Metal songs at 162 BPM
Tempo Tunes has 466 metal songs with a verified tempo of 162 BPM: heavy riffs and double-kick energy. Here are some of the best known.
162 BPM is prime running tempo. 162 BPM also lines up with a running cadence of about 162 steps per minute, right in the range coaches suggest for an efficient stride. Drum and bass also lives here, if you want the energy without the pop.
Popular 162 BPM metal songs
St. Anger
Metallica (2003)
Poison Was the Cure
Megadeth (2004)
Slaughtered
Pantera
Tears Don't Fall
Bullet for My Valentine
Inner Self
Sepultura (1991)
Black Rose
Volbeat
The Swan Song
Within Temptation (2004)
Requiem
Lamb of God (2006)
The Saints
Helloween (2007)
Icepick Lobotomy
Cannibal Corpse (2014)
Soul of a Vagabond
Stratovarius (2003)
Another Life
Motionless In White
Tearing the Veil From Grace
Cradle of Filth (2000)
Wrecking the Sphere
Sonata Arctica (2004)
Tribe
Soulfly (1999)
Tanelorn
Blind Guardian (2010)
Aeons of Raging Darkness
Rhapsody of Fire (2011)
Ballcrusher
W.A.S.P. (1985)
Under Jolly Roger
Therion (1997)
Passion, Proof, Power
Ensiferum (2012)
Waterloo
Iced Earth (2004)
No Way Out
Annihilator (2013)
Intro
Bathory (1996)
Medeia
Insomnium (2002)
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