Name the best 10min+ epic song

DevotedWalnut · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:28 am

+1 to ganeesh

does anything from the first Black Sabbath album count? like: A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning and the just under 10 minute Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Basically/NIB ???

if they count, then they are on my list.

Dago · **Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:54 am

Nocternity - Secret Ayra (the key)

Silentfartass · **Posted:** Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:04 pm

No one mentioned MoonSorrow!?!?!??!?!?!?! :blink:

North From Here · **Posted:** Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:40 pm

I will mention Moonsorrow! I'll keep this to one selection per band, otherwise I'd be here all day. Yeah, I know, a couple are in the 9:30ish range.

Black (and post-black)
Moonsorrow--Jäästä Syntynyt / Varjojen Virta
Negura Bunget--Cel Din Urmă Vis
Thy Catafalque--Szervetlen
Enslaved--793, The Battle of Lindisfarne
Nocternity--Secret Ayra (the key)
DsO--track 1 from Kenose
Lunar Auroa--Gluck
Nokturnal Mortum--Taste of Victory
Drudkh--False Dawn
Burzum--Det Som En Gang Var
Walknut--Motherland Ostenvegr
Forgotten Tomb--House of Nostalgia
Limbonic Art--In Mourning Mystique
Darkestrah--Epos
Ihsahn--Undercurrent
Altar of Plagues--Earth
Opeth--Black Rose Immortal
Solstafir--I Myself the Visionary Head
Agalloch--She Painted Fire Across the Skyline

Doom
My Dying Bride--Edenbeast
Cathedral--The Garden
In the Woods--299 796 km/s
Anathema--We, The Gods
Katatonia--Dance of December Souls
Evoken--Accursed Premonition
Dolorian--Raja Naga
Umbra Nihil--Shields Down
Esoteric--Stygian Narcosis
Arcana Coelestia--Duskfall
Unholy--For the Unknown One

Death
Edge of Sanity--Crimson
Nile--Unas
Morbid Angel--Invocation of the Continual One
Akercocke--Sheltering Sands
Deeds of Flesh--The Endurance
Incantation--Unto Infinite Twilight

Prog/Power
Blind Guardian--And There Was Silence
Edguy--Pharaoh
Iron Maiden--7th Son
Symphony X--The Odyssey
Iced Earth--Dante's Inferno
Therion--Via Nocturna

Prog Rock
Hawkwind--Assassins of Allah
Yes--Close to the Edge
Tool--Lateralus
ELP--Karn Evil 9
Pink Floyd--Sheep
King Crimson--Starless
Anekdoten--Book Of Hours

Enough...I'm sure I am forgetting lots of great ones, but I am spending all day doing this.

Cenotaph · **Posted:** Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:59 pm

EdgeOfForever wrote:

My favourite is Light of Day, Day of Darkness by Green Carnation, it's so good it's scary.

That. Absolutely amazing epic.

Honourable mentions:

Burzum - Det Som En Gang Var
W.A.S.P. - The Great Misconceptions Of Me
Symphony X - The Accolade
Mike Oldfield - Crises
Agalloch - Falling Snow
Queensrÿche - Suite Sister Mary

Kathaarian · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:19 am

Cenotaph wrote:

EdgeOfForever wrote:

My favourite is Light of Day, Day of Darkness by Green Carnation, it's so good it's scary.

That. Absolutely amazing epic.

YES!

heatseeker · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:34 am

Converge--Jane Doe
Mastodon--Hearts Alive
Dream Theater--Metropolis Pt. 1
Yndi Halda--Illuminate My Heart, My Darling
GY!BE--Antennas to Heaven
The Mars Volta--Cassandra Gemini

Aaaaand tons more.

P.s. lotsa good recommendations in this thread.

Orion · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:20 am

Lots of good songs listed here. I'll add one.

Theocracy - Mirror of Souls

Adam · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:30 pm

Doom is, of course, chock full of 10+ min epics:

Sleep - Dopesmoker
Monolithe - I & II
YOB - The Great Cessation
Reverend Bizarre - Almost all of their songs
Cephalic Carnage - Halls of Amenti (yes, its doom)
Orthodox - Geryon's Throne
Electric Wizard - Weird Tales
Comatose Vigil - Narcosis
Evoken - Too many to list
diSEMBOWELMENT - The Tree of Life and Death
Corrupted - El Mundo Frio
Buried at Sea - Ghost
Esoteric - Almost all of their songs

and many more.

rio · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:07 pm

Kathaarian wrote:

Cenotaph wrote:

EdgeOfForever wrote:

My favourite is Light of Day, Day of Darkness by Green Carnation, it's so good it's scary.

