List of apocalyptic songs
The following is a list of songs which feature either apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic themes in their content or titles.
Numbers
- "MMXII" by Subway to Sally
- "2 Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden
- "The 2nd Law - Unsustainable" and various other songs by Muse
- "3 Days in Darkness" by Testament
- "4 Degrees" by Anohni
- "4 Minute Warning" by Mark Owen
- "4 Minute Warning" by Radiohead
- "8½ Minutes" by The Dismemberment Plan
- "13 Women" by Bill Haley
- "30 Seconds Til The End Of The World" by Pennywise
- "'39" by Queen
- "40 Miles From The Sun" by Bush
- "99 Luftballons" by Nena
- "115" by Elena Siegman
- "1983... " by Jimi Hendrix
- "1999" by Prince
A
- "Acid Rain" by Avenged Sevenfold
- "Ænema" by Tool
- "After Forever" by Black Sabbath
- "After The Flood" by Van der Graaf Generator
- "After the Gold Rush" by Neil Young
- "Against Pollution" by the Mountain Goats
- "Ain't No Grave" by Johnny Cash
- "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan
- "All Go Together" by Big Country
- "All Nightmare Long" by Metallica
- "American Pie" by Don McLean
- "And Further On" by Jethro Tull on A
- "Another Way to Die" by Disturbed
- "Another World" by Antony and the Johnsons
- "Another World" by The Kelly Family
- "Anthems of Apocalypse" by Winds of Plague
- "The Antichrist" by Slayer
- "Apocalypse" by Cigarettes After Sex
- "Apocalypse" by Hypocrisy
- "Apocalypse" by Savant
- "Apocalypse Dreams" by Tame Impala
- "Apocalypse" by Jackie Evancho
- "Apocalypse" by Jaykode Ft. Micah Martin
- "Apocalypse Lullaby" by The Wailin' Jennys
- "Apocalypse Song" by St. Vincent
- "Apocalypse Today" by The Casualties
- "Apocalypso" by Lords Of The New Church
- "Apocalypso" by The Motels
- "Apocalypso" by The Singing Fools
- "Apocolypta" by The Herd
- “Apocalyptic” by Halestorm
- “Apocalyptical” by Puscifer
- "Apocalypticism" by Dødheimsgard
- "April 2031" by Warrant
- "Armageddon" by Alkaline Trio
- "Armageddon" by Gamma Ray
- "Armageddon" by Guy Sebastian
- "Armageddon" by Prism
- "Armageddon a Go-Go" by Phoebe Legere
- "Armageddon It" by Def Leppard
- "Armageddon Waits" by Lamb
- "As It Was, As It Soon Shall Be" by Exodus
- "As the Waves Lap" by Daffus X
- "As the World Caves in" Matt Maltese
- "Ascension” by Gorillaz
- “Asthenia" by Blink-182
- "As the World Caves In" by Matt maltese
- "As the World Falls Down" - David Bowie
- "At the Moment the Earth Ends" by Atari Blitzkrieg
- “At the Bottom of Anything” by Bright Eyes
- "Ayatollah of Rock'N'Rollah" by Soulfly
B
- "Baby I'm Yours" by Barbara Lewis
- "Backwater Blues" by Bessie Smith
- "Bad Girl" by New York Dolls
- "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "Ball of Confusion " by The Temptations
- "The Ballad of the Night the Clocks All Quit ", Tonio K.
