Best Workout Songs

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Posted by Zach Even-Esh on Tue. Jan. 10th, 2012

Yo, Bruthas & Ladies of Underground Strength Nation….

I just got a new I Pod for my garage workouts, this is my 3rd I POD, along with my I Phone.

Check this Video….. I am PSYCHED to read your comments!

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Drop a comment below, share your most kick ass workout / training songs. Try and limit them to 10 songs that if you could only have 10 songs to train to, these would be YOUR Underground Play List!!

Underground 4 Life!

Peace

–Z–

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January 10, 2012

Uncle Mike @ 5:15 pm #

Lately been listening to old school classic punk. Clash, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Misfits, Buzz Cocks Drop Kicks and Plenty of Social D!… Great for my Candy Man deadlifing sessions. The new Janes Addiction also kicks ass.

Stuart Grunert @ 5:26 pm #

Motley Crue Kickstart My Heart #1

Robbcore @ 5:29 pm #

In no particular order
Janes Addiction – True Nature
Stuck Mojo – Pigwalk, Mental Meltdown, Only the Strong Survive
Guns n Roses – You could be mine
Anthrax – What doesn’t die
Scorpions – Rock you like a hurricane
Sepultura – Roots Bloody Roots
Rollins Band – On my way to the cage, illumination

This list will change every week, could be more hip hop based next week
With some Pharoahe Monch & Common etc, but always includes Rollins Band!

caleb @ 5:36 pm #

anything by avenged sevenfold or three days grace or bullet for my valentine

Milt @ 5:38 pm #

5 off of the top of my head

Youv’e Got Another Thing Comin’ – Judas Priest

Face the Pain – Stemm

Mississippi Queen – Mountain

Teenage Lobotomy – The Ramones

Dragula – Rob Zombie

Robert Wynne @ 5:46 pm #

Top 10 Training Tunes (1-2 songs per artist)
Nightmare / Lost It All – Avenged Sevenfold
Pain Redefined / Ten Thousand Fists – Disturbed
To be Loved/Time Is Running Out – Papa Roach
Not Afraid/Lose Yourseld- Eminem
TNT / It’s a Long Way to the Top – ACDC
Break / Riot – Three Days Grace
Step Up/Rise Up – Drowning Pool
Live Wire – Motley Crue
It’s Not my Time / Champion in Me – 3 Doors Down
Move Bitch / Act a Fool – Ludacris
Bonus: Achilles Last Stand – Led Zeppelin

Daryl @ 5:47 pm #

Track 1, 6, 7, 8, and 14 on the Bonehead cd!!!!!!!!!!

BAWyoming @ 5:50 pm #

I’ve got a pretty good mix of a little bit of everything right now. Here are a few.
Killing Joke-Seeing Red, Soil-Pride, Metallica-Jump In The Fire
Street Sweeper Social Club-Fight!Smash!Win!, Helmet-See You Dead
The Roots-Here I Come, Notorious B.I.G.-Hypnotize, The Cult-Firewoman, Korn-Right Now, Pennywise-Knocked Down
This is always a great topic!

Kevin Walker @ 5:55 pm #

anything AC/DC, Metalica, Disturbed, Hard rocking songs for a hard work out

DS @ 6:14 pm #

Metallica – Damage Inc., The Wait (originally by Killing Joke), All Nightmare Long
Slayer – War Ensemble, Angel of Death, Raining Blood
Anthrax – Caught in a Mosh, I am the Law
Black Sabbath/Sepultra – Symptom of the Universe
Pantera – Cowboys from Hell, F-cking Hostile
Damageplan – Crawl, Blunt Force Trauma
Drowning Pool – Step Up
Rob Zombie – Superbeast, Scum of the Earth, Great American Nightmare
Cannibal Corpse – Death Walking Terror, Make Them Suffer

Jim Wendler would disavow this list, but I don’t care.

Gianni @ 6:18 pm #

•Your the Best – John Esposito

Paul @ 6:31 pm #

Judas Priest – Painkiller
Fight – Into the Pit
Fight – Nailed to the gun
Metallica – Mercyful Fate
AC/DC – Shoot to thrill
Metallica – Broken, Beat, & Scarred
AC/DC – Thunderstruck
Megadeth – Tornado of souls
Metallica – Whiplash

Billy @ 6:37 pm #

Johnny Cash “Ain’t No Grave”
Eminem “Lose Yourself”
Metallica “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “Battery”
Social D “Through these Eyes”
Rage Against the Machine “Bulls on Parade”
Soundgarden “4th of July”

Shaibi (the naked warrior) @ 6:45 pm #

Stic man from dead prez. The song is called regimen. If it don’t fire you up you might as well stay cold lol!!!!!

