What metal songs have blown your mind?

[Woolie Wool]

What metal songs have you listened to that have completely blown your mind? Songs so epic, technical, atmospheric, intense, METAL, whatever, that they demand your rapt attention and leaving you thinking about them for minutes or hours afterward? This happens only once when listening to a certain song, but I find it to be the most rewarding experience in music listening. It's when music ceases to be music and becomes...an experience, or something.

Here are the songs that have done it for me:

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Dream Theater - Learning to Live
Arcturus - Hibernation Sickness Complete
Arcturus - Demon Painter
Iron Maiden - The Longest Day
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons (Live 9/4/93)
Dream Theater - Trial of Tears
Yes - Close to the Edge
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Megadeth - Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
Dream Theater - The Ministry of Lost Souls (their long songs tend to do this a lot)
Iron Maiden - The Legacy (Maiden's, too)
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
Judas Priest - Exciter
Arcturus - Fall of Man
Symphony X - The Accolade
Therion - Schwarzalbenheim
Black Sabbath - Lonely is the Word
Borknagar - The Eye of Oden
Iced Earth - The Phantom Opera Ghost

 

[BlackMetalWhiteGuy]

The choir near the end of Turisas's "The Dnieper Rapids" is so intense that it almost brings me to tears.

 

[Rhombus]

Yngwie Malmsteen - Crying
Solitude Aeturnus - Dream of Immortality
Sanctuary - Die for my Sins
Rush - Natural Science (I know it's not metal, but it's amazing)
Insomnium - The Killjoy
Candlemass - Under the Oak
Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Iron Maiden - Dream of Mirrors
Mors Principium Est - Parasites of Paradise
Nevermore - The River Dragon Has Come
Nuclear Assault - Brain Death

I'm sure I missed a few.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Bathory - The Lake
Bathory - Lake of Fire
Bathory - Broken Sword
Bathory - Flash of the Silverhammer
Benediction - Diary of a Killer
Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral
Black Sabbath - Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener
Cathedral - Utopian Blaster
Cathedral - Ultra Earth
Children of Bodom - Everytime I Die
Dimmu Borgir - Mourning Palace
Dimmu Borgir - Broderskapets Ring (2005 version)
Ministry - Bloodlines
Motorhead - Overkill
Nightwish - Over the Hills and Far Away
Nightwish - Wishmaster
Nightwish - End of All Hope
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Rainbow - Stargazer
Rainbow - Gates of Babylon
Rammstein - Engel
Rammstein - Sonne
Sonata Arctica - Weballergy
Sonata Arctica - Victoria's Secret
Stratovarius - We Hold the Key
Stratovarius - Twilight Symphony
Stratovarius - Father Time
Stratovarius - Glory of the World
Stratovarius - A Million Light Years Away
Therion - In Remembrance
Therion - Son of the Sun
Therion - Raven of Dispersion (mainly the chorus)
Type O Negative - Creepy Green Light
Type O Negative - Tripping a Blind Man
Van Halen - Jump
Within Temptation - The Dance


Many of those songs are what got me into metal, or at least got me interested in a particular subgenre of it.

And, of course, most of them led me to utter disappointment as I found the rest of the respective bands' discogs to be nowhere near as incredible.

btw Woolie, you have damn good taste in metal.

 

[EerieVon]

In no order whatsoever

Anthrax-Time
Metallica-Orion
Death Angel-The Ultra Violence
Fear Factory-Leechmaster
Slayer-Divine Intervention
Fates Warning-Ivory Gate Of Dreams
Iron Maiden-Flash of the blade
Suicidal Tendencies-How can I laugh tomorrow

 

[sevag00]

Dimmu Borgir - The Insight and the Catharsis
Dark Funeral - An Apprentice of Satan
Naglfar - Odium Generis Humani
Zyklon - An Eclectic Manner
Zyklon - Transcendental War - Battle Between Gods
Destruction - Curse the Gods
Myrkskog - Blood Ejaculation

 

[challenge_everything]

Apotheosis - The Maimed God
Enslaved - Reogenesis
Opeth - lots
Metallica - To Live is To Die
Emperor - With Strength I Burn
Agalloch - Hallways of Enchanted Ebony and Fire Above, Ice Below
Windir - Heidra
Steve Vai - For the Love of God
My Dying Bride - The Cry of Mankind
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Tool - Pushit
Ne Obliviscaris - Forget Not
Anathema - One Last Goodbye

 

[Melodeath]

Mournful Congregation - Mother - Water, The Great Sea Wept
Mournful Congregation - As I Drown In Loveless Rain
Mournful Congregation - When the Weeping Dawn Beheld Its Mortal Thirst
Mournful Congregation - The Monad of Creation

Every time I listen my mind is blown anew. I must have listened to this album at least 20 times.

