Your dream Symphony X show

[SymphonyXV]

I have never seen Symphony X but always imagine what my dream show would be of theirs.

Opening acts After Forever and Epica

My set list would be
1. Entire V album from front to back (with a live orchestra, choir and a huge screen behind the band playing computer animations inspired by the album artwork, kind of like a movie.)
2. Through the Looking Glass
3. Of Sins and Shadows
4. Out of the Ashes
5. Sea of Lies
6. Smoke and Mirrors

Encore:
1. Church of the Machine
2. Divine Wings of Tragedy (the 20 minute song)

If this happened, it would be the greatest thing I would have ever seen.

ps. sorry if this thread had already been made. This is my first post on a forum!

 

[Postulate]

Encore: Shades of Gray, with massive audience sing-a-long of course...

 

[Phanto]

Opening acts After Forever and Epica

comedy gold

 

[TheRelic]

Oculus ex Inferni
Set The World On Fire (The Lie of Lies)
The Relic
The Haunting
Paradise Lost
Smoke & Mirrors
Sea of Lies

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The Odyssey

 

[Phanto]

Okay, my dream Symphony X show:

2 acts at a luxurious seated venue with no opening bands and a live orchestra.
Age limit: 20+.

ACT I:
1| Pompous intro mumbo-jumbo written exclusively for this performance 01:00
2| Absence of Light 04:59
3| Awakenings 08:20
4| The Accolade 09:51
5| Rediscovery I 01:25
6| Rediscovery II 11:57
7| The Walls of Babylon 08:16
8| Through the Looking Glass 14:09

ACT II:
1| Candlelight Fantasia 06:45
2| Communion and the Oracle 07:45
3| Egypt 07:05
4| Sonata (orchestra only - "interlude") 01:27
5| The Odyssey 24:07
6| Lady of the Snow 07:07

Encore:
The Accolade II 07:06

 

[DoomsdayZach]

comedy gold

I thought the same thing... wasn't this supposed to be a dream show?

actually, OP's setlist was pretty sick. I like it. Just the opening bands have to be WAAAAAAY better. Preferably not girly crap



(i'm just flippin' shit, i honestly don't spend any part of my day thinking about those bands, nor do I care if other people like them. Welcome aboard!)

 

[EyeballKid]

An Evening With Symphony X:

Set 1:
Oculus Ex Inferni
Set the World on Fire
Inferno
Wicked
Communion and the Oracle
Egypt
Smoke and Mirrors
The Damnation Game
Domination
Through the Looking Glass
Sins and Shadows

HALF HOUR BREAK ft. massive video screen projecting an animated/motion capture original short film written by Neil Gaiman, inspired by and set to "The Divine Wings of Tragedy" (narrated by Christopher Lee)

Set 2:
The Accolade/The Accolade II
Out of the Ashes
The Serpent's Kiss
Paradise Lost
Eve of Seduction
Dressed to Kill
Awakenings
The Odyssey

Encore:
Death of Balance/Lacrymosa
Absence of Light
A Fool's Paradise

 

[SymphonyXV]

Okay, my dream Symphony X show:

2 acts at a luxurious seated venue with no opening bands and a live orchestra.
Age limit: 20+.

ACT I:
1| Pompous intro mumbo-jumbo written exclusively for this performance 01:00
2| Absence of Light 04:59
3| Awakenings 08:20
4| The Accolade 09:51
5| Rediscovery I 01:25
6| Rediscovery II 11:57
7| The Walls of Babylon 08:16
8| Through the Looking Glass 14:09

ACT II:
1| Candlelight Fantasia 06:45
2| Communion and the Oracle 07:45
3| Egypt 07:05
4| Sonata (orchestra only - "interlude") 01:27
5| The Odyssey 24:07
6| Lady of the Snow 07:07

Encore:
The Accolade II 07:06

I would love to see this show but why does everyone have to be over 20? I'm 16 and I'm not gonna go and mosh and act stupid I would just sit down with my mouth shut and watch the performance.

And you guys really don't like Epica or After Forever? I enjoy they're music a lot they have great melodies in my opinion and well written songs. Just because their singers are girls makes them bad?

 

[Phanto]

The age limit is there cuz of the high amount of free strong alcohol being served the guests by naked nymphs. People under 20 can't handle alcohol without acting like assholes, and they irritate me. It's my dream Symphony X show. Also, smokers and people that smell strongly of perfume/cologne are banned. And mobile phones with cameras - make that any mobile phone or electronic device that has an illuminated display - are strictly prohibited. Anyone found sitting with a camera or something filming useless quality shit for their shitty CRaaazYm3TALman6666 youtube-channels are pulled back-stage and have their hands and dicks cut off. Then their blood is sprayed all over the audience as the show culminates and then Slayer takes the stage and plays Raining Blood.

