Written By Lucien Drake
Why This Is the Ultimate Sex Playlist
Sin, Sweat & Riffs – the gospel according to your hips. Here’s a curated, sexy playlist to fuck to. Who needs Marvin Gaye when you’ve got Peter Steele crooning in your ear? Forget candlelight ballads and smooth R&B. Metalheads know passion can be primal, dirty, and utterly transcendent. Metal isn’t just riffs, it’s desire, filth, ritual and theater. Metal has always courted lust, carnality, and blasphemy, from doom-laden hymns to industrial sleaze. Here’s our list of songs to set the mood when things get hot and heavy.
Some of these tracks I know only from the speakers. Others? Let’s just say they’ve been fully… field-tested. Because sex, like metal, isn’t about playing it safe, it’s about losing yourself when the chemistry is right.”
That’s our unapologetically filthy, heavy, and lust-drenched metal sex playlist. Proof that metal has always been as carnal as it is crushing. But why stop here? This list is a nod to every reader who knows damn well they’ve already tested a few of these tracks in real life.
The Origins of the Metal Sex Playlist
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Tender And Heavy
Slow burns, sensual grooves, and songs that ache with longing before exploding into release.
HIM – Beautiful
Ville Valo built an entire aesthetic around vulnerability wrapped in distortion, and “Beautiful” is one of the purest expressions of that balance.
It’s a rare HIM track that moves at a restrained, mid-tempo pace, letting longing breathe instead of rushing toward melodrama.
The song is less about lust or heartbreak and more about the quiet intimacy of being close to someone, bodies near, emotions exposed and tension simmering just beneath the surface.
Heavy doesn’t always mean loud. Sometimes it just means it hurts in the right way.
Acid Bath – Jezebel
Southern gothic depravity draped in velvet. Dax Riggs croons like a sinner begging for one last touch before hell takes him. The riffs crawl slow and thick, equal parts funeral and foreplay. Jezebel isn’t about love, it’s about the kind of lust that leaves scratchmarks down your back.
Chelsea Wolfe – The Warden
A slow, shadowy seduction for our metal sex playlist. Wolfe’s voice feels like a spell murmured against your throat. Soft menace with gentle corruption. Adds a feminine counterpoint to all the masculine domination.
“As the nights draw longer, we explored that slow seasonal decay in Where Doom Meets Autumn.”
Deftones – Passenger
Few bands channel raw sexuality like Deftones, and “Passenger” is their ultimate slow-burn seduction. The track feels like being drawn into a forbidden ride. Chino Moreno’s sensual delivery intertwines with Maynard James Keenan’s shadowy counter-vocals, creating a push-and-pull of lust and surrender. The music builds with a grinding, hypnotic intensity that mirrors the act itself: steady, immersive, and impossible to resist. This isn’t just a song-it’s an invitation
Sleep Token – The Summoning
This song went viral on TikTok for making the internet horny. It was crowned a modern classic in sultry crooning, jazzy interludes, and crushing riffs all in one. A soundtrack for multiple phases of the night, teasing, passion, and release. Perfect for a metal sex playlist.
Pantera – This Love
Tenderness wrapped in rage. It’s a bipolar ballad of romance and destruction. Its perfect for our metal sex playlist that mixes tenderness and aggression.
Opeth – By the Pain I See in Others
Seventeen minutes of progressive melancholy that tests your stamina as much as your soul. It’s bleak, beautiful, and provocative, exactly what you want for an otherworldly climax.
My Dying Bride – For You
A defining moment of romance that’s technically doom metal, “For You” moves at the pace of devotion rather than desire.
The weight comes not from volume, but from patience in drawn out riffs, mournful violins, and lyrics that feel sworn rather than spoken.
This isn’t music for motion, it’s music for closeness, stillness, and emotional gravity. Love here isn’t fleeting or frantic, it’s heavy, enduring, and willing to ache.
Chains, Leather & BDSM
Whips crack, leather squeaks, and the riffs come down harder than a dungeon master’s verdict.
