30 Best Angry Songs For Moments When You Are Enraged

Let’s get it clear before anything else, that there is nothing wrong in one getting angry when things you are not happy about happen. What may be wrong is how you react to the things that make you mad. If you decide to listen to one of the many angry songs out there until you see your rage fade away with the lyrics of the song.

Interestingly, there are many songs for moments when you have been pissed and all you want is to listen to a good song that will go with your rage. However, it has been revealed that angry songs do not necessarily fuel rage and revenge.

Here are some of the best angry songs that have helped people go through anger and rage.

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Some Of The Greatest Angry Songs To Listen To

1. Eminem – The Way I Am

• Artist: Eminem
• Album: The Marshall Mathers LP 2000
• Released: 2000
• Genres: Hip hop
• Songwriter(s)– Marshall Mathers

Best For

This song is best for moments when you are needlessly bothered and blamed for things that go wrong.

Eminem is known as one of the music stars that find it very easy to put his emotions in his songs. With The Way I am, the rapper has gone even further to give what is arguably one of the greatest angry songs for lovers of rap. He is angry about people blaming him for everything that goes wrong and also for all the unnecessary attention he is getting from people who won’t just leave him alone. The song peaked at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Lyrics

And I rest again peacefully
But at least have the decency in you
To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out
In the streets when I’m eating or feeding my daughter
To not come and speak to me
I don’t know you, and no, I don’t owe you a mothafuckin’ thing
I’m not Mr. N’Sync, I’m not what your friends think
I’m not Mr. Friendly, I can be a prick if you tempt me
My tank is on empty, no patience is in me
And if you offend me, I’m lifting you ten feet in the air
I don’t care who was there and who saw me just jaw you
Go call you a lawyer, file you a lawsuit
I’ll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe
I’m tired of all you, I don’t mean to be mean
But that’s all I can be, it’s just me…

2. Limp Bizkit – Break Stuff

• Artist: Limp Bizkit
• Album: Significant Other
• Released: 1999
• Genres: Nu metal, ‎rap metal
• Songwriter(s)– Fred Durst, Wes Borland, John Otto, Sam Rivers

Best For 

Those types of days that you wake up on the wrong side of the bed and everything and everyone makes you angry and mad. The song allows you to just vent and continue to vent until you are less angry. It is for moments when you are just too angry without any reason.

Lyrics

It’s just one of those days
When you don’t wanna wake up
Everything is fucked
Everybody sucks
You don’t really know why
But you wanna justify
Rippin’ someone’s head off
No human contact
And if you interact
Your life is on contract…

3. F**k You by Cee-Lo Green

• Artist: CeeLo Green
• Album: The Lady Killer
• Released: 2010
• Genre: Alternative/Indie
• Songwriter(s)– Bruno Mars, CeeLo Green, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Brody Brown

Best For

When you see your lover with a new partner and you realize you got dump because you weren’t as rich up as the current person, this song will definitely keep you company while you sulk.

Anyway, I hope you ‘forget’ her or him, truly.

Lyrics

I see you drivin’ ’round town with the girl I love
And I’m like, “Fuck you” (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
I guess the change in my pocket wasn’t enough
I’m like, “Fuck you and fuck her too”
Said, if I was richer, I’d still be with ya
Hah, now ain’t that some shit? (Ain’t that some shit?)
And although there’s pain in my chest, I still wish you the best
With a “Fuck you” (Ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh)…

4. Three Days Grace – I Hate Everything About You

• Artist: Three Days Grace
• Album: Three Days Grace
• Released: 2003
• Genre: Rock
• Songwriter(s) – Gontier Adam, Brown Gavin, Sandersn Neil, Walst Brad

Best For

Just as it is with most rock songs, this one is not so different and will instill more anger than you thought you felt. This song is a love/hate anthem and would be perfect for you, as soon as you realize the relationship was a toxic one.

Lyrics

I hate everything about you
Why do I love you?
I hate everything about you
Why do I love you?
Every time we lie awake
After every hit we take
Every feeling that I get
But I haven’t missed you yet
Only when I stop to think about it…

5. Linkin Park – In The End

• Artist: Linkin Park
• Album: Hybrid Theory
• Released: 2000
• Genres: Rap rock, Alternative/Indie
• Songwriter(s)– Hahn, Bourdon, Shinoda, Bennington, Delson

Best For

This is an eye-opener for people who did their best to keep a love moving but to no avail. Despite being used and played around with, it wasn’t enough and worth the whole suffer.

