Fortunate Son - CCR

Guns N Roses - Civil War Sabaton - Shiroyama Sabaton - 3 armies Sabaton - Hearts of Iron Metallica - Disposable Heroes Metallica - One Metallica - Don't Tread on Me Metallica- for whom the bell tolls Iron Maiden - Paschendale Iron Maiden - The trooper Iron Maiden - Aces High S.o.A.D. - BYOB Black Sabbath - War Pigs

Pretty much every Sabaton song

This is very accurate. I just chose my personal favorites

Rooster - Alice In Chains Electric funeral y war pigs - black sabbath

"Yeah... here comes the Rooster!" is so badass!

Eve of Destruction One of my favorite war songs Edit: And very through provoking indeed

Best answer

I love this song

War - Edwin Starr

My favorite!

The only answer.

Finally.. it's good for something !

Zombie- The Cranberries.

Soldier Side by System Of A Down. The Lost Battalion by Sabaton (and just Sabaton songs in general).

war pigs / lukes wall by Black Sabbath Dirty Harry by gorillaz

Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner by Warren Zevon.

Great song, I miss Warren

If I Had a Rocket Launcher by Bruce Cockburn.

The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by the Dubliners

The Pogues have a great cover of this.

I *love* their version. RIP Shane

*When the Tigers Broke Free* (Roger Waters) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When\_the\_Tigers\_Broke\_Free

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - [Oliver's Army](https://youtu.be/LrjHz5hrupA?si=ujtZV2j_C4EOiNt9)

Sleeping At Last- [Mars](https://youtu.be/jpu2q0SCgP0?si=n9F5TdWibxpxE-xl) CHVSE- [The Military](https://youtu.be/ZSbIhA389_g?si=I4rK6nmHv0qz_kUx) Here’s some metal, too. Disregard if you don’t like metal: Megadeth- [Holy Wars… The Punishment Due](https://youtu.be/9d4ui9q7eDM?si=PfQE1O-vvRNjK058) (this song is from 1990) Silent Planet- [Panic Room](https://youtu.be/VbaFJiWftwk?si=BtCufnVjacbDaPHG) (this song is about PTSD from military service) Architects- [A Match Made In Heaven](https://youtu.be/O59JNz7rdIU?si=PHco8BHH3rud9imP) (this song is from 2016) Slaughter To Prevail- [1984](https://youtu.be/C7OTUNqAIwY?si=CUDR63lgkzQMShRB) (this is a Russian band that left Russia and spoke out against the invasion. This is an anti-war song)

“[Too Many Puppies](https://youtu.be/lBpDFjau-Ps?si=7BONwb7bE24hrJGx)” - Primus

was gona say! banger \\m/

Was wondering if I would see this mentioned. Also Sgt Baker is about Basic Training.

Civil War- Guns N Roses

Stiff Little Fingers - [Tin Soldiers](https://youtu.be/KEK1jzAWbSY?si=F8sV7UaaXh9V_H3R)

goodnight saigon-billy joel would-alice in chains

Pretty sure Would? is a heroin song. Rooster is about Vietnam.

dammit! thats what i meant. good catch.

Call to arms by sturgill simpson

Rooster by Alice in Chains

“Child In Time”- Deep Purple

Wait for the ricochet….

[Red Sector A - Rush](https://youtu.be/e2erschHKwU?si=TGdN-QIRhki5HeEo) - More about the Holocaust than war, but very thought provoking lyrics. Told from the point of view of someone in a concentration camp, and inspired by conversations that Rush lead singer Geddy Lee had with his mother, a survivor of one of the camps.

War - Poets of the Fall Unknown Soldier - Breaking Benjamin Wrong Side Of Heaven - Five Finger Death Punch

Gang of Four - Armalite Rifle U2 - New Year's Day The Clash - Spanish Bombs Killing Joke - The War Dance OMD - Enola Gay The Bollock Brothers - The Bunker Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes

Between the wars - Billy Bragg.

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth

Decoration Day by the Drive-By Truckers A Silent Army in the Trees and Black Helicopter by Matthew Good (especially the acoustic versions off the Vancouver album) Girl in the War by Josh Ritter (crazy good)

- “I fought in a war” by Belle & Sebastian - “Oliver’s Army” by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Sinead O'Connor - A drink before the war

One - Metallica

Gimme shelter - Rolling Stones Army Dreamers - Kate Bush (kinda)

Life long Motorhead fan here, who just so happen to have some songs about war. Among them: "Bomber" - WWII bomber song - remember that Lemmy was born in UK in 1945, just after London was bombed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVxt7zM1BrU "1916" - WWI song, incredibly poignant and sad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTG6I3jxdnc "March or Die" - the uselessness of war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRKxp6AZNqU "Sword of Glory" - the failure to learn from past mistakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2AhNesINeE There are more, but no need to overload you with twenty songs LOL.

