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

 

[Hatebreeder]

5:00? That's it? I don't consider something an epic until it reached the 7-min. mark, though there are exceptions.

Wintersun - Sadness & Hate
Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence
Opeth - The Moor
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Dream Theater - Stream of Consciousness
Rhapsody - Sacred Power of Raging Winds
Sonata Arctica - The Power of One

Just the ones I got off the top of my head. There are plenty more.

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

Iron Maiden - Paschendale. It is actually a masterpiece, and I call hardly anything that.

 

[metal_wrath]

Opeth - The Moor

Opeth - When

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Bathory - Death and Resurrection of a Northern Son

 

[Hatebreeder]

Ah yes, I forgot a very important one.

Bathory - One Rode To Asa Bay

As soon as I heard this song, Bathory shot up to the top of my viking metal list.

 

[unknown]

^ definitely

also, Disillusion - The Sleep of Restless Hours

 

[DarkBliss]

Summoning-Khazad Dum
Dead Can Dance-Xavier
Phlebotomized-Mellow are the Reverberations

and plenty others

 

[Skepticism]

Agalloch-In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion

 

[Alongside Death]

Opeth - The Funeral Portrait
Opeth - Masters Apprentices
The Berzerker - Farewell (not a song)
Judas Iscariot - Where The Winter Beats Incessant
DownTheSun - Revelations (not a song)
Deed Of Flesh - The Endurance
1349 - Hellfire
Ahab - The Stream
Bathory - One Rode To Asa Bay

 

[Hatebreeder]

Summoning-Khazad Dum

Pretty much anything by Summoning is epic, even the two-minute intro on "Oath Bound".

 

[Solipsist]

Summoning- Nightshade Forests (and just about any song of theirs)
Aeternus- As I March (laid-back "epicness", the melodic intro is the best ever)
Arghoslent- Branding the Peon (catchy "epicness", the way the song gets faster as the song progresses is amazing)
Burzum- Beholding the Daughters of the Firnament (simple structure but exerts such a monumental, reflective "epicness")
Immolation- Unholy Cult title-track (best epic death metal track ever; the atmospheric guitar and drum section at the end is truly memorizing)
Sacramentum- Blood Shall be Spilled (the section with the triumphant guitar harmonization near the end really kicks ass everytime)
At the Gates- Within (simultaneous tremolo guitar and violin section near the end produces such a memorable epic outro)

I could go on and on... many, many great epic songs out there.

 

[unknown]

Agalloch-In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion

 

[DarkBliss]

Immolation- Unholy Cult title-track

Good one. My favorite Immolation song is actually the title track on Close to a World Below. I'm not a big fan of the album as a whole, but that song is amazing

 

[Nite_Maresz_25]

Opeth - Deliverance
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Metallica - Master of Puppets

 

[skeptik]

5:00? That's it? I don't consider something an epic until it reached the 7-min. mark, though there are exceptions.

Epic has nothing to do with length.

 

[Hatebreeder]

Epic has nothing to do with length.

I know, I said there are exceptions, but for me, epics tend to be longer.

 

[skeptik]

your mom tends to be longer

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Lost Horizon - highlander
quite possibly the most challenging song for me to do vocally

 

[CF87]

You sing and also play guitar. You should form a power-metal band.


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2. Invoking Mother Dragon
3. Faires in Hell
4. The Wheelers of Ozz
5. Preachers of Apocaypse(now)
6. Beasts of The Fairly Tale Lands
7. Dragons Breath
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9. My Sword, Your Death
10. Dragon Vs Dragon
11. Faceless Dragon Rider
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