There are some songs that just tap you immediately into that headspace where the fist develops a life of its own and aims for the sky, the spine glows, the brainball tingles and everything makes absolute sense in the moment. Transcendence? For us dorky music cunts it's religious. It's the thing you never felt while being dragged to mass on a Sunday morning and the thing that survived through the college years (and subsequent "grown up" years) and you gave up trying to explain to other people. Right now I'm blasting some Mourning Beloveth and while they have an inordinate amount of utterly moving music, for me, Dead Channel is the one that has me levitating tonight. What songs get you there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwcVJMvVWDA
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Nokturnal Mortum - Україна (Ukraine) has been the one lately that never fails to make me feel like I'm bound for battle.
Other than that, some of the french stuff like Forteresse (French Canadian, and most of the MNQ scene really...), Necropole, Suhnopfer, Aorlhac has that real epic feeling towards them.
In terms of transcendence, you can never go wrong with Urfaust for that. The ritualistic feeling of the songs that swing and sway through the simple and repetitive riffs and howling vocals never fail to put me in a trance.
Although I have many other examples to describe as truly epic, The Devil's Blood "the madness of serpents" is probably the one that hits the highest point of liberation and detachment from anything surrounding me.
I will never understand people that go through their lives listening to those same handful of songs and go wild every time a very popular tune hits the speakers somewhere. On the other hand, sometimes I think that the obsession most people into metal have towards finding more and more new music prevents us from experiencing more often what a total casual listener finds utterly easy to achieve even if not giving it a thought. One can't have it both ways...
Was going to some promos right now but fuck it, a "The Thousandfold Epicentre" spin is a must now...
For me it's Empire Falls by Primordial- first time I heard it I was like this is the greatest metal song to come along the pike in the years- could never get sick of hearing it.
Coincidentally, the first track I thought of was The Sickness by Mourning Beloveth.
Bastard Samurai simply because I have Snakes.. spinning here in the background, epic tune.
Quote from: Wiseblood on May 12, 2019, 11:01:59 AM
Coincidentally, the first track I thought of was The Sickness by Mourning Beloveth.
So many to choose from their catalogue realistically.
Dead Channel a great shout. A highlight on an already classic album in my book. Are they up to anything new these days?
I'll suggest the opening track off the Vemod full length.
https://youtu.be/IgG0-n1Bsm4
Never fails to take me to the stars.
Cool album. I haven't listened to it in ages.
The solo in Dead Channel 8)
Have Formless on now after a disgraceful few months of no MB on the house sound system
im not even that much of a power metal fan but this song gets me everytime. pure metal perfection.
https://youtu.be/ro-ACJ9vNEQ
Watain - Waters of Ain.
There's something inexplicably nostalgic about opening a song with "Take me home."
Some beautiful moments overall, but the section kicking off around 6:20 is always hair standing up on the back of my arms time. That riff coupled with excellent lyrics is something special.
"Do not mistake me for a star,
Though I'll shine like them at night,
But behold instead the darkness in between them,
The Devil's light."
Then the lull, finally kicking into Selim Lemouchi's solo, takes me elsewhere. Made all the more interesting knowing how his life ended.
Magnificent stuff altogether.
The final section of Jane Doe by Converge
First song that made me feel like that was Disposable Heroes.
I think doom-y stuff lends itself well -
Solstice - Graven Deep
Solitude Aeturnus - Opaque Divinity
Candlemass - Demon's Gate
Anathema - Restless Oblivion
Triptykon - Goetia
Second i saw the heading of this thread A Dead Channel is the first thing that came to my mind! From start to finish epic in every sense.
Also The Waters of Ain, i never realised Selim did the guitar solo on that song! Such a killer song and the solo bring it to next level epicness!
Since I'm listening to it right now... Burnt Year by Altar of Plagues.
Fuck me those vocals are so intense
It's very short to be epic, but 'progeny' by Abaddon Incarnate sends me floating.
I think epic is more about a feeling than about song length so absolutely you could put moving grindcore into that category. In that regard, I nominate Godplayer (or almost anything from Need to Control).
Yeah, loads of MB songs are truly epic. Primordial were mentioned, and Empire Falls is surely the best song off To The Nameless Dead, but The Coffin Ships is perhaps the most "truly" epic song by an Irish metal band of all time (and saying this as someone who, overall, rates MB higher).
On a "now listening" buzz, The Loss and Curse of Reverence by Emperor.
Reverend Bizarre - Cirith Ungol
The Ruins of Beverast - I Raised This Stone as a Ghastly Memorial
Dead Congregation - Teeth Into Red
Absu - Feis Mor Tir Na nOg
Have been getting the blood going lately.
Dair by Corr Mhona always strikes me as a true epic, great stuff
Quote from: Caomhaoin on May 16, 2019, 07:25:23 PM
It's very short to be epic, but 'progeny' by Abaddon Incarnate sends me floating.
In the context of the album it might as well be a ten minute soaring epic. Really really lifts the album for me.
Burzum - Jesus Tod
One of the most hypnotic songs I've ever heard.
Brought Filosofem with me the first time I went off to try magic mushrooms. Grand day out.
Neurosis "Strength of Fates"
Empire Falls for sure - incredible track.
Anathema - Eternity III, One Last Goodbye, Judgment, Kingdom, We The Gods, A Dying Wish...
Sabbath - Spiral Architect
Emperor - Ye Entranceemperium
Maiden - so many...Brighter than a thousand suns, blood brothers, PASCHENDALE, Phantom of the Opera, Ancient Mariner, Seventh Son, Alexander, Red and the Black, Hallowed...
Katatonia - Brave
Tornado of Souls
PL - Enchantment, The Painless, Pity the Sadness...
Cult of Luna w Julie Christmas - Cygnus
https://youtu.be/DVdHw4fskj4
Plenty of epic tracks from Mariner but this and SS Needle stand out for me.
Venus Illegitima by Svartidaudi. From the first second of the track all the way through the intro it gives me tingles, goosebumps and makes the hair on my neck stand up. The intro builds and builds and when the music finally kicks in the tingles burst up my neck and over the top of my head.
This happened the first time I heard the track and continues on every subsequent listen. It was the first track they played when they supported Archgoat here a few years ago, I thought I might need a towel I almost jizzed meself :-[ Thankfully I didn't. I've recently seen this sensation described and talked about as asmr (look it up)
Quote from: No Remorse on May 21, 2019, 12:29:31 PM
Dair by Corr Mhona always strikes me as a true epic, great stuff
I was just reading through p2 to see if anyone had posted this yet! I well and truly second this. I got lost in this many a time driving along the motorway in Tipp heading home to Cork, feeling the vibe from the misty mountains, especially at dusk. One time the rain kicked in at just the right moment, it was epic. Really made the commute from/to Dublin fly by.
Good call. Looking forward to something new from them.
Apologies for side-tracking this thread, but I just saw they were back in the studio in March to put the finishing touchs to a new album. Get it ooot ta feck!
Good news :abbath:
Quote from: Snare on May 22, 2019, 10:51:29 PM
Apologies for side-tracking this thread, but I just saw they were back in the studio in March to put the finishing touchs to a new album. Get it ooot ta feck!
Can't wait for this myself!
Just out from seeing Alice In Chains in Wembley. I can tell you that tonight's performance of Nutshell is the very definition of an epic song. It was fucking monumental. Cantrell had dialled in the lead tone exactly like Jar Of Flies and Duvall just nailed that vocal. Lump in throat and lump in pants territory.