Favorite Ballads?

[mutantllama]

What are some of your favorite Ballads? Some of mine are Melancholy (Iced Earth), The Legacy (Testament) and Heart of Steel (Manowar).

 

[Blind Guardian]

Yeah Melancholy is superb.
Others:
Unmoored - Final State Part III
Opeth - Still Day Beneath The Sun
Morbid Angel - Desolate Ways
Metallica - Mama Said(yeah i mean it,fuck you!)

 

[Belligerent]

Would Testaments acoustic version of Return to Serenity be considered a ballad? I like that version better than the original.

I can't think of many right now. Although I will admit to liking many hair rock ballads.
Cinderella - Don't Know What You've Got Til It's Gone
Slaughter - Fly To The Angels
and the list goes on.

 

[mutantllama]

I guess it would count.

 

[Belligerent]

Good. Than chalk that one up.

 

[The Ozzman]

Dream Theater - Another Day

 

[Vegard Pompey]

^ This.

Also, would Iron Maiden's Infinite Dreams count as a ballad? It's kinda soft in the beginning, and one of my all-time favourite songs of any kind.

 

[SouthernTrendkill]

obligatory:

Cemetery Gates - Pantera
Fade to Black - Metallica

 

[Woolie Wool]

Dream Theater - Another Day

"Lifting Shadows off a Dream" is better.

 

[Caecius]

Testament - Return to Serenity (Favorite)
Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave
Hammerfall - Remember Yesterday
Iced Earth - Question of Heaven
Iced Earth - Ghost of Freedom
Metal Church - Anthem to the Estranged
Savatage - Not What You See
Overkill - The Years of Decay

 

[Caecius]

"Lifting Shadows off a Dream" is better.

I like "Another Day" better.

 

[ramses]

The Edge of Heaven-Candlemass
Paradise Lost-Symphony X
One For The Vine-Genesis
Jellyroll-Blue Murder (slightly cheesy, oh well-like it!)
New Moon Different Day-The Gathering
Travel-The Gathering
To Bid You Farewell-Opeth

 

[Zephyrus]

Ballads are unkvlt.

 

[King Richard]

Skid Row - I Reeeememberrr Youu!

 

[Element_man]

Fiddler on the Green - Demons & Wizards
Portals of Light - Falconer

 

[mutantllama]

Ballads are unkvlt.

This isn't black metal we are talking about.

 

[Personified Hatred]

Hypocrisy - Paled Empty Sphere
Diamond Head - Ishmael
Suicidal Hold - Suicide
Testament - The Legacy
Dark Tranquillity - Emptier Still
Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan
Metallica - Fade To Black

 

[Melodeath]

Does a ballad have to have vocals?

If it doesn't
Sinners Bleed - Invisible Knowledge is my favorite

 

[The Butt]

This isn't black metal we are talking about.

I think he was joking, man.

Consequences by Iced Earth (I consider it a ballad.)
Melancholy by Iced Earth
Everytime I Die by Children of Bodom
Angels Don't Kill by Children of Bodom
It's Alright by Black Sabbath
To Live is To Die by Metallica
Voices of the Dead by Kreator (Would this count as one?)

 

[waif]

Voices of the Dead is amazing, but it is in no way a ballad at all. Neither is Everytime I Die. Do you even know what a ballad is?

Pantera - Cemetery Gates
Metallica - Fade To Black
Metallica - Turn The Page - Metallica's cover of Seger, I know
Guns'N'Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine, November Rain, Dust'n'Bones (?)
Motley Crue - Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away), Home Sweet Home, The Show Must Go On
Edguy - The Asylum (?)
Manowar - Heart Of Steel (If this isn't on your list, it means you're gay)