Favorite Epic songs??

[Braighs]

Is it really that hard to imagine?
I'll get around to some of them some time somewhere somehow.

 

[illidurit]

not hard to imagine, hard to justify

 

[Braighs]

well it's easy for you to justify about any of YOUR actions or lack of

 

[Liquid Diamonds]

I haven't heard any of those.

Shamefully, I will put my hands up and say I haven't either. But it's cool, because I now have a whole list of songs in front of me that are more than likely to be worth checking out, so I will do so. Cheers, NFU, and to everybody else who has recommended in this thread. I LOVE epic music.

Also, I always think of 'High Hopes' by Pink Floyd as a pretty epic song.

 

[biggsy]

Blatantly ignored the rest of the thread but I'm thinking Isis - The Beginning and the End.

 

[Led Opeth]

Faith No More - Epic........lol

 

[:Wreath:]

Blatantly ignored the rest of the thread but I'm thinking Isis - The Beginning and the End.

actually, you're on to something there

 

[Pethical]

i'd say 'carry' more so than 'the beginning...', especially the volume swells at the start. really nice stuff. but basically that whole album yeah

 

[soundave]

Here's a guilty pleasure:

Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno

Maiden Epics:

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Alexander the Great
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Ghost of the Navigator
Paschendale

 

[Kir-ir-Bannog]

erm.....from what i understand epic means heroic, so if we go by that definition:

Led Zeppelin - Battle Of Evermore / Achilles Last Stand

If we take it in the sense that it is music "surpassing the ordinary in scope or in size" then (an odd mix):

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb / Echoes / One Of These Days
Opeth - BWP / The Moor
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Metallica - Orion
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour / Dreaming Neon Black
Type O Negative - World Coming Down / Wolf Moon / Anesthesia
Black Sabbath - Spiral Architect
Vangelis - Bladerunner
My Dying Bride - Crown Of Sympathy
LTJ Bukem - Music / Demons Theme
The Aphex Twin - Heliopsphan
The Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea
Fear Factory - Resurrection

 

[Keith!]

Here's a guilty pleasure:

Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno

Maiden Epics:

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Alexander the Great
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Ghost of the Navigator
Paschendale

Why would you consider Dante's Inferno a guilty pleasure? It's a fucking great song. Some killer thrash riffs imo iyo.

 

[NFU]

it doesnt get more guilty than iced earth. unless its a band that metal wrath also enjoys avidly. i.e. thy serpent or j-power metal bands.

 

[gatedropper]

Sweet Jane Intro and song off of the live album.

 

[Commence Destruction]

Also, I always think of 'High Hopes' by Pink Floyd as a pretty epic song.

+1000000

 

[saut]

close to the edge (i get up i get down, cmon it doesnt get any better)
enslaved - reogenesis (the end is rediculously epic imo)

 

[biggsy]

i'd say 'carry' more so than 'the beginning...', especially the volume swells at the start. really nice stuff. but basically that whole album yeah

That would be a very good choice as well. I think Carry is the song the yelling vocals work best with. And the drums sound incredible!

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

it doesnt get more guilty than iced earth. unless its a band that metal wrath also enjoys avidly. i.e. thy serpent or j-power metal bands.

imo earlier iced earth (mainly night of the stormrider and especially burnt offerings) are not guilty pleasures. good albums

 

[NFU]

imo earlier iced earth (mainly night of the stormrider and especially burnt offerings) are not guilty pleasures. good albums

that is most unfortunate.

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

probably i would say the same if i heard the albums for the first time now but ahhh ... the childhood memories. i was so into these albums like umm ... eight years ago ...

 

[Ermz]

Emperor - Towards the pantheon (the rare instance where I'll actually concede that shit production aids a song)

Zyklon - Zycloned (just for that industrial middle section..)
Zyklon - An Eclectic Manner

Decapitated - Poem about an Old Prison Man (3:03.. fuckin love that part)

Blut Aus Nord - Procession of the Dead Clowns

Raison D'etre - The Empty Hallows

Machinae Supremacy - Endgame

Meshuggah - Elastic (not sure if I'd call it epic... but it has a very... powerful and somewhat uplifting vibe to it.. )