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Instrumental bands are limited to one entry.

Do not mention Metallica.

Created by: scapeplan | 14.01.2013


1. Agalloch - The Mantle
Hawthorne Passage
2. Akelei - De Zwaarte van het Doorstane
Een Droom in 6/8
3. The Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky
Sirius
4. Anathema - The Silent Engima
...Alone
5. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
Ad Astra
6. Avenge The Throne - Reborn
Nocturnal Pyre
7. Beyond Creation - The Aura
Chromatic Horizon
8. Blind Guardian - Battalions Of Fear
Gandalf's Rebirth
9. Cormorant - Dwellings
Confusion Of Tongues
10. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Ex Nihilo
11. Death - Human
Cosmic Sea
12. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
Voice Of The Soul
13. Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part
The Beginning Of The End, The End Of he Beginning
14. Dream Theater - Awake
Erotomania
15. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
The Dance Of Eternity, Overture 1928
16. Encircle - Into The Dreamstate
Into The Dreamstate
17. Equilibrium - Sagas
Mana
18. Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Postcard From 1952
19. Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A
Call To Arms
20. Galaktik Cancer Squad - Celestia
Foreign Night
21. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O
Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls
22. Hammerfall - Legacy Of Kings
Let The Hammer Fall
23. A Hill To Die Upon - Omens
Nehushtan
24. In Flames - Lunar Strain
Dreamscape
25. In Flames - The Jester Race
Wayfaerer
26. In Flames - Whoracle
Dialogue With The Stars
27. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Transylvania
28. Iron Maiden - Killers
Genghis Khan
29. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)
30. Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
Jato Unit
31. Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
Satch Boogie
32. John Petrucci - Suspended Animation
Jaws Of Life
33. Lake Of Tears - Forever Autumn
Otherwheres
34. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Moby Dick
35. Martriden - The Unsettling Dark
Ascension Pt 2
36. Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees
Sweat For Blood
37. Megadeth - Endgame
Dialectic Chaos
38. Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?
Into The Lungs Of Hell
39. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Orion
40. My Bitter End - The Renovation
Subtleties
41. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
The Holocaust Of Thought
42. Opeth - Damnation
Ending Credits
43. Opeth - Deliverance
For Absent Friend's
44. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Epilogue
45. Opeth - Orchid
Silhouette
46. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
The Great Gig In The Sky
47. Riot - Inishmore
Inishmore
48. Rush - Hemispheres
La Villa Strangiato
49. Rush - Moving Pictures
YYZ
50. Saturnus - Paradise Belongs To You
Lament For This Treacherous World
51. Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King
Prelude To Madness
52. Scale The Summit - Carving Desert Canyons
Glacial Planets
53. Spectral Lore - Sentinel
Atlus
54. Summoning - Dol Guldur
Wyrmvater Glaurung
55. Testament - The New Order
Musical Death
56. Tiamat - Wildhoney
Planets
57. Tool - Lateralus
Triad


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Syk - 14.01.2013 at 05:18  
Some nice bands to discover here. Triad doesn't really belong, does it? Needs more Liquid Tension Experiment!

Also - Exodus '07, Deicide '08, Opeth Damnation, Jethro Tull's Bourée/Serenade to a Cuckoo/Cat's Squirrel/Round/For Later! Oh, and 1969 Led Zeppelin + '87 Joe Satriani ...'90 Steve Vai while we're on the subject... k, that's enough from me
scapeplan - 14.01.2013 at 05:28  
Written by Syk on 14.01.2013 at 05:18

Triad doesn't really belong, does it?

Why is that?

Quote:

Exodus '07, Deicide '08, Opeth Damnation, Jethro Tull's Bourée/Serenade to a Cuckoo/Cat's Squirrel/Round/For Later! Oh, and 1969 Led Zeppelin + '87 Joe Satriani ...'90 Steve Vai while we're on the subject...

Can you include some song titles? I haven't listened to every album from these, and don't want to listen to every single one right now. I went ahead and added Moby Dick.
Carl Berg - 14.01.2013 at 05:31  
+1 for Voice of the soul
Syk - 14.01.2013 at 05:49  
Exo - Call to Arms, Deic End of the Beginning/Beginning of the End, Opeth's Ending Credits. Satch & Vai are almost entirely instrumental - I'd go with a track 4 &/or 7 from either.

