Favorite Epic songs??

[metal_wrath]

What are your favorite Epic songs??

By "Epic" I mean songs that are longer than 5:00 i guess, and that have that "Epic" feel to them and are awe-inspiring. Also try to describe the parts of the song that make you go

 

[Keltoi]

I would have to say Black Rose Immortal on Morningrise seems to fit the bill. What I like about this song, which I like about all "epic" Opeth tracks, is the instrumental interludes spaced throughout.

 

[Pethical]

Cult of Luna - Dark City, Dead Man

just love the moods it encompasses, the phenomenal repeating motifs especially in the last 5 minutes of the song, the amazing walls of sound that make time seem to stand still. its a 15 minute track that seems like its 2. just a beautiful piece of music and that entire album for that matter

 

[Jon Snow]

Rush - The Necromancer
Rush - The Fountain of Lamneth
Rush - 2112
Rush - Xanadu
Rush - Cygnus Books I and II
Rush - Jacob's Ladder

What makes me go is the music.

 

[Braighs]

Comus - Drip Drip
Arcturus - Shipwrecked Frontier Pioneer
Opeth - In Mist/Advent/BWP
Primordial - Fallen to Ruin
The Strawbs - The Life Auction
VDGG - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

they are all at least vague stories and they are moving.

 

[Effigen]

Blood Fire Death - Bathory. Not necessarily my favorite but still very powerful.

 

[Frosties]

Agalloch - In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion

The way the song progresses yet continues to keep the same themes, and the track just seems to get better and better.

 

[metal_wrath]

Nice to see a thread with only worthwhile posts. I will have to check out some of these songs that I haven't heard .

 

[:Wreath:]

just for you m_w: SHIT THREAD!






nah, juuuust kidding

so the one I can think of now would be: The Doors either 'The End' or 'When the music's over', the former for the wonderful build-up of tension and than a quiet down and the latter for the wonderful guitar (I think...) solo

 

[Heavenscent]

Rhapsody - Symphony of enchanted lands

Couldn't resist, sorry

 

[Tubbs]

Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

Still one of my favorite 1-song albums.

P.s. there's tons of songs longer than 5:00, maybe you should change it to 7:00 or more, because that's when I start feeling a song is "epic". But hey, you don't need to listen to me. I am an idiot, after all.

 

[Effigen]

+1

 

[My Arms, Your Purse]

Borknagar - Colossus
dont last 5+ minutes but I consider it my favourite song with an "epic" feeling

 

[worldwide_suicide]

lol

 

[worldwide_suicide]

Rush- Natural Science
Yes- Close to the Edge
Opeth- When
Sigur Rós- Glósóli

 

[sister ophelia]

Obviously one could name dozends of doom, black, viking, progressive etc. metal "epics" here, so I'll choose two songs from different genres for ya, namely:

1. Type O Negative - Unsuccesfully coping with the natural beauty of infidelity 12:39 - a bitter and hateful epic

2. Spock's Beard - The great nothing 27:01 - a truly beautiful epic

 

[Jon Snow]

Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks

 

[Commence Destruction]

Weakling - This Entire Fucking Battlefield
Mastodon - Joseph Merrick, Pendelous Skin
Buckethead - Machete

 

[Jon Snow]

Zeppelin - The Rain Song

 

[FUBAR]

Cult of Luna - Crossing Over

one of their mellower songs but also one of their most moving.