Lyrics

In spite of the way you were mockin’ me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I’m surprised it got so far
Things aren’t the way they were before
You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me in the end…

6. Metallica – St Anger

• Artist: Metallica
• Album: St. Anger
• Released: 2003
• Genres: Alternative metal; nu metal
• Songwriter(s): Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, Bob Rock, Lars Ulrich

Best For

Maybe giving up and wanting to end it all isn’t really the best answer to being hurt and angry but that’s what Metallic felt when writing this piece. For when you feel this way, listening to this song should give you the feel that you’re not alone but that should be the most it should do.

Lyrics

Fuck it all and no regrets
I hit the lights on these dark sets
I need a voice to let myself
To let myself go free
Fuck it all and fucking no regrets
I hit the lights on these dark sets
Put down your noose, I’ll hang myself
St. Anger ’round my neck
I feel my world shake
Like an earthquake
Hard to see clear
Is it me? Is it fear?…

7. Phil Collins – I Don’t Care Anymore

• Artist: Phil Collins
• Album:  Hello, I Must Be Going!
• Released: 1982
• Genres: Rock
• Songwriter(s)– Phil Collins

Best For

Like the title already gives off, this song is best for when you are sick and tired of it all. For that moment when you realize nothing is worth it – not keeping your name clean or holding on to the relationship.

Lyrics

Well, you can tell everyone I’m a down disgrace
Drag my name all over the place
I don’t care anymore
You can tell everybody about state I’m in
You won’t catch me cryin’ ’cause I just can’t win
I don’t care anymore
I don’t care anymore, Jesus
I don’t care what you say
I don’t play the same games, you play…

8. F**K The Police

• Artist: N.W.A.
• Album: Straight Outta Compton
• Released: 1988
• Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
• Songwriter(s)– Lorenzo Jerald Patterson, Andre Romell Young, O Shea Jackson, Harry Whitaker

Best For

Moments you got on the bad side of the law for no particular wrong doing but just being you. This song is somewhat an anthem for anyone who has gotten unnecessarily harassed, beat, or jailed by the police.

Lyrics

Fuckin with me ’cause I’m a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager
Searchin’ my car, lookin’ for the product
Thinkin’ every nigga is sellin’ narcotics
You’d rather see me in the pen
Than me and Lorenzo rollin’ in the Benzo
Beat a police outta shape
And when I’m finished, bring the yellow tape
To tape off the scene of the slaughter
Still getting swole off bread and water…

9. The Veer Union – Watch You Lose

• Artist: The Veer Union
• Album: Decade
• Released: 2016
• Genres: Rock
• Songwriter(s)– Crispin Earl

Best For

There’s no better revenge than watching one who did you wrong and brought you so much pain and anger, lose and suffer greatly.

Lyrics

The last of you is left in me
In my review a memory
I can’t rebuild the remedy
I’m so consumed that I can’t breathe
(I can’t breathe)
I can’t see (I can’t see)
And so I’m coming back to…
Watch you lose
Cause I’m fighting broke and bruised
And I’m dying from the truth
Untie me from the noose
Untie the noose
I will watch you
I will watch you lose

10. Ben Folds Five – Songs For The Dumped

• Artist: Ben Folds Five
• Album: Mr. Wrong
• Released: 1996
• Genres: Alternative Rock
• Songwriter(s)– Ben Folds, Darren Jessee

Best For

‘Song for the dumped’ is really as it is called. However, with this song, there is no taking things easy and only screaming in anger. If you need a song that would encourage you to seek back all you’ve given in the relationship, you’re at the right place.

Lyrics

So you wanted
To take a break
Slow it down some and
Have some space
Well fuck you too
Give me my money back
Give me my money back
You bitch
I want my money back
And don’t forget to give
Me back my black t-shirt…

11. Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit

• Artist: Nirvana
• Album: Nevermind
• Released: 1991
• Genres:
• Songwriter(s)– Chris Novoselic, David Grohl, Kurt Cobain

Best For

This song is a call for the youths to come together and cause a revolution. Nirvana was angry over the weird laws that teenagers and youths had to abide by. Inspired by Olympia WA, Nirvana was written after Dave Grohl’s move to Olympia and joined the Niravana band.

Lyrics

With the lights out, it’s less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido
Yeah, hey

I’m worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end…

12. The All-American Rejects – Gives You Hell

• Artist: The All-American Rejects
• Album: When the World Comes Down
• Released: 2008
• Genres: Pop punk; ‎pop rock‎; ‎power pop‎
• Songwriter(s)– Nick Wheeler, Tyson Ritter

Best For

Revenge is best served cold and seeing the one you once would give it all for, working tirelessly and being miserable is as cold as it can get. Well, especially when you are lounging and living your best life yet.

