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Free Metal Sound Effects

Clangs, scrapes, impacts, chains and industrial metal hits — over 350 free metal sounds in lossless WAV and MP3.

420 free metal sounds — growing every day

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Quick Metal Pan Scrape
1.5s · ★ 6.0
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Metal Stair Climb
4.0s · ★ 9.0
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109
Metal Trash Lid Slam
2.0s · ★ 9.5
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Comedic Metal Rattle
2.9s · ★ 9.0
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71
Metal Whisk Scrape
3.0s · ★ 10.0
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56
Metal Chair Scrape
2.0s · ★ 9.5
38
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Metal Toolbox Rummage
2.9s · ★ 9.5
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21
Metal Glass Car Crash
2.9s · ★ 9.5
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Metal Drawer Slam
2.0s · ★ 10.0
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Metal Sanding Strokes
3.0s · ★ 9.4
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15
Metal Bullet Ricochet
2.0s · ★ 9.6
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Metal Parry Block Impact
0.9s · ★ 10.0
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8
Heavy Metal Shield Lock
0.8s · ★ 10.0
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5
Metal Oven Door Thunk
2.0s · ★ 10.0
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5
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Metal Door Opening
3.8s · ★ 9.8
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1
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Metal Sword Parry
2.9s · ★ 8.5
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Heavy Metal Crash
1.6s · ★ 9.5
Medal Placement Clink
2.0s · ★ 9.0
144
Mail Slot Letter Drop
2.0s · ★ 9.5
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Oven Door Opening
2.0s · ★ 8.2
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128
Old Swing Sway Creak
6.0s · ★ 9.0
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34
Stepladder Unfold Lock
2.0s · ★ 9.5
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23
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2
Eerie Metallic Drone
6.0s · ★ 9.2
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305
Escalator Metallic Hum
6.0s · ★ 8.0
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292
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224
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207
Metallic Horror Riser
3.9s · ★ 9.5
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193
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189
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Metallic Hull Impacts
3.0s · ★ 8.0
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5
Ascending Metallic Riser
3.7s · ★ 10.0
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1
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Cellar Chain Drag
4.0s · ★ 9.0
263
Hacksaw Pipe Cutting
3.0s · ★ 9.0
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257
Gym Weights Clank
2.0s · ★ 9.4
250
Heavy Chain Drag
2.9s · ★ 9.7
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236
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228
Mailbox Squeak And Clang
2.0s · ★ 10.0
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220
Heavy Safe Door Slam
1.7s · ★ 9.5
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216
Golf Ball Cup Rattle
1.9s · ★ 9.8
211
Seatbelt Buckle Click
1.9s · ★ 9.0
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How editors use them

Metal is how you make something feel heavy, industrial or dangerous. A scrape is tension, a clang is finality, a chain is menace. Sci-fi and mech sound design is largely metal recordings pitched down and layered with a sub, and this is the deepest category in the library — which is exactly what layered design needs.

Metal Sound Effects — common questions

Are these metal sound effects free for commercial use?
Yes. Every metal sound in this library is royalty-free for commercial and personal work — monetised video, games, apps, podcasts, ads and client projects — with no fee and no royalties, under CC BY 4.0. The one condition is a credit to BudgetPixel AI; each sound page has the line ready to copy.
Do I need an account to download metal sound effects?
No. Search, preview and download any metal sound without signing up — all 420 of them. Each one comes as lossless WAV or MP3 at 44.1 kHz, and both formats carry the same free licence.
What if the exact metal sound I need isn't here?
Describe it and generate it. The free generator on this page makes a new metal sound from a text prompt in about fifteen seconds, up to ten seconds long, with no account. For longer or private results — or effects synced to your own video — use the BudgetPixel audio workshop; a free account comes with 300 credits a month.