica – Blackened
To J Seltzer, nice one there on the mention of the underrated Usurper.
i beleive i have the definitive list lol
Lamb of God – Redneck and Contractor
36 Crazyfists – Slit Wrist Theory
Drowning Pool – Bodies
Sepultura – Roots Bloody Roots/Ratamahatta or Refuse/Resist
Slayer – Raining Blood
System of a Down – BYOB
Pantera – Fucking Hostile
Machine Head – Davidian and Imperium
Deftones – 7 Words
Hatebreed – This Is Now and I Will Be Heard
now who the hell can say thats not an awesome list?
No Exodus – Toxic Waltz!?! What, are you people on drugs? Oh, nevermind.
Lamb of God – Redneck
Machine Head – Imperium
Slipknot – Duality
Devildriver – Clouds Over California
Desecration – Raping the Corpse
Bolt Thrower- Cenotaph
Slayer – Raining Blood
Gutworm – Your Demise
Opeth – Ghost of Perdition
Amon Amarth – Valhalla Awaits Me
Lamb of God – Contractor
DevilDriver – Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Children of Bodom – In your Face
Unearth – Sanctity of Brothers
Testament – Henchman
August Burns Red – Backburner
Slipknot – Heretic Anthem
Mastodon – The Wolf is Loose
Machine Head – Clenching the Fists of Dissent
Trivium – Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr
100000 dollars to the man who’s able to survive this one!
Children of Bodom – Needled 24/7
Deathstars – Blitzkrieg
Dimmu Borgir – Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny
Immortal – One by One
Manowar – Black Wind, Fire and Steel
Metallica – Fight Fire with Fire
Pantera – Rise
Rammstein – Asche Zu Asche
Slayer – Angel of Death
Slipknot – People = Shit
alexander great choice apart from antisocial!
you mean caught in a mosh surley
Slayer – Raining Blood
hatebreed – i will be heard
drowing pool – bodies
parkway drive – boneyards
Rammstein – Feuer Frei!
System Of A Down – B.Y.O.B
Chimaira – Power Trip
Divine Heresy – This Threat Is Real
hatebreed – this is now
flaw – get up again
1) PanterA – Slaughtered
All that Remains – The Weak Willed
2) Slayer – Angel of Death
3) Machine Head – Blood For Blood
4) Lamb of God – Black Label & Contractor
5) At The Gates – Slaughter of The Soul
6) Sepultura – Arise
7) Five Finger Death Punch – The Way of The Fist
9) Slipknot – The Heretic Album
10) Testament – Into The Pit
What can I say Mathew, Antisocial’s got sentimental value for me!
Machine Head Aesthetics of Hate has got to be there
Suicide Silence – No pity for a coward
Carnifex – Lie To My Face
Roadrunner United – Annihalation By The Hands Of God
Bring Me The Horizon – Prey For Plagues
Dimmu Borgir – The Serpentine Offering
Machine Head – Slanderous
Slayer – Raining Blood
Heaven Shall Burn – Endzite
Slpiknot – People = Shit
Lamb of God – Contractor
Slayer – Angel of Death
Slipknot – Spit It Out
Lamb of God – Redneck
Dimmu Borgir – The Serpentine Offering
Trivium – Ascendancy
BFMV – 4 Words
Still Remains – Worst Is Yet To Come
Children of Bodom – Hate Crew Deathroll
Machine Head – Aesthetics of Hate
Arch Enemy – Nemesis
C’mon, no S.O.D. ?
Testament: Into the Pit
Slayer: Raining Blood
Machine Head: Wolves
Evile: Thrasher
Exodus: A Lesson in Violence
Metallica: Whiplash
Municipal Waste: The Art of Partying
Death: Symbolic
Can’t believe not one of the MH writing staff listed Anthrax “Caught In A Mosh” in their lists, the clue’s in the title guys.
Not wanting to sound like an old bugger but you’ve missed the point of what “moshing” was. That bit in “Indians”, when Scott Ian yells WAR DANCE!!!, that’s moshing. You’re getting it confused with straight-out slamming, two different things.
Damage Inc. – MetallicA
Rattlehead – Megadeth
Caught in a Mosh – Anthrax
Hell Awaits – Slayer
Into the Pit – Testament
Elimination – Overkill
You Can’t Bring Me Down – Suicidal Tendencies
Headbanger Face Rip – Municipal Waste
Theme from TMNT – Bonded by Blood
Sick Boy – GBH
Crucificado pelo sistema – Ratos de Porao
Evil Dead – Zeke
cant believe no 1 has put down
soulfly- jumpdofuckup
Wednesday 13 Gimme Gimme Bloodshed
Slipknot-Spit it out
Bring Me The Horizon-Diamond’s aren’t forever
36 Crazyfists-Absent are the saints
Marilyn Manson-Fight Song
Motorhead – Killed by death
Earthride – Valium
Zeke – Dölphenwülf
Slayer – Necrophiliac
Pig Destroyer – Loathsome
Pantera – Fucking Hostile
Slipknot – Eeyore
Orange Goblin – Your World Will Hate This
Exodus – A Lesson In Violence
Opeth – Hessian Peel
Amon Amarth – Twighlight of the Thunder God
Slipknot – Sic
Metallica – Damage Inc
Slayer – War Ensamble
Dethklok – Thunderhorse
Soil – Halo
Ozzy – Crazy Train
Machine Head – Imperium
Sepultura – Ratamahatta
Korn – Got the Life
Hell, how could i forget:
Turisas – Battle Metal, Rasputin, and Holmgaard and Beyond
Dream Evil – Book of Heavy Metal
Dragon Force – Valley of The Damned
System of a Down – Sugar
ZZ Top – La Grange
….aaaaah, too many songs!
