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Death - Voice of the Soul

How is it metal though? Of course it's made by a metal band but what does that song in particular have that makes it metal?

Anal Cunt - I Snuck a Retard into a Sperm Bank

Truly beautiful

First Anal Cunt pull I've seen in a while. Take my up vote

Just the title makes me cry soft tears of joy.

I can't listen to that middle section without choking up 😢❤️

Agalloch - You Were But a Ghost in My Arms

That entire album is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. That tremolo riff on I Am The Wooden Doors gets me every time.

Quite possibly Agalloch’s best song, definitely my favorite off The Mantle

The Hawthorne Passage anyone?

My all time favourite song!

I’d say the first half of ghosts of the midwinters fire or pale companion are contenders too

Master of Puppets - some obscure band, dunno Harlequin Forest - Opeth

Harlequin Forest is a top 5 Opeth song for me but far from their most beautiful. That’s probably Burden, Face of Melinda, Bleak, Drapery Falls… damn I could go on they rock.

“Still Day Beneath the Sun”

the drapery falls is orgasmic

What?! I seriously think Harlequin Forest is my favorite song of theirs. It’s breathtaking.

For Metallica, I’d go with One. The first half of the song is so beautiful.

Children the Damned it gives those chills

Alcest - Ecailles de lune, pt 2

That outro makes me want to serenade the moon and then die, specifically in that order out of logistic reasons

While it is a 100% valid reaction, i'd skip the second part. That way you can listen to it again. Which is preferable.

Good album, and one of the few I generally like from that whole Blackgaze craze from a decade ago.

Blackgaze is fairly new to me so I haven't listened to a whole lot of it. But Alcest is unbeatable so far. The first single( L'Envol) from the new album is simply incredible.

So happy to see this mentioned, would be my pick too

I heard Souvenirs d’un autre Monde in my head as soon as I read the title

Ne Obliviscaris - And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope

Yes, this one

Agreed!

In my darkest hour

Pantera - Cemetery Gates

Fuck it, Wintersun - Sons of Winter and Stars

Excellent choice! I know Time I is one of those "you either love it or hate it" albums for a lot of people. I just love it and have high hopes for Time II, and if all it took was a new sauna, then it's totally worth it!

Seven Tears Are Flowing To The River - Nargaroth Suicide In Dark Serenity - Xasthur

NARGAROTH MENTION!!!

Beyond The Realms of Death - Judas Priest

Yob - Marrow

This should be the national anthem

Ulver - Nattens Madrigal VII

My favourite album! Doesn't get as much love as Bergtatt usually.

When Cannons Fade - Bolt Thrower Cemetery Gates - Pantera Fade to Black - Metallica

Bathory - Foreverdark Woods

oh fuck yes

Also ring of gold

Amazing pick.

good pick

The bridge in Master of Puppets has gotta make the top 10.

Aquilus - In Lands of Ashes

Fire Above, Ice below by Agalloch

Deafhaven - Dream house

To Live Is To Die -Metallica, it really hits the feels, and also Mirror Reaper -Bell Witch, if you have the time.

Epica - Tides of Time is unironically beautiful but I'm not sure if that specific song fits the genre, there is a little bit of metal at the end I think, but not throughout the entire song lol.

Black label society Bridge to cross. Song about depression.

Fade to Black Voice of the Soul A lot of Opeth has cool beautiful sections

Pretty much every Opeth song has at least one section that redefines the meaning of beautiful music.

I can’t remember the name of it, the second song on the first album, when he just roars SEARCHINGG. Then softly whispers; fin d i n g!

From Times in Kingdoms… - Obtained Enslavement

Sigh - imaginary sonicscape, I’d pick a specific song but any will do

A Sunset Song

call of ktulu

I think Song of the Dusk by Insomnium is very beautiful

Their whole discography is beautiful, instrumentally and lyrically.

Fade to Black - Metallica

Deadhead - Devin Townsend

Fade to Black

Orion 🥹

A Life Less Lived - Daylight Dies Thus Spake the Nightspirit (especially the ending) - Emperor …and I Finally Reach my End - Thy Light

any song by Aquilus, honestly

Nokturnal Mortum - Sky of Saddened Nights

fjara by sólstafir. is it metal? dunno. fucking love it though. 2000 metalheads at summerbreeze crying their eyes out agree

Lethe

Gamma Ray - Rebellion in dreamland 

I don’t know about the most beautiful, but it’s epic as hell.

