Favorite Ballads?

[waif]

Woa, I thought you were gone...

 

[Satanstoenail]

Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Secret Sphere - Twilight Of Fairy Tale

 

[Belligerent]

Anathema - One Last Goodbye
Amorphis - My Kantele

How did I miss these two? One Last Goodbye is dripping with emotion. Thats why Danny Cavanaugh's songwriting is so brilliant.

 

[Hypnos]

how could i forget 'Final State, part III' from Unmoored?!?

 

[waif]

Gun Barrel - Gone With The Wind

 

[Einherjar86]

Virgin Steele- Gate of Kings

 

[paul545]

So let's start this thread up again. Post your favorite metal ballads - and I'm up for a pretty loose definition of what counts as a ballad. Also repost things already in here if you want because I don't feel like looking back though the entire thread. And post a video so we don't have to look it up.

I'll go first.

Symphony X - Candlelight Fantasia

 

[arg]

 

[Master_Yoda77]

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i'll edit in a list of my favs later.

 

[Burkhard]

 

[CF87]

Take These Chains is one of my favorite JP songs, but I have not really listened to their back catalog in ages. I listen to Screaming For Vegeance once in awile.

 

[Omni]

The 1970s Judas Priest ballads.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

My favorite Priest track ...

 

[RedStorm]

no

 

[EspaDa]

Dreamer Deceiver of course. One of fav tracks forever.

 

[Baroque]

Are any of these actual ballads?

Classically, ballad form is AABA form. In popular music ballad refers to a love song. So I don't think Fade to Black or many others here count. I think Sweet Child of Mine does.

I'll go with Ozzy - Mama I'm Coming Home

 

[EspaDa]

I don't know how could Dreamer Deceiver be classified as if not as a ballad.