50 Best Country Songs About Hell

Country tracks that dive into fire and brimstone

There’s a certain pull to songs that wander into hell territory. Not the cartoon pitchfork thing, but the raw, sweat-on-your-neck version that feels like it could be a real stop on the road. You can hear it in the crunch of guitars or the way a fiddle cuts sharp against the beat. It’s a place for anger that’s worn thin, revenge that’s half-spent, and mistakes that keep circling back. The heat feels close enough to taste, and the stories don’t promise an escape. They hang there, smoldering, and you can’t quite look away.

These tracks work because they don’t flinch. Some stomp hard, with riffs that feel like sparks flying out from under steel boots. Others lean slow and swampy, letting the weight of the lyrics sink deep before the next verse creeps in. It’s the sound of a fight you walked into knowing you’d lose, or a sin you went through with anyway. There’s grit here that shares space with pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, but it comes out with a twang that cuts sharper. You get the sense the singer isn’t telling you a story so much as dragging you into it.

Hell in country music can be a setting, a warning, or a destination you find yourself at without realizing the turns you took. Sometimes it’s framed as punishment, sometimes as where you belong, and sometimes it’s the only honest place left to go. These songs burn slow or hit fast, but they all keep the heat on long after the track ends. Here are the best Country Songs About Hell.

1. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'—The Charlie Daniels Band

2. 'I'm Not the Devil'—Cody Jinks

3. 'If You're Going Through Hell'—Rodney Atkins

4. 'The Devil's Right Hand'—Steve Earle

5. 'Satan Is Real'—The Louvin Brothers

6. 'The Devil to Pay'—Johnny Cash

7. 'Hell on the Heart'—Eric Church

8. 'Conversation With The Devil'—Ray Wylie Hubbard

9. 'Hell Right'—Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins

10. 'Straight to Hell'—Drivin' N' Cryin'

11. 'Highway to Hell'—AC/DC

12. 'Hell of a View'—Eric Church

13. 'The House of the Rising Sun'—Dolly Parton

14. 'Devil Always Made Me Think Twice'—Chris Stapleton

15. 'Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail'—Colter Wall

16. 'The Devil Had A Hold Of Me'—Gillian Welch

17. 'Devil Woman'—Marty Robbins

18. 'Devil in a Sleepin' Bag'—Willie Nelson

19. 'Between the Devil and Me'—Alan Jackson

20. 'Where the Devil Don't Stay'—Drive-By Truckers

21. 'To Beat The Devil'—Kris Kristofferson

22. 'The Devil Is My Running Mate'—Jason Isbell

23. 'Devil in Me'—Anderson East

24. 'Devil in This Holler'—The Steel Woods

25. 'Devil Don't Know'—Morgan Wallen

26. 'If I Was The Devil'—Justin Townes Earle

27. 'Devil May Care'—Sarah Shook & the Disarmers

28. 'Rattlesnake Preacher'—Ashley McBryde

29. 'If I Were the Devil'—Colby Acuff

30. 'Devil Don't Sleep'—Brantley Gilbert

31. 'The Silver Tongued Devil and I'—Kris Kristofferson

32. 'The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie'—Colter Wall

33. 'Devil Off My Back'—Flatland Cavalry

34. 'The Devil Don't Even Bother'—Kane Brown

35. 'Where the Devil Don't Go'—Elle King

36. 'Take The Devil Out Of Me'—Lee Ann Womack

37. 'Old devils'—William Elliott Whitmore

38. 'The Devil in Us All'—Kat Hasty

39. 'Pray the Devil Back to Hell'—Lucinda Williams

40. 'Tell the Devil I'm Gettin' There as Fast as I Can'—Ray Wylie Hubbard

41. 'If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)'—Joe Diffie

42. 'Never Let the Devils Get the Upper Hand of You'—Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives

43. 'Yup'—David Rawlings

44. 'Friend of the Devil'—Grateful Dead

45. 'The Devil is in Her Eyes'—The Jayhawks

46. 'Wallace'—Drive-By Truckers

47. 'Between Hell And Heaven'—Six Gun Devil

48. 'Home Sweet Hell'—Austin Snell

49. 'Keys to the Afterlife'—Jessie Praise

50. 'Hell or High Water'—Bailey Zimmerman