Speaking of Iron Maiden, let's not forget Strange World from their debut album.

Comming home-stratovarius

"Nightfall" by Blind Guardian, though "Mordred's Song" and "Harvest of Sorrow" and "The Bard's Song" are also awesome.

Why ...no body say HELLOWEEN >> A Tale That Wasn't Right
That's the real GREAT EVER BALAD SONG

Return to serenity by Testamet
Phonix Rising by Annihilator
Dreamer Deciever by Judas Priest
The Bard Song by Blind Guardian
Cemetery Gates by Pantera

Written by ronnysan on 20.10.2010 at 19:01
HELLOWEEN >> A Tale That Wasn't Right

i like it, but too whimpy to be the b est

The Fiddler On The Green, by Demons & Wizards. Simply beautiful.

Child Of Desolation - Virgin Steele
Gate of Kings - Virgin Steele
Eternal Regret - Virgin Steele
When I´M Silent - Virgin Steele
A Cry In The Night - Virgin Steele
Perfect Mansions (Mountains of the Sun) - Virgin Steele
Never Believed In Good-Bye - Virgin Steele
Last Rose Of Summer - Virgin Steele
Forever Will I Roam - Virgin Steele
House Of Dust - Virgin Steele
Emalaith - Virgin Steele
God Above God - Virgin Steele
Angel Of Death - Virgin Steele
Dreamer Deceiver - Judas Priest
Before the Dawn - Judas Priest
Fade To Black - Metallica
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
The Unforgiven - Metallica
Changes - Black Sabbath
Tears In The Rain - Praying Mantis
Lonely Way Home - Praying Mantis
When Ever I'm Lost - Praying Mantis
Dream On - Praying Mantis
Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming - Deep Purple
Guardian - Fates Warning
The Road Goes on Forever - Fates Warning
Island in the Stream - Fates Warning
A Pleasant Shade of Gray Part IX - Fates Warning
Epitaph To The King - Manilla Road
Eye of the Storm - Manilla Road
Maryanne - Riot
Runaway - Riot

Adagio- Promises
Amberian Dawn- Willow of Tears
Alliance of Bards- Lode Al Padre
Angra- No Pain for the Dead
Avantasia- Farewell
Bal-Sagoth- Callisto Rising
Battlelore- House of Heroes
Celesty- Fading Away
D'espairsray- Kohaku
DragonForce- Starfire
Dragonland- Blazing Hate
Edenbridge- Perennial Dreams
Eternal Tears of Sorrow- Red Dawn Rising
Fairyland- The Story Remains
Falconer- Catch the Shadow
Firewind- Northern Sky
Galneryus- Dream Palace
Heavenly- A Better Me
Hizaki Grace Project- Everlasting Dream
Kalmah- Dead Man's Shadow
Keldian- Lord of Polaris
Killswitch Engage- My Curse (+5 if you skip forward constantly on Burnout Paradise City 'till this track comes on the radio :p)
Labyrinth- Love
Magica- Entangled
Masterplan- Wounds
Power Quest- Children of the Dream
Serenity- The Heartblood Symphony
Sonata Arctica- Full Moon
Symphony X- The Walls of Babylon
Versailles- Sympathia
Wintersun- Beautiful Death

Ballads ftw.

Written by [user id=35732] on 21.11.2010 at 18:09

Callisto rising? ballad? it's one of the most happy (and forth going) songs i know. even ftw won't save this.

A ballad is an emotional story my friend, they don't have to be slow or depressing. Haven't seen any Funeral Doom Metal songs thus far lol.

'Happy' is an emotion, therefore can be a ballad in my view.

Okay for anyone who thinks a ballad has to be sad...

I quote my English Literature/Poetry books, which Wikipedia apparently also quoted:

"A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later North America, Australia and North Africa. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet broadsides. The form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards to produce lyrical ballads. In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad."

for further reading on what a ballad is here is the link to wikipedia on that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad

Please people, stop quoting wikipedia for your references. Try reading some ballads. Some 19th centruy prose; some shakespearean ballads, anything but quoting wikipedia.

