Some of your favorite Anthems/Ballads

Burkhard said:
Nightwish - "Walking In The Air"
Nightwish - "Sleeping Sun"
Metal Church - "Watch The Children Pray" (semi-ballad)
Metallica - "Fade To Black" (semi-ballad)
Shadow Gallery - "The Queen Of The City Of Ice"
Dream Theater - "Space-Dye Vest"
Thanks I have now less to write :p (lazy)

Black Sabbath - 'Solitude'
Black Sabbath - 'Planet Caravan'
Black Sabbath - 'Lonely Is The Word'
Black Sabbath - 'Born Again'
Judas Priest - 'Before The Dawn'
Judas Priest - 'The Last Rose Of Summer'
Judas Priest - 'Close To You'
Thin Lizzy - 'Still In Love With You'
Thin Lizzy - 'The Sun Goes Down'
Thin Lizzy - 'Frankie Carroll' :worship:
Nazareth - 'Love Hurts'
Nazareth - 'Where Are You Now'
Nazareth - 'I Will Not Be Led'
Motorhead - 'Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me'
Riot - 'Santa Maria'
Riot - 'Inishmore'
Alice Cooper - 'You And Me'
Alice Cooper - 'Hard Hearted Alice'
Alice Cooper - 'Hell Is Living Without You'
Scorpions - 'Still Loving You'
Scorpions - 'Born To Touch Your Feelings'
Scorpions - 'Holiday'

etc. (still lazy)
 
Home sweet home - Motley Crue, everyone here knows the lyric on that one right?
Surprised that Savatage hasen't been up yet, they have a lot of power ballads that just kills like: When the crowds are gone and belive.

Nevermore with sanity assassin and matricide.
 
RIOT - Santa Maria, Inishmore trilogy, Cover Me, Rain, Bloodstreets, Let It Show...bwah, almost every ballad they've done ;)
ROYAL HUNT - Long Way Home
QUEENSRYCHE - Silent Lucidity
MANOWAR - Master Of The Wind
MALMSTEEN - almost any ballad
DREAM THEATER - Space-Dye Vest (the ultimate depression), Take Away My Pain
BLIND GUARDIAN - The Bard's Song, Lord Of The Rings
HELLOWEEN - A Tale That Wasn't Right
THIN LIZZY - Still In Love With You, Sarah, Southbound, Wild One
JAG PANZER - Unworthy
RAGE - Fading Hours, Wake The Nightmares
...and many more...
 
  • L.A.Guns - "The Ballad Of Jayne"
  • Cinderella - "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)"
  • Faster Pussycat - "House of Pain"
  • Enuff Z'nuff - "Fly High Michelle"
  • Cyndi Lauper - "Time After Time"
  • Ozzy & Lita Ford - "Close My Eyes Forever"
  • Opeth - "Credence"
  • Embodyment - "One Less Addiction"
  • Roky Erickson - "Burn the Flame"

:D
 
Megadeth: Time/The Beginning
Megadeth: A Tout Le Monde
Iron Maiden: Blood Brothers
Nevermore: Forever
Nevermore: Dreaming Neon Black
Nevermore: The Sorrowed Man
Nevermore: Insignificant
Iced Earth: Meloncholy
Kamelot: Don't Cry
Ozzy: No More Tears
Skid Row: I Remember You
Guns n' Roses: Don't Cry
Guns n' Roses: Estranged
Guns n' Roses: November Rain
Macbeth: Forever
Macbeth: Thy Mournful Lover
Children of Bodom: Bed of Razors
Blind Guardian: Harvest of Sorrow
 
Iced Earth - When the eagle cries (a bit of a patriotic ballad)
Metallica - Nothing else matters (If you want to call it a ballad)
Ozzy Osbourne - Goodbye to romance(Semi-balladic)
Elvenking - Skywards(well it's a ballad compared to other songs on the album)
Nightwish - Angels fall first
Opeth - Harvest(see elvenking - skywards)
 
Guns n Roses-Cival war
Pantera-Cemetery gates
Helloween-If I knew
Judas preist-Before the dawn
Halford-Silent screams
Black Sabbath-The sign of the southern cross
Twisted sister-Don't let me down, The beast, I'll never grow up now.
Crowbar-Still I reach
Rainbow-Stargazer
Dio-Heaven and hell
Pantera-This love, Floods
Guns n Roses-Patience
I love it man I swear to god, metal has never stopped being supreem in my eyes.
nothing has so much power and feeling like metal does, besides Blues, country, and Reggae, metal rules all!
 
Queensryche - The Killing Words
Crowbar - Planets Collide (not quite a ballad but close)
Nevermore - Insignificant
In Flames - Metaphor (I think I'm the only person in the world who likes this song)
Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde
Judas Priest - Beyond The Realms Of Death
Fates Warning - We Only say Goodbye
Dream Theater - Vacant
Pantera - This Love (Anti-ballad sorta)
Pantera - Cemetary Gates
Metallica - Fade To Black
Black Sabbath - Megalomania (semi-ballad)
 
Wyvern said:
And that one too (so is the Saxon version :D )

Saxon covered that song?!?! That's awesome...

Ballads:

Judas Priest- Better By You, Better Than Me
Kamelot- Don't Cry
Helloween- Forever And One
Lacrimosa- Halt Mich
Edguy- Land of the Miracle
Black Sabbath- Planet Caravan (Best Vegetating Song Ever)
Elvenking- Skywards
Scorpions- Still Loving You
Van Halen- Why Can't This Be Love
Iron Maiden- Wasted Years
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer- Still... You Turn Me On.
Mago De Oz- Molinos The Viento (Kinda)
Blind Guardian- Bright Eyes (Kinda)
Dio- All The Fools Sailed Away
Dream Theater- Space-Dye Vest
Guns N Roses- Sweet Child O' Mine
Opeth- Still Day Beneath The Sun


Anthems:

Dio- King of Rock N Roll
Quiet Riot- BANG YOUR HEAD (C'MON!!! BANG YOUR HEAD?!?! *spazzes*)
Rage- Set This World on Fire
Iron Maiden- RUNNIN' FREE \\m//
Accept- Balls To The Walls
Alice Cooper- No More Mr. Nice Guy
Avantasia- Avantasia
Blind Guardian- They've got a lot...
Children of Bodom- Needled 24/7
Judas Priest- Tons too...
Nostradameus- One For All
Queensrcyhe- Revolution Calling
Rhapsody- The March of the SWORDMASTER!! (and more)
Stratovarius- Learning To Fly
Venom- Black Metal
 
Favorite anthems:

Bleed - Angel Dust (not lyrically an anthem, but the sound is one)
Stand Up and Shout - Dio (several cool anthems by Dio kick ass)
Hemmorrhage (In My Hands) - Fuel Not metal but what a kick ass song !!
For Those About to Rock - AC/DC (several anthems by AC/DC kick ass)

Bryant
 
madcheese9377 said:
Thanks, I love it.
And Stratovarious rules.
I've gotta agree...what a great song...and such an obscure pick from Helloween. I had to go dig it out of the collection and spin it again...

Rock on!