Metal Instrumentals

[Invisusira]

Man I thought this thread was going to be about like french horns and shit

[Fetzie]

Man I thought this thread was going to be about like french horns and shit

me too

[Maelsstrom]

Was recently introduced to a band called Russian Circles. Not exactly what I would call metal but way harder than pop and very listenable over and over.

[razul]

while not really metal, I've always liked this one.
Fire on High-ELO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfBUVpGvOOs

[Hayz]

Yngwie Malmsteen has some good metal instrumental pieces even if the song isnt a true instrumental, hes described as "neo-classical metal:

[Njall]

Pretty much anything by Joe Satriani.

[Elfadin]

Probably considered more rock instead of metal, but just about anything from:

Joe Satriani (ex. Surfing with the Alien, Satch Boogie)

Steve Vai (ex. For the Love of God, Eugene's Trick Bag)

Dream Theater (ex. Overture 1928, Under a Glass Moon)


Great songs

[Maelsstrom]

^^ Dream Theater has some good stuff but the vast majority of their stuff has vocals (but Mike Portnoy ftw!). I was going say above that Russian Circles has a lot of the same feel as Dream Theater, except it's 3-man band with no vocals whatsoever. I won't say I've listed to a whole lot -- learning Death Rides a Horse and Harper Kelly on drums -- but I'm liking what I'm hearing.

[Arnock]

The instrumental version of Nightwish's Dark Passion Play is beautiful.


Val Allen Wood's solo work is pretty good, songs aren't quite 'finished' yet though.

Nevermore - Obsidian Conspiracy

[Arnock]

Two Steps From Hell - Forsaken

[Arnock]

Recently found out that John Petrucci has a Solo album.

[Brutalicus]

Two Steps From Hell - Forsaken

That was... epic. Can't reply without contributing in a thread full of metal, so I recommend Megadeth's Megadeth's "Into the Lungs of Hell"

[fafhrd]

Do they have to actually be instrumentals? I can think of a few metals songs that have beautiful guitarwork, but eventually involve someone singing (and the singing isn't necessarily all that nice, so I expect someone has actually stripped out the vocals at some point to make an instrumental version if you want to look for one).

Can post some links when I get home.

[tlitp]

I'd hazard to guess that most Americans aren't all that knowledgeable when it comes to Euro bands; some examples (many of the following aren't technically "full" instrumentals, they're meant to give a rough idea of what to expect) :

• Burzum - Dunkelheit
• Dark Lunacy - Dolls
• Moonspell - Opus Diabolicum
• Therion - Black Sun, Clavicula Nox (CN's symphonic version)
• CoF - One Final Graven Kiss
• Dimmu Borgir - Raabjørn...

[Invisusira]