50 Best Rock Songs About Hurricanes
Best Rock Tracks That Hit Like a Hurricane
There’s a certain rush that comes before the sky breaks open. You feel it in the air, thick and electric, before anything even starts. That strange calm that makes you grip the wheel tighter or stare longer out the window. Then the sound hits, guitars cutting through the noise like wind through glass. These tracks live in that space, where everything feels close to snapping but still holding together by a thread. Some came straight out of storm metaphors, others weren’t written for weather at all but somehow carry the same wild pressure building under the surface.
The kind of songs that belong to late nights when the rain’s sideways and your phone lights up with some half-lost number. Vocals crack. Drums roll like thunder off in the distance. There’s chaos, but it’s the kind that pulls you in. The lyrics twist around resilience, regret, sometimes nothing you can name at all. These aren’t smooth edges or clean choruses made for radio—they sound like a room rattling, walls humming, power flickering for a second too long. The best ones don’t even try to explain the feeling. They ride it out.
In between the noise, there’s always that flicker of calm before another gust hits. That’s where these tracks live—some literal, some that only feel like storms you can’t see coming. They tear through pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that carry that pulse of unrest and release. Here are the best rock songs about hurricanes.
Top 10 Storm Rock Songs
1. 'Rock You Like a Hurricane' by Scorpions
2. 'Riders on the Storm' by The Doors
3. 'Like a Hurricane' by Neil Young
4. 'Thunderstruck' by AC/DC
5. 'November Rain' by Guns N' Roses
6. 'When the Levee Breaks' by Led Zeppelin
7. 'Ridin' the Storm Out' by REO Speedwagon
8. 'Gimme Shelter' by The Rolling Stones
9. 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
10. 'Hurricane' by Bob Dylan
Great Songs About Hurricane and Storms #11 to 20
11. 'Stormbringer' by Deep Purple
12. 'Lightning Crashes' by Live
13. 'I Am the Hurricane' by Overkill
14. 'Storms' by Fleetwood Mac
15. 'Butterflies and Hurricanes' by Muse
16. 'The Rain Song' by Led Zeppelin
17. 'Shelter from the Storm' by Bob Dylan
18. 'Only Happy When It Rains' by Garbage
19. 'Electrical Storm' by U2
20. 'Here Comes the Flood' by Peter Gabriel
Essential Rock Songs Inspired by Hurricanes #21 to 30
21. 'She's Thunderstorms' by Arctic Monkeys
22. 'Surfing in a Hurricane' by Jimmy Buffett
23. 'Black Rain' by Soundgarden
24. 'Hurricane' by Thirty Seconds To Mars
25. 'Rainmaker' by Iron Maiden
26. 'Hurricane' by Iced Earth
27. 'Running From the Storm' by Gary Moore
28. 'A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall' by Bob Dylan
29. 'I Of The Storm' by Of Monsters and Men
30. 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Gordon Lightfoot
Hard Rock and Metal Songs with a Storm Theme #31 to 40
31. 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' by The Rolling Stones
32. 'Against the Wind' by Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band
33. 'Crying In The Rain' by Whitesnake
34. 'Texas Flood' by Stevie Ray Vaughan
35. 'God of Thunder' by KISS
36. 'Thunder and Lightning' by Thin Lizzy
37. 'Hurricane' by Theory of a Deadman
38. 'Head Over Heels' by Tears for Fears
39. 'Thunder' by Imagine Dragons
40. 'Hurricane Party' by Cowboy Mouth
More Great Rock and Storm Songs #41 to 50
41. 'Savatage' by Storm
42. 'Black Clouds' by Papa Roach
43. 'Fool In The Rain' by Led Zeppelin
44. 'Lightning Strikes' by Aerosmith
45. 'Storm Warning' by Bonnie Raitt
46. 'Storm' by Django Django
47. 'Calm Before the Storm' by Fall Out Boy
48. 'The Eye' by Brandi Carlile
49. 'Hurricane' by The Band of Heathens
50. 'Wild Gilbert' by Lloyd Lovindeer
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