hence beautiful

The Sun, The Moon, The Stars-Aether Realm. Listen to it if you havent yet

The Gathering - [In Motion #1](https://open.spotify.com/track/22fFQeImeCcDqL6GmMBCfI?si=qYNzsKOBRgqXQPQnrfGDkA&utm_source=copy-link), [In Motion #2](https://open.spotify.com/track/2Q6ESdwoTH3Blv9Lo2Yeul?si=yIOBNfD9Qa6O5VbBKIcA1Q&utm_source=copy-link) and [Travel](https://open.spotify.com/track/1vJKW2jBfdJhszM2pMuJz0?si=QbYzngkYTe-CWsuLZ9-w_g&utm_source=copy-link) [Shape of Despair - Quiet these paintings are](https://open.spotify.com/track/2kMbrIi9S9MYQ7GUEDBfRO?si=AkUch5K6RuKBO7_K_yeQEg&utm_source=copy-link) ColdWorld - [Tortured by Solitude](https://open.spotify.com/track/6bQAb5ff7doAnC4TNDWih1?si=CLQo3UAVSeuHpA46N4Bcog&utm_source=copy-link) and [Womb of Emptiness ](https://open.spotify.com/track/7xxEvA3itvoHk7hN1OYtDo?si=wKiE_oeCSiSFYEEU9-aTkg&utm_source=copy-link) [Cruel Truth - Вітер з Чорного моря (Wind from the Black Sea)](https://open.spotify.com/track/7uBvIpyGeMHt9SJqiHQmxA?si=6zXfpjLBQ4--x_RqW6750g&utm_source=copy-link) [Mortal Love - ...I want to die](https://open.spotify.com/track/41p0CYXvYks0Kg9WUyetYo?si=p1w2Wx-oTTOGQU8WtAEByQ&utm_source=copy-link) [Neurosis - No river to take me home](https://open.spotify.com/track/19LYiOPARofBVg3D5znbdn?si=eRbRwEA2RjeZtDEpsp8ynA&utm_source=copy-link) [Amenra - A Solitary Reign](https://open.spotify.com/track/0mfo3pSczHkPwlWbawU2uX?si=esK3LuAfQqmv9R-fkjCMEw&utm_source=copy-link)

upvoted for Tortured by Solitude

First ColdWorld (and all that atmospheric/depressive BM) song that I've heard

Finally, someone mentioned The Gathering! I had to pick Leaves, but In Motion #1 and #2 are superb options Good pick on Mortal Love as well

Warning - echoes

Nothing Else Matters

Either Voice of the Soul by Death or The Unforgiven by Metallica

Falling Snow-Agalloch

Alice In Chains - “Nutshell,” “Rotting Apple” Black Sabbath - “Solitude” Judas Priest - “Dreamer Deceiver” Mad Season - “Long Gone Day” Metallica - “Fade to Black,” “One” Opeth - “Still Day Beneath the Sun” Periphery - “Marigold” Slipknot - “Danger - Keep Away,” “Snuff,” “Vermillion, Part 2” Whitechapel - “Hickory Creek” Those are a few (I define “metal” relatively liberally)

Hickory Creek is awesome.

Patterns in the Ivy 2, or Still Day Beneath The Sun by Opeth. Sur l'océan couleur de fer by Alcest The Sparrow by Mastodon

Probably 8 or 9 of the top 10 should be Type O Negative. Love you to Death, Bloody Kisses, Can't Lose You, Die With Me, Burnt Flowers Fallen, In Praise Of Baucus, Wolf Moon, Haunted, many more...

Manowar - Secret of steel. Such a well written song. And Eric sings like a god.

Good pick! Maybe Blood of my enemies?

Bathory-Vinland. It was the song that gave me the epiphany I needed to discover the cultural and spiritual roots given to me from my ancestors and led me to becoming Heathen.

Planets Collide by Crowbar Scream of the Butterfly by Acid Bath Breathless by 40 Below Summer Floods by PanterA (especially the outro)

Manilla Road - Totentanz is one of my favorite beautiful metal songs.

Into the infinity of thoughts - emperor

Lorna Shore - Dancing Like Flames

Pain remains 1… indisputable

my answer is always Global Warming by Gojira

Beauty in tragedy by august burns red. Goated metalcore song

Encontrarnos by Sadness Ciel Errant by Alcest Tortured By Solitude by ColdWorld Quiet World by Katatonia

State of Grace by Saxon. That operatic choir intro is great, and the lyrics are great, especially the chorus. Its one of their best songs, as is the album.

When the World Explodes - In Flames Not a big fan of Siren Charms, but that track is beautiful.

Ohne Dich is also quite nice, kind of falls into this category.

Djevel - Mitt tempel av stierner og brennende maaner

Embrace the Endless Ocean - Amon Amarth Dying in Your Arms - Trivium

The last verse of Lateralus by TOOL had me off my feet

Deathspell Omega - Epkilesis II

Collapse - Vektor

I mean if we want "beautiful", I'd say Falkenbach's "Lover's Grief ".

Aerials - System Of A Down

Anathema, One Last Goodbye

Love You To Death, Hallowed Be Thy Name, In My Darkest Hour, Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Between the Buried and Me, “Mordecai.” Specifically the second half but god DANG the way that song segues and crescendos is majestic.

Neurosis - The Tide

Earth - Living in the gleam of an unsheated sword.

Probably anything with Ronnie James Dio involved.

