Chances are good you'll like this. (While Heaven Wept - To Wander the Void) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfUmhX7I4Xg This is good. It's rather amusing that certain epic doom metal bands are more reminiscent of the "Fates Warning style" than bands that are actually termed progressive. I ...

For years, I steered away from any band branded as "progressive metal" because of my dislike of Symphony X, Evergrey, Pagans Mind, Dream Theater, Communic, etc. Consequently, I didn't bother checking out Fates Warning until a year or so ago, which I'm rather resentful about, considering th...

For years, I steered away from any band branded as "progressive metal" because of my dislike of Symphony X, Evergrey, Pagans Mind, Dream Theater, Communic, etc. Consequently, I didn't bother checking out Fates Warning until a year or so ago, which I'm rather resentful about, considering th...

Battleroar - vocals are too operatic. He sings like a eunuch. Manowar -- Musically, these guys aren't anything impressive, and are more of a parody of epic metal than epic metal proper. I'm finding myself eating my words on these two bands. I wasn't listening to the right albums. "Into Glory R...

Do you have a more relevant example of what you define as "epic"? Black Metal is quite off-topic in this forum... The reason I am asking is because you claim to like Metal more on the "epic" side of things and then go on to say that you don't like Omen but do like Abattoir. Agai...

Although I really don't want to get into this discussion again as it's been had here already in the past, the question is begging to be asked and that's what do you define as "epic"? I'm not a musician, so I can't really give you a technical explanation, but I'd say an epic song has a gra...

So what kind of vocals do you like in epic metal? Higher register Dickinson style vocals or Candlemass/Solitude Aeturnus style vocals. Epic is not your game. Next thing you know you'll say you hate Brocas Helm. No, I actually do like them, probably in spite of their vocals and not because of them. ...

My tastes lean toward the epic -- old school power metal, epic heavy metal, epic doom, and power/thrash. I like a fair number of black metal bands, but they also tend to be epic sounding (e.g., early Abigor, later Immortal, Dissection, Belenos), and bear little resemblance to 80s black metal. At any...