Judas Priest – Hell Bent For Leather
Leather isn’t a costume here, it’s armor. This track is all speed, tension, and unapologetic dominance, powered by swagger and restraint rather than sleaze.
In a BDSM context, it channels classic power exchange: confidence, consent, and control worn proudly on the outside. No irony or apology, just authority, volume, and intention. It’s desire at full throttle.
Slayer – Sex. Murder. Art.
Cold, mechanical, and confrontational, this track strips sexuality down to obsession and fixation. There’s nothing playful here. It’s cerebral, transgressive, and deliberately unsettling.
In BDSM spaces, it works as edge-play energy. Music that sharpens focus, heightens tension, and reminds everyone that power dynamics can be ritualistic, extreme, and deeply psychological. The concept is domination, not seduction.
Rammstein – Bück Dich
Rammstein makes our metal sex playlist because of its industrial punishment served with a grin. Pure mechanical domination. Rammstein turning the stage into a dungeon. It’s iconic, dangerous, and impossible to mistake for anything else.
Otep – Seduce and Destroy
Brutal and provocative, Otep Shamaya flips the script into pure domination and fits right in on our metal sex playlist. Aggression and eroticism bleed together in this unapologetically seductive track.
In This Moment – Sick Like Me
Maria Brink’s twisted lullaby of obsession makes depravity sound irresistible. A song that revels in dirty desire with a carnival-of-lust aesthetic.
Nine Inch Nails – Closer
No surprises here, it’s the ultimate industrial anthem of unfiltered lust. Trent Reznor turned bedroom talk into a grinding, filthy groove that defined a generation of sexual chaos.
Belphegor – Sexdictator Lucifer
Belphegor makes our metal sex playlist because sometimes lust is blasphemy with blast beats. It’s evil, it’s obscene, and somehow, it’s still a banger.
Genitorturers – Pleasure in Restraint
A lesson in control. This song is about control, tension, and delayed gratification which makes it even hotter. Gen whips desire into discipline, every beat a heartbeat held just a little too long. The guitars grind like chains against steel while her voice teases, promising release only through obedience. It’s not chaos, it’s choreography. Pleasure hurts sweeter when it’s earned.
Primal & Rough
Sweaty, messy and animalistic. The soundtrack to teeth on skin and nails down the back.
Pig Destroyer – Pornographic Memory
Desire after the fact thats smeared, distorted, looping in your skull like damaged tape. Pig Destroyer turn lust into confession, every blast beat a heartbeat of guilt and hunger. It’s not about the act itself, but the ghost it leaves behind: sticky, haunting, impossible to wash off. The kind of track that reminds you pleasure always has teeth.
Sextrash – Brutal Sex
This track is pure feral aggression, stripped of finesse and intention beyond release. No romance, no power, just raw impulse and collision.
In the Primal & Rough section, it functions as music for moments where civility is off the table and desire is physical, messy, and unfiltered. It’s ugly on purpose. Abrasive and animalistic, the kind of track that doesn’t seduce, it overwhelms.
Cryptopsy – Malicious Needs
No tenderness here, just the hunger that comes after restraint breaks. Cryptopsy’s precision feels surgical, but the intent is feral. Every riff lunges, every scream bleeds want. It’s the sound of flesh meeting fury, lust sharpened into weaponry.
The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs
Desire as devotion, pain as prayer. Lou Reed’s monotone drawl wraps around that hypnotic drone like a leather whip, cold, elegant, and inevitable. There’s no pretense here, just submission rendered beautiful. The song doesn’t ask permission; it commands you to kneel.
Gravity Kills – Guilty
Industrial lust at its dirtiest. “Guilty” is all razor-wire riffs, pounding electronics, and Jeff Scheel’s breathy growl demanding submission. It’s aggressive and unapologetically filthy. The soundtrack to sweat, scratches, and teeth on skin. Where other tracks seduce, “Guilty” takes control, pulling you into a heady mix of danger and desire.
Grave – In Love
Old-school death metal makes our metal sex playlist. It doesn’t usually aim for seduction, but this one does it with tongue firmly in cheek. A filthy hymn to unholy lust.