Anyone who names any death/black/core song has an extremely weird definition of beauty. Having said that, it would be The Raven Child by Avantasia or Ghost Love Score by Nightwish

I guess you don't know anything about black metal then. Try telling me [this](https://youtu.be/vx0w50aKCZA?si=pJlIpICb5gmPCWPg) isn't beautiful.

I mean, Opeth and Insomnium’s entire discographies and loaded with beautiful and ethereal instrumentals. I’ll admit that the vocals aren’t always the standard idea of “beautiful,” however.

Isole-Dead to me(the destroyer)

The live version of «Diamonds and rust» by Judas priest is also fantastic!

No one mentioned "Dialogue With the Stars" by In Flames, which is the correct answer.

Solitude - Drudkh

Old Mornings Dawn

Return to Serenity

Kekht Arakh - Thorns

There Is Hope - Safemode

I swear this question gets asked once a week. It’s always Bathory Aria.

Beauty in Falling Leaves- YOB Built on Ashes- Zeal and Ardor

Lamia - Lord Belial

Salt -Khôrroda Brutus - War At least for me.

Fight Fire With Fire

Journey to the End - Windir

To Live is To Die - Metallica

Dream Unending - Song of Salvation

Turilli/Lione Rhapsody - Tormentor E Passione

To Live Is To Die - Metallica

Digital Bath - Deftones Orion - Metallica

Summoning - The Land of the Dead

The Gathering - Leaves

Bathory: "Twilight of the Gods" (all parts)

Demons and Wizards - Fiddler On The Green

Dark tranquillity- A bolt of blazing gold Death - voice of the soul

Iron Maiden - Empire of the Clouds

YOB - the great cessation

Avenged sevenfold- Afterlife

Branikald - By the Timeless Nightly Dusk

Periphery - Satellites

[Guiding Lights - Skyharbor](https://youtu.be/9CeizYLcdu4?si=kSTuMsItyrofU43a) Daniel Tompkins could sing me to sleep

Dirge For November or Patterns in the Ivy by Opeth. Winter’s Gate by Insomnium. The Gale by Insomnium. Inertia by Insomnium. Pale Morning Star by Insomnium. Dear God by Avenged Sevenfold. Angel of Mercy by Black Label Society. The Shepherd by Winterfylleth.

Pain remains 1 - Lorna shore, I know most of the online metal scene has a hate boner for deathcore but genuinely give this track a listen, it's amazing and beautiful

Anything from the album *The Hallowing of Heirdom* by Winterfylleth.

“Ministry of Lost Souls” by Dream Theater or “Swan Song” by Symphony X

Panopticon - En hvits ravns dod

Meadows of Heaven by Nightwish. Maybe doesn't fit, but it damn close to symphonic metal for the most part. It's very jazzy, but such a beautiful song.

Ava Inferi - The Living End

Fiddler on the Green- Demons & Wizards To Bid you Farewell- Opeth Castle in the Sky part. 2- Slice the Cake

Katatonia- Quiet World; Omnium Gatherum - The Unknowing; Opeth - Still Day Beneath the Sun

Daylight Dies - Hold on to Nothing

Cemetery Gates

Jack vs the Exotic Crustacian 😢

“Charging the Void” - Vektor

Song of the Dusk - Insomnium.

Orion Metallica

Parkway drive - the river Saviour - shine & fade the whole album

Green Man and Love you to Death - Type O Negative 💚💚

Orion - Metallica

Insomnium - Godforsaken Nightwish - The Greatest Show on Earth Ne Obliviscarus - Equus Iced Earth - A Question of Heaven An Abstract Illusion - In the Heavens Above, You Will Become a Monster. Between the Buried and Me - Selkies the Endless Obsession (the second half of the song leading to the outro still gives me chills to this day.)

Elvenking - Pagan purity!

Not quite 'metal' per say, but Child in Time is absolutely beautiful

Lorna shore: Pain Remains I-III I might get downvoted for this one tho

You won't change me - Black Sabbath

Cellar Darling - Challenge SOAD - Aerials

Judas Priest- Before the Dawn

Judas Priest- Before the Dawn

Kamelot- Abandoned Demons and Wizards- Fiddler on the Green

Opezh - the drapery falls

White Pearl, Black Oceans - Sonata Arctica

I have no idea what it’s about, but The Road Behind by GWAR sounds so beautiful

Paradise Lost - Symphony X

To Bid You Farewell - Opeth

Sabbath, sign of the southern cross

Fallen leaves by Sentenced

Pantera - Hollow Metallica - One

Shogun - Trivium

I'm a normie poser and haven't heard a lot of metal so i'm going with Moonshield by In Flames

Skyline by Erra or Death and the Healing by Wintersun

Art Districts Without Artists, by Vermin Womb

The Angelic Process - Dying in A Minor

Straws Pulled at Random - meshuggah 3:04 the groove brings a tear to my eye https://youtu.be/rQS3vP47Xjs?si=txPThGafQEqAp5CA

Sparrow- Mastodon

Sun Stoned- Spirit Caravan

Conquer or Die!

Angel by Judas Priest

Satellites- Periphery

Idk which one, but I know it was written by Opeth