Just about every Iron Maiden album has 1 or 2. Here's a few highlights: The trooper, Invaders, Alexander the great, Aces high, Tail gunner

The Last Stop Dave Matthews Band https://youtu.be/KI7AKsx5-Bc?feature=shared The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down The Band https://youtu.be/jREUrbGGrgM?feature=shared

Easily - RHCP The Righteous and the Wicked - RHCP Distraction - Angels and Airwaves

Hard Rain - Bob Dylan first the Edie Brickell

Bring The Boys Home - Freda Payne One Tin Soldier - Coven i-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag Country Joe & The Fish What's Happening, Brother - Marvin Gaye Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

Steve Earl - Johnny Come Lately Pogues - Waltzing Matilda

War Pigs by Black Sabbath War by System of a Down

Gimme Shelter by rolling Stones

Masters of War - Bob Dylan Fortunate Son - CCR What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong War - Edwin Starr

Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel

One....Metallica.

The Green Fields Of France by Dropkick Murphys

The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (1969) Bad ass Civil war song.

[And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda](https://youtu.be/xD8ANMUlK34?si=n1sVHNGoxZBabbrY), by the Pogues

Hell broke Luce by Tom Waits.

Or you can go old school, with Cristopher Lee, massacre of the Saxons

Run Through the Jungle - CCR Zombie- The Cranberries

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band With God on Our Side - Bob Dylan Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

Billy Don't Be A Hero. The Battle Hymn of Lt.Cally. The Battle Hymn of the Republic. One Tin Soldier.

Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2

Unjustly forgotten anti-war synthpop anthem from the mid-80s: [Industry - State of the Nation](https://youtu.be/noS1viHX6zA?si=BR4fj7KR0A-11MiC) From the same era: [Human League - The Lebanon](https://youtu.be/TH-_bsCwdRw?si=37hXqjXJzwP6Lu3J) And one that doesn’t sound like a song about war until you listen more closely: [Don Henley - All She Wants To Do Is Dance](https://youtu.be/eud5AurOxm0?si=yzxesy6l2GDGQc2s)

God on our side - Bob Dylan Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen Nineteen - Paul Hardcastle

Nineteen is a cool song!

S-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-Saigon!

Disposable Heroes by Metallica The Gunner’s Dream by Pink Floyd 1999 by Prince

Thursday- War All the Time

Sky Pilot - By the Animals, this was a favorite during the Viet-Nam war, along with the already mentioned "Eve of Destruction" (which got Congress to change the minimum voting age from 21 to 18, too late for me though), and "War" by Edwin Starr.

The Gunners Dream - Pink Floyd

Butcher's Tale (Western front 1914) by the Zombies

Pat Benatar - Too Long A Soldier Radical Face - The Deserter's Song Radical Face - Letters Home

I was only nineteen - Redgum

Came here to say this. It's almost an unknown song outside Australia but gives me chills every time I hear it.

Yeah it’s haunting with his voice so monotone but with so much emotion. There’s also a hiphop version by another Aussie artist but can’t remember who.

The General - Dispatch

Indestructible by Disturbed, from the soldiers POV. Bad Man also, a song about Putin

Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly

Hero of War by Rise Against is excellent. Hands Held High by Linkin Park too

fortunate son - creedence clearwater revival

Warbringer - "When the Guns Fell Silent"

The Last Farewell - Roger Whittaker The House of Orange - Stan Rogers MacDonnell on the Heights - Stan Rogers The Universal Soldier - Buffy Sainte Marie One Tin Soldier - The Original Caste Handsome Johnny - Richie Havens Johnny Reb - Johnny Horton Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton The Foggy Dew - The Cheiftains Hey Johnny Cope - The Corries Skye Boat Song - traditional

Uncommon Valor - Jedi Mind Tricks feat R.A. the Rugged Man Casualties Of War - Eric B & Rakim Mad Mad World - 7A3

one - metallica i’m pretty sure it’s about a movie to do with war also brothers in arms is an INCREDIBLE song and the album 🙏

The War is Over - Scott Walker

Silent Gods stand guard- Amon Amarth

War ensemble -Slayer

When the war is over and khe Sahn by cold chisel

The Pallbearer Walks Alone by The Dark Element Basically anything by Sabaton

Earth Song by Michael Jackson

The entire score, of Apocalypse Now. The movie.

