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Mosh said:
So LC is most qualified to answer this but I’m putting it out there for anyone with more insight: is there a general consensus greatest metal song already? In other words, is Stargazer a heavy favorite for any other reason besides this forum likes it? Outside of this forum I’ve found that a lot of metal fans don’t even know the song. In fact I bought Rainbow Rising because it was @Forostar’s avatar at the time. I feel like Heaven and Hell, Painkiller, The Sentinel, Master of Puppets could be just as favorable if not more.
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Of the songs you named, I would go with Master of Puppets. That seems to be the metal song that most people know and love, more than any other that comes to mind. Painkiller and Heaven and Hell are too niche compared to Master of Puppets.

srfc said:
I have a feeling if there was in existence some Prog/Power Metal crossover song called "Unicorns in the Land of Rainbows Symphony in F# Minor" it would easily win a competition decided by voters who voted for Blind fuckin' Guardian over Kill the King.
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I haven't voted in the GMAC in a while but honestly, what's the deal with Blind Guardian? Everything I've heard from them sounds sort of atonal or boring.
 
Mosh said:
Moot point on this forum IMO which often leans more into hard rock.
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I mean, the greatest metal song of all time outside the Maiden family is very obviously Sol Invictus by Atlantean Kodex, and you are all wrong for thinking otherwise, but sometimes you just have to stick to waving the flag.
 
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Saapanael said:
I haven't voted in the GMAC in a while but honestly, what's the deal with Blind Guardian? Everything I've heard from them sounds sort of atonal or boring.
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Atonal? No idea what you've listened to so far, but they started out as Speed Metal and have become the metal version of Queen.

Valhalla is one of their classics, it's from the second album and particularly in live settings you'll see the audience sing the chorus for minutes after the song has ended.

They have a bunch of acoustic ballads and The Bard's Song is one of them. Another live staple.

Mirror Mirror is the first of their songs I've ever heard and it's part of their Nightfall In Middle Earth album, a concept album about the Silmarillion. You'll notice that the further into their discography you go the higher the amount of vocal and guitar tracks present on their songs. Also, this album (as well as a song called Lord Of The Rings on their third album) released well before the movies; Hansi (the vocalist, lyricist and on the first 4 albums bassist) is a huge fantasy fan and most of their songs are based on some kind of book.

I've skipped a lot of great songs but I'm trying to share their most representative material over their career. And Then There Was Silence is about Homer's Iliad and an epic in every sense of the word. The song has literally over a hundred guitar and vocal tracks and is an entire journey.

On their 2010 and 2015 album's they've worked with a real choir and orchestra on some of their songs. This is one of them and it was written for the video game Sacred 2 (where the band appears as NPCs playing the song, IIRC).

There's a ton of great music that I didn't mention, but I think that's a good entry point. Feel free to skip around and see if anything catches your attention. Their earlier material is rather straight forward and melodic, though as they got older the songs got more and more progressive, never leaving the Power Metal framework though. Give 'em a try, maybe you'll like what you hear.
 
Perun said:
I mean, the greatest metal song of all time outside the Maiden family is very obviously Sol Invictus by Atlantean Kodex, and you are all wrong for thinking otherwise, but sometimes you just have to stick to waving the flag.
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I listened to it and thought I heard the line "Death is an erection away".
 
Saapanael said:
Of the songs you named, I would go with Master of Puppets. That seems to be the metal song that most people know and love, more than any other that comes to mind. Painkiller and Heaven and Hell are too niche compared to Master of Puppets.
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I just went on songsterr.com (guitar tab database) to check out the tab for Simon and Garfunkel's The Boxer and it's quite telling from a guitar player's perspective. These are the most popular songs on the site:

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Vaenyr said:
Atonal? No idea what you've listened to so far, but they started out as Speed Metal and have become the metal version of Queen.
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I appreciate the effort, man, some of these songs you posted I've heard before. I'll check them out.
 
There are two distinguished types of halva that I know, from left to right:

1. Halvas of Macedon 2. Traditional Halvas

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I like more the second one.
 
Vaenyr said:
I've skipped a lot of great songs but I'm trying to share their most representative material over their career. And Then There Was Silence is about Homer's Iliad and an epic in every sense of the word. The song has literally over a hundred guitar and vocal tracks and is an entire journey.
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I'm listening and reading about it on Wikipedia, I like the idea that it was based on Cassandra's prophesies. I don't remember her appearing too much in Iliad, their sources would be from Aeneid, which I haven't read.

Iliad was just a part of a wider epic circle most of other books are lost but we know some fragments from other, later works such as theater pieces and commentaries. Except Odyssey and maybe another one, the other poems of the epic circle were not Homer's.
In reality Iliad is just about 40 days of war that's it, from the time Achilles withdrew from the battle with anger until Priamus came to beg him for Hectors body. Everything else about Troyan War, before or after comes mostly from other sources referencing lost books of the epic circle or Odyssey.

This is the reason why I admire Manowar's song about Iliad. They got it completely right, just focusing on the book, not the story.

EDIT: What's intriguing is that the supposed events in Iliad took place about the same time of people of the sea were around pillaging, 1200 BCE
 
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