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Dec 15, 2008 · Greatest Symphonic Metal Songs. 1. Amaranth. Nightwish. 2. Ice Queen. Within Temptation. 3. Ghost Opera. Kamelot. 4. Never Enough. Epica. 5. Gargoyles, Angels of Darkness. Rhapsody. 6. Warriors of the World United. Manowar. 7. Through the Fire and Flames. DragonForce. 8. Black Diamond. Stratovarius. 9. Domination. Symphony X. 10.
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- X Japan - Art of Life
- Sirenia - Riddles, Ruins & Revelations
- Haggard - Eppur Si Muove
- The Young Gods - L’Eau Rouge
- Aesma Daeva - The Eros of Frigid Beauty
- Delain - Lucidity
- The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
- Avantasia - The Metal Opera
- Labyrinth - Return to Heaven Denied
- Bal-Sagoth - Starfire Burning Upon The Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule
In the early 90s, X Japan (née X) were at their height of popularity. With fame and fawning came limitless self-indulgence. Band leader Yoshiki purchased a Hollywood recording complex and dug into his Scrooge McDuck-ian vault to hire London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to join him on Art Of Life’s two-year-long recording journey. Rife with everyt...
Pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a symphonic metal band, Sirenia’s 10th studio album Riddles, Ruins & Revelations embraced the darker side of the human psyche, as themes of addiction and declining mental health took centre stage in this sprawling epic. The Norwegians welcomed huge, melodic death metal elements to an already bustling pa...
Asis Nasseri has overseen Haggard’s development from early 90s prog-death hopefuls to an extraordinary chamber orchestral metal collective, employing oboe, clarinet, flute, kettledrum and crumhorn. With an impressive 28 credited musicians, their third album Eppur Si Muove – based around the life of Italian astronomer Galileo – was an undertaking as...
No one has ever made symphonic metal quite like Geneva’s The Young Gods. If their self-titled debut album’s looped samples of classical music and barbed riffs instigated a cataclysmic new dawn for heavy music, the follow-up was stealthier yet no less devastating. From La Fille De La Mort’s invoking of molten new landscapes from the most pastoral of...
A collective masterminded by obsessive leader/boundary-pusher John Prassas, this Minnesota-based ensemble were unique for a number of reasons, their combination of avant-garde metal with gilded chamber music and modern classical being one of them. Aesma Daeva pushed additional buttons with The Eros Of Frigid Beauty’s use of drum programming, and fl...
Former Within Temptation keyboardist Martijn Westerholt intended Delain to be a studio project, but his ambitious vision melded cinematic orchestration and bombastic metal into an extravagant gothic symphony too good to be kept locked away. Appearances from previous bandmate Sharon den Adel and then-Nightwish bassist Marko Hietala helped Delain’s c...
Devin Townsend is no stranger to the kitchen sink approach. Such was the scope of the third album of his eclectic Devin Townsend Project venture, and the sheer volume of ideas crammed in, that the symphonic elements weren’t actually the headline act. But even with the Canadian’s eccentricity and humour doing their best to hog the limelight on Decon...
The brainchild of Tobias Sammet, this debut album from Avantasia featured a raft of top vocalists, including Michael Kiske of Helloweenand Sharon den Adel from Within Temptation, on a concept album based around the witch trials in Germany in the 16th and 17th centuries. The album lived up to the title, having a massive, almost Wagnerian approach th...
This Tuscany sextet lean more towards power metal than full-on symphonic metal, but their strength lies in how huge they make the traditional guitar/bass/drums/keys line-up sound. The speed and fluidity of Return To Heaven Denied nudged ahead of early Dragonforce and Sonata Arctica on the timeline, but their incorporation of classical guitars, keyb...
The Yorkshire black metallers suffered from horrendous technical issues on this second album, but it forced them to be inventive, and the result is one of the finest symphonic black metalalbums ever released. Not only was it inevitably brutal, they took inspiration from movie composers such as John Williams, turning towards the wildly imaginative a...
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May 9, 2023 · 5/9/23 Update: Added: #8: Beast in Black - Blade Runner #50: Xandria - Reborn #65: Beast in Black - Highway to Mars #70: Beast in Black - Midnight Rendezvous
- Mors Principium Est – “A Day For Redemption” I’m actually scratching my head as to why Mors Principium Est is not more popular than they already are.
- Fleshgod Apocalypse – “No” Despite being known for their signature sound that combines blistering technicality with a massive cinematic orchestra, I appreciate how Fleshgod Apocalypse manages to maintain their sense of humor.
- Ne Obliviscaris – “Intra Venus” Unfortunately their anticipated fourth album has been indefinitely delayed due to COVID restrictions, but I think we’re all looking forward to hearing Australian progressive metal favorites Ne Obliviscaris’ new material.
- Unlucky Morpheus – “Black Pentagram” Somehow, despite their songs routinely receiving hundreds of thousands of streams and their videos often breaking a million views, Japanese technical power metal prodigies Unlucky Morpheus are not well-known in the West.
Oct 12, 2020 · Rockstar Inc. 4.52K subscribers. Subscribed. 167. 9K views 3 years ago. Greatest Symphonic Metal Bands Of All Time Like Nightwish,Within Temptation And Epica Famous Symphonic Metal Bands...
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Feb 4, 2019 · published 4 February 2019. Epic albums that brought symphonic power into the metal world. For years, symphonic metal was the genre that dared not speak its name. With its fantasy themed lyrics and OTT orchestration, it was the soundtrack to the world’s most epic game of Dungeons & Dragons as scored by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber.
May 29, 2020 · 17. After Forever - Decipher. After Forever is another shining example of the genre. Well, with Floor Jansen on the vocals, you can't really have a bad album, can you? 16....
