50 Best Rock Songs About Cemeteries
Best Rock Tracks Featuring Cemeteries
There’s a strange pulse that comes from songs tied to cemeteries. It’s not all gloom, not exactly fear either, but something sitting awkwardly between fascination and dread. You feel it walking through cracked headstones or scrolling past a reel at 2 a.m. when the right riff hits. Rock music has leaned into that space for decades, letting guitars echo where words fall short. Some tracks are blunt, some use the imagery as a stand-in for things harder to name, but they all hang in that haze where life and death blur.
These songs don’t try to smooth the edges. They lean into the grit, the echo of reverb that sounds like it was recorded with ghosts still hanging around the amps. Sometimes the lyrics are literally rooted in graveyards, sometimes they twist cemetery imagery into metaphors for heartbreak, rebellion, or time slipping away. That flexibility is what makes them land across playlists where pop, rock, country, and R&B songs cross paths, each one bending the same imagery toward different moods. Not every track cares about being literal, but the atmosphere still sticks.
You’ll hear the tension between creepy and anthemic, quiet and crushing, all wrapped up in the way only rock can push it. Some tracks feel like midnight drives past iron gates, others like parties that got too loud next to the wrong scenery. They’re messy, dramatic, and often weirdly fun, and that’s why they work. Here are the best rock songs on cemeteries.
Top 10 Cemetery Rock Songs
1. 'Cemetry Gates' by The Smiths
2. 'Cemetery Gates' by Pantera
3. 'Children of the Grave' by Black Sabbath
4. 'Pet Sematary' by Ramones
5. 'Cemeteries of London' by Coldplay
6. 'On Graveyard Hill' by Pixies
7. 'Cemetery Drive' by My Chemical Romance
8. 'I Am Stretched on Your Grave' by Sinéad O'Connor
9. 'Graveyard Train' by The Gun Club
10. 'The Graveyard Near the House' by The Antlers
Songs About Burial And Funerals #11 to 20
11. 'Blackbird' by Alter Bridge
12. 'Say Hello 2 Heaven' by Temple of the Dog
13. 'The Funeral Party' by The Cure
14. 'Rosegarden Funeral of Sores' by Bauhaus
15. 'The Funeral' by Band of Horses
16. 'Dust in the Wind' by Kansas
17. 'Fly to the Angels' by Slaughter
18. 'Last Kiss' by Pearl Jam
19. 'Torn to Pieces' by Pop Evil
20. 'Angel's Son' by Sevendust
Tracks About Death and Loss #21 to 30
21. 'Fade to Black' by Metallica
22. '(Don’t Fear) The Reaper' by Blue Öyster Cult
23. 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash
24. 'My Immortal' by Evanescence
25. 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' by Guns N' Roses
26. 'I'll Be Missing You' by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans ft. 112
27. 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd
28. 'Everybody Hurts' by R.E.M.
29. 'Slipped Away' by Avril Lavigne
30. 'The Show Must Go On' by Queen
Essential Rock Songs About Grief #31 to 40
31. 'Alone Again (Naturally)' by Gilbert O'Sullivan
32. 'Fire and Rain' by James Taylor
33. 'Tears in Heaven' by Eric Clapton
34. 'Goodbye My Lover' by James Blunt
35. 'Gone Away' by The Offspring
36. 'November Rain' by Guns N' Roses
37. 'Wind Beneath My Wings' by Bette Midler
38. 'Crying in the Rain' by Whitesnake
39. 'Under the Graveyard' by Ozzy Osbourne
40. 'In Loving Memory' by Alter Bridge
A List of Funeral Themed Songs #41 to 50
41. 'Changes' by Black Sabbath
42. 'With Arms Wide Open' by Creed
43. 'When You're Gone' by The Cranberries
44. 'Angel' by Sarah McLachlan
45. 'See You on the Other Side' by Korn
46. 'A Match Into Water' by Pierce the Veil
47. 'The Last Goodbye' by Billy Boyd
48. 'Nothing Else Matters' by Metallica
49. 'All the Stars Are Dead Now' by Current 93
50. 'When I Get Where I'm Going' by Brad Paisley ft. Dolly Parton
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