I thought Triad was not an inst, the last I heard it...

And now I can't pass up mentioning Jeff Beck - Rice Pudding, Beck's Bolero, Star Cycle & The Pump are all classics
scapeplan - 14.01.2013 at 05:51  
Written by Syk on 14.01.2013 at 05:49

I thought Triad was not an inst, the last I heard it...



It is. There's some vocally-sounding noises near the beginning, though.

Thanks for the rest of the suggestions, they'll be listened to soon.
Nosurper - 14.01.2013 at 23:54  
Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls is divine
EMols86 - 15.01.2013 at 00:14  
Written by scapeplan on 14.01.2013 at 05:28

Can you include some song titles? I haven't listened to every album from these, and don't want to listen to every single one right now. I went ahead and added Moby Dick.


Windowpane on Damnation (Opeth) is a wonderful song (the best on the album for me), so check that one out.

I'll probably be back with some suggestions, since I don't have the time for that now.
R'Vannith - 15.01.2013 at 06:19  
Awww yeah, Satch Boogie!
EMols86 - 15.01.2013 at 17:39  
Where the hell is Agalloch? The Mantle has plenty of great songs for this list, like Odal, The Lodge or The Hawthorne Passage. Or The Misshapen Steed (Pale Folklore), which is an amazing song. Furthermore:

Akelei - Een Droom in 6/8 (De Zwaarte van het Doorstane)
Anathema - ...Alone (The Silent Enigma)
Dark Tranquillity - Ex Nihilo (Damage Done)
Lake Of Tears - Otherwheres (Forever Autumn)
Opeth - For Absent Friends (Deliverance) & Silhouette (Orchid) (better than the two Opeth songs you've listed in my opinion)
Saturnus - Lament For This Treacherous World (Paradise Belongs To You)
Summoning - Wyrmvater Glaurung (Dol Guldur)
Tiamat - Planets (Wildhoney)
JohnDoe - 15.01.2013 at 21:20  
Rush - La Villa Strangiato is missing.
scapeplan - 15.01.2013 at 23:27  
Written by JohnDoe on 15.01.2013 at 21:20

Rush - La Villa Strangiato is missing.

I had that on the original draft of the list, but when I lost it I forgot to add it again. Fixed that ^^
EMols86 - 15.01.2013 at 23:58  
The Silent Enigma is the album and ...Alone is the song.

Also, it's Wildhoney, not Wildyhoney.

On a side note, you might want to limit the amount of bands to feature in this list. 4 times Opeth is a bit too much if you ask me.
Opethian - 16.01.2013 at 00:10  
Nice
scapeplan - 16.01.2013 at 00:16  
Written by EMols86 on 15.01.2013 at 23:58

The Silent Enigma is the album and ...Alone is the song.

Also, it's Wildhoney, not Wildyhoney.



M C Vice - 16.01.2013 at 03:26  
Orion's there but not Call Of Ktulu? But I guess the Equilibrium one makes up for it.
Ozejames - 18.01.2013 at 17:55  
Martriden - ascention, Pt 2
Quirin - 18.01.2013 at 20:44  
Could have spared some room for Raise The Hammer http://youtu.be/VcP5zFzAw40, Inishmore (http://youtu.be/ZzbI47svbCg), or even Musical Death (http://youtu.be/fQbudNKR0NE)... or just so many others.

(and you'd choose Gandalf's Rebirth over By The Gates Of Moria, really?)

Well, most of this list is quite unexpected. Matter of taste, of course, but still.
F.N.S.C.A.C - 27.01.2013 at 17:34  
No Mogwai?
Death_95 - 07.04.2013 at 23:10  
Great list, but you forgot my favorite instrumentals Dying Brokenhearted and A Gentle Grieving Farewell KIss... both by Empyrium
Jiri - 06.05.2013 at 04:41  
Arcturus - Ad Astra. Nuff said (if one can consider it an instrumental song due to random sampled vocals that is).

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