Dear Nerdy Metalhead Know-it-All,

I would like to personally welcome you to the Gears of Rock’s Top 100 Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Songs of All Time Official Countdown.  I’d also like to extend a hearty congratulations to you for stumbling upon this life-altering/shattering experience.  You see, over the last 5 years I have spent quite a bit of time and very little effort polling the miniature demonic beings living inside my fat hairy skull.  In the end, another imperfect list came to fruition.  Once again, we hope you despise it.

P.S. Remember, these rankings represent the greatest songs ever written, performed, and released by hard rock and heavy metal bands.  Please feel free to customarily projectile vomit blood and bile all over these rankings at your own leisure.  Here are songs ranked #20-#11:

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#20  “Rock You Like A Hurricane” Scorpions – Love At First Sting (1984)

#19  “Indians” Anthrax – Among The Living (1987)

#18  “Panama” Van Halen – 1984 (1984)

#17  “Tie Your Mother Down” Queen – A Day At The Races (1976)

#16  “School’s Out” Alice Cooper – School’s Out (1972)

#15  “Kickstart My Heart” Motley Crue – Dr. Feelgood (1989)

#14  “Welcome To The Jungle” Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction (1988)

#13  “Black Diamond” Kiss – Kiss (1974)

#12  “Mama Kin” Aerosmith – Mama Kin (1973)

#11  “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due” Megadeth – Rust In Peace (1990)

Check back tomorrow when the Top 100 concludes with the Gears of Rock’s Top 10 Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Songs of All Time!