Track Of The Day - The Guardians Edition
Perhaps the most Christmas-like melodic metal song since some songs by Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Majestica's Christmas Carol, worth listening in the holiday season:
A massive 12-minute epic with killer riffing, synths, and vocals by a few of the guest vocalists:
And there are some more of those splendid vocals from those vocalists and a couple more in the bonus track:
The Chronicles of Eden is one of the most essential compilation albums for a band, with the first disc consisting of bonus tracks for their first 5 albums, including this awesome cover of a James Bond movie theme:
And the second disc having two full songs per album; one greatest hit and one 8+ minute epic, the latter including one of the most melodic epics I've heard in my over a decade of listening to metal:
A grand majestic 10-minute epic summarizing all this album has:
A highlight by these masters of war-themed power metal, sounding both catchy and epic:
Breaking boundaries further is this standout featuring the Stimmgewalt choir, sounding similar to Moonspell's more symphonic works:
Once again, my return to The Guardians has caused my heavy/power/symphonic metal interest to be reborn and rapidly expand. Here are 6 bands of those genres that I've heard of when I was still completely in that zone 10 years ago (except The Dark Element), but didn't start listening to them full-time until I rediscovered them in the playlists that I've assembled in the last few months:
An absolutely epic and emotional highlight with no breakdowns, basically extreme power-ish symphonic metal, enough to qualify in this thread:
The outside-world friend of mine who showed me that song from the Sonic Frontiers soundtrack, featuring Kellin Quinn of Sleeping with Sirens, showed me two more songs from that soundtrack, and I really dig both of them. This one sounds closer to DragonForce-style power metal:
A true anthem of power metal from this band formed by former members of Helloween and other well-known bands:
Lots of catchy emotion in this radio-potential highlight:
One of the most awesome songs by this band is this heavy highlight that I would consider their own theme song:
Everything's so beautiful including background strings, while smashing through with guitars, proving that some of the best closing tracks don't have to be a long epic:
An awesome 10-minute journey that you just gotta hear to believe:
Helloween's music is given quite an enchantment by Masterplan in their cover album, as proven by this magical highlight:
My favorite track of this Fates Warning album on the US power metal side, with the best vocals from John Arch:
German heavy/power metal with their albums covering a sci-fi space saga similar to Mechina lyrically:
Epic symphonic/folk metal from Finland, though they can sometimes have fun with cover songs like this one: