I need more "epic" music

[apsham]

So yeah, been listening to Dragonforce a lot lately and when I'm bored I really like listening to songs like TTFAF. I know there's people around here who specialize in this kinda stuff, so fire away.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Try Blind Guardian, Hammerfall, Hammers Of Misfortune or Turisas.

Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side, Nightfall In Middle Earth

Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave

Hammers Of Misfortune - The Bastard

Turisas - Battle Metal

Edited February 28, 2008 by Master of the Intercloud

[Liam]

Alestorm 'Captain Morgan's Revenge'

Think Turisas, but with Scottish pirates!

[Dont Fear The Reaper]

Royal Hunt if you want Rhapsody-esque epic (minus the guitar wankery)

Dreamtale are quite good but they are more just catchy power metal than epic (they have their moments though)

Hibria are fucking awesome too.

There is a "totally legal" album out there called Absolute Power Metal which has a fair share of epic songs, so I suggest you "buy" it

[METALMAN]

These aren't metal but if you're interested:

Sigur Ros

Arcade Fire

Sufjan Stevens

A Bunny's Caravan

Jeff Buckley

Rufus Wainwright

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

I don't think I've heard anything more epic than Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Iron Maiden.

[DFF]

Try Blind Guardian, Hammerfall, Hammers Of Misfortune or Turisas.

Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side, Nightfall In Middle Earth

Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave

Hammers Of Misfortune - The Bastard

Turisas - Battle Metal

I'd generally agree with that list. Add a dollop of Iron Maiden's 'long' songs (for example, No More Lies, Nomad, The Clansman, Dream of Mirrors, Fear of the Dark, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Sign Of The Cross, Paschendale and maybe Dance of Death).

[stokeriño]

I hope you realise that I'm taking most of list on my mp3 player when I go to Paris tomorrow, so it had better be good.

[Cactus Drags]

You cannot go wrong with Iron Maiden.

[Cadet Ember McLain]

I'll add to the HammerFall love by suggesting Templars Of Steel, Natural High, and Last Man Standing. I doubly recommend Natural High.

[DFF]

A few others that came to me...

And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian

The Poet and the Pendulum by Nightwish (Choose if you like your metal with a dash of Tim Burton and a hint of Andrew Lloyd Webber )

Child In Time by Deep Purple

Seventh Son of A Seventh Son by Iron Maiden

Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf

Bad For Good by Meat Loaf

Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd

and for something a little different hows about trying...

Sucking My Love by Diamond Head (see where Metallica stole their riff for Seek And Destroy from )

In The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson (prog... rock... awesomeness. And it's long. And it's quite epic sounding in a 60's/70's produced kind of way).

[Farmer Reil]

Child In Time isn't epic, it's just really, REALLY long for no reason

As for epic:

Rhapsody of Fire (how haven't they been mentioned yet? They're the one band synonymous with 'epic', surely?)

Blind Guardian

Battlelore

Iced Earth

Hammerfall

Avantasia ('The Metal Opera' pts 1&2, anyway. 'The Scarecrow' isn't exactly epic. Still great though).

Symphony X

Nightwish

Wintersun

Edited February 29, 2008 by Farmer Reil

[Dont Fear The Reaper]

Luca Turilli's solo work (Kings of the nordic twilight and Prophet of the last eclipse) are great for epic cheese. Helloween's Keeper of the 7 Keys (Part 1) album is great also

[Bushmeister]

Summoning - try later records, like "Stronghold", "Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame" and "Oathbound"

Moonsorrow - any album from "Voimasta Ja Kunniasta" onward is so epic you should shit your pants

Hordes Of Yore - they're like Moonsorrow but from Portugal! Only one album out though

Immortal - "Sons Of Northern Darkness" has epic guitar parts galore. Also, "At The Heat Of Winter".

Einherjer - there's a ton of viking metal bands out there, throwing one out for show. "Dragons Of The North" and "Odin Owns Ye All" kick copious amounts of ass.

[apsham]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone, starting my downloading now. Enjoying Turias quite a bit.

And I found Blind Guardian myself, searching the term Valhalla and realizing that anything band with a song named that would likely be something I'm looking for.