Listening to music while exercising can enhance the effects of your exercise session. According to studies, music helps distract our bodies from feelings of discomfort while motivating us to continue the workout session.
Tolcsey and Ellefson’s classic thrash metal song is perfect for adding extra energy and intensity to your workout sessions. With its driving riffing and heavy drumming, this track makes an excellent accompaniment for lifting weights or speeding up cardio sessions.
Guerilla Radio by Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against the Machine’s Guerrilla Radio stands out among workout music for its contentious lyrics and politically charged themes; nonetheless it makes an excellent addition to your gym playlist. Led by Zack de la Rocha’s compelling rapping and Tom Morello’s hard driving guitars, this track serves as an anthem against injustice on an international scale.
Linkin Park’s Bleed It Out was one of 2000’s hottest and most explosive Rock hits, delivering an immediate power punch with its fast paced guitar and heavy percussion, amplified further by singer Chester Bennington’s thrilling vocals that are guaranteed to propel any workout session with increased intensity and adrenaline.
Evil Empire, the band’s third album, contains an unstoppable workout song with the power to take your workout experience to new heights. With its direct and aggressive lyrics, this track can help push past any perceived barriers of fatigue to reach for full potential and reach new goals. You’ll be jumping, punching and hitting that bag like never before as it keeps up its overdrive saturated sound and held distorted licks for an unforgettable workout playlist experience!
Down With The Sickness by Disturbed
Disturbed are an internationally-recognized Chicago metal band who have made waves since their introduction into music in 2000. Considered one of the most successful heavy metal acts ever to emerge, Disturbed were among the first major American rock groups to incorporate nu metal into their sound, pushing the genre into new territories.
Down With The Sickness is unquestionably one of their signature songs, and its aggressive beat and David Draiman’s powerful vocals create an invigorating experience – ideal for kick-starting any workout and encouraging further than ever before!
Papercut by Linkin Park should also make its way onto your workout playlist, as its powerful build up makes it perfect for intense and effective exercise. With its haunting yet ominous vibes and bass and guitar riffs providing the ideal foundation, Papercut by Linkin Park makes an excellent addition.
You Know You’re Right by Nirvana
Nirvana track You Know You’re Right is an epic anthem that will add motivation and drive to any workout session. With its fast pace and emotional tone, this song will have you pushing harder than ever.
Kurt Cobain left us far too soon; yet his final recording before death is truly epic in scope and sound, testament to both his deep songcraft skills as well as the substantial fan base Nirvana maintained at its time of existence. You Know You’re Right is truly epic in both scope and sound – an unforgettable tribute that shows his true sense of song craft while honoring fans that were still loyal followers after his passing.
Even amid the turmoil and controversy surrounding Cobain’s death, his bandmates saw You Know You’re Right as an essential piece of their legacy. Grohl and Novoselic battled for its inclusion on their first posthumous compilation album which ultimately reached #1 on Billboard charts in 2002.
Linkin Park’s take on this classic rock song is packed with an energizing vibe to help make your workout enjoyable and effective. Fusing their distinctive alternative structure with explosive nu-metal and Chester Bennington’s trademark riffing, this track shouldn’t be missed out on.
The Diary of Jane by The Diary of Jane
Are You Searching for Motivation and Determination When Working Out? TOOL’s iconic songs like this one will get your workout underway in no time, as their powerful guitar and percussion will get the adrenaline going before the first chorus even finishes! Inspired by one of TOOL’s friends who could only function when drunk, its lyrics are both heartfelt and powerful – perfect for motivation and dedication during workout sessions!
Breaking Benjamin has been making fans’ hearts beat faster since 1999 with their post-grunge sound and hits like “Love Went Wrong and Letting Go,” written from an emotional perspective based on lead singer Benjamin Burnley’s experiences. Their songs speak directly to all those experiencing heartache or emotional discomfort – this particular tune recounts that journey vividly for listeners everywhere.
With its hard-grooving cross genre bass line and powerful guitar riff, this Rock track makes for the ideal workout music. Additionally, Mike Shinoda’s fast verses and Chester Bennington’s screaming vocals only heighten its intensity during any workout.
Sabotage by Beastie Boys
Sabotage by The Beastie Boys has long been one of their signature songs, and for good reason. With an instantly memorable bass guitar riff and high-pitched, aggressive rapping by Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz. Furthermore, its groundbreaking music video directed by Spike Jonze (who would later direct many other Beastie Boys videos) parodying and paying homage to 70’s crime drama TV shows is both iconic and influential.
It speaks volumes about The Beasties’ talent that they were able to craft such an effective song. By carefully mixing hip hop, hard rock, and punk influences together in one track they created something truly original and unmatchable.
The Beasties went on to produce an impressive catalog of hits, and Sabotage remains a timeless classic that remains popular today. Bands like the Hungarian group THE HELLFREAKS continue to perform it live today and deliver an explosive performance sure to set pulses racing! Watch their rendition below.
Bulls On Parade by Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine’s iconic and electrifying hit is sure to create an explosive soundscape, from Tom Morello’s fiery guitar riffing and Commerford’s headbanging bass lines combining to achieve their target intensity quickly and successfully.
Initialy recorded for Saturday Night Live, the song became controversial after its band were asked by host Steve Forbes of SNL to remove their upside-down American flag amp covers, due to being offensive to him. Instead, the band disobeyed this request and continued performing as planned.
Linkin Park’s track “Chugging Riff and Distinct Single-Note Guitar Lines that Complement Chester Bennington” is an ideal rock workout track, offering up its distinctive single-note guitar lines to Chester Bennington’s somewhat despairing vocals as he pleads his case with powerful drums and guitar. Starting off quickly with powerfully intense drums and guitar, this song will have your adrenaline flowing within no time – this track’s steady pace and energizing effects are certain to help set goals and keep them intact throughout.
Song 2 by The Verve
Metallica’s Fuel perfectly captures this “gimme fuel, give me fire” mentality with its infectious guitar riffs and melancholic vocals – which provide extra motivation during exercise sessions. You won’t find another track as energizing as this classic from their thrash metal album to help get your workout in gear!
From The Verve’s debut album, this track stands as an outstanding demonstration of their innovative songwriting and production approach. Blending ambient instrumentation with Richard Ashcroft’s emotive vocals, this psychedelic rock masterpiece has quickly become an acclaimed fan favorite.
Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love is an inspiring rock anthem that will instantly get your blood pumping, making it the ideal song to accompany any high-intensity workout. The guitar riffs and distinct wailing will add extra intensity to your routine, making this song one of the top workout songs for rock music enthusiasts.