 

[Andromidius]

Amputated - Gargling With Infected Semen

~Andromidius

 

[Hypnos]

Primordial - Gods To The Godless
Primordial - The Coffin Ships
Alchemist - Tide In Mind Out
Opeth - Karma
Agalloch - The Great Cold Death Of The Earth
Anathemy - A Dying Wish
My Dying Bride - Cry Of Mankind
Hollenthon - Eclipse (Vita Nova)
Dornenreich - Trauerbrandung
Nevermore - The River Dragon Has Come
Nevermore - Born
Candlemass - Samarithan
Solitude Aeturnus - Eternity (Dreams pt. II)

 

[rattlematt]

Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

the riff, the vocals, the whole atmosphere... really sounds incredible the first time you hear it.

 

[Zephyrus]

Arcturus - Evacuation Code Deciphered
Aborym - With No Human Intervention
Anaal Nathrakh - The Supreme Necrotic Audnance
Anorexia Nervosa - A Doleful Night in Thelema
Blacklodge - Angels Refinery
Borknagar - Nocturnal Vision
Deathspell Omega - Kenose III
Emperor - Ensorcelled By Khaos
Limbonic Art - Pits of the Cold Beyond
Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia
Nachtmystium - Here's To Hoping
1349 - Nathicana

Death - Zombie Ritual
Morbid Angel - Maze of Torment

Electric Wizard - Wizard In Black
Electric Wizard - Dunwitch
Pentagram - The World Will Love Again

 

[IknowSATAN]

In Flames - Take this life
In Flames - Trigger
In Flames - Crawling through knives
Dimmu Borgir - Mourning Palace
Dimmu Borgir - In Deaths Embrace
Dimmu Borgir - Burn in Hell
Dimmu Borgir - Progenies of the great Apocalipse
Dark Lunacy - Serenity
Soilwork - Song of the Damned
Soilwork - Downfall
Haggard - Awaken the Centuries
Haggard - The Final Victory
Rhapsody - The village of dwarves
Iron Maiden - The evil that men do
Iron Maiden - Fear of the dark
Cradle of Filth - Hallowed by the name
Cradle of Filth - Her ghost in the fog
Cradle of Filth - Nymphetamine
Metallica - Unforgiven
Metallica - Nothing else matters

 

[Nehebkau]

Novembre - Comedia [especially 3:31 to about 3:47]
Soilwork - Spirits of the Future Sun [the intro just... gets me every time]
Katatonia - Unfurl [very atmospheric, beautiful...]
Virgin Black - Our wings are burning [first time i listened to this i was hooked... and would have this on repeat for hours]
Dark Fortress - Baphomet [catchy as fuck, head banging, melodic black'n'roll]
Bloodbath - Eaten [the way Peter delivers the lyrics of... desecrate me, tear me limb from limb, eviscerate me, chew me to DEATHHHHH!!! and of course the chorus ]

oops... went a little overboard

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Black Sabbath - Megalomania. Ozzy sounds dememted, the layering of the vocals really give off an errie atmosphere.

Saint Vitus - Dying Inside. The best song about alcoholsim ever written if you ask me. The lyrics are so dead on it isn't funny.

Nyktalgia - Exitus Letalis. One of the bleakest, coldest (pun intended) most depressing songs ever.

Alice In Chains - Rain When I Die. Wow, just wow. The into is so creepy, the lyrics and vocals are incredible. Perfect song.

 

[waif]

Metallica - Orion
Iron Maiden - Paschendale
Dark Tranquility - Silence, And The Firmament Withdrew
Bathory - One Rode To Asa Bay
Bathory - Song To Hall Up High/Home Of Once Brave
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Avantasia - Reach Out For The Light
In Flames - Stand Ablaze

and many more...

 

[voodoo]

Soilwork - Spirits of the Future Sun [the intro just... gets me every time]

FUCK, yeah!!!

Dream Theater - Home, Caught in a Web, Metropolis, Octavarium
Opeth - Bleak, Blackwater Park, Demon of the Fall
Iron Maiden - Powerslave, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Hallowed be thy Name, Fear of the Dark, Ghost of Navigator, Wasted Years
Suspyre - Father of Hate, Distant Skies, The Singer, Last of the Survivors
Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making
Bathory - Odens Ride Over Nordland, A Fine Day to Die
Death - Symbolic, Bite the Pain, Scavenger of Human Sorrow, Empty Words
King Diamond - A Mansion in the Darkness, Magic
Mercyful Fate - A Dangerous Meeting, Into the Coven


That's all for now....

 

[rms]

as of right now..

Helstar - Burning Star


ALL HELL BURNING

STARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Contra dk]

Opeth - Demon Of The Fall, Ghost Of Perdition, The Moor and lost more.
In Flames - Stand Ablaze, Gyroscope.
Negura Bunget - OM (The whole album).
Emperor - Depraved, Empty.

can't think of anymore at the moment.

 

[waif]

Emperor - He Who Sought The Fire
Emperor - Beyond The Great Vast Forest
Venom - Countess Bathory
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Metallica - No Remorse