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Bruce Dickinson - Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
The song documents the colonization of the Americas, first by Europeans and then by Americans, from the perspective of a...


Emotional Baallads - Scorpions - Wind Of Change
The band wrote this during a visit to Moscow in 1989. The previous year, they became the first hard-rock band to play...


Best Rock Singers - Ronnie James Dio - Rainbow - Kill The King
Despite the violent imagery in this maniacally fast rock song, lead singer Ronnie James Dio claimed it is about a chess game...


Best Metallica Songs - Metallica - Creeping Death
The inspiration for this song was the movie The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston as Moses. In the movie, the Angel of Death is...


Jon Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi - Always
The song was originally written by Jon Bon Jovi for the soundtrack to the 1993 film Romeo is bleeding, starring Gary Oldman...


Thrash Metal - Metallica - Ride the Lightning
"There was this one passage where this guy was on death row said he was waiting to 'ride the lightning.' I remember thinking...


Joe Elliott - Def Leppard - Animal
This was Def Leppard's first hit in their native England. Even Pyromania, which was a massive hit album in America, was...


Rock - The Cardigans - My Favourite Game
The group recorded this album in producer Tore Johansson's "Country Hell" studio outside of Malmo, Sweden. Johansson opted to use a...


Linkin Park - Numb - Chester Bennington
This is about children who are sick of having to live up to the high expectations that their parents place on them. The line "Every step...
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