The Greatest Ballads Of All time!

[MEXDefenderOfSteel]

i dont know if this thread has been already posted in the past...but i was wondering,which are your favorite metal balldas of all times...usually i dont like ballads, cause most of them are just "to fill up side b`s"...

mine are:
Virgin Steele-A Cry in The Night
Queensryche-Silent Lucidity
ManOwar-Heart of Steel
X-Japan-Endless Rain
Twisted Sister-The Price
L.A. Guns-Crystal Eyes

...to name a few of my favs...

[UriahHeep]

Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence
Edguy - Land of the Miracle

[Avenger]

Ah, the obligatory "Metal" ballad...

It's hard to say for me, but off the top off my head, I'd have to say:

Savatage - Strange Wings

[Stormspell]

OZZY/Lita Ford - If I Close My Eye Forever
WARLOCK - Fur Immer

That's on top on my head right now.

[Professor Black]

Gamma Ray - 18 Years
Motorhead - Lost in the Ozone

[Korgüll]

Savatage - Strange Wings

Exactly what I was going to say!

[Nightlock]

Anvil - Stop Me
Angel Witch - Free Man (Best Angel Witch song!)
Accept - Neon Nights



Crimson Glory - Transcendence (AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)



Helstar - Winds Of War
Iron Maiden - Remember Tomorrow
Judas Priest - Blood Red Skies
Loudness - Ashes In The Sky
Manilla Road - Ninth Wave
Manowar - The Crown And The Ring (Lament Of The Kings)
Metal Church - Gods Of Wrath
Omen - Hell's Gates
Riot - Bloodstreets
Scorpions - Holiday
Skyclad - Quantity Time
Skyclad - The One Piece Puzzle
Thin Lizzy - With Love
Thin Lizzy - For Those Who Love To Live
Thin Lizzy - Spirit Slips Away
Thin Lizzy - Borderline
Thin Lizzy - Still In Love With You


Some just looking through some of my CD's

[ION BRITTON]

Helstar - Winds Of War
Iron Maiden - Remember Tomorrow
Manilla Road - Ninth Wave
Manowar - The Crown And The Ring (Lament Of The Kings)
Metal Church - Gods Of Wrath
Omen - Hell's Gates

After seeing this list, i'd like to ask, Nightlock and all the others as well, what's the definition of a ballad. When i say this word i have other things in mind, not Winds of war and Hell's gate. Well?

[tbieri]

Good ballads have to be FAST and HEAVY !!!


This means i don't like ballads !
But i love semi-ballads like Caroussel, The Clown Is Dead from Axel Rudi Pell !

[Nightlock]

Helstar - Winds Of War
Iron Maiden - Remember Tomorrow
Manilla Road - Ninth Wave
Manowar - The Crown And The Ring (Lament Of The Kings)
Metal Church - Gods Of Wrath
Omen - Hell's Gates

After seeing this list, i'd like to ask, Nightlock and all the others as well, what's the definition of a ballad. When i say this word i have other things in mind, not Winds of war and Hell's gate. Well?

I don't think ballads have to have acoustic guitars and sappy love lyrics I guess you call Hell's Gates and Wind's Of War more "power ballads"

[ION BRITTON]

Helstar - Winds Of War
Iron Maiden - Remember Tomorrow
Manilla Road - Ninth Wave
Manowar - The Crown And The Ring (Lament Of The Kings)
Metal Church - Gods Of Wrath
Omen - Hell's Gates

After seeing this list, i'd like to ask, Nightlock and all the others as well, what's the definition of a ballad. When i say this word i have other things in mind, not Winds of war and Hell's gate. Well?

I don't think ballads have to have acoustic guitars and sappy love lyrics I guess you call Hell's Gates and Wind's Of War more "power ballads"

I would call Hell's Gate epic fuckin' metal And the middle part of Winds of War is not just "power", it's plain massacre

[King Zombie]

Goodbye to Romance...

[metalmaster]

I got a few:

Bathory: Song to hall up high
Stormwtch: Tears by the firelight
Helloween: a tale that wasnt right
Death SS: in The darkness
Faithful Breath: a millions heart
Motley Crue: Danger

[The Sentinel]

Medieval Steel: Echoes

and some others I can't recall right now

[deathster]

Ballads? My first pick would be:
Metallica "Nothing else matters"
Bruce Dickinson "Tears of the Dragon"
Helloween "A tale that was not right"

Edit: Accept "Its hard yo find a way" too! How did I forget this one?