After Forever is just plain bad music if you ask me. The band is bland and the singer is horrible (she also ruined a lot of Ayreon stuff). Epica has a couple of songs I actually don't mind listening to but there are so much better bands in the genre that don't rely on selling their music with a hot redhead singer. She should make pornos on the side and then the band could replace her with a better vocalist - everyone would be happier. Also the growling in Epica is some of the worst there is. Any potentially good song is ruined by some dude going "hurrp durrrp muuuuuurh" during a verse or something.

 

[EyeballKid]

It's my dream Symphony X show. Also, smokers and people that smell strongly of perfume/cologne are banned. And mobile phones with cameras - make that any mobile phone or electronic device that has an illuminated display - are strictly prohibited.

I want to make this an addendum to my above post.

Also, moshing to the following songs will result in immediate ejection: Communion and the Oracle, Egypt, Through the Looking Glass, Accolade I/II, Paradise Lost, Awakenings, The Odyssey, or either of the two "intro" numbers.

 

[Postulate]

Sure is progsnob in here. :|

 

[EyeballKid]

Sure is progsnob in here. :|

I'm not even slightly progsnob, I just hate idiots.

 

[Phanto]

Sure is progsnob in here. :|

Snobbery means you've got standards.

 

[Marwen]

^ Agreed.

Location: Some sort of big Greek/Roman theater with a live orchestra and a big screen.

1. Orchestral intro
2. Evolution
3. Fallen
4. Transcendence
5. Communion and the Oracle
6. Egypt

7. MJR plays some tasteful guitar accompanied by the orchestra

8. King of Terrors
9. Masquerade (the Odyssey's bonus version with the orchestral intro)
10. The Accolade II
11. Walls of Babylon

12. The Odyssey

Encore:
13. Paradise Lost

 

[Krowsnest]

Location: Some sort of big Greek/Roman theater with a live orchestra and a big screen.

1. Prelude a la V
2. Evolution to follow prelude, of course!
3. Through the Looking glass

4. After a short break (Looking glass deserves a break afterwards), Wicked
5. Inferno
6. A Fool's Paradise

7. another short break from 3 heavier songs, Accolade
8. Communion and the Oracle
9. Paradise Lost

break
10.. The Odyssey, of Course!

If there was to be an encore, I'd like it to be Revelation.
The ending with the angelic chorus would be a great way to close out the whole show.

 

[Postulate]

Snobbery means you've got standards.

Hey, I have standards...just not sure what they are...

 

[J-Dubya 777]

I'm not even slightly progsnob, I just hate idiots.

You got that right!
Count me in as well!

 

[Hiasubi]

The age limit is there cuz of the high amount of free strong alcohol being served the guests by naked nymphs. People under 20 can't handle alcohol without acting like assholes, and they irritate me. It's my dream Symphony X show. Also, smokers and people that smell strongly of perfume/cologne are banned.

Well im 19 and dont drink, cant stand the stuff, think it tastes nasty and would much prefer Mineral Water with a hint of Lemon and Lime, so your saying i shouldnt be allowed to go see one of my fav bands?

Mine would be (even though by Phantos rules i wouldnt get to see it) set at a huge hall with FULL orchestra.

Dream Act:

1. Specific Written Mumbo for the Show
2. Paradise Lost (straight into from 1.)
3. Sonta
4. Lady of the Snow

{Small Break}

5. Accolade II
6. The Walls of Babylon
7. Eve of Seduction
8. A Winters Dream I
9. A Winters Dream II

{Small Break}

10. Through the Looking Glass I, II, III
11. Edge of Forver
12. The Odyssey

Encore:
13. Revelation

 

[Phanto]

so your saying i shouldnt be allowed to go see one of my fav bands?

Not in my dream show you wouldn't. My dream remember? Not anyone else's. No political correctness or sympathy for others in my dreams. No sir-ee, Bob!

 

[Hiasubi]

Not in my dream show you wouldn't. My dream remember? Not anyone else's. No political correctness or sympathy for others in my dreams. No sir-ee, Bob!

I can invade your dreams at will!

Although in think its intersting how most people seem to have The Odyessy in there dream show, yet i always assumed as far as songs go out of DWoT and The Odyessy people prefered DWoT