Lyrics

I wake up every evenin’
With a big smile on my face
And it never feels out of place
And you’re still probably workin’
At a nine to five pace
I wonder how bad that tastes
When you see my face, hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell
When you walk my way, hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell
Now, where’s your picket fence, love?
And where’s that shiny car?
And did it ever get you far?
You never seemed so tense, love
I’ve never seen you fall so hard
Do you know where you are?…

13. Grace ft. G-Eazy – You Don’t Own Me

• Artist: Saygrace
• Featured artist: G-Eazy
• Album: Barbie: GIRLS COLLECTION
• Released: 2017
• Genres: Hip hop soul; R&B‎
• Songwriter(s)– John Madara, Dave White

Best For

This song is best for you to listen to when dealing with someone who feels like they own you or your life depends on them entirely. It is a great song when you are in a relationship with a possessive person who feels like they can decide everything about your life and they are insecure about almost everything you do.

Lyrics

You don’t own me
You don’t own me
Well, let’s go
But I’m Gerald and I can always have just what I want
She’s the baddest I would love to flaunt
Take her shopping, you know Yves Saint Laurent
But nope, she ain’t with it though
All because she got her own dough
Boss bossed if you don’t know
She could never ever be a broke hoe…

14. Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know

• Artist: Alanis Morissette
• Album: Jagged Little Pill
• Released: 1995
• Genres: Pop
• Songwriter(s)-Glen Ballard, Alanis Nadine Morissette

Best For

The lyrics to this song may not portray pain as expected but relieving the pain and now bitter-sweet memories from a past love-life would surely get you riled up.

Lyrics

I want you to know, that I am happy for you
I wish nothing but the best for you both
An older version of me
Is she perverted like me?
Would she go down on you in a theater?
Does she speak eloquently
And would she have your baby?
I’m sure she’d make a really excellent mother
‘Cause the love that you gave that we made
Wasn’t able to make it enough for you
To be open wide, no
And every time you speak her name
Does she know how you told me
You’d hold me until you died
‘Til you died, but you’re still alive…

15. Florence + The Machine – Dog Days Are Over

• Artist: Florence + The Machine
• Album: Lungs (2008)
• Released: 2008
• Genres: Indie Pop
• Songwriter(s)– Florence Welch, Isabella Summers

Best For

Most people may want to consider this as a motivation song, but it is also among the great angry songs most especially when you are angry with your past and you want to move on from here.

Lyrics

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming
So you better run
Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father
Run for your children, for your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your longing behind
You can’t carry it with you if you want to survive
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses?…

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16.  ‘So What?’ – Pink

• Artist: Pink
• Album: Funhouse
• Released: 2008
• Genre: Pop rock
• Songwriter(s) – Pink, Max Martin, Shellback

Best For

Tears in your eyes yet you want to pass across a message from the place of deep aggression.  Pink does so well with these types of songs and ‘So What’ is one of the best topping for this scenario.

Lyrics:

So, so what

I’m still a rock star

I got my rock moves

And I don’t need you

And guess what?

I’m having more fun

And now that we’re done

I’m gonna show you tonight

I’m alright

I am just fine

And you’re a tool…

17. Before He Cheats – Carrie Underwood

• Artist: Carrie Underwood
• Album: Some Hearts
• Released: 2006
• Genre: Country (Country rock)
• Songwriter(s) – Josh Kear, Chris Tompkins

Best For

Sometimes you don’t have to wait for your man or lover to cheat before you get enraged and want to cause damage. In this song, Carrie anticipates the cheating of her boyfriend or husband.

She goes ahead to state things she would do to him when it happens. Be sure that it is nothing short of rage-filled.

Lyrics:

I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped-up-four-wheel drive

Carved my name into his leather seats

I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights

I slashed a hole in all four tires

Maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats…

18. I Hate You So Much Right Now – Kelis

• Artist: Kelis
• Album: Kaleidoscope
• Released: 1999
• Genre: Hip Hop
• Songwriter(s) – Chad Hugo, Pharrell Williams

Best For

When you’ve been with a man who has lied time and time again and you are fed up, this song is for you. Being tired of all the games and cheating and maybe it has gotten to the point of rage, this song may not necessarily calm you down but just know there are people who feel same way and have even released a song about it.

Lyrics:

Yo, this song, yo

This song is for all the women out there

That have been lied to by their men

And I know y’all been lied to over and over again

This is for y’all, yo, maybe you didn’t break

The way you should’ve broke, yo

But I break, you know I’m sayin’?