Coleman McFarland @ 6:54 pm #

TNT – ACDC
Ladies & gentlemen – saliva
Speak – Godsmack
My Reward – Hail The Villain
Throw ya Hands Up – Freeway
House of The Rising drum – Delinquent Habits
wont back down – Eminem
the undertaker (renholder Remix) – Puscifer
dinner time – Royce da 5’9
airplanes freestlye – Royce da 5’9
mental giant – Tech N9ne
the hatred – snow goons
skinnyman – static X
woodstock – slaughterhouse
take backt the fear – hail the villian
face the pain – stemm
mission control – hail the villian
and that’s only part of my playlist haha

Rob Izsa @ 7:08 pm #

Godsmack, Iron Maiden, Priest, Metallica, Rob Zombie

robby @ 7:08 pm #

Slipknot – Duality

Legion of Doom – At A Funeral For a Friend

DMX – Lord Give Me a Sign (also X Gon’ Give It To Ya and Get It On The Floor)

Eminem – Session One

Breaking Benjamin – Breakdown (also check out So Cold, Diary of Jane, and Blow Me Away)

Army of the Pharaohs – Dump The Clip

Atmosphere – Trying To Find A Balance (also check out “Just For Show”)

Sum 41 – No Reason (also We’re All To Blame)

Chronic Future – Time and Time Again

Bullet For My Valentine – Hand of Blood

mike @ 7:20 pm #

Rage Against the Machine “I’ll put a bullet in your head”

mitchell cording @ 7:31 pm #

Metabolic – slipknot
Before I forget – slipknot
Linchpin – fear factory
Chapel of blood – murderdolls
Good day to die – godsmack
Love hate sex pain – godsmack
Click click boom – saliva
Ironhead – rob zombie
Am I a psycho – tech n9ne
Bodies – drowning pool

adan valdez @ 7:46 pm #

“Let’s go”, “I won’t”, and “murd’ahaz” – Capitol Eye
“300″ – Rock feat Buckshot
“Psycho Realm Revolutions” and “kings in the game” – Sick Jacken feat B-real
“Back on the Scene” – Slaughterhouse
“King Kong” – Sean Price
“Everything is Beastmode” – Lord Vital
“The Get Up” – Granite State

Daniel @ 7:51 pm #

Pantera – Cowboys From Hell and Walk
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Trivium – Throes to Perdition
Parkway Drive – Boneyards and Deliver Me
Machine Head – The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears
Cavalera Conspiracy – Killing Inside
AC DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
Soulfly – Son Song

Shane @ 7:53 pm #

Metallica ONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul Reddick @ 8:02 pm #

alright son…I’m about to drop gold nuggets

How I Could Just Kill A Man – Rage Against The Machine
Really Doe – Cube
Da Rockwilder – Red and Meth
Give Me Something to Break – Limp Bizkit
Hand On The Pump – Cypress Hill
Headbanger – EPMD

this is just my warm up playlist

Kenny C @ 8:07 pm #

Til I Collapse – Eminem
Drop The World – Lil Wayne
Run This Town – Jay Z
Over And Under – Egypt Central
Lollipop – Framing Hanley
In The End – Linkin Park
Let’s Go – Trick Daddy
Forever – Drake
Ready For Whatever – T.I.
Whispers in The Dark – Skillet

Too many to list, you get the point. Beat, Mindset, Power. Get Some!

Doug @ 8:13 pm #

Great list everyone;
I’ll add pretty much anything from Rise Against

David White @ 8:24 pm #

My iPod has 12K songs on it from several different genres, rock, hard rock, classic rock, punk, metal, thrash, death metal, black metal you name it if its heavy and hardcore I am listening to it while working out.

Jack @ 8:26 pm #

anything from skrillex right now is wats going done here! I go with defrancos Techno Tuesday theme!

Samurai Frank @ 8:28 pm #

I have too many songs that I like to only list 10. I have Metallica, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Saxon, Mountain, Black Sabbath, Aldo Nova, George Thorogood, Billy Squier, WWE theme songs, Deep Purple, Diamond Head, ZZ Top, Ozzy, KISS, Motley Crue, Quiet Riot, Foghat, Blue Cheer (Summer Time Blues), The White Stripes, Thin Lizzy, Tiger B. Smith (who? Check Youtube….you’ll see), UFO, Wolf Mother, Ratt, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Ramstein, Anthrax, …anything heavy. NO HIP HOP (hate the stuff)!!! Rock lives!!

