Except for the songs that made my Top 20 songs of 2007 and the representative tracks from my Top 20 Albums of 2007, these are the rest of the best metal tracks of 2007. To be eligible, a song needed to be included on an album released in the United States between December 1, 2006 and November 30, 2007.

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1. Serj Tankian “Empty Walls” Elect the Dead (Serjical Strike/Reprise)

2. Ozzy Osbourne “Trap Door” Black Rain (Epic)

3. Avenged Sevenfold “Brompton Cocktail” Avenged Sevenfold (Warner Brothers)

4. Linkin Park “No More Sorrow” Minutes to Midnight (Warner Brothers)

5. Shadows Fall “Redemption” Threads of Life (Atlantic)

6. Hellyeah “Matter of Time” Hellyeah (Sony)

7. Avenged Sevenfold “Scream” Avenged Sevenfold (Warner Brothers)

8. Coheed and Cambria “The Running Free” No World for Tomorrow (Sony)

9. Birds of Avalon “Taking Trains” Bazaar Bazaar (Volcom)

10. Fu Manchu “Knew It All Along” We Must Obey (Century Media)

11. Panthers “Goblin City” The Trick (Vice)

12. Avenged Sevenfold “Afterlife” Avenged Sevenfold (Warner Brothers)

13. Serj Tankian “Saving Us” Elect the Dead (Serjical Strike/Reprise)

14. Shadows Fall “Storm Winds” Threads of Life (Atlantic)

15. Static-X “Destroyer” Cannibal (Warner Brothers)

16. Prong “The Banishment” Power of the Damager (13th Planet)

17. Panthers “The Trick” The Trick (Vice)

18. Avenged Sevenfold “Almost Easy” Avenged Sevenfold (Warner Brothers)