Favorite Metal Epics

[S<issors]

^ Pretty self explanatory. I'm referring to individual epic songs here, not "epic" bands or albums (for example, "Nile" or "In Their Darkened Shrines" the album wouldn't qualify, but "Unas, Slayer of the Gods" or the "In Their Darkened Shrines" the song would.)

Some explanation would be cool, too.

 

[opeth_353]

Weakling's - 'Dead As Dreams'.

Me and a friend from America listened to it whilst under the influence.. And in his words "dude, that was something else".

It's just such a brilliant song - so complex and so perfect. There's nothing else quite like it.

 

[Alex78]

Psychotic Waltz - Into the everflow

reasons? it's beautiful

 

[soundave]

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

 

[BurningSky]

Stonehenge by Spinal Tap

..and oh how they danced

 

[MegaMoose]

"Unas, Slayer of the Gods" is an epic ripoff.

 

[WTF555666]

I would have to say "Troldskogen Faren Vild" from Ulver.

It starts out really nice, and it ends with a good amount of heavy riffs and nice solos.

 

[naboo]

I would have to say "Troldskogen Faren Vild" from Ulver.

Great choice.

Bathory - One Rode To Asa Bay (and so many other Bathory songs)
Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno
Nile - User-Maat-Re
Symphony X - The Odyssey and Through the Looking Glass
Summoning - Land of the Dead (all their songs are epic though)
Iron Maiden - Alexander the Great and Mariner
Immortal - Withstand the Fall of Time

There's so many others. Epics are the best songs.

 

[S<issors]

"Unas, Slayer of the Gods" is an epic ripoff.

Sorry, I must be slow... what's it ripping off?

 

[Tumn]

Edge of Sanity - Crimson I & Crimson II!

 

[Tubbs]

Bathory - One Rode To Asa Bay (and so many other Bathory songs)

Definitely!

Edge of Sanity - Crimson I & Crimson II!

Also definitely.

I'd also pick Cosmic Keys To My Creation & Times by Emperor and Det Som En Gang Var by Burzum. Right now I don't feel like sifting through my collection to look for more...

 

[naboo]

I'd also pick Cosmic Keys To My Creation & Times by Emperor and Det Som En Gang Var by Burzum. Right now I don't feel like sifting through my collection to look for more...

Shit! How could I forget Det Some En Gang Var? Best Burzum song ever.

 

[Graft]

since when any nile song is epic? wtf get a taste asap

 

[neuroticandroid]

faith no more - epic

 

[neuroticandroid]

had to do it, sorry

 

[Don Corleone]

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

somebody finally mentioned maiden, thank you dave!

or

iron maiden - hallowed be thy name

 

[FRUGiHOYi]

since when any nile song is epic? wtf get a taste asap

lol youre an idiot
go listen to annihilation of the wicked (album)

 

[antipunx13]

Had to mention Dream Theater - Change of Seasons.
Too lazy to think of more.

 

[Dalkaen]

I actually have a playlist entitled Metal Epics. It is as follows:

1. Forgotten Silence - Rostau (11:58)
2. Mastodon - Hearts Alive (13:40)
3. Enslaved - Storre enn Tid, Tyngre enn Natt (10:07)
4. Opeth - Ghost of Perdition (10:29)
5. Arsis - A Diamond for Disease (12:52)
6. Akercocke - Shelter from the Sand (10:41)
7. Cephalic Carnage - Ontogeny of Behaviour (9:50)

Really good stuff for the most part. Especially the Forgotten Silence and Enslaved tracks. The Crimsons are also good, but I felt they were too long to include on a playlist like this.

 

[Hypnos]

In The Woods... - Yearning The Seeds Of A New Dimension
In The Woods... - Omnio
Primordial - Gods To The Godless
Primordial - The Coffin Ships
Hollenthon - Eclipse (Vita Nova)
Bathory - One Rode To Asa Bay
Bathory - Blood And Iron
Therion - Siren Of The Woods
Iron Maiden - Revelation
Candlemass - Sorcerer's Pledge