50 Best Metal Songs for IG Reels & Stories
Best Metal Tracks for Instagram Reels and Stories
There’s a certain chaos in the start of a semester that metal knows how to soundtrack. The noise, the nerves, the too-bright mornings where sleep never really caught up. You’re packing bags half-awake, blasting riffs that sound like they were built to fight off that creeping unease. Metal is not smooth, it’s jagged and restless, the way your chest feels when the semester kicks in before you’re ready. These tracks don’t lean on polish, they tear open the awkward energy of the moment and leave it raw enough to match your feed.
Parties end up weird, conversations stall, and yet the volume never stops climbing. Somebody throws on a riff-heavy track, and suddenly the awkward lights flicker like strobes in your head. The thing about metal is that it can make mess feel alive, even when the lyrics aren’t directly tied to college or beginnings. Some of these songs hammer through the room with heavy breakdowns, others swing sharp and fast, but they all capture the restless pulse of showing up at the start line again. They may not literally frame the semester, but the energy snaps right into place.
It’s easy to get stuck scrolling past polished pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that smooth things over, but sometimes you want something that scrapes against the edges instead. Metal reels cut through the noise and leave a mark that feels less like pretending and more like living inside the chaos for a minute. These are the best metal songs for Instagram reels and stories.
Top 10 Instagram Metal Songs
1. 'Enter Sandman' by Metallica
2. 'War Pigs' by Black Sabbath
3. 'Crazy Train' by Ozzy Osbourne
4. 'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath
5. 'Master of Puppets' by Metallica
6. 'Psychosocial' by Slipknot
7. 'Walk' by Pantera
8. 'Chop Suey!' by System of a Down
9. 'Breaking the Law' by Judas Priest
10. 'Toxicity' by System of a Down
Popular Metal Songs for Social Media #11 to 20
11. 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' by Iron Maiden
12. 'One' by Metallica
13. 'Ace of Spades' by Motrhead
14. 'Duality' by Slipknot
15. 'Holy Wars... The Punishment Due' by Megadeth
16. 'The Trooper' by Iron Maiden
17. 'Killing In the Name' by Rage Against the Machine
18. 'Nothing Else Matters' by Metallica
19. 'Hail to the King' by Avenged Sevenfold
20. 'Run to the Hills' by Iron Maiden
Hard Rock Music for Social Media Videos #21 to 30
21. 'We Got The Moves' by Electric Callboy
22. 'Gimme Chocolate!!' by Babymetal
23. 'Dragula' by Rob Zombie
24. 'Cochise' by Audioslave
25. 'Last Resort' by Papa Roach
26. 'My Sacrifice' by Creed
27. 'Numb' by Linkin Park
28. 'In the End' by Linkin Park
29. 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' by The Beatles
30. 'Holy Diver' by Dio
Instagram Reels Metalcore Songs #31 to 40
31. 'The Stage' by Avenged Sevenfold
32. 'The Unforgiven' by Metallica
33. 'Still Counting' by Volbeat
34. 'The Last Disease' by Nightfell
35. 'Caught in a Mosh' by Anthrax
36. 'Superbeast' by Rob Zombie
37. 'L'Enfant Sauvage' by Gojira
38. 'Bleed' by Meshuggah
39. 'Chop Suey!' by System of a Down
40. 'We Rock' by Dio
New Metal Tracks Trending on Instagram #41 to 50
41. 'Symphony of Destruction' by Megadeth
42. 'Living Dead Girl' by Rob Zombie
43. 'My Sacrifice' by Creed
44. 'Whiskey In The Jar' by Metallica
45. 'Blood and Thunder' by Mastodon
46. 'B.Y.O.B.' by System Of A Down
47. 'The Devil's Bleeding Crown' by Volbeat
48. 'Raining Blood' by Slayer
49. 'Indians' by Anthrax
50. 'Wish I Had An Angel' by Nightwish
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