Top 17 Songs About War!!!
If you like your James Blunt a bit more Robson & Jerome, Rhino Records will be releasing The Soldiers on the world. For those that don’t, here’s the Metal Hammer best war songs list.Rhino are keen to tell us: “Just a quick note to introduce you all to Rhino’s latest signing… The Soldiers. And, yes, they really are soldiers!” which inspired us to remind everyone that metal does war songs best.
1) One – Metallica (oh, and Disposable Heroes, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Don’t Step On Me etc.)
2) War Ensemble – SlayaaaaaaaaaarrrrrggghhhH! (plus most of the rest of their catalogue, Eyes Of The Insane, Hallowed Point, Angel Of Death etc)
3) Guns N’ Roses – Civil War
4) Sepultura – Territory
5) Black Sabbath – Children Of The Grave/War Pigs
6) Turisas – Battle Metal
7) Five Finger Death Punch – War Is The Answer
8 ) Immortal – Battles In The North/Battalions/Battlefields/Hordes To War/A Sign For The Norse Hordes To Ride and so on
9) Marduk – Panzer Division Marduk
10) Bolt Thrower – War/Tank/When Cannons Fade… in fact pretty much everything they’ve ever written
11) Motorhead – Bomber
12) Megadeth – Sweating Bullets
13) Nuclear Assault – Anything!
14) Iron Maiden – Run To The Hills/Aces High (again, keen on war)
15) Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun
16) Judas Priest – War
17) Manowar – basically everything, but mainly Into Glory Ride, Warriors Of The World, Power Of Thy Sword, Battle Hymn, and Hail And Kill.
And a seperate list from one Hammer scribe showing 24 pieces of proof that hardcore/punk peeps hate war too.
1) Discharge – The Possibility Of Life’s Destruction
2) Discharge – Visions Of War
3) Discharge – Why?
4) Discharge – Maimed & Slaughtered
5) Discharge – Mania For Conquest
6) Discharge – Massacre Of Innocence
7) Discharge – Realities Of War
Discharge – Two Monstrous Nuclear Stockpiles
9) Subhumans – Religious Wars
10) Subhumans – This Year’s War
11) Subhumans – Never-Ending War Song
12) Crass – Yes Sir, I Will
13) Crass – Sheep Farming In The Falklands
14) Crass – They’ve Got A Bomb
15) Crass – Fight War, Not Wars
16) Conflict – One Nation Under The Bomb
17) Conflict – Cruise
18) Conflict – You Cannot Win A Nuclear War
19) Conflict – Vietnam Serenade
20) Conflict – This Is Not Enough
21) Conflict – Neither Is This
22) Zounds – Target
23) Dead Kennedys – Holiday In Cambodia
24) Dead Kennedys – Chemical Warfare
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SODOM’s M-16 album!
tracks like I AM THE WAR, NAPALM IN THE MORNING!
Since when was “sweating bullets” about war? it’s about schizophrenia, isn’t it? also ……Holy wars? lol
Lamb of God 11th HOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SAAAAAAABBBAATOOONNN
WARBRINGER.
TOTAL WAAAAAAAAAAR!
Flash of the Blade Iron Madien!
Not guns and bullets kinda war, but swords and sheilds kind of war.
That’s what I thought, I didn’t know Sweating Bullets was about war, are the lyrics highly metaphorical ?
there are more then 6 bands in hardcore and punk, try songs from rancid, the unseen, the casualties, hatebreed, rise against….
HOLY WARS??? RUST IN PEACE??? ASHES IN YOUR MOUTH???ARCHITECTURE OF AGGRESSION??? TAKE NO PRISONERS??? SET THE WORLD AFIRE??? GEARS OF WAR??? WAR HORSE??? BLACKMAIL THE UNIVERSE??? AMERIKHASTAN??? THIS DAY WE FIGHT???
Rage against the machine?
surely there should be way more 5fdp on here?? their whole new album was pretty much all about war anyway, still incredible though!
what about like pretty much every system of a down song???
First of all Sweating Bullets, nothing to do with bullets, or war, that’s just stupid. Second of all there’s this little known song called The Trooper by this band… Um… Steel or Iron Something…. it’s rather good…. Probably shoulda been on the list y’know?
Sweating Bullets is about Schizopherenia where are Run to The Hills and THE TROOPER as well as Mouth For War? Its Don’t Tread on Me not Don’t Step On Me
War Machine-AC/DC,War Nerve-Pantera,B.Y.O.B.(Bing Your On Bombs)-System of A Down,Killing In The Name-Rage Against the Machine,
*cough* amon amarth *cough*
What about Paschendale by Maiden?
Victims of War by Unleashed!
Bon Jovi – Undivided (actually about 9/11 but its as close as jovi get to a war song)
Black Sabbath – War Pigs!!!
Anything by Vreid
Anything by Sabaton
Boysetsfire – Foundations To Burn
Exodus – War Is My Shepherd
Etc
Etc
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“this is the war” – Vader http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwGnTEIvl8E
actually come to think of it, that whole “The Art Of War” EP of theirs
I was gonna mention SOAD but aren’t there songs more generally politically inclined as far as protesting goes?
i didnt know “Sweating Bullets” was about war, i probably should have looked at the title…
Sweating bullets is on the list due to the fact the person is having an inner conflict. Not a battle of bullets but a battle of personalities. So in a sense he is at war with himself.
Not metal, but Marillion – Forgotten Sons. For those of us old enough to remember it.
Where the fuck is The Trooper??? Mighty fuck up here…
Loadsa good songs here.
heres my 2 cents
SOAD – War?
Iced Earth – The Glorious Burden (pretty much the entire damn album, but lets just say the 25 minute long 3 part song about Gettysburg)
Nile – Ramses Bringer of War
The Meads of Asphodel – Behold The Kindred Battle Carcasses Strewn Across The Bloodied Dunes Of Gilgamesh Mute In The Frenzied Clamour Of Death’s Rolling Tongue And Ravenous Bursting Steel
(what a title…)
Soulfly – Mars
The Trooper?!?!? Best of the lot, no?
“Since when was “sweating bullets” about war? it’s about schizophrenia, isn’t it? also ……Holy wars? lol” this, lmao, its about mental insanity you fucking idiots, Peace Sells, Holy Wars, No Prisoners, Gears Of War, c’mon guys, is all you listen to Manowar, Amon Amarth and Maiden?
where is holy wars…
of megadeth
or take no prisoners
this list sucks
awsome now i must go make a playlist of these songs!!!!
i think they mean the lyrics “if the war inside my head ,don’t take a day off i’ll be dead” so in a way…yh it’s is a war song,the war that goes on through the mind of a schizo
I think no band talk about war as much as MANOWAR,their songs are great…Mixing epic and power metal together…none can stop them…
Listen to Warriors of the world,and Gods Of War…especially Odin Song…WooooW