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    Posted: 21 Feb 2011 at 1:07am
I am really into the epics of metal - those tracks that are 10 minutes or more full of many killer riffs and lead breaks. I kind of collect them so I hope this thread introduces me to some new ones.
 
Let's go for the obvious here first
 
perhaps my fave Maiden ever
 
 
 
 
 
 
and this classic that still gives me the chills, incredible blast of riffs and a gargantuan drumming sound, with those powerful vocals!
 
 
 
and this amazing epic
 
 
and of course the mega blasts of prog excess here! Listen to the whole thing!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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DANTE'S INFERNO

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For sure. One of the first metal epics I think I heard, and I still have yet to hear one to top it. It's not immediately diverse, but it's probably Meshuggah's most musically experimental work yet (besides that noise at the end of Elastic).
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Well there can be only one:


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^^^ I have that album - its fantastic! I am loading the Meshuggah now - thanks post above! 
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^oh well there�s this one too of course:



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My favorite track in music.
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Fantastic songs above - definitely!
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Dream Theater in general

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Crimson by Edge of Sanity! Best death metal epic ever, IMO. Also Octavarium, Six Degrees, and the Perfect Element.


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Aside from many already mentioned I add these three:

Haken - Celestial Elixir



Аркона - На моей земле



Epica - Kingdom of Heaven



Anubis Gate - Options - Going Nowhere




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^Haken is amazing.
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One of the best Opeth songs - almost all of them are epicsWink


One of the greatest prog metal epics.



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"In Death is Death" and "I" by Meshuggah

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I am loving those above tracks, never heard many of them and they are all incredible!
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Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

I am loving those above tracks, never heard many of them and they are all incredible!


have you heard this one?


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I have some great epic long tracks that are longer than ten minutes:
 
In the Wood... - Yearning for the Seed of the New Dimension
 
Bathory - Shores in Flames and Twilight of the Gods
 
In the Woods... - 299 796 km/s
 
Pelican - March Into the Sea (over twenty minutes)
 
Meniscus - Mother (instrumental/blending ambient music with metal)
 
Battleroar - Finis Mundi
 
Atlantean Kodex - Pilgrim


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More:

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons


Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy


Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence


Rebellion - Husbandry in Heaven (you'll only watch to try this one out if you like or at least can tolerate Shakespeare)


Ayreon - The Fifth Extinction

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Well it�s kind of a mini-epic but the title track from Diary of a Madman by Ozzy Osbourne should also be mentioned IMO:


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Oh and of course Black Horsemen by King Diamond. Again a mini-epic:


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