Black Flag – Slip It In
Punk, hardcore, and lust collide on our metal sex playlist. Crass? Yes. Effective? Also yes. It’s confrontational sex distilled into a riff.
Fleshgod Apocalypse – The Forsaking
Symphonic death metal might not scream “romance,” but the drama here is undeniable. Orchestral swells and relentless intensity set a backdrop for unholy passion.
Cannibal Corpse – I Cum Blood
The sleaziest hymn ever to crawl out of a morgue. A grotesque fantasy so over-the-top it becomes its own parody of lust and death. Grind-level filth delivered with technical precision. Obscene, hilarious, and utterly uncompromising. It’s what happens when desire rots but refuses to die.
Lords of Acid – I Sit in Acid
Aural submission at its finest. This track doesn’t flirt, it orders. The beat snaps like latex on skin. There’s no romance here, just chemistry, instinct and bodies moving until the rhythm breaks them apart. The kind of track that leaves you breathless, grinning, and a little bit ruined.
Cairo Knife Fight – Rezlord
This track moves like a predator that knows it doesn’t need to rush. “Rezlord” is all low-slung groove, physical weight, and swaggering aggression.
It’s primal without devolving into chaos. In the Primal & Rough lane, it works as body-driven momentum. It’s all hips, shoulders, pressure and sweat.
There’s menace here, but it’s controlled just enough to stay grounded in rhythm rather than noise.
More Than Two
When it’s a party of 3 or more and the vibe is shared heat, shared glances and shared energy ricocheting around the room. When desire stops being linear and starts becoming electric.
Nobody’s rushing or ignored. It’s about chemistry multiplying, not performing. Not excess, just expansion. More bodies, more tension and more listening.
Methods of Mayhem – Lets Get Naked
This track is pure reckless group energy. It’s playful, dirty, and intentionally chaotic. It works here because it’s about shedding inhibition, not control.
The beat is loose, the attitude is communal, and the vibe says this isn’t about performance, it’s about everyone being equally uninhibited and in the moment.
Type O Negative – My Girlfriends Girlfriend
Jealousy, desire and curiosity all tangled together in slow, narcotic green fog. This is one of metal’s most iconic songs about non-linear attraction.
It’s where tension lives in the space between people rather than explicit action. It belongs here because it understands that threesomes aren’t just physical, they’re psychological, emotional, and loaded with subtext.
Embryonic Autopsy – Orgies Of The Inseminated
This song represents the extreme fringe of group excess. Not erotic in a traditional sense, but confrontational and overwhelming.
In this section, it functions as sensory overload with sound as mass, bodies as concept and individuality dissolving into noise. It’s here for listeners who want chaos, not connection.
Hollywood Undead – Undead (Director’s Cut)
Rowdy, collective, and fueled by shared adrenaline, this track thrives on pack mentality. In the More Than Two context, it’s about group energy and spectacle thats loud, physical, and messy.
It’s less about seduction and more about everyone feeding off the same volatile momentum.
KING 810 – La Petite Mort
Dark, ritualistic, and suffocatingly intense, this track brings shared obsession into the room.
“La Petite Mort” isn’t about numbers, it’s about proximity, tension, and everyone being pulled into the same emotional gravity well. In group dynamics, it plays like a slow psychological tightening, not a free-for-all.
In This Moment – Adrenalize Me
This is theatrical dominance in surround sound. Maria Brink commands the room, and everyone else follows willingly.
This song thrives on collective submission energy and rhythm rather than one-on-one exchange. It’s controlled chaos and consent.
Camp, Sleaze And Kink
Sometimes sex is absurd, hilarious, and filthy fun. These are the songs for when you’re laughing and moaning at the same time.
GWAR – Sexecutioner
Only GWAR could make grotesque lust into pure theater. The “Sexecutioner” persona is sleazy, filthy, and absurd, turning sex into a cartoonishly over-the-top spectacle. Equal parts funny and shocking, this track is less about seduction and more about celebrating metal’s raunchiest camp.
White Zombie – More Human Than Human
The cinematic porno sample on our metal sex list? Hell yes! Iconic. Rob Zombie’s sleazy groove and the Café Flesh audio snippet turned this into a ’90s sex anthem for metalheads.