Nick @ 8:34 pm #

Till I Collapse – Eminem
Papercut – Linkin Park
Knock U Out – Joel Turner
Joker and the Thief – Wolfmother
I Can Do Anything – 3OH!3
Remember the Name – Fort Minor
Keep Your Hands off my Girl – Good Charlotte
Lose Yourself or Not Afraid – Eminem
Sweat – Snoop Dogg
Good Feeling – Flo Rida

isaac @ 8:50 pm #

Man all those songs are pussy songs! U really wanna workout Zach? Listen to the latest 2 Bury your dead albums,
Any Chelsea grin album,
Lamb of God,
Whitechapel
Through the eyes of the dead
The acacia strain
Winds of plague

Any of these entire ALBUMS will get u fucken pumped, insane, and possessed to kill ANY workout!

Sgt. Fitness @ 8:51 pm #

Anything by AC/DC and The Offspring.

Gabe @ 9:10 pm #

Whew…
I think this list needs some heavier stuff for lifting:
Archenemy, Amon Amarth, Children of Bodom, C&B Torture, Slayer, Mushroomhead(older stuff), Deicide, Eyehategod, Poison the Well, Manufactura, God Module, etc.

For cardio/work capacity i like to groove:
James Brown(sex machine), Anti Pop Consortium, Kool Keith and Motion Man, Wu Tang, MiniBosses(not rap but i think oldschool video game tunes groove well), etc.

metalchic42n2 @ 10:00 pm #

In no particular order:
1. Determined – Mudvayne
2. Push It – Static X
3. The Mob Goes Wild – Clutch
4. Before I Forget – Slipknot (pretty much anything by Slipknot)
5. Destroyer – Static X
6. C’mon C’mon – Von Bondies
7. This is NOW – Hatebreed
8. Before I Die – Mushroomhead
9. Vital Signs – Sidecar Radio
10. Hit the Ground – 6 Gig

Larry @ 10:12 pm #

Bodies – Drowning Pool – (Album, Sinners)
More Human Than Human – White Zombie
Enter the Sandman – Metalica

metalchic42n2 @ 10:13 pm #

Spit it out – Slipknot
Cockroaches – Nailbomb
Jump Around – House of Pain (gotta have the occasional hip hop)
So What Cha Want – Beastie Boys
Failure – Orange 9mm
just a few more :-)

DKF @ 10:24 pm #

Barkmarket – L Ron (the entire album)
Best band of the 90′s that no one’s ever heard of.
Awesome workout music.

January 11, 2012

Brian D @ 1:37 am #

anything by YANNI…

JUST KIDDING!!! Don’t freak out!!! ha ha

These are for real…

12 Stones – “Bulletproof”, “3 Leaf Loser”, “Adrenaline”
The Veer Union -” Seasons”
Day of Fire – “Lately”
Disciple – “Rise Up”
Pillar – “For the Love of the Game”, “Not Without a Fight”
ACDC – “Riff Raff”
Sammy Hagar “Winner Takes it All”
Golden Earing “Radar Love”
Audioslave “Out of Exile”
Candlebox “Don’t You”
Living Colour – “Cult of Personality”
Snap – “Believe the Hype”

Esben @ 2:11 am #

L. van Beethoven’s 5th symphony. Heaviest there is…

Iron Will @ 2:59 am #

My smash it up list changes a bit but atm this is where i am at!!!

Dropkick Murphy’s: Shipping up to Boston
Helmet and House of Pain: Just another Victim
Metallica: Outlaw Torn
A perfect Circle: The Hollow
Shihad: The Metal Song
Outkast: B.O.B
A perfect Circle: Weak and Powerless (tilling my grave remix)
At The Drive In: One Armed Scissor
Sevendust: Assdrop
Rob Dougan: Clubbed To Death

Stay strong lads keep smashing out the heavy iron!!!!!!

Iron Will.

peter @ 3:22 am #

i got “operation thunder” on my iphone and listen to it every day while operating my bobcat (my mundane business)and plan my passion, the opening of my warehouse gym comin real soon :) bit off track but that’s what i listen to. training al lot of spiderbait, acdc, children collide, metalica etc.

jeff teta @ 6:54 am #

Dyer- Metallica
Master of Puppets- Metallica
Iron Maiden- Iron Maiden
Simple Man- Warren Haynes version
One of these Days- Pink Floyd
Intolerance- Tool
Red Hot- Motley Crue
Aces High- Iron Maiden
Eye of the Tiger- Survivor
Open Theme from Conan the Barbarian (Arnold movie of course!)
Thunderstruck- AC/DC
Payback- James Brown

Rob @ 8:56 am #

Lil Wayne 6 foot 7 foot
Linkin Park In the End
Drake I’m Going In
Trapt Headstrong
Linkin Park Bleed it Out
Anything Beastie Boys (old school)

Dustin W. @ 8:59 am #

To lift heavy metal one MUST listen to HEAVY METAL!
Live for This-Hatebreed
Made of Metal-Dream Evil
Awaken-Dethklok
Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath
Metal Milita-Metallica
Masters of War-Amon Amarth
Unleashing the Bloodthirsty-Cannibal Corpse
I am the Wargod-Destroyer 666
Overkill-Motorhead
Reign in Blood-Slayer (whole CD)
If you never heard Hatebreed all their suffer is motivational! Great warm up tune is Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath. The original metal song!

