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15. Doom
DOOM didn’t just launch a genre – it pulled millions into the world of metal with its ripping, MIDI-fueled soundtrack inspired by bands like Slayer and Pantera. The game’s fast, brutal action and hellish aesthetic made it a rite of passage for gamers and future headbangers. | © id Software
14. Halo Infinite
Halo Infinite isn’t pure metal, but its towering score hits like an epic concept album – all brooding builds, thunderous crescendos, and space-age weight. It’s the kind of soundtrack that makes you feel like Master Chief is walking onstage to headline a cosmic metal opera. | © Halo Studios
13. World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft feels like fantasy metal in game form – every zone has its own sweeping, emotional soundtrack that hits like an epic album. From haunting choirs to thunderous battle themes, it’s no surprise fans keep turning WoW music into full-blown metal covers that sound right at home. | © Blizzard Entertainment
12. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 drops you into a brutal, haunting version of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone where every bullet, wound, and decision matters. With gritty survival mechanics, eerie atmosphere, and a legacy forged under fire, it’s the kind of game that feels as heavy as the riffs in your metal playlist. | © GSC Game World
11. Darksiders: Wrath of War
Darksiders plays like a heavy metal fever dream – all brutal swordplay, hellish beasts, and apocalyptic flair drawn straight from a comic book cover. With its mix of savage combat, Zelda-style puzzles, and over-the-top world building, it’s a loud, stylish ride that never forgets to have fun. | © Vigil Games
10. Splatterhouse
Splatterhouse was gore-core before it was cool – all blood-soaked carnage, screaming walls, and monsters straight out of a metal album’s worst nightmare. Whether you're smashing heads in the '88 original or the 2010 reboot with Mastodon and Lamb of God blasting, it’s gloriously messy, over-the-top horror fun. | © Namco
9. Killing Floor 2
Killing Floor 2 is wave-based carnage set to a raging industrial-metal soundtrack – with bands like Demon Hunter and Fit For a King fueling every splatter, decapitation, and slow motion kill. It’s like being trapped in a blood-drenched music video, and somehow, that’s exactly the vibe. | © Tripwire Interactive
8. Rock n’ Roll Racing
Rock n' Roll Racing was pure chaos on wheels, with missiles, mines, and metal-fueled mayhem blasting through every race. Its 16-bit covers of Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Steppenwolf turned your living room into a headbanger’s rally track. | © Blizzard Entertainment
7. Elden Ring
Elden Ring might not blast guitars at you, but its towering choirs, punishing boss themes, and bleak grandeur hit like a black metal album in slow motion. With fans remixing its soundtrack into full-blown metal covers and its world dripping with mythic decay, it’s a love letter to heavy, dark fantasy. | © FromSoftware
6. Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead might not scream metal on the surface, but its pounding combat rhythm, chaotic crescendos, and blood-soaked standoffs feel like playable breakdowns. With death metal mods, fan-made soundtracks, and a fictional hard rock band in-game, it’s a zombie shooter that metalheads keep headbanging to. | © Valve Corporation
5. Quake
Quake drips with industrial darkness thanks to a spine-crawling soundtrack by Trent Reznor – more noise and dread than melody, and all the more metal for it. With its Lovecraftian castles, demon-infested ruins, and rocket-blasting combat, it’s basically a Nine-Inch Nails album turned into a nightmare FPS. | © id Software
4. Chivalry 2
Chivalry 2 is pure battlefield chaos – swords crashing, limbs flying, and castle sieges that feel ripped from a metal album cover. Its cinematic score and bone-crunching sound design pair perfectly with a playlist of Sabaton, Slipknot, or Amon Amarth while you yell war cries and lose your head – literally. | © Torn Banner Studios
3. Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t a metal game on the surface, but its black metal radio stations, industrial score, and mission names like “War Pigs” say otherwise. It’s the perfect storm of chaos, chrome, and heavy riffs. | © CD Projekt
2. Brütal Legend
Brütal Legend is a full-blown love letter to heavy metal with a world built from album covers, a face-melting guitar, and 100+ tracks from legends like Slayer, Ozzy, and Manowar. Cameos from metal icons and Jack Black’s passion turn it into the most metal video game ever made. | © Double Fine Productions
1. Doom: The Dark Ages
DOOM: The Dark Ages ditches speed for steel, swapping the frantic dance of past games for brutal shield parries and slower, weightier combat. It looks metal as hell and has a few standout moments, but for many longtime fans, it trades too much of what made DOOM legendary in the first place. | © id Software
