Top Ten Most Epic Songs

The best songs that can be considered as epic in sense of either unusually long, bombastic/orchestral and/or consisting in several segments.
The Top Ten
1 Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Iconic and timeless masterpiece. Freddie Mercury was the most talented artist in the music industry.

I'm not sure if this is THE greatest song of all time, but it's definitely one of the greatest.

The greatest song of all time doesn't deserve to be below Total Eclipse of the Heart

In a lifetime of songs listened to, this one is the best.

2 And Then There Was Silence - Blind Guardian

Everything in this masterpiece is epic - epic length (14:08), epic composition with many parts that get more intense, symphonic orchestration, epic story, and last but not least - mindblowing vocals from Hansi Kürsch with complex overlapping vocal harmonies creating a choir effect. Just amazing!
The song is about the final days of Troy, as foreseen by Cassandra, daughter of the king of the destroyed city.

Epic songs, and without Manowar?

3 One - Metallica

Epicness is flowing through my body when the third solo starts.

4 Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
5 Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
6 Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
7 Ghost Love Score - Nightwish

One of the most underrated songs of all time, like a modern symphony, of such beauty and grace. It might not be a classic like many other more famous epic songs, but to me, it is the most complex and beautiful of those songs.

Incredible song. Symphonic, beautiful and 100% epic. Listen to the 2013 version live at Wacken Open Air with the singer Floor Jansen. Watch it right to the end - it's incredible.

8 Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
9 Stargazer - Rainbow

This masterpiece from Ritchie Blackmore and Dio (1976) pretty much defined "epic" in metal music.

10 Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

Why is this not #1?

The Contenders
11 Art of Life - X Japan
12 Wheel of Time - Blind Guardian
13 Prophecies - Philip Glass
14 War Pigs / Luke's Wall - Black Sabbath
15 March of the Black Queen - Queen
16 Sacred Worlds - Blind Guardian

Epic symphonic metal at its best - one of the most impressive and crafted songs I've ever heard.

17 Preliator - Globus

Listen to this Before you vote its pretty epic

18 Dream On - Aerosmith
19 Strobe - Deadmau5
20 Dante's Inferno - Iced Earth

16:26 min long. Jon Schaffer rules!
I only don't like the song sample on here - it's not the original, it's a live version with abother singer. It's good for a live version but you know, the original studio version should have been on here.

21 Through the Fire and Flames - Dragonforce
22 Rainbow in the Dark - Dio
23 Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part II - Helloween
24 Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
25 The Trial - Pink Floyd
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