- "Beast and the Harlot" by Avenged Sevenfold
- "Beauty of Annihalation" by Elena Siegman
- "Beginning of the End by Into Eternity
- "Beginning of the End" by Rage
- "The Beginning of the End" by Rob Zombie
- "Behind the Rose " by Death in June
- "Bernice" by The Spazmz
- "Big Black Sky" by Prism
- " Big Heat" by Stan Ridgway
- "Blackened" by Metallica
- "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden
- "Black Planet" by The Sisters of Mercy
- "Black Star" by David Bowie
- "Black Sunday" by Jethro Tull on A
- "The Blues" by Switchfoot
- "Breathing" by Kate Bush
- "Brotherhood of Man" by Motörhead
- "Burn" by Deep Purple
- "Burning Universe" by The Mover
C
- "Carnivore" by Starset
- "Calamity Song" by The Decemberists
- "The Catalyst" by Linkin Park
- "Catastrophe" by Rainer Maria
- "Chemical Warfare" by Slayer
- "Chemical Warfare" by The Dead Kennedys
- "Christmas at Ground Zero" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
- "Cities In Dust" by Siouxsie and the Banshees
- "City" by Hollywood Undead
- "Climate Change" by Tripod
- "Cloaked in Shit" by Hatesphere
- "Clubbed to Death" by Rob Dougan
- "Cold Wind to Valhalla" by Jethro Tull on Minstrel in the Gallery
- "Coming Home" by Falling in Reverse
- "Countdown's Begun" by Ozzy Osbourne
- "Crawl out Through the Fallout" by Sheldon Allman
- "Cruci-Fiction Demolition" by Chapter 27
D
- "Damnation Alley" by Hawkwind
- "Dance While the Sky Crashes Down" by Jason Webley
- "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes by Ultravox
- "Dark Ages" by Jethro Tull on Stormwatch
- "Dark Doo Wop" by MS MR
- "Day of Reckoning" by Warrior
- "The Day the Dead Walked" by SIx Feet Under
- "The Day the World Went Away" by Nine Inch Nails
- "D Day" by The BusBoys
- "The Dead Flag Blues" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- "Dear Future Generations: Sorry" by Prince Ea
- "Dehumanizer" by Black Sabbath
- "Desperation Song" by Carbon Leaf
- "Def Con One" by Pop Will Eat Itself
- "Defector" by Muse
- "Did You See?" by Sol Invictus
- "Dies Irae" by Helium Vola
- "Dies Irae" by Rage
- "Dinosaur Sex" by Emmy the Great
- "Dissident Aggressor" by Judas Priest
- "Doin' Alright" by CunninLynguists
- " The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult
- "Don't Open 'Til Doomsday" by The Misfits
- " If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" by Curtis Mayfield
- "Doom Dancer" by The Mover
- "Doom Days" by Bastille
- "Doomed Future Today" by Mouth Sewn Shut
- "Doomsday" by Elvis Perkins in Dearland
- "Doomsday" by Nero
- "Doomsday" by Six Feet Under
- "Doomsday Clock" by The Smashing Pumpkins
- "Doomsday Jesus" by Black Label Society
- "Doomsday Party" by Wooden Ships
- "Down from the Sky" by Trivium
- "Down to the Wire" by Son Volt
- "Do You Believe in the West World?" by Theatre of Hate
- "Drift Away" by The Kinks
- "Dun Ringill" by Jethro Tull on Stormwatch
E
- "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville" by My Chemical Romance
- "The Earth Died Screaming" by Tom Waits
- "East 1999" by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
- "Easy Listening For Armageddon" by Mike Ladd
- "East Hastings" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- "Edge of a Revolution" by Nickelback
- “Eighth Day” by Hazel O'Connor
- "Electric Funeral" by Black Sabbath
- "Elegy" by Jethro Tull on Stormwatch
- "Elegy" by Machine Head
- "El Niño" by Jethro Tull on J-Tull Dot Com
- "El Mundo" by Molotov
- "The End" by The Doors
- "The End" by Funker Vogt
- "The End" by Mouse on Mars
- "The Ending" by Papa Roach
- "Endgame" by Rise Against
- "Endless Apocalypse" by GWAR
- "End Game" by Zomboy
- "The End Is Here" by Alter Bridge
- "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" by The Smashing Pumpkins
- "End of All Time" by Stars of Track and Field
- "The End of Radio" by Shellac
- "The End of the Age" by Becoming the Archetype
- "End of the Earth" by Marina
- "End of the World" by Armor for Sleep
- "End of the World" by Cold
- "End of the World" by The Cure
- "End of the World" by David Campbell
- "End of the World" by Ingrid Michaelson
- "End of the World" by Night Riots
- "The End of the World" by Bob Geldof on The Vegetarians of Love
- "The End of the World" by Laurie Anderson on The Ugly One with the Jewels
- "The End of the World" by Skeeter Davis
- "End of the World Party" by I See Stars
- "Endzeit" by Heaven Shall Burn
- "Enter The Gates of Darkness" by The Mover
- "Epitaph" by King Crimson
- "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire
- "Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen
- "Everybody Out of the Water" by The Wallflowers
- "Everybody's Out of Town" by B.J. Thomas
- "Everyday Is Like Sunday" by Morrissey
- "Exciter" by Judas Priest
- "Exquisite Corpse" by Watsky
- "Eyes Of Nostradamus" by Al Stewart
- "Eyes Wide Open" by Gotye
F
- "F1-11 Love Missile" by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
- "Fade to Red" by Kevin Max
- "Fear Inoculum" by Tool
- "" by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
- "Fight Fire With Fire" by Metallica
- "The Final Countdown" by Europe
- "Final Day" by Young Marble Giants
- "Final Sickness" by The Mover
- "Fire in the Sky/Where Are All The Scientists Now?/A Matter of Time" by Jukebox the Ghost
- "Fire Coming Out of The Monkey's head" by Gorillaz
- "Five Years" by David Bowie
- "Fixin' To Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish
- "Flood Waters" by Defiance, Ohio
- "Floods" by Fightstar
- "Floods" by Pantera
- "The Flood" by Simon Bookish
- "Flying Dutchman" by Jethro Tull on Stormwatch
- "Follow You" by Bring Me The Horizon
- "Four Horsemen" by Aphrodite's Child
- "Forever Young" by Alphaville
- "Four Horsemen" by The Clash
- "The Four Horsemen" by Metallica
- "Four Minutes" by Roger Waters on Radio K.A.O.S.