Korn – A.D.I.D.A.S.
All Day I Dream About Sex. Korn made it campy, nu-metal, and strangely irresistible. A whole generation of mall-rats took this to heart.
Mindless Self Indulgence – Get It Up
“Unhinged, chaotic, and impossible to ignore. Get It Up cranks the temperature and the tempo. This is where teasing ends and full-tilt energy takes over.”
Danzig – She Rides
Glenn Danzig channels Elvis in hell with this slow, grinding ode to seduction. Pure, swaggering bedroom doom.
Wednesday 13 – I Love to Say Fuck
Filthy, funny, and gloriously self-aware. Wednesday 13 turns profanity into foreplay, sneering through every verse with a punk’s grin and a stripper’s swagger. It’s not about love or lust, it’s about the thrill of getting away with both. The perfect soundtrack for laughing your way through sin.
Steel Panther – Always Gonna Be a Ho
Hair-spray, leather, and pure bad decisions. Steel Panther’s ode to shameless indulgence turns sleaze into a sing-along. It’s all spandex swagger and winking depravity. The kind of track that makes you laugh mid-thrust and keep going anyway. Proof that not all sin needs to be serious.
Cattle Decapitation – Forced Gender Reassignment
This isn’t erotic in a soft-focus way, it’s confrontational power play energy. Brutal, transgressive, deliberately uncomfortable.
The appeal here isn’t arousal by prettiness; it’s the catharsis of surrendering to extremity, where taboo, control, and identity collision create an adrenaline spike.
This track belongs in kink spaces where trust is absolute and intensity is negotiated. It’s music as an emotional stress test, not background noise.
It’s not for everyone and thats exactly the point.
The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
Pure dominant swagger and kinetic release. The beat does the talking with relentless, physical, and unapologetically charged energy.
In a kink context, this track thrives on role play, bravado, and mutual consent. It’s sweaty, cocky, and built for moments where power is theatrical, playful, and fully understood by everyone in the room. It’s control with a smirk.
Ritual Lust
When desire feels less like a hookup and more like a ceremony. Sacred, profane, and dripping in blood and ecstasy.
Celtic Frost – A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh
Avant-garde doom drenched in ritualistic lust. Tom G. Warrior makes apocalypse sound seductive, crawling and crawling until it devours.
Moonspell – Vampiria
Gothic romance with fangs. Moonspell makes lust sound like a curse whispered in candlelight. Velvet, venom, and yearning wrapped in ritual. Every chord bleeds seduction, the kind that feels both dangerous and divine. This is where desire sleeps in a coffin and still looks beautiful.
Dissection – Elizabeth Bathory
A frozen hymn to eternal hunger. Dissection’s take on the Blood Countess drips with aristocratic depravity, beauty and violence entwined. The riffs shimmer like candlelight on crimson, turning murder into ceremony and lust into legend.
Krisiun – Ritualized Orgasm of Blasphemy
Leave it to Brazilian death metal titans to make an orgy sound like a demonic ritual. With its blasting fury and blasphemous imagery, this track is less about passion and more about excess — a chaotic soundtrack to lust pushed past human boundaries. Over-the-top, obscene, and perfect for rounding out the extreme end of this playlist.
Septicflesh – The Vampiric Ritual Song
Straight from A Fallen Temple, this is one of the most overtly erotic tracks in extreme metal. With symphonic grandeur and guttural menace, Septicflesh summon images of vampires locked in blood-soaked ecstasy. It’s carnal, ritualistic, and dripping with lust, a perfect union of sex, death, and the supernatural.
Behemoth – The Typhonian Soul Zodiack
Off The Satanist, this is Behemoth at their most erotic and occult. The lyrics invoke Lilith, the sex-demon mother, in a swirl of ritual lust and darkness. It’s not “romantic” by any stretch, but it’s a carnal, forbidden hymn that proves metal has never shied away from sex, power, and the unholy.
Ghost – He Is
A hymn disguised as a love song, or vice versa. Tobias Forge sells the idea that worship and desire are the same act. It’s sensual, devout, and eerie in equal measure. Your divine afterglow moment.
