Long songs.

[StandardToaster]

I'm looking for metal with long songs, like 10+ minutes, preferably with long instrumental parts. Repetition is fine, but i don't want anything boring.
I hope anyone can understand what i'm talking about here

 

[youdontknowme]

any doom/death will do

 

[StandardToaster]

any doom/death will do

Yeah, that's basically what i usually listen to. But thanks anyway.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow (the 2000 version)
Fates Warning - The Ivory Gate of Dreams
Planet X - Atlantis (live)

 

[StandardToaster]

Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow (the 2000 version)
Fates Warning - The Ivory Gate of Dreams
Planet X - Atlantis (live)

That should keep me busy for a while, thank you.

 

[Hypnos]

any Esoteric album
Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness
In The Woods... - Omnio

 

[autumnsoul]

Edge of Sanity:
Crimson
Crimson II

 

[mutantllama]

Iced Earth-Dante's Inferno

16 minutes

 

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Dream Theater . . . most of their songs aren't 10+ minutes, but there is no shortage of crazy solos.

Between the Buried and Me's Colors has a lot of long songs, not a ton of solos, but crazy technicality.

 

[Krow]

Iced Earth-Dante's Inferno

16 minutes

Damn you... I was gonna post this.

Epic.

 

[Lateralus14]

For just long and drawn out:
Esoteric
Deathspell Omega - Fas and songs from splits
Wolves in the Throne Room

For songs that are faster but just have a shitload of parts and are thus still long:
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Dream Theater
Opeth

 

[optionthree]

Agalloch. Also, if you get any Dream Theater, PLEASE make it one of the first three or four albums and not any of the boring wankfests since then.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

re: the above post, 'A Change of Seasons' definitely. I think it's easily one of their best songs and it's one of the longest they have. I didn't rec it before though because I feel like it doesn't have quite as much musical space in it as the others I mentioned..seems as if there are more vocal lines somehow. But definitely a good song to go for.

also maudlin of the Well - Birth Pains of Astral Projection

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

I also think, even though you're specific about metal here, you should also keep in mind some classic prog rock and fusion out there. When I need to take that kind of journey (which is often), I usually go there. It's a shame there aren't more long pieces within metal, but you can still find very musically, instrumentally challenging and atmospheric stuff within progressive and experimental rock-related music.

 

[Vimana]

Dream Theater.

 

[Doomguy]

Gojira's songs are usually pretty long. Check out the album From Mars To Sirius.

 

[sevag00]

Any Deathspell Omega song.

 

[Seditious]

first one which came to mind was Nargaroth's "Det Lys Aldri I Livet Orke".

15 minutes, entirely instrumental

 

[Seditious]

18:00 Wyrd - Rajalla
17:00 Månegarm - Hemfärd
15:00 Agalloch - In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion
14:00 Finsterforst - Sturmes Ernte
13:00 Wyrd - Ashes of Man and Oak and Pine
12:00 Wyrd - Rota
12:00 Finsterforst - Das Grosse Erwachen
11:00 Saturnus - I Long
11:00 Slechtvalk - My Last Call
11:00 Mgla - I (from the album Groza)
11:00 Mael Mordha - Atlas of Sorrow
10:00 Virgin Black - ...and I Am Suffering
10:00 Bathory - One Rode to Asa Bay
10:00 Agalloch - Limbs
9:00 Wyrd - Talviyö
9:00 Saturnus - Descending
9:00 Agalloch - Not Unlike the Waves
8:00 Vinterland - Wings of Sorrow
8:00 Pagan Reign - V Obyatiyah Ximy
8:00 Thyrfing - Från Stormens Öga
8:00 Falkenbach - When Gjallarhorn Will Sound
8:00 Falkenbach - Gjallar [instrumental]

and the whole albums:
The Womb of Primordial Nature by October Falls
Om by Negurã Bunget

 

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Agalloch. Also, if you get any Dream Theater, PLEASE make it one of the first three or four albums and not any of the boring wankfests since then.

Just get Scenes from a Memory, its their magnum opus.

But, I still like a lot of their newer stuff. Train of Thought is probably their heaviest album, and it has some good songs. I really like Octavarium, also. One lame song, and the song Octavarium is possibly my favorite song by them. Systematic Chaos was alright. I could never get into Six Degrees.