Best Symphonic Metal Songs

The Top Ten
1 Ghost Love Score - Nightwish

This 10 minute masterpiece is what symphonic metal should be. A beautiful but haunting vocal performance accompanied by great riffs and an amazing orchestral arrangement. This is easily the best symphonic metal song ever recorded. This should defiantly be #1 The Poet and the Pendulum, Emerald Sword, and Our Solemn Hour are also top notch symphonic metal tracks.

I was skeptical because of all the obvious reasons. It's long and slow. Symphonic metal's draw is that it provides big awesome riffs without losing too much pace.

Well I was wrong to be skeptical. Just listen to the song. It's only ten minutes. You will not regret it.

Got me hooked the first time. I personally prefer Tarja's version, I think she was phenomenal.

Ghost Love Score live on Wacken 2013 is the best.
Floor Jansen added another dimension to this allready great song.

2 Wheel of Time - Blind Guardian

Blind Guardian nailed this subgenre and in no time became the best in the business.

Deserves the number 1 spot

3 Sacred Worlds - Blind Guardian
4 And Then There Was Silence - Blind Guardian
5 The Throne - Blind Guardian
6 The Ninth Wave - Blind Guardian
7 Emerald Sword - Rhapsody

Very good song. But whenever I hear this song it feels like I am listening Land of the Free - Gamma Ray.

8 Euphoria - Xandria

Pleasantly surprised to find it this high.

9 Grand Parade - Blind Guardian

Should be higher.

10 To Mega Therion - Therion

Deserves to be higher than 8

The Contenders
11 The Poet and the Pendulum - Nightwish

That guitar solo is amazing, The whole song is amazing.

Masterpiece! Nothing else needs to be said

Love it to. One of the greatest songs ever!

12 The Seven Angels - Avantasia

This song is an absolute journey, definitely take a listen!

13 The Phantom Agony - Epica
14 Nemo - Nightwish

It's beautiful, to say the least. Soaring music and a powerful message.

15 No Leaf Clover - Metallica
16 Wishmaster - Nightwish
17 Wish I Had an Angel - Nightwish

The highest level of crap period.

18 Gethsemane - Nightwish
19 The Phantom of the Opera - Nightwish
20 A Gothic Romance (Red Roses for the Devil's Whore) - Cradle of Filth
21 Forget Not - Ne Obliviscaris
22 Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames - Lorna Shore
23 Funeral in Carpathia - Cradle of Filth
24 Storm the Sorrow - Epica
25 Blood of Kingu - Therion
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