- "The Funky Western Civilization" by Tonio K
- "The Future" by Leonard Cohen
- "Future Legend" by David Bowie
- "Future Shock" by Hello People
- "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" by Timbuk3
- "Fylingdale Flyer" by Jethro Tull on A
G
- "Generation z" by NOFX
- "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones
- "Glaring Light" by Dirge
- "God Monster" by The Cramps
- "Gonna Put My Face on a Nuclear Bomb" by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
- "Goodbye Blue Sky" by Pink Floyd
- "Goodbye To Radio" by Hawksley Workman
- "Great Waves" by Dirty Three
- "The Greatest" by Lana Del Rey
H
- "Hammer to Fall" by Queen
- "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" by Bob Dylan
- "Heile Heile Segen" by Mono Inc.
- "Helena " by My Chemical Romance
- "Here Comes the Flood" by The Divine Comedy
- "Here Comes the Flood" by Peter Gabriel
- "Higher Ground" by Stevie Wonder
- "Hiroshima" by People Like Us
- "Hold Back the Fire" by David Gilmour
- "Holiday" by Green Day
- "The House at Pooneil Corners" by Jefferson Airplane
- "A House Is Not a Motel" by Love
- "How Far We've Come" by Matchbox Twenty
- "Humanity" by Scorpions
I
- "Ice Age" by Hawksley Workman
- "Idioteque" by Radiohead
- " Till the End of the World" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- "I Love the World" by New Model Army
- "I Love You, Honeybear" by Father John Misty
- "Immortal" by Marina and the Diamonds
- "In a Heartbeat" by John Murphy
- "In Days to Come" by Sol Invictus
- "Inferno" by Einherjer
- "Inner City Blues " by Marvin Gaye
- "In The End" by Linkin Park
- "In the Year 2525" by Zager & Evans
- "I Remember California" by R.E.M.
- "It Ain't the End of the World" by George Segal and Blu Mankuma
- "It's All Over" by Insane Clown Posse
- "It's Not the End of the World, But I Can See It from Here" by Lostprophets
- "It's the End of the World as We Know It" by Julee Cruise
- "It's the End of the World as We Know It " by R.E.M.
- "I've Been Blessed" by Jamestown Story
- "I Will by Radiohead
- “2012 (It Ain’t The End” by Jay Sean
J
- "John the Revelator" by Blind Willie Johnson
- "Judgement Day" by Van Halen
- ”Just Another Day” by Oingo Boingo
- "Just Like on TV" by Plasmatics
- "Just One Kiss" by The Cure
- "Just the flu" by NOFX
K
- "Karn Evil 9" By Emerson, Lake and Palmer
- "Kingdom of God" by Laibach
- "King of the World" by Steely Dan
- "Knights of Shame" by Awolnation
L
- "Lampshades on Fire" by Modest Mouse
- "Last Day on Earth" by Duran Duran
- "The Last Day on Earth" by Kate Miller-Heidke
- "The Last Day on Earth" by Marilyn Manson
- "The Last Man on Earth" by Schoolyard Heroes
- "Last Night of the World" by Bruce Cockburn
- "Last Night on Earth" by Green Day
- “Last Night On Earth” by Murder By Death
- "Last Night on Earth" by U2
- "Last of the American Girls" by Green Day
- "Last Party" by MIKA
- "The Last Page of History" by Godley & Creme
- "Last Rockers" by Vice Squad
- "Let It All Fall Down" by James Taylor
- "Letters From The Sky" by Civil Twilight
- "Living in End Times" by Roger Joseph Manning, Jr.