Good day.

Written by [user id=107773] on 21.11.2010 at 18:54

Please people, stop quoting wikipedia for your references. Try reading some ballads. Some 19th centruy prose; some shakespearean ballads, anything but quoting wikipedia.

Good day.

I quoted my English Literature/Poetry book as used in Unversity and wiki apparently quoted them

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 21.11.2010 at 19:17

Written by [user id=107773] on 21.11.2010 at 18:54

Please people, stop quoting wikipedia for your references. Try reading some ballads. Some 19th centruy prose; some shakespearean ballads, anything but quoting wikipedia.

Good day.

I quoted my English Literature/Poetry book as used in Unversity and wiki apparently quoted them

Maybe someone on your course went on to becoming a wikiedittor?

Written by [user id=107773] on 21.11.2010 at 19:20

Maybe someone on your course wen ton to becoming a wikiedittor?

Four years of English Language And Literature, and maybe a degree in it, at university down the drain to become wiki editor, damn, what a waste

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 21.11.2010 at 19:21

Written by [user id=107773] on 21.11.2010 at 19:20

Maybe someone on your course wen ton to becoming a wikiedittor?

Four years of English Language And Literature, and maybe a degree in it, at university down the drain to become wiki editor, damn, what a waste

Damn, english is my mother tongue and I take english literature courses, yet I don't believe I'm chalked up enough to be wiki editor. xD

Some good ones just off the top of my head. Basically songs that make me feel strong, deep emotions.
Iron Maiden- Revelations
Iron Maiden- Strange World
Bruce Dickinson- Tears of The Dragon
Judas Priest- Worth Fighting For
Judas Priest- Take These Chains off
Guns N Roses- Think About You ( I know GnR is more of a Hard Rock band, but they make some songs that are metal. IMHO they have some of the best ballads of all time)
Ed Guy- Save Me
Ed Guy- Another Time
Testament- Return to Serenity
Toxik- There stood the fence
Heathen- Prisoners of Fate
Flotsam and Jetsam- Better Off Dead
Death Angel- Volcanic
Metallica- Sanitarium
Artillery- Don't Believe
Rainbow- Street of Dreams
Dio- Don't Talk to Strangers
Dio- As Long as it's not about love
Journey- Winds of March (Listen to it, could easily be considered a metal ballad)
In Flames- December Flower
In Flames- Jester Race

Beyond The Realms Of Death by Judas Priest is very memorable. Fade To Black by Metallica is a great one too.

Angra - The Shadow Hunter

By far the best metal ballad I've ever heard and one of my favorite metal songs of all time. Edu's vocals give me chills every time I hear them in this song.

My faforite (old school)

Skid Row - 18 And Life
Scorpions - White Dove
Guns N' Roses - November Rain
QUEENSRYCHE SILENT LUCIDITY
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Scorpions - Send Me An Angel
Deep Purple - Soldier Of Fortune
Warlock - Für Immer - Triumph & Agony
Ozzy Osbourne - Mama, I'm Coming Home

Written by Kevorkian on 08.12.2010 at 09:38

Angra - The Shadow Hunter

By far the best metal ballad I've ever heard and one of my favorite metal songs of all time. Edu's vocals give me chills every time I hear them in this song.

That isnt really a ballad... :\ lol

"No Pain For The Dead" is a great ballad from that album, even if I could have done without the female vocals which always irks me.

Written by Angelic Storm on 09.12.2010 at 04:05

Written by Kevorkian on 08.12.2010 at 09:38

Angra - The Shadow Hunter

By far the best metal ballad I've ever heard and one of my favorite metal songs of all time. Edu's vocals give me chills every time I hear them in this song.