So this is how it goes yo

Psst… damn

Yo…

19. Black Skinhead – Kanye West

• Artist: Kanye West
• Album: Yeezus
• Released: 2013
• Genre: Industrial hip hop/ Punk rap
• Songwriter(s) – Kanye West, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter, Cydel Young, Malik Jones, Elon Rutberg, Wasalu Jaco, Sakiya Sandifer, Mike Dean, Derrick Watkins

Best For

This song stood out for its pure angry lyrics and Kanye West is one to duely express himself in songs. For deep lyrics to relate your anger to, ‘Black Skinhead’ is your go-to song.

Lyrics:

For my theme song

My leather black jeans on

My by any means on

Pardon, I’m getting my scream on

Enter the kingdom

But watch who you bring home

They see a black man with a white woman

At the top floor they gone come to kill King Kong

Middle America packed in

Came to see me in my black skin

Number one question they asking

Fuck every question you asking

If I don’t get ran out by Catholics

Here come some conservative Baptists

Claiming I’m overreacting

Like them black kids in Chiraq b*tch…

20. The Kill (Bury Me) – 30 Seconds to Mars

• Artist: Thirty seconds to Mars
• Album: A Beautiful Lie
• Released: 2006
• Genre: Hard Rock/Emo
• Songwriter(s) – Jared Leto

Best For

Just to scream, shout, and express anger, this song released in 2004 is a rock anthem fit for any moment of rage and anger.

Lyrics:

What if I wanted to break

Laugh it all off in your face?

What would you do?

What if I fell to the floor

Couldn’t take this anymore?

What would you do, do, do?…

21. Killing in the Name – Rage Against the Machine

• Artist: Rage Against the Machine
• Album: Rage Against the Machine
• Released: 1992
• Genre: Alternative metal/ Rap Metal/ Rap Rock/ Hard Rock
• Songwriter(s) – Tim Commerford, Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk.

Best For

Popularly known as the Rage Anthem, this song is vetted towards politics, socio-political injustices, and inequalities.

When you have something to say to the government or leaders, this song is great to send your anger-filled message.

Lyrics:

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they’re the chosen whites

You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they’re the chosen whites

Those who died are justified, for wearing the badge, they’re the chosen whites

You justify those that died by wearing the badge, they’re the chosen whites

Come on!…

22. Rolling in the Deep – Adele

• Artist: Adele
• Album: 21
• Released: 2010
• Genre: Rhythm and Blues/Soul
• Songwriter(s) – Adele Adkins, Paul Epworth

Best For

Those times when lovers or partners think so highly of themselves and believe you wouldn’t do so much without them. This song arrogantly tells them to go f**k themselves while you move on to heights they never imagined.

Adele wrote this song after her relationship ended and it told so much of her resentment and anger towards the relationship she had with her ex.

Lyrics:

The scars of your love

Remind me of us

They keep me thinking

That we almost had it all

The scars of your love

They leave me breathless

I can’t help feeling

We could’ve had it all…

23. Look Back in Anger – David Bowie

• Artist: David Bowie
• Album: Lodger
• Released: 1979
• Genre: Rock
• Songwriter(s) – David Bowie, Brian no

Best For

David and Brian wrote this song as a flash back at the past mistakes done. Sometimes you may not be mad at anyone else but yourself and in those times you could also need to lash out.

In those moments when regrets fuels anger and you feel like relating to something aggressive, ‘Look Back in Anger’ would help do the trick.

Lyrics:

“You know who I am,” he said

The speaker was an angel

He coughed and shook his crumpled wings

Closed his eyes and moved his lips

“It’s time we should be going”

Waiting so long, I’ve been waiting so, waiting so

Look back in anger, driven by the night

‘Til you come

Waiting so long, I’ve been waiting so, waiting so

Look back in anger, see it in my eyes

‘Til you come…

24. Here Comes Revenge – Metallica

• Artist: Metallica
• Album: Hardwired
• Released: 2016
• Genre: Metal, Rock
• Songwriter(s) – James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich

Best For

Like the name suggests, this song is about revenge on all wrong done. So when you’re enraged about stuff that has been wrongfully meted on to you, this song would be perfect for your listening pleasure.

Lyrics:

Little grave I’m grieving, I will mend you

Sweet revenge I’m dreaming, I will end you

I’ve been here since dawn of time

Countless hatred in anger’s flame

He was Abel, I was Cain

I am here, I’m hell unbound

Burn your kingdom to the ground, to the ground…

25. Drop the World – Lil Wayne ft Eminem

• Artist: Lil Wayne ft Eminem
• Album: Rebirth
• Released: 2010
• Genre: Hip Hop, Rap Rock, Electronic
• Songwriter(s) – Dwayne Carter Jr., Marshall Mathers, Luis Resto, Jesse Woodward, Mike Strange, Chauncey Hollis.

