Grindcore & More for the Gridiron – Top 10 Metal Songs to Get You Pumped Before a Football Game

Time and time again the argument arises in masculine circles boasting footballs superiority over America’s original game because of its inherent (but questionable) testosterone-soaked mayhem.

It’s a play on nature’s own men’s game - bashing skulls, punching, kicking and clawing for territory or females. It is played in the most adverse weather conditions on a block of turf by muscle-bound meatheads peppered with prison tattoos.  It’s a pretty solid case, but turn the laces over and it’s also clear that the pigskin has a soft side.

Perhaps most apparent is the uniform... Yeah, who knew the most macho pastime would share a parallel with one of the most graceful and effeminate. Colorful and super-tight. Then, there is the issue of the team names… Oddly enough, the most brutish sounding teams are notorious for being among the worst teams in the league: Raiders, Buccaneers, Lions, Titans, etc. The best teams on the other hand, seem to be a bit lacking in the badass department: Colts, Packers, Saints, Cowboys, etc. Moreover, whose idea was it to name a football team the Dolphins? Seriously.

There is also the whole compromising image of the quarterback’s hands crammed in another man’s… Anyways, here are 10 tunes that put the metal back in the gridiron, the crimson back in the tide and get any football fanatic empowered to obliterate the opposition! – Nick Durcholz

Coal Chamber – "El Cu Cuy"

Deftones – "My Own Summer (Shove It)"

Fear Factory – "Edgecrusher"

Hatebreed – "Perseverance"

KoRn – "Dead Bodies Everywhere"

Machine Head – "Ten Ton Hammer"

Mudvayne – "Not Falling"

Pantera – "Drag the Waters"

Rammstein – "Feuer Frei!"

Slipknot – "Wait & Bleed"