Cradle of Filth – A Gothic Romance (Red Roses for the Devil’s Whore)
This is vampiric desire rendered as ritual. Dani Filth’s lyrics lean hard into Victorian decadence that are florid, obsessive, and deliberately excessive.
He turns longing into invocation rather than confession. The song thrives on atmosphere with whispered menace, theatrical devotion, and a sense that desire here is something summoned, not acted upon.
Where seduction is symbolic, ceremonial, and drenched in gothic excess.
Doggy Doom
Slow, heavy, and relentless, doom riffs built for primal pounding. No frills, no finesse, just pure thrust until the floor shakes. Think of it as the official soundtrack to do it on all fours.
Electric Wizard – Funeralopolis
The sound of civilization collapsing under a cloud of bong smoke and sin. Every riff grinds like tectonic plates, turning sex into slow destruction. A dirge for the damned and the decadent alike.
Sleep – Dragonaut
That iconic opening riff feels like a crawl toward the altar. Massive, hypnotic, unhurried, it’s stoner doom at its most tantric. This is the rhythm of the grind, cosmic and provocative.
Candlemass – Mirror Mirror
This epic doom song gets seductive with its thick basslines and mournful crooning, transforming despair into lust. Every note hangs heavy in the air, like incense in a dark cathedral.
Eyehategod – Sister Fucker (Pt. 1)
The name says it all, pure sleaze in sonic form. Feedback, filth, and fury combine into something so wrong it feels delicious. You don’t make love to this; you survive it.
Grindcore
The soundtrack for horny Gen Z hook-ups who can’t last longer than a Napalm Death song. And the kicker? Napalm Death –You Suffer clocks in at 1.316 seconds, it’s basically the ultimate premature playlist pick.
AxCx (Anal C***) – All I Give a Fuck About Is Sex
Grindcore’s one-minute mating call. It’s crude, explosive, and over before you realize what hit you which might be the most honest sexual metaphor ever recorded. No romance, no prelude, just pure noise and nerve. Proof that lust and laughter can share the same blast beat.
Rotten Sound – Slaves of Lust
Thirty seconds of raw compulsion. The riffs don’t seduce; they attack, clawing their way under your skin until you’re panting just to keep up. It’s lust stripped diwn to raw instinct. Violent, hungry, and gone before you can catch your breath. The musical equivalent of teeth sinking in and then disappearing into the dark.
Internal Rot – Sex Everywhere
This is a great pick if you want high quality, blistering Australian grind. It’s less about “the act” and more about the overstimulation and omnipresence of sex in modern society.
Cock and Ball Torture – Sadochismo
This song is incredibly heavy, with pitch shifted vocals that sound more like a clogged drain than a human, but the themes are entirely centered on fetish and sex.
Brujeria – Chingo De Mecos
This song title translates to “Fuckload of Sperm,” and it’s a classic example of deathgrind with a provocative, street-level edge.
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Masters of Pleasure
For the ones who know exactly what they’re doing. They are deliberate, confident, and devastatingly skilled. Every touch is intentional, every move designed to make you unravel. These aren’t fumblers, they’re architects of ecstasy.
Motionless in White – The Seduction of the Crimson Kiss
Seduction dressed in latex and lipstick. Chris Motionless turns lust into theater, commanding every breath with a predator’s grace. The song pulses with cinematic tension with blood, beauty, and control colliding in perfect rhythm. It’s not romance; it’s ritual dominance, and you’ll thank it for the bite marks.
The 69 Eyes – Velvet Touch
Finnish sleaze done with elegance. Jyrki croons like a vampire who’s had centuries to perfect the art of seduction. It’s suave, dark, and utterly sure of itself.
KMFDM – Megalomaniac
Arrogant, slick, and strutting, the confidence of someone who already knows they’ll win. That stomping groove and cold precision make it the perfect closer for the “I’m in control” energy.
