50 Best Rock Songs About Guns
Powerful Rock Tracks on Guns and the Noise They Carry
There’s a weird tension that runs through songs tied to guns. Not the movie-style glamor or the tough-guy strut, but the uneasy rhythm of something heavy lurking behind the sound. The riffs get sharper, the drums hit harder, and even when the lyrics sidestep the topic, the feeling stays. It’s that pulse that lives somewhere between anger and exhaustion. Some of these tracks shoot straight, others circle the idea until it’s barely visible, but the charge is still there, waiting under the noise.
Guitars have a way of making violence sound too big to ignore. The solos crackle, the vocals come through like a dare, and for a few minutes everything feels dangerous in a strangely human way. You can hear the echo of stories people don’t want to tell out loud. These aren’t quiet songs, and they don’t pretend to make sense of the chaos either. A few of them might not even be literally tied to guns, but the weight and the sparks fit the same world.
There’s a reason these tracks keep showing up next to headlines, movies, and the long list of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that carry the same restless energy. They hit that nerve where noise meets tension and stay there. Here are the best rock songs on guns that make the volume feel heavier than usual.
Top 10 Gun Rock Songs
1. 'Janie's Got a Gun' by Aerosmith
2. 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun' by The Beatles
3. 'Big Gun' by AC/DC
4. 'Lawyers, Guns and Money' by Warren Zevon
5. '21 Guns' by Green Day
6. 'Saturday Night Special' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
7. 'The Guns of Brixton' by The Clash
8. 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings' by The Smashing Pumpkins
9. 'Guns for Hire' by AC/DC
10. 'Pumped Up Kicks' by Foster the People
Essential Weaponry Rock Songs #11 to 20
11. 'Machine Gun' by Jimi Hendrix
12. 'Tommy Gun' by The Clash
13. 'Bullet in the Head' by Rage Against the Machine
14. 'If I Had a Gun' by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
15. 'Barrel of a Gun' by Depeche Mode
16. 'The Gun Show' by In This Moment
17. 'Billy's Got a Gun' by Def Leppard
18. 'Kids With Guns' by Gorillaz
19. 'Girls With Guns' by Tommy Shaw
20. 'Gun' by Soundgarden
Best Firearm Themed Rock Songs #21 to 30
21. 'Shoot to Thrill' by AC/DC
22. 'Hey Joe' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
23. 'God Is a Bullet' by Concrete Blonde
24. 'Under the Gun' by The Black Keys
25. 'Sixty Eight Guns' by The Alarm
26. 'I Shot the Sheriff' by Eric Clapton
27. 'Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun' by Beastie Boys
28. 'Fire Your Guns' by AC/DC
29. 'I've Got a Gun' by Candlebox
30. 'Gimme Back My Bullets' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Top Aggression and Power Rock Songs #31 to 40
31. 'Elephant Gun' by Beirut
32. 'Guns on the Roof' by The Clash
33. 'Don't Need a Gun' by Motörhead
34. 'The Devil's Right Hand' by Waylon Jennings
35. 'Bury Me With My Guns' by Pantera
36. 'Shotgun' by Limp Bizkit
37. 'God Gave Me a Gun' by Marilyn Manson
38. 'With a Gun' by The Magnetic Fields
39. 'Love's a Loaded Gun' by Alice Cooper
40. 'Armalite Rifle' by Gang of Four
Rock Songs About Conflict and Violence #41 to 50
41. 'Gun' by Soundgarden
42. 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' by Gene Pitney
43. 'Golden Guns' by Transplants
44. 'Drop Your Guns' by The Kills
45. 'Two Gunslingers' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
46. 'Revolver' by Rage Against the Machine
47. 'Guns for Hands' by Twenty One Pilots
48. 'Sound of a Gun' by The Damned
49. 'Get Your Gunn' by Marilyn Manson
50. 'I Wanna Get Me a Gun' by Elton John
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