The Definitive List For The Most Intense Workout Music Of All Time
11 Bands, 11 Albums, 36 Songs. These tunes are for when you need to move around some heavy iron in your quest to be harder, better, faster, & stronger. At the end of the list you’ll discover the most effective places for finding even more music to keep your workout fresh and exciting. Tweekend is my personal favorite album but aside from that there is no particular order for the song or band placement on the list.
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The Crystal Method
Best Album: Tweekend
Best Workout Songs: The Winner, Vapor Trail, Name Of The Game
Slipknot
Best Album: Vol 3 – The Subliminal Verses
Best Songs: Vermillion, Duality, Before I Forget
System of a Down
Best Album: Toxicity
Best Songs: Forest, Cigaro, Chop Suey
Rise Against
Best Album: The Sufferer And The Witness
Best Songs: Drones, Prayer Of The Refugee, Re-Education (Through Labor)
Seether
Best Album: Disclaimer
Best Songs: Truth, Fake It, Hang On
Static – X
Best Album: Shadow Zone
Best Songs: Control It, Love Dump, Destroy All
Rage Against The Machine
Best Album: The Battle Of Los Angeles
Best Songs: Testify, Guerilla Radio, Sleep Now In The Fire
AudioSlave
Best Album: Audioslave
Best Songs: Cochise, Show Me How To Live, Set It Off
Linkin Park
Best Album: Reanimation
Best Songs: Faint, Given Up, By_Myslf
Prodigy
Best Album: Fat Of The Land
Best Songs: Mind Fields, Voodoo People, One Man Army
Finger Eleven
Best Album: Greyest of Blue Skies
Best Songs: Conversations, Suffocate, Slow Chemical
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The Best Place To Continue The Search – Soundtracks. The Big Wigs spend thousands of dollars trying to figure out the best music to get your blood pumping so you should steal their efforts and use those tunes in the gym. It’s like having your very own hundred thousand dollar workout. Here is one of my favorites from the last decade.
Check Out These Three Posts For The Ten Best Workout Tunes Of All Time.
The Top Three Workout Songs
Numbers Four, Five, & Six
The Final Four of The Top Ten

This post has 3 comments
March 31st, 2010
Nice list.. Tons of great metal/rock bands to get pumped. You win the internet for posting System of a Down. Static X is tailor made workout music as well.. Lack of Metallica is a bit disturbing but I’m willing to look past it just this once. Perhaps a post of some runners up is in order?
April 5th, 2010
Thanks Steve – Funny you mention Metallica. I actually spent about half of my last workout listening to”Fuel”. A bunch of songs by Bad Religion, Offspring, Cold, & Queens of the Stone Age kept popping up while I was compiling the list but I wasn’t familiar enough with all their albums to put them on it…
September 17th, 2011
Fwiw, in addition to all these selections, I love stuff by one of the original founders of industrial metal genre, namely, “The Ministry”. Songs like “Thieves” and “N.W.O.” are impossible to not make one rage through a couple cheat reps.