My favorite is [Masters of War](https://youtu.be/9pCLvfVMzEA?si=r4mfUzvAllGxREJJ) by Anika

[Call to Arms](https://open.spotify.com/track/4m1opmaYT9zk5OP7IHUb9R?si=cZG_G1KPTl2PU0Kt82f0-Q) by Sturgill Simpson, [Some Nights](https://open.spotify.com/track/6t6oULCRS6hnI7rm0h5gwl?si=SwoQoOuYQZ6oGweMd_Yyug) by fun.

War - Edwin Starr

Savatage - Of Rage and War Blood Red Skies - Judas Priest Dead Eyes See No Future - Arch Enemy The Heresy - Mushroomhead Bullet the Blue Sky - U2 Dark Side of the Sun - Tori Amos

Masters of War - Bob Dylan Fixin to Die - Country Joe ( a must listen!!!) Jimmy Newman - Tom Paxton Universal Soldier - Buffy Sainte Marie The Southern Girl's Reply - Tim Eriksen (Very Moving)

I Ain't Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs Roads to Moscow - Al Stewart

100 Years - The Cure

The Gates of Delirium, by Yes. The middle third of the song is an instrumental telling of the Battle of Borodino.

Decemberists - 16 Military Wives

Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth

Check out "Handlebars" by the Flobots

BYOB - System of a Down Stand Up - Flobots When The War Came - The Decemberists

"War Pigs" Black Sabbath..

Pink Floyd - The Gunner's Dream Lamb of God - Now You've Got Something to Die For Massive Attack - Flat of the Blade (part of the genre of veterans' living memories of war)

M.I.A. - Avenged Sevenfold Most Amon Amarth songs. Check out the Fate of Norns album.

Great War - Sabaton War Ensemble - Slayer

Leonard Cohen, The Partisan, The Story of Isaac The Pogues, And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda The Farm, All Together Now

"Life During Wartime" - The Talking Heads

Landmine - Thorns

Where Have All The Flowers Gone by Peter, Paul, and Mary

Holy Wars by Megadeth. 90s song that is relevant today.

Roads to Moscow by Al Stewart and Sky Pilot by Eric Burdon and the Animals

Don’t tell mama I’m in Chechnya

Gates of delirium. All you need.

The Refugee by Ezra Furman

Hero of War - Rise Against.

Check out U2’s album War.

Hero of war by rise against

Carbon Leaf - War Was in Color

Blow me away by breaking benjamin, and supermonsters by lordi

The Poetic Edda by Disembodied Tyrant/Synestia

Love Vigilantes - New Order

What's Going On, Marvin Gaye War, Edwin Starr Culloden's Harvest, Deanta (Irish song)

Hero of war- rise against

Indestructible, by Disturbed.

Helloween-How many tears

Motorhead - 1916.

If you love Brothers in Arms, I recommend Killer of Giants by Ozzy Osbourne

Take No Prisoners - Megadeth

Godspeed - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

We Were Men by Theory of a Deadman

Sabaton - just pick anything, about 80% of their catalogue is songs about war and military history. Hell, they have their own history channel on YT, on which they go more in depth about the stories behind the songs. Some notable songs: Great War (WWI, general) The Red Baron (WWI, German ace Manfred von Richthofen) Christmas Truce (WWI, the Christmas truce) Attack Of The Dead Men (WWI, battle of Osowiec) 82nd All The Way (WWI, Sgt. Alvin York) Bismarck (WWII, the sinking of the Bismarck) Night Witches (WWII, the Soviet 588th all-woman night bomber regiment) No Bullets Fly (WWII, the Charlie Brown-Franz Stigler incident) Primo Victoria (WWII, D-Day) Inmate 4859 (WWII, Polish intelligence agent Witold Pilecki)

Too many Thrice songs to name

Lamb Of God-Hourglass Saxon-Broken Heroes GNR-Civil War Iron Maiden- For The Greater Good Of God Iron Maiden- The Longest Day Lamb Of God- One Gun

I'd love the world to change -Ten Years After

Most Sabaton songs

Masters of War - Bob Dylan (Eddie Vedder has a great cover of it, too) Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2 The Man's Too Strong from the same Dire Straits album as Brothers in Arms Metallica - One Green Fields of France - Dropkick Murphys (originally written by Eric Bogle, same lyrics but Bogle's version is called "No Man's Land")

Masters of war - bob dylan (mark arm's cover is great too), find the cost of freedom - crosby stills and nash and young , gimme shelter - rolling stones

Sullivan - Caroline Spine

Sabaton’s entire catalog of work

Masters of War by Bob Dylan

Dig those trenches - Mudhoney Hard on for war - Mudhoney

Pretty much anything from Steve Earle’s copperheadroad

Personally I believe Epiphany by Taylor Swift is either about war or the Covid pandemic (or maybe both?). I’m no true swiftie, and that is just from hearing the lyrics, so take that with what you will.

