The present invention provides a rubber composition for a tire tread which can prepare a tire having improved grip properties under conditions of a high temperature, and a pneumatic tire comprising the same.The present invention relates to the rubber composition for a tire tread containing more than 5 parts by weight of a basic antioxidant based on 100 parts by weight of the diene rubber components, wherein a metallic compound is a metallic compound comprising (1) a metallic salt of an organic carboxylic acid or (2) an inorganic metallic salt and an acid, and the pneumatic tire having a tire tread comprising the same.