That. Absolutely amazing epic.

YES!

Yeah, but it's cheating because it's really a load of much shorter songs that they couldn't be bothered sorting out into a load of different tracks.

Great "song", though.

North From Here · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:42 pm

rio wrote:

Kathaarian wrote:

Cenotaph wrote:

EdgeOfForever wrote:

My favourite is Light of Day, Day of Darkness by Green Carnation, it's so good it's scary.

That. Absolutely amazing epic.

YES!

Yeah, but it's cheating because it's really a load of much shorter songs that they couldn't be bothered sorting out into a load of different tracks.

Great "song", though.

Ok you guys, Light of Day has been getting far, far too much praise.

I deliberately left it off my list, and I believe I have the longest list so far.

Adveser · **Joined:** Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:26 am **Posts:** 2491

Dream Theater - Finally Free.

rio · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:44 pm

emperorblackdoom wrote:

rio wrote:

Kathaarian wrote:

Cenotaph wrote:

EdgeOfForever wrote:

My favourite is Light of Day, Day of Darkness by Green Carnation, it's so good it's scary.

That. Absolutely amazing epic.

YES!

Yeah, but it's cheating because it's really a load of much shorter songs that they couldn't be bothered sorting out into a load of different tracks.

Great "song", though.

Ok you guys, Light of Day has been getting far, far too much praise.

I deliberately left it off my list, and I believe I have the longest list so far.

I dunno, man, I normally spurn that gothy/progressive stuff like the plague, but some of the moments on LoD are spine-tingling... Some filler, too, for sure.

North From Here · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:37 pm

rio wrote:

emperorblackdoom wrote:

rio wrote:

Kathaarian wrote:

Cenotaph wrote:

EdgeOfForever wrote:

My favourite is Light of Day, Day of Darkness by Green Carnation, it's so good it's scary.

That. Absolutely amazing epic.

YES!

Yeah, but it's cheating because it's really a load of much shorter songs that they couldn't be bothered sorting out into a load of different tracks.

Great "song", though.

Ok you guys, Light of Day has been getting far, far too much praise.

I deliberately left it off my list, and I believe I have the longest list so far.

I dunno, man, I normally spurn that gothy/progressive stuff like the plague, but some of the moments on LoD are spine-tingling... Some filler, too, for sure.

Most of the riffage moments are very good, granted. However, I thought the primary vocalist was irritating, and the scat session by Synne Soprana (who I liked a lot in 'In the Woods') was terrible. Deathier vocals and about 10 minutes shaved from the filler would have made it an excellent album, instead of one I never make it all the way through anymore.

rio · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:54 pm

Speaking of In The Woods, Omnio is surely up there as one of metal's best epic songs.

Silentfartass · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:20 pm

emperorblackdoom has juste win all my internets of the month. Congratulation!!! :lol:

Tompa · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:55 pm

Blood Fire Death
Twilight of the Gods

Two great, epic Bathory tracks. Check them out.

Thrashtildeth · **Posted:** Thu Apr 29, 2010 5:40 am

emperorblackdoom wrote:

Yes--Close to the Edge
Pink Floyd--Sheep
King Crimson--Starless

This. And...

heatseeker wrote:

The Mars Volta--Cassandra Gemini

This.

huskerc7 · **Joined:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:58 am **Posts:** 17559

the mars volta - cicitraz ESP

khelek@metalreviews.com · **Joined:** Sat Dec 13, 2008 8:02 pm **Posts:** 214

A lot of great stuff has been mentioned already in this thread, some personal favs:

Dream Theater - Blind Faith
Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones)
The Doors - The End
Porcupine Tree - Russia On Ice
Karnivool - Deadman
Ayreon - Age Of Shadows
Threshold - The Art Of Reason
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys
Type O Negative - Black No. 1
Summoning - Land Of The Dead

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