The Greatest Ballads Of All time!

Fire Down Under · Post by **Fire Down Under** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:36 pm

if it wasn't already mentioned:

Tyrant (UK) - Lost and Lonely

Moonchild · Post by **Moonchild** » Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:15 pm

A few more:

Commandment - Never be Afraid (Engraved In Stone)
M.A.R.S. - You and I (Project : Driver)
Omega Point - Was It Me? (Infinite Rhyme)
Scarlet Rayne - Sands of Time (Theater Humanitarian)
Zions Abyss - Scarred for Life (T.A.L.E.S.)

Fire Down Under · Post by **Fire Down Under** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:49 pm

HEAVY LOAD - Dreaming

The Knell · Post by **The Knell** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:00 pm

Moonchild wrote: Zions Abyss - Scarred for Life (T.A.L.E.S.)

How is this album overall? Power Metal in the more melodic style? I could get the tape version.

MEXDefenderOfSteel · Post by **MEXDefenderOfSteel** » Wed Aug 18, 2010 5:58 pm

The Knell wrote:
Moonchild wrote: Zions Abyss - Scarred for Life (T.A.L.E.S.)
How is this album overall? Power Metal in the more melodic style? I could get the tape version.

really good album, maybe just a couple of fillers,but the vocals are amazing and its not that melodic overall,well balanced heavy metal album, recommended

Moonchild · Post by **Moonchild** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:07 pm

Yes get it man amazing power metal one of North America's best. Very underrated band.

Plantweed · Post by **Plantweed** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 2:20 am

Maiden, "Children of the Damned"
Accept, "Neon Nights"
Kix, "Don't Close Your Eyes"

Moonchild · Post by **Moonchild** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:11 am

Heretic - The Search (Breaking Point)
Lion - In the Name of Love (Dangerous Attraction)
Power of Omens - Only a Dream (Rooms of Anguish)
Ruffians - You're All I Need (Ruffians EP)
Silver Mountain - Where Are You (Roses & Champagne)
Whiplash - Last Nail In the Coffin (Ticket to Mayhem)

Marken · Post by **Marken** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 5:26 am

Psychotic Waltz - Hanging On A String
Falconer - Portals Of Light
Lillian Axe - The Day I Met You
Y&T - Don't Be Afraid Of the Dark
Annihilator - Phoenix Rising
Morgana Lefay - Last Rites

Satanic Blud · Post by **Satanic Blud** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 11:06 am

W.A.S.P. - Sleeping in the Fire
Cobra - Lifes Door

Moonchild · Post by **Moonchild** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:48 am

Apocrypha - Broken Dream (The Forgotten Scroll)
Axiom - Before the Dawn (Vicious Circle)
Villain - Heal My Heart (Chequered Past)

Heavy · Post by **Heavy** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:03 pm

Lately one of my favourites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCxo_hkow2o

It's last call, last call... drink another 'till you fall

Trigger · Post by **Trigger** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:20 pm

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.

99,9% of the songs mentioned here are NOT ballads!

Heavy · Post by **Heavy** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:20 pm

Yeah, but I guess this isn't a forum for poets. Most of us actually know the term from popular music (pop ballad, rock ballad) and we are just applying it to slower paced emotion packed metal songs - a metal ballad.

From what I was taught in school (the definiton you posted + the simple logics behind it), just about any heavy metal lyrics that tell a story could be considered a ballad.

Trigger · Post by **Trigger** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:36 pm

Nowadays, a ballad is a love song,but that's only terminology....