- "London Calling" by The Clash
- "Love Throw a Line" by Patty Griffin
- "Let it Die" by Starset
M
- "" by Wendy O. Williams and Plasmatics
- "The Man Comes Around" by Johnny Cash
- "Man vs Earth" by Prince Ea
- "Maybe Tomorrow" by Chance Waters ft. Lilian Blue
- "Mercy Mercy Me " by Marvin Gaye
- "The Merry Minuet" by The Kingston Trio
- "Miami 2017 " by Billy Joel
- "Miserabile Visu " by Anberlin
- "Mona Lisa" by The All-American Rejects
- "Morning Dew" by Bonnie Dobson
- "Mother of Disease" by Puissance
- "Mushroom Butts" by Love
- "My Love Is Your Love" by Whitney Houston
N
- "Navras" by Juno Reactor
- "Na Na Na " by My Chemical Romance
- "New Dark Ages" by Bad Religion
- "New Frontier" by Donald Fagen
- "New World Emerging Blues" by the Mountain Goats
- "Nightflight " by The Mover
- "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues
- "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" by Paul McCartney and Wings
- "No Doves Fly Here" by The Mob
- "No Lullaby" by Jethro Tull on Heavy Horses
- "No One Would Riot for Less" by Bright Eyes
- "No Sound But The Wind" by Editors
- "Nostradamus" by Justin Hayward
- " Flowers" by Talking Heads
- "No World for Tomorrow" by Coheed and Cambria
- "The Number of the Beast" by Iron Maiden
- "Nuclear" by Mike Oldfield
O
- "O Caritas" by Cat Stevens
- "O Fortuna" from "Carmina Burana", composed by Carl Orff
- "Old Man Atom" by Vern Partlow
- "One Hundred Million Dead" by the Butthole Surfers
- "One of the Living" by Tina Turner
- "Out Alive" by Kesha
- "Out in the Country" by Three Dog Night
- "Overture" by Def Leppard
P
- "Panic in the World" by Be-Bop Deluxe
- "Party at Ground Zero" by Fishbone
- "Pink Moon" by Nick Drake
- "The Plague" by the Mountain Goats
- "Planetary Burial" by The Mover
- "Polaris" by Megadeth
- "Pluto" by Björk on Homogenic
- "The Prayer Cycle" by Jonathan Elias
- "Preaching the End of The World" by Chris Cornell
- "Prehistoric Dog" by Red Fang
- "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" by Dimmu Borgir
- "The Prophet's Song" by Queen
- "Protect and Survive" by Jethro Tull on A
- "Pure Fucking Armageddon" by Mayhem
- "Puritania" by Dimmu Borgir
Q
- "Quatuor pour la fin du temps " composed by Olivier Messiaen
R
- "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons
- "Ragnarok" by Tyr
- "Rapture" by Blondie
- "Reclamation" by Lamb of God
- "Red Skies" by The Fixx
- "Repangaea" and various others by Cephalic Carnage
- "Resistance" by Muse
- "Revelation " by Manowar
- "Revelations" by Iron Maiden
- "Ridin' the Storm Out" REO Speedwagon
- "Riot" by Three Days Grace
- "Rise of the Antichrist" by Bewitched
- "Road to Nowhere" by Talking Heads
- "Rocks into Rivers" by Seabird
- "Run Boy Run" by Woodkid
- "Run for Cover" by Otep
- "Run This Town" by Jay-Z
- "Run Through the Jungle" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "Rusted from the Rain" by Billy Talent
S
- "Sandcastles" by The Regime
- "S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W" by My Chemical Romance
- "Serenades" by Steve Miller Band
- "Seven Swans" by Sufjan Stevens
- "Seventh Seal" by Van Halen
- "The Seventh Seal" by Morgana Lefay
- "The Seventh Seal" by Primal Fear
- "The Seventh Sign" by Yngwie Malmsteen
- "Shots on the Hood of my Car" by Kesha
- "Sign of the Times" by Harry Styles
- "Sinnerman" by various artists, notably Nina Simone and 16 Horsepower
- "Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day" by Jethro Tull on Warchild
- "Skeletons of Society" by Slayer
- "Sky Chariots" by The Lord Weird Slough Feg
- "Skyfall" by Adele
- "The Sky Is Broken" by Moby
- "Sky is Falling" by Melora Creager
- "Sleep" by My Chemical Romance
- "A Smart Kid" by Porcupine Tree
- "Soldier Side" by System of a Down
- "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" by A Perfect Circle
- "So Long, Mom " by Tom Lehrer
- "Something's on the Move" by Jethro Tull on Stormwatch
- "Sons And Daughters" by The Decemberists
- "Sons of the Revolution" by Tonio K
- "SOS" by Take That
- "Soul Survivor by Angels & Airwaves
- "The Sound of Pulling Heaven Down" by Blue October
- "Soylent Green" by Wumpscut
- "Das Spiel ist aus " by Laibach
- "Starless Aeon" by Dissection
- "Sign of The Times" by Harry Styles
- "The Stations" by The Gutter Twins
- "Stay Together" by Suede
- "Stop the World" by The Clash
- "The Story of Willy" by King Missile
- "Sun" by The Essex Green
- "The Sun and the Moon" by The Pogues
- "The Sun Has Turned to Black" by Electric Wizard
- "The Sun Is Burning" by Simon and Garfunkel
- "Supper's Ready" by Genesis
- "Survive" by Adrenalin O.D.