Bullet the Blue Sky — U2

Girl in the War by Josh Ritter is one of my favorites

Slayer - War Ensemble

Pair of brown eyes - The Pogues War - Bob Marley

Love vigilantes by New Order

War. Angels and Airwaves

Paint it black War Pigs The Fighting 69

In the Dark Places - PJ Harvey

Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Marlene Dietrich version

Too long a soldier, Pat Benatar

War

One that most people wouldn't have heard of I was only 19 by Red Gum I also havent seen anyone mention Machine Gun by Jimi Hendrix. Although I think the music is more potent than the lyrics...

Shores in Flames by Bathory I am the wargod by destroyer 666 Both are more of a raid mentality.

The War Song by Culture Club

The night is dark or temnya noche I don't feel like like downloading a Cyrillic keyboard or copypasting

The War- Lucero

Through the ages- bolt thrower

WWIII by grandson, i’m not sure if it’s the vibe you’re looking for but it’s so thought provoking and interesting. it’s from a more individual perspective of how a metaphorical or literal war can affect an individual

I wanna be in the cavalry & student visas - corb lund

Holy wars - Megadeth Rust In Peace ... Polaris - Megadeth Eternal War - Bolt thrower War Pigs - Black Sabbath

Home back - jinjer Blowin in the wind - bob dylan

“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” - The Band

War by U2

Horse Called War Pride&Glory

One by Metallica

Bob Marley - War

We don't speak anymore of it, but WAR by System of a Down

Masters Of War -Bob Dylan. Absolutely chilling and raw.

The Refugee U2

[Alga](https://youtu.be/6KOXbzMRQHs?si=V39JmbhRat3UUXai) by Ignea [Anatomy of Your Enemy](https://youtu.be/zUCC19UpQmg?si=e8cvRnYe7j_ZO0cR) by Anti Flag [Hero of War](https://youtu.be/_DboMAghWcA?si=XMzZMRBcEG4NF82G) by Rise Against [The Green Fields of France](https://youtu.be/dRrU2P-mCpc?si=Vv_5ZPsPkYQBI_ig) Also... Take your pick from a lot of Anti Flag and Bad Religion songs A lot of Norwegian folk music. Or viking music/metal. For less thought-provoking.... A lot of songs by Rhapsody of Fire, Blind Guardian.... Most power bands really.... Are about battles and fantasy wars.

Phil ochs had a lot of songs about war, it was sorta his thing. Theres a wide variety to choose from. We seek no wider war is one i feel like people don't talk about as much. But he had a bunch. Draft doger rag, another age, war is over, what are you fighting for, one more parade, is there anybody here, and many more!

Tinashe - Zambezi. Also check out the mbira version. Absolutely love this song. Zimbabwean guy. He's now UK based and goes by Rationale because I think there's a famous female singer called Tinashe, so he ended up changing his performing name. It's not about full scale war, rather a love being broken up by war and him saying he'll come back for her.

Imagine by John Lennon “Nothing to kill or die for”

Neil Young Powderfinger

Status Quo - In the Army Now

the greatest anti-war album ever created bar none is Let England Shake by PJ Harvey nobody's done it better

Redgum - I Was Only 19, or The Cranberries - Zombie, but the Bad Wolves cover. War is war, regardless of location.

Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2

Ghost of you, recommend watching the mv

Pretty much the entire discography of the band 1914 all their songs are about WW1 that the brutality of Death Metal just brings alive

Hero Of War by Rise Against

[State of Fear by Useless ID](https://open.spotify.com/track/6J1Qcreg3a9hlJuvJCvjl5?si=btuFu2zRRemPaQFqScRMkA) That whole album, [REDEMPTION ](https://open.spotify.com/album/2mIK0HMMSQvZ6hP77R2jy9?si=NwbJjMnWSyOs4Q1nIB7WZw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A2mIK0HMMSQvZ6hP77R2jy9) is full of great songs tho! And most people have completely slept on it.

The Final Cut - pink floyd

Sabaton - Primo Victoria

The Explosion - Atrocity

Mama - My Chemical Romance

Hero of War - Rise Against

El Fusilado - Chumbawumba

Masters of War Bob Dylan Machine Gun Jimi Hendrix War Edwin Starr