Classical Symphonic metal

[Shinji Ikari]

To paraphrase Wikipedia: symphonic metal is metal music which makes use of classical or orchestral elements. For example:

Nightwish


Within temptation


Xandria


And presumably many others! If you've got any to share dump them here

 

[paltatomate]

If you've got any to share dump them here

Just wait until I'm back on the laptop! This could become my favorite music thread.

This one is the easiest to find in acceptable video/audio quality. I'm not exactly a Dimmu Borgir fan, though I had that CD and almost went to that concert in Oslo.
The problem with this genre is that a small newcomer underground band can't afford to have a whole Orchestra playing at their concerts.
But modern technology and so on...

 

[paltatomate]

And when I saw Nightwish I remembered this one here:

 

[Shinji Ikari]

This isn't exactly metal, but I wouldn't know where else to put it. I guess you'd call it progressive chamber rock?

 

[paltatomate]

this band is listed as progressive metal, not symphonic, but this song might suggest differently because of the chrous

 

[paltatomate]

and because i like 閃靈, which is a taiwanese band, i found this one from korea

 

[pacoloco]

Set the World on Fire

By Symphony X

 

[pacoloco]

Just wait until I'm back on the laptop! This could become my favorite music thread.

This one is the easiest to find in acceptable video/audio quality. I'm not exactly a Dimmu Borgir fan, though I had that CD and almost went to that concert in Oslo.
The problem with this genre is that a small newcomer underground band can't afford to have a whole Orchestra playing at their concerts.
But modern technology and so on...

A classic I still revist (only while tweaking.. how memory persists..)

Gateways of consciousness

Choices are the only keyholders (I need to surrender or else I am doomed)

 

[paltatomate]

"I Am Sovereign"

Undo me
And feel no restraint
Undo me
Pain is wanting closure
Undo me
The mind it needs to rest
Undo me
I shall be restored

Perseverance doesn't mean anything
Unless it's for eternity
The real powers that'll ever be
Is freedom and liberty

Undo me
And feel no restraint
Undo me
Pain is wanting closure
Undo me
The mind it needs to rest
Undo me
I shall be restored

A lifetime worthy of awakening
Is a life worth transcending

We learn as we teach
We teach as we speak
We speak as we seek
We seek what we learn

Knowing when to end a journey
Is to recognize where it begins
What we really seek is not here
But on the other side of fear

 

[paltatomate]

Set the World on Fire
By Symphony X

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Heaven's a Lie by Lacuna Coil

 

[Shinji Ikari]

No Apocalyptica yet?




They do a lot of covers but they get away with it on account of the cellos.

 

[Hannah Capps]

I've loved her music since the split from Nightwish. My range is close to hers. Might cover one of her songs a cappella or with the piano and record it via my laptop sometime soon... I've been feeling very creative since I hit my 40s. My Winter Storm is just a classic. Best one she's done.