T
- "Tables and Chairs" by Andrew Bird
- "Talking Atomic Blues" by Oscar Brand
- "Talking World War III Blues" by Bob Dylan
- "Teen Riot Structure" by T. Rex
- "Tempest" by Deftones
- "Temples on Fire" by Sacred Warrior
- "The Cave" by Johnny Paycheck
- "The Man Comes Around" by Johnny Cash
- "The Number Of The Beast" by Iron Maiden
- "The Temptation of Adam" by Josh Ritter
- "The Globalist" by Muse
- "The Fall" by Ministry
- "The Grand Finale" by Set It Off
- "The Light Behind Your Eyes" by My Chemical Romance
- "They Say" by Scars on Broadway
- "Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution" by Father John Misty
- "This May Not Be the End of the World" by John Mellencamp
- "This World Over", by XTC
- "Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse" by Doug Anthony All Stars
- "Thru Eternal Fog" by The Mover
- "Til Death" By Barcelona
- "Till the World Ends" by Britney Spears
- "Time of the Last Persecution" by Bill Fay
- "Together Burning Bright" by The Used
- "Total Eclipse" by Klaus Nomi
- "Troops of Doom" by Sepultura
- "Turn this World Around" by Kenny Rogers
- "TV II" by Ministry
- "Two Suns in the Sunset" by Pink Floyd
- "" by Helloween
- "Tickibg Bomb" by Aloe Blacc
U
- "Until the End of the World" by U2
V
- "A Visit to a Sad Planet" by Leonard Nimoy
W
- "Waiting for the End" by Linkin Park
- "Waiting for the End of the World" by Elvis Costello
- "Waiting for October" by Polaris
- "Waiting for the World to End" by Mother Mother
- "Wake Me Up Sweet Jesus" by Jimmy Murphy
- "Warning" by Green Day
- "Warning" by Incubus
- "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath
- "Wars of Armageddon" by Funkadelic
- "Wash It All Away" by Five Finger Death Punch
- "Wasteland, Baby!" by Hozier
- "Watch The World" by Box Car Racer
- "We All Run" by Magnum
- "We Are the Worst" by Roy Zimmerman
- "We Don't Need Another Hero " by Tina Turner
- "We Have Arrived" by Mescalinum United
- "Well Thought Out Twinkles" by Silversun Pickups
- "We Will All Go Together When We Go" by Tom Lehrer
- "We Will Become Silhouettes" by The Postal Service
- "We'll All Get Laid by The Vandals
- "Whatever It Takes" by Imagine Dragons
- "What Have They Done to the Rain?" by The Searchers
- "When God Calls Time Out" by Tear Da Club Up Thugs
- "When Jesus Came to Play" by Jethro Tull on Catfish Rising
- "When That Helicopter Comes" by Andrew Bird
- "When the Levee Breaks" by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie
- "When the Sun Burns Red" by Kreator
- "When the Wheels Don't Move" by Son Volt
- "When The Wild Wind Blows" by Iron Maiden
- "When the World Ends" by Dave Matthews
- "When the World is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around" by The Police
- "When The World's On Fire" by the Carter Family
- "Where The End Begins" by Grabbitz
- "White, Discussion" by Live
- "Whose Garden Was This" by Tom Paxton
- "Who's Got My Back?" by Creed"
- "Why I Think This World Should End" by Prince Ea
- "The Wicked End" by Avenged Sevenfold
- "Wond'ring Again" by Jethro Tull on Living in the Past
- "Wooden Ships" by Crosby, Stills & Nash
- "World Destruction" by Time Zone
- "World Downfall" by The Mover
- "World War III" by T.S.O.L.
- "Worship the End" by The Mover
- "Wounded, Old and Treacherous" by Jethro Tull on Roots to Branches
- "WW4" by Leftöver Crack
Y
- "You and the Candles" by Hawksley Workman
- "You Gotta Survive" by Tom Robinson Band
- "You Stay Here" by Richard Shindell
Z
- "Zero-Sum" by Nine Inch Nails
- "Zombie" by Family Force 5