I have a heard time ordering the top five, so it'll be quite arbitrary. But I guess it'll serve as a decent measure of my metalness
1. Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name.
It took quite a while before this got lodged in my consciousness as a Maiden-fan. I kept to the shorter stuff like Aces High, The Trooper and so on for quite a while before I rediscovered this gem. But now, after having listened to it more times than any other song for the past few years, I'm sure that this has to be number one. The lyrics, the build-up. Everything is just brilliant.
2. Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Paranoid was the first Heavy Metal album I ever owned, and Iron Man was the one track that kept getting played over and over again. It's a classic in every sense of the word. Even though there are plenty of Sabbath-songs that have better lyrics or are musically more intricate, this one will have to be my favourite.
3. Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
The first Bruce Dickinson track that really jabbed its little metal claws into my brain and stuck there. Naturally, it's also one of his best. While it edges into power-ballad-territory, it remains one of the most complete songs on the album, or throughout his career. It has a killer riff, and the atmosphere is great. There are plenty of other Bruce songs that could rival it. Jerusalem, Book Of Thel, Tears Of The Dragon, but some of them (Dragon and Jerusalem in particular) lack the metal-factor a bit. Something that doesn't bother me, but in a list of metal-songs, Chemical Wedding is a more fitting choice.
4. Black Sabbath - Sign Of The Southern Cross
The Dio years... I was heavily against them first. Having been baptised into Heavy Metal by Ozzy's primeval howl, I just couldn't get behind Dio's sometimes forced "growl", as heard in the chorus of Heaven & Hell for instance. However, after having not touched that period since I was fifteen, I rediscovered it about two or three months ago. And seeing as how I was now a bit more distanced to my Ozzy-ism, I realised how brilliant Dio was in his own right. Heaven & Hell is great, and Mob Rules surpasses it in more or less every aspect. There are plenty of great songs (The Mob Rules, Country Girl, Over and Over and Falling Off The Edge Of The World are my faves), but Sign Of The Southern Cross really exemplifies Sabbath at its greatest. Slow, steady, riffs straight down your spine.
5. Bruce Dickinson/Skunkworks - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath/Black Sabbath, Live In Chilé
This is not an official release and I found it on a bootleg/rarities torrent. Technically Bruce announced it as "off of Nativity In Black", which is where he covered SBS together with Godspeed. However, this version is quite a lot different. The thing that really makes this performance shine is the amazing drumming by Allesandro Elena. He doesn't do much, but he adds a few beats with a bass-drum here and there, and it really lifts the song sky-high for me. It was already one of my favourite songs to start with. Add to that the fact that Dickinson is one of the few people who can cover Sabbath with any kind of integrity and you've got a winner.
Disclaimer: I know this makes me seem quite narrow in my tastes, and that is partly true. But I chose to omit bands like Led Zeppelin, Queen, Deep Purple and UFO because to me they're not quite metal. I would have loved to have added stuff like Explosions in the Sky, who do have some immensely heavy songs, but still hide away safely in the "post-rock"-pigeonhole.
) It was either that or Wasted Years 
Something like "elevator version?" Anyone know what I'm talking about?
