Top 5 Times Hard Rock And Metal Music Was Used Right In Pro Wrestling.

Written By Patrick O'malley.

Intro.

Dating back to the 1980's, Pop Culture has always played a part in Pro Wrestling from Vicace, and. Mohammed Ali being at the very early WrestleMania's, to Major films stars like Adam Sandler, and. Ben Stiller being sat at ringside during the Attitude Era, but one of the biggest things in Pop Culture that holds a place with everyone is music, and given the link between Metal, and. Hard Rock Music have always gone hand in hand with Pro Wrestling. I think this is a great time to go back and take a look at the moments when these genres have soundtracked the moments that we love.

5. Corey Taylor Slaps Baron Corbin Download Festival UK 2015.

When you go back to the year 2015, this would act as a great time for both Slipknot, and fans of WWE's developmental brand. Slipknot 9 months beforehand had released there fifth Album The Grey Chapter Volume 5, an album that was dedicated to the memory of there late Bass player Paul Grey, whilst NXT under the leadership of Paul HHH Levesque, started to continue it's rise from the underground. This year would be the first time that NXT would be added to the festival, and this coincided with the third time that Slipknot headlined the festival, step forward the moment when Corey Taylor slapped Baron Corbin. This moment went viral, and fans loved it. Slipknots relationship with WWE would continue when All Out Life would be used as the main theme to NXT when it went from the WWE Network, and was placed on the USA Network, in a move that was set up to capitilise, and ruin the early momentum of the upstarting AEW.

4. Ozzy Osbourne.

From the second WrestleMania, him and sharon hosting Monday Night Raw in his home of Birmingham here in the UK, soundtracking the PLE Hell In A Cell 2020 with his song Straight To Hell, to even being placed in the WWE Hall Of Fame. Ozzy has had a very prominent role in how WWE looks at soundtracksing PLE's, and this has been a thing since the late nineties as the Attitude Era played out. Think of it this way. If Ozzy hadn't sat at ringside at WrestleMania 2, would we have gotten ACDC's Highway To Hell becoming the theme to Summerslam 1998? Or Metallica being used during to promote The Undertaker, and see him off during his last ever WWE Match against AJ Styles? In My Opinion No. God Bless Ozzy Osbourne indeed.

3. Metallica In WWE.

If you think back to the year 2003, and you're a Metallica fan like me, then you will remember hearing some good reviews about their latest album St Anger, and then listening to it, and coming to the realisation that it was nothing other than a sticky pile of cheese. It was also around this time when even more fans wearing Metallica T shirts would appear in the crowd. Metallica had never been used on WWE TV at this point, but it was a point that started to show that the tides were starting to turn, as metal stadium tours were coming back into existance. Fast forward 17 years, and Metallica were being used to soundtrack The Undertakers Final Match at WrestleMania 36. The Boneyard Match against AJ Styles, and then two years later, his hype video to put him into the WWE Hall was Sad But True, my favourite song from The Black Album. These instances just remind me, that i'm getting old, whilst also saying that it's still ok to not act my age, because Metallica rule.

2.Bring Me The Horizon. Thrones And Obey. NXT Takeover Events.

The Sheffield Mob Bring Me The Horizon are now a world conquering Stadium act, that are starting to realise what the peak of their powers look like, but before this, one of the things that helped them break their name in the US was allowing their music to be used in TV shows. WWE used this and got the rights to use their music on two occassions. the first one was back in October 2015, when they used Thrones to soundtrack NXT Takeover Respect, whilst in Febuary 2021 Obey was used to promote it's Vengence Day PLE. It's no secret that I'm a massive fan of Bring Me, so hearing their music on National TV is something to be seen, and heard, because it's very cool.

1. Limp Bizkit Mania 17.

When you hold WrestleMania 17 in isolation it was steaped in Metal Music, from Stone Cold Steve Austins entrance theme by Disturbed crushing the Stadium PA System. Motorhead performing HHH down to the ring, and then we have My Way By Limp Bizkit, acting as the main Soundtrack to The Rock vs Stone Cold Steve Austin. 14 Year Old me was very happy seeing this. Even though i'm not a big fan of Limp Bizkit these days. I still love going back, and rewatching this hype video on Youtube, because it brings back so many memories from a period of time that wasn't very problematic. This song was the soundtrack to my Summer of that year alongside Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park, as my family took our annual trip to Haylin Island in the south of England.

Honourable Mentions.

Turnstile AEW Revolution 2026.

Using this new age Punk band in this time after they won a grammy just showed that Punk isn't dead.

Smashing Pumpkins TNA Lockdown 2009.

Because despite all of your rage, you're still just a rat trapped inside a six sides of steel cage. Don't ever change Mr Corgan.

Overview Of This Piece.

If you don't like music, then I don't know what to really say. Music is one of the biggest flavours that we have in life, and at any point we should celebrate it. Pro Wrestling is no differant. The right song can trigger of memories that can last long after our life spans, so when you hear something that you like, then hold it close, and never let it go.