Best For

‘If only killing people was okay’ right? Because what other intent would one have for picking up the world and dropping it on someone’s head?

This loud, anger-filled tone is best to convey a certain type of pain that doesn’t care what becomes of the person who inflicted the pain. For the type and amount of pain you feel, he/she should feel way more.

Lyrics:

I got ice in my veins, blood in my eyes

Hate in my heart, love in my mind

I seen nights full of pain, days of the same

You keep the sunshine, save me the rain

And I search but never find, hurt but never cry

I work and forever try but I’m cursed, so never mind

And it’s worse but better times seem further and beyond…

26. Everything Sux – Descendents

• Artist: Descendent
• Album: I Don’t Want to Grow Up
• Released: 1996
• Genre: Hardcore punk, Melodic hardcore, Punk rock, pop-punk
• Songwriter(s) –

Best For

This is best for times and days when nothing seems to be going well. Those days you wake up feeling very off and expecting the worse of every situation. Truth be told, it causes feats of rage and this song is the best to sing and scream along to.

Lyrics:

Got up this morning to make some coffee

Everything sucks today

Prayed someone hired a hitman to off me

Everything sucks today

Got up on the wrong side of life this morning

Nothing today is gonna go my way

Horoscope told me lies this morning

I don’t think anything is gonna be okay…

27. Double Dare Ya – Bikini Kill

• Artist: Bikini Kill
• Album: Bikini Kill EP
• Released: 1992
• Genres: Punk Rock
• Songwriter(s) – Kathleen Hanna, Billy Karren, Tobi Vail, and Kathi Wilcox.

Best For

This is a feminist sound calling on all women to be empowered to do anything they want to do. This song by Bikini Kill is an aggressive one that encourages girls and women to go ahead and do their desires and dare anyone who thinks or says otherwise.

Lyrics:

Is that supposed to be doing that?

Ok, sorry, ok we’re starting now

We’re Bikini Kill and we want revolution

Girl-style now!

Hey Girlfriend

I got a proposition goes something like this:

Dare ya to do what you want

Dare ya to be who you will

Dare ya to cry right out loud

“You get so emotional baby”… 

28. Breaking Dishes – Rihanna

• Artist: Rihanna
• Album: Good Girl Gone Bad
• Released: 2010
• Genre: R&B, Electronica
• Songwriter(s) – Christopher Stewart, Terius Nash

Best For

This is a confrontational song between lovers one of whom was accused of cheating. In this angry song, the woman can be heard pressuring her partner to come forward with the truth about his exploits.

Lyrics:

He’s been gone since three thirty

And coming home lately at three thirty

I’m super cool I’ve been a fool

But now I’m hot and baby you gone get it

Now, I ain’t tripping ah! I ain’t twisting ah!

I ain’t demented ah, but just a lil’ bit

I’m kicking asses I’m taking names

I’m on flame don’t come home babe… 

29. March of the Pigs – Nine Inch Nails

• Artist: Nine Inch Nails
• Album: The Downward Spiral
• Released: 1994
• Genre: Industrial metal
• Songwriter(s) – Trent Reznor

Best For

For this song, you just have to be angry with the society, government, and politics to relate. Centering around capitalism, March of the Pigs is a call for all to see past the surface of capitalism and understand how harmful it was.

Lyrics:

Step right up, march, push

Crawl right up on your knees

Please, greed, feed (no time to hesitate)

I want a little bit

I want a piece of it

I think he’s losing it

I want to watch it come down…

30. Violet – Hole

• Artist: Hole
• Album: Live Through This
• Released: 1995
• Genre: Alternative Rock, Grunge, Punk Rock
• Songwriter(s) – Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson

Best For

This song is best for times when you need to talk to your ex without necessarily talking to him or her. Violet aggressively addresses jerks in relationships and was written after a relationship between Courtney Love and Billy Corgan ended.

This song shows how some feminine anger can be as the singer wants her lover to go. As the relationship turned chaotic, there’s nothing left to crave than the absence of the partner.

Lyrics:

When they get what they want, and they never want it again

And they get what they want, and they never want it again

Go on, take everything, take everything, I want you to

Go on, take everything, take everything, I want you to

And the sky was all vibolet

I want it again, but violent, more violent

Yeah, I’m the one with no soul

One above and one below…

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