That isnt really a ballad... :\ lol

"No Pain For The Dead" is a great ballad from that album, even if I could have done without the female vocals which always irks me.

Why do you say that?

Oh, and No Pain For the Dead is a fantastic song. I personally love the female vocals, and when Edu and Sabine alternately sing toward the end . . . awesome.

Written by Kevorkian on 09.12.2010 at 04:16

Written by Angelic Storm on 09.12.2010 at 04:05

Written by Kevorkian on 08.12.2010 at 09:38

Angra - The Shadow Hunter

By far the best metal ballad I've ever heard and one of my favorite metal songs of all time. Edu's vocals give me chills every time I hear them in this song.

That isnt really a ballad... :\ lol

"No Pain For The Dead" is a great ballad from that album, even if I could have done without the female vocals which always irks me.

Why do you say that?

Oh, and No Pain For the Dead is a fantastic song. I personally love the female vocals, and when Edu and Sabine alternately sing toward the end . . . awesome.

I can see why you'd call it a ballad, but I dont think it is. Though it is a very melodic song with balladic parts. lol I think the album only contains 2 actual ballads, No Pain... and "Wishing Well". Although "Late Redemption" also has balladic elements like the title track, and could be classed as one by some. Anyways, "Temple Of Shadows" is one of my all time favourite albums, every single song on it is amazing! <3

As for the female vocals, its just a personal preference thing really. I dont like them in metal music.

Written by Angelic Storm on 09.12.2010 at 04:28

Written by Kevorkian on 09.12.2010 at 04:16

Written by Angelic Storm on 09.12.2010 at 04:05

Written by Kevorkian on 08.12.2010 at 09:38

Angra - The Shadow Hunter

By far the best metal ballad I've ever heard and one of my favorite metal songs of all time. Edu's vocals give me chills every time I hear them in this song.

That isnt really a ballad... :\ lol

"No Pain For The Dead" is a great ballad from that album, even if I could have done without the female vocals which always irks me.

Why do you say that?

Oh, and No Pain For the Dead is a fantastic song. I personally love the female vocals, and when Edu and Sabine alternately sing toward the end . . . awesome.

I can see why you'd call it a ballad, but I dont think it is. Though it is a very melodic song with balladic parts. lol I think the album only contains 2 actual ballads, No Pain... and "Wishing Well". Although "Late Redemption" also has balladic elements like the title track, and could be classed as one by some. Anyways, "Temple Of Shadows" is one of my all time favourite albums, every single song on it is amazing! <3

As for the female vocals, its just a personal preference thing really. I dont like them in metal music.

Fair enough. And I agree, Temple of Shadows is amazing. One of my favorite albums of all time from one of my favorite bands of all time.

Some of these might be rather unconventional choices, but here are my picks...

Anathema - The Silent Enigma
Draconian - Heaven Laid in Tears
Iced Earth - Melancholy (Holy Martyr)
Metallica - To Live is to Die
Opeth - To Bid You Farewell
Pantera - Cemetary Gates

For some metallers, this question might not be as straightforward as it sounds, as much of what is considered doom (or the multitude of related genres) contains certain elements of what might make a song a ballad. However, if you refer to almost every song a particular band makes as a ballad, then the term "ballad" loses its significance pretty quickly.

Judas priest - here come the tears

Jorn - Song for Ronnie James

The start of that song is unbelievible.

I would have to say that my favourite ballad of all time must be Megadeth's A Tout Le Mounde. That song is so good that it gives me shivers down my spine every time I listen to it. It is also one of the few songs where Dave Mustaine puts up an absolutely excellent vocal performance!

It is not metal, but currently there are two ballads, that become my very favorite...both are by Flogging Molly and the first is called "Don't Let Me Die Still Wondering" and the second (and superior) "Whistles The Wind"

Years ago Is ay its Accept - ''Sea Wings'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ux2kIJ2zRs
now this exelent song
Accept - Winter Dreams

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