Jp @ 9:33 am #

To many to list and depends on where I am as well. Usually in my shop where I have been killing it I have no outside signal so I try and hit it to killswitch I’ll niño , just hard an aggressive music. If I have Internet signal I just hit old school anthrax on pandora

Daniel Behling @ 10:17 am #

Slipknot – “Surfacing”
Lamb of God – “Walk With Me In Hell”
Disturbed – “Violence Fetish”
Fear Factory – “Slave Labor”
Hypocrisy – “Weed Out The Weak”
Rammstein – “Feuer Frei!”

Mike @ 12:14 pm #

Check out Prayer Of The Refugee by Rise Against.

Brandonn @ 1:14 pm #

Depends on what I am doing workoutwise. Typically an edm fan but for workouts
Grappling
Anything by Rise Against
Striking
Submersed-Hollow
Roy Jones Jr-Can’t be Touched
Max Out Lifts
Korn-Get Up
Skillet-Forsaken
Chevelle-I Get It
Higher Reps
Nero-Innocence

ricco @ 1:35 pm #

When I need to laser in my focus for the heavy stuff- primordial
other than that my heavy rotation list is – danzig-molly hatchet -early crue- early cult-iron maiden and the most requested cd in the gym is …….drop kick murphys.

Joy @ 4:10 pm #

El Phantasmo and the Chicken Run Blast O Rama-White Zombie

Regular People-Pantera

Cochise-Audioslave

Ribbons-Sisters Of Mercy

Johnny-Kittie

Do You Want To Touch Me-Joan Jett

Bad Reputation-Joan Jett

Wicked Wonderland-Lita Ford

Maestro-Beastie Boys

All The Things You Are-Meat Beat Manifesto

these are my favorites for a 4am training session along with some very strong coffee!

Jake s. @ 4:56 pm #

When I wrestled in high school 20 years ago my favorite song to listen to was “Thunder Struck, AC/DC”. Best song ever, also listened to “Were not going to take it, by Twisted Sister”.

Adrian Daisy Day @ 6:02 pm #

My top ten of all time…

Apocalypta – The cover of Metallica’s Enter the Sandman.

AC DC – War machine and TNT

Bob Dylan – Hurricane. Makes you work your arse off due to the injustice.

Disturbed – The Sickness and Indestructible. Just pumps the blood!

Garth Brooks – Standing outside the fire and The night I called my old man out. Did the latter a couple of times and it wasn’t pretty.

Johnny Cash – A boy named Sue just for the pure anger :)

Hot Action Cop – Feva for the Flava – For the chickies hehehe

January 12, 2012

Dave @ 12:39 pm #

1. Superbeast – Rob Zombie

2. Under and Over it – Five Finger Death Punch

3. Pistol Grip Pump – Rage Against the Machine

4. Psychosocial – Slipknot

5. Meet the Monster – Five Finger Death Punch

January 13, 2012

Dave DiLapo @ 9:29 pm #

AC/DC ~ Back in Black … the whole album from start to finish!
Zeppelin 1…who am I kidding, any Zeppelin!

Chris @ 9:34 pm #

Hey, what’s up Zach! Here is my list of 10 songs to train to:

1.) Megadeth “Duke Nukem”

2.) Metallica “The Struggle Within”

3.) Warlock “All We Are”

4.) Breaking Benjamin “Blow Me Away”

5.) Iron Maiden “Fear of the Dark”

6.) Rammstein “Adios”

7.) Judas Preist “Metal Meltdown”

8.) Sick Puppies “You’re going down”

9.) Egypt Central “Kick Ass”

10.) Korn “Did My Time”

January 14, 2012

Carson @ 11:07 pm #

All of these are excellent choices, but have none of you absolutely tore it up listening to KMFDM?

January 17, 2012

Jay @ 6:44 pm #

solar flare homicide- emmure
jumping ships- xafbx
anything eminem, public enemy, or rage against the machine

during cardio i really enjoy listening to classical music, like orchestras and the old symphony music. keeps my mind calm and my rhythm going.

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