Top 10 Neoclassical Metal Songs
Neoclassical metal is a sub-genre of metal which was heavily influenced by classical music. Neoclassical metal musicians combine the elements of classical music with rock/metal music and create neoclassical metal. Jon Lord pioneered it first. He mixed classical music and rock music. But most of his works remained in keyboards. Ritchie Blackmore used classical music with metal for the first time on guitar. By the time of 70s there were already many neoclassical metal artists. Uli Jon Roth is a good example of it. But neoclassical metal became more popular by Yngwie Malmsteen and his shredding solos in the 80s. Neoclassical metal developed most in 80s. Randy Rhoads, Paul Gilbert, Vinnie Moore, Marty Friedman, Jason Becker came in the 80s and popularized it more.Anyway, making this list wasn't very easy. Cause when I tried to search on google, not all of the songs were neoclassical metal. Some were power, progressive, symphonic metal. Well, some guitarists mix neoclassical metal with other metal genres. That's why its hard to determine the songs. But I tried to add pure neoclassical metal songs from my best.
Anyway, vote if you like. Will appreciate your votes.
Simple. The born of neoclassical metal. No offense.
Well, you might say its not even his best song. Many people will choose Altitudes over this. But I strongly prefer this song over Altitudes. Its an 11 minute song. Longest song of the album. And its one of the most relaxing neoclassical metal songs. The orchestration of this song is really cool. This song has both fast and slow part.
Legendary. This song basically reigns as god when it comes to shredding.
This is a very impressive metal cover. Olaf Lenk is a Swedish metal guitarist heavily influenced by Yngwie.
The song sample is from a live show and what you hear is an improvisation before the beginning of the song.
This instrumental is a Beethoven's 9th metal cover (Ode To Joy). Difficult to Cure is probably the song that started neoclassical metal instrumentals.
This song is mixed with power/speed metal.
Its on last. Cause not the whole song is neoclassical metal. The solo is mostly neoclassical metal. Jon Lord claimed both organ and guitar solos were based on Bach's chord sequences. Even though the first part of solo doesn't sound like neoclassical metal to me. But the last licks of the solo sounds quite neoclassical metal to me. I mean the part after 4:30