Slipknot- Spit it Out
Korn- Blind
RATM Guerilla Radio
Washington is Next – Megadeth
Whiplash – Whiplash
Heritic Anthem – Slipknot
Caught in a Mosh – Anthrax
Creeping Death – Metallica
Scream Aim Fire – BFMV
Black Label – Lamb of God
War Ensemble – Slayer
Devil’s Island – Megadeth
Slave to the Grind – Skid Row
You should ask us to give our top 10 headbanging anthems aswell
Lamb of God- Pariah
Gojira- the art of dying
Machine Head- Clenching the fists of Dissent
Metallica- Leper Messiah
Cannibal Corpse- I cum Blood
1 Pantera- Fucking Hostile
2 Slayer- War Ensemble
3 Machine Head – Davidian
4 RATM – Know Your Enemy
5 Lamb of God – Ruin
6 Killswitch Engage – My Last Serenade
7 Slipknot – Duality
8 All That Remains – Chiron
9 As I Lay Dying – Nothing Left
10 Shadows Fall – Stepping Outside the Circle
Anthrax – Caught in a Mosh
Fight – Into the Pit
Gamma Ray – Gardens of the Sinner
Helloween – Eagle Fly Free
Iron Maiden – Run to the Hills
Megadeth – Wake Up Dead
Metallica – Battery
Pantera – Cowboys From Hell
Sepultura – Refuse/Resist
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Just about any Machine Head song!
I am not sure what all of my top ten are, but I would have to include: Slipknot:Gemetaria [The Killing Name] and Pantera: Walk
1. metallica – seek & destroy
2. Devildriver – meet the wretched
3. slayer – raining blood
4. machine head – asthetics of hate
5 sepultura – roots
6. hatebreed – destroy everything
7. lamb of god – black label
8. throwdown – holy roler
9. sex pistols – anarchy in the uk
10. chimaira – pure hatred
survive that mother fuckers
Slipknot – The Heretic Anthem
Machine Head – Davidian
Lamb Of God – Redneck
Slayer – Raining Blood
Cannibal Corpse – Hammer Smashed Face
Killswitch Engage – Rose Of Sharyn
Five Finger Death Punch – With My Knuckles
Metallica – Master Of Puppets
Children Of Bodom – Children Of Decandence
Bullet For My Valentine – Scream Aim Fire
01. Limp Bizkit – Break Stuff
02. Megadeth – Take No Prisoners
03. Metallica – Ride the Lightning
04. Mushroomhead – Sun Doesn’t Rise
05. Megadeth – Black Curtains
06. Slayer – Death Angel
07. Brand New Sin – Judgement Day
08. Limp Bizkit – Full Nelson/9 Teen 90 Nine
09. Heaven Shall Burn – The Weapn They Fear
10. P.O.D. – Snuff the Punk
Neurosis – Burn
Slayer – Mind Control
Exodus – The Last Act Of Defiance
Morbid Angel – Dominate
Megadeth – Liar
Down – On March The Saints
Slayer – Raining Blood
Neurosis – Locust Star
Lamb Of God – Ruin
Meshuggah – Future Breed Machine
slipknot-duality
cradle of filth-nymphetamine
canible corpse- hammer smashed face
machine head-halo
slayer-raining blood
amon amarth-twilight of the thunder god
monkey dance
Slayer- raining blood
Motorhead- OVERKILL
Cannibal Corpse- Hammer Smashed Face
Children of Bodom- Hellhounds on my trail
Lamb of God – Black label
Machine Head- Davidian
Exouds- Toxic Waltz
Judas Priest – Breaking the Law
Manowar – Outlaw
Metallica – Battery
Testament – Over the Wall
Over Kill – Hello from the Gutter
Megadeth – My darkest hour
Slayer – Hell Awaits
Anthrax – Got the Time
Exodus – Toxic Waltz
Pantera – Domination
Machine Head – Davidian
Pantera – Domination
Lamb Of God – Black Label
Killswitch Engage – When Darkness Falls
Skindred – Roots Rock Riot
Metallica – Seek and Destroy
Slayer – Black Magic
Disturbed – Down With The Sickness
Gojira – Backbone
Mastodon – Pendulous Skin
1. Iron Maiden
2. Megadeth
3. Metallica
4. Judas Priest
5. Slayer
6. Guns N Roses
7. AC/DC
8. Led Zeppelin
9. Anthrax
10. Bruce Dickinson (Solo)
dudes just read
Megadeth -Rust In Peace…Polaris
Testament -Into The Pit
Vio-Lence -Officer Nice
Gothic Slam -Who Died And Made You God?
Anthrax -Indians
Slayer -Angel Of Death
Artillery -(R.I.P.) Beneath The Clay
Municipal Waste -Sadistic Magician or Headbanger Face Rip
Mosh to that
Gojira art of dying gojira heaviest matter of the universe Gojira backbone