Madeaux – “Say It”
Metal isn’t the only genre that knows how to get dark and dirty. “Say It” is a sleek, shadow-soaked seduction piece from electronic artist Madeaux, and while it doesn’t have riffs, it drips with the same danger and desire as the heaviest doom track. His smooth, commanding voice and hypnotic beat create a slow-burn tension that feels downright ritualistic. It’s the moment between the storm of distortion where lust turns from primal growl to whispered devotion. Proof that sometimes the most metal move is to break the rules.
The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
The first lesson in control is knowing when to kneel. Iggy Pop turned submission into power, panting through distortion like he was teaching the world how to crave. Three chords, one command. Raw desire shaped into something deliberate. Every master started as a dog.
Future Filth / Moancore Mutation
When metal’s lust left the dungeon and crawled into the algorithm, it learned to moan in 4K. These tracks prove that the primal pulse still thrives, it just picked up a ring light.
XCORPSEGASM – “Body Count (Moan Mix)”
This is the Rosetta Stone of the moancore phenomenon. It started as a joke edit. A regular deathcore breakdown with a few breathy samples and a whispered “harder” dropped in for shock value but it caught fire on TikTok.
GlassGoddess – Lust.exe
Cybersex meets industrial metal. Metallic percussion and processed sighs twist together until you’re unsure whether to dance or confess. Desire rendered as code thats sterile, seductive, and strangely human.
DeathDealer’sWife – Suffocate Me Gently
A tongue-in-cheek panic attack of pleasure. Blastbeats stutter between gasps and whispers, like a hookup that doubles as an exorcism. Equal parts parody and possession.
NEONBLØØD – Choke Chain Symphony
Darkwave sensuality with drop-tuned menace. Whispered commands slice through synthetic fog; it’s ritual lust in binary form. Dominion and submission digitized.
LØVGRL – Heaven Bent
If Spiritbox and Grimes ever collaborated during a blackout. Ethereal vocals float over djent riffs, collapsing bedroom intimacy into neon-lit confession. The perfect closer for a list that’s half sweat, half circuitry.
From lustful doom to sleazy industrial grooves, metal has always flirted with sex. This is the definitive playlist of songs to fuck to. Sinful, sultry and heavy as hell.
Solo Descent (For When You’re the Whole Ceremony)
This section is for solo play. Yes, masturbation with slow builds, repetition and breath control.
Music that lets your mind wander and your body follow. Songs that don’t rush you, don’t demand climax on the clock, and don’t feel embarrassed about desire. Music that keeps its hands steady during nights when silence feels too loud. No witnesses, just gravity, self pleasure and release.
Anthrax – Invisible
If you like reading between the lines this song could be about self pleasure. The song opens by talking about retreating into a solitary, private space where no one else can see you.
“I’m feeling good, I’m feeling fine”: The repetitive focus on a physical sensation or a mood that is achieved alone.
Ozzy Osbourne – Degradation Rules
This song is a literal exploration of someone using adult websites to pass the time. It’s arguably the heaviest song ever written about masturbation.
Type O Negative – Christian Woman
Christian Woman is a song by Type O Negative included on their third album Bloody Kisses, released in 1993. Peter Steele’s basso profundo practically oozes sin. It’s doom metal foreplay: sacrilege, romance, and sweaty desire rolled into one Gothic hymn.
Rammstein – Pussy
“Pussy” is probably one of the most famous examples of a metal band leaning into themes of sexual tourism with zero subtlety.
The lyrics switch between German and English to mock the cliché of the German tourist traveling abroad just to find sexual release.
Author, curator and unapologetic degenerate: Lucien Drake, Metal Lair.
Got a track we missed? Drop it in the comments. We’re always open to… field research.
Author’s Note
Pop will flirt with you. Metal will drag you into the dark and make you feel something real. Every riff on this list proves that desire isn’t just soft light and breathy choruses, it’s sweat, danger, and surrender. Lust has always lived in distortion: in the feedback, the growl and the pulse that hits just below the ribs.
This isn’t background music. It’s communion for the body and the beast that drives it. Metal doesn’t ask for romance, it demands honesty.
For more genre blurring decadence, check out Decibel Magazine’s list Heavy Metal Love Songs: A Playlist