Fastest Metal Songs Ranked by BPM | MetalForge
24 metal songs at 200+ BPM, ranked fastest first — from blast-beat grindcore down to the slowest song that still clears the bar.
Fastest Metal Songs
| Rank | Song | Band | BPM | Drummer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve its Possessor Against Attacks From He Who is In the Water | Nile | 271 | George Kollias |
| 2 | I, Monarch | Hate Eternal | 270 | Derek Roddy |
| 3 | Sacrifice Unto Sebek | Nile | 265 | George Kollias |
| 4 | Blinded by Fear | At the Gates | 250 | Adrian Erlandsson |
| 5 | Kafir! | Nile | 245 | George Kollias |
| 6 | Lashed to the Slave Stick | Nile | 240 | George Kollias |
| 7 | War Ensemble | Slayer | 230 | Dave Lombardo |
| 8 | Septuagint | Obscura | 230 | Hannes Grossmann |
| 9 | Divine Intervention | Slayer | 220 | Paul Bostaph |
| 10 | Liege of Inveracity | Suffocation | 220 | Mike Smith Suffocation |
| 11 | Dyers Eve | Metallica | 220 | Lars Ulrich |
| 12 | Trapped Under Ice | Metallica | 220 | Lars Ulrich |
| 13 | Slit Your Guts | Cryptopsy | 218 | Flo Mounier |
| 14 | Raining Blood | Slayer | 216 | Dave Lombardo |
| 15 | Master of Puppets | Metallica | 212 | Lars Ulrich |
| 16 | Angel of Death | Slayer | 212 | Dave Lombardo |
| 17 | Painkiller | Judas Priest | 210 | Scott Travis |
| 18 | Flattening of Emotions | Death | 210 | Sean Reinert |
| 19 | Necrophobic | Slayer | 210 | Dave Lombardo |
| 20 | Black Seeds of Vengeance | Nile | 210 | Pat Harrington |
| 21 | Creeping Death | Metallica | 200 | Lars Ulrich |
| 22 | Immortal Rites | Morbid Angel | 200 | Pete Sandoval |
| 23 | Chainsaw Gutsfuck | Mayhem | 200 | Manheim |
| 24 | Beneath the Remains | Sepultura | 200 | Igor Cavalera |