10 Rock Bands That Made Metal Songs

10. Stockholm Syndrome - Muse

Throughout most of their career, Muse has never been afraid to show their hard rock chops every now and again. Even though the comparisons to Radiohead have followed them around since the day they formed, their jams of songs like Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine or Heartbreaker by Zeppelin were a nice indication of what they got off on as teenagers. While Absolution holds together as a decent space rock project, they could also tear your face off when they wanted to.

From the opening seconds of Stockholm Syndrome, the guys sound out for blood, with the Drop D guitar riff smacking you in the face before the rest of the band come screaming in. Though the scope of this song is the same that you would find on a song like Falling Away With You, all those synthesizers are replaced with walls of guitars, only to get sucked back down when the keyboards come back in.

The lyrical content is also a lot darker than what you would expect out of Muse. Since the album kicked off with talking about the end of the world on Apocalypse Please, this is a different kind of horror, telling the tale a man who kidnapped someone and is holding them hostage in the hopes that they will one day love him. With the abrupt shifts that happen throughout this song, this isn't just the sound of a horrible situation. There's a good chance that we're getting a peek into the maniac's mind on this song.