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L3gb3rt t1_ixov6ge wrote

Rachmaninoff anyone? Dude shreds.

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DucksVersusWombats t1_ixonv01 wrote

"Metal"? I feel like metal implies big riffs and is not particularly about subtlety, so Beethoven out of those three for sure. Probably Beethoven Uber alles.

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nobecauselogic t1_ixp5erg wrote

“Bach gave us God's word. Mozart gave us God's laughter. Beethoven gave us God's fire.” So, yeah. Beethoven.

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as_it_was_written t1_ixp13zb wrote

Yeah, I came here to say Beethoven. This cover of the third movement of his Moonlight Sonata makes the case better than I could with words.

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fredmull1973 t1_ixou2wz wrote

Stravinsky Rite of Spring, Firebird.

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana - O Fortuna.

Holst - planets - Mars, Bringer of War.

Random Wagner shit.

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elfmachine100 t1_ixoon9h wrote

Probably Mozart. His epics are pretty metal.

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JRokafela t1_ixopjwg wrote

Definitely Mozart, fuckin rebel, very 'metal'

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MikeW226 t1_ixorksq wrote

Bach is such a badass on the pipe organ. Too many Fantasia's and Fugues to mention, but damn, that dude was the GOAT. His Mass in B Minor ain't bad either.

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SpaceCoast42 t1_ixorzz6 wrote

Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" is pretty metal: https://youtu.be/5HgqPpjIH5c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonie_fantastique

One specific part of this is the fourth movement: IV. "Marche au supplice" (March to the scaffold)

Convinced that his love is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium. The dose of narcotic, while too weak to cause his death, plunges him into a heavy sleep accompanied by the strangest of visions. He dreams that he has killed his beloved, that he is condemned, led to the scaffold and is witnessing his own execution. The procession advances to the sound of a march that is sometimes sombre and wild, and sometimes brilliant and solemn, in which a dull sound of heavy footsteps follows without transition the loudest outbursts. At the end of the march, the first four bars of the idée fixe reappear like a final thought of love interrupted by the fatal blow.

Berlioz claimed to have written the fourth movement in a single night, reconstructing music from an unfinished project, the opera Les francs-juges.[8] The movement begins with timpani sextuplets in thirds, for which he directs: "The first quaver of each half-bar is to be played with two drumsticks, and the other five with the right hand drumsticks". The movement proceeds as a march filled with blaring horns and rushing passages, and scurrying figures that later show up in the last movement.

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cerebral_grooves t1_ixoz9b0 wrote

Richard Wagner

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Hammerhandle t1_ixp4ksc wrote

Yeah, when I think of intense orchestral music, Ride of the Valkyries is always the first thing to come to mind.

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SabreG t1_ixp16aa wrote

You are definitely looking at mid-to-late Romantic era orchestral composers. Mahler, Bruckner, Berlioz, Wagner, Bartok... even some of Grieg's works are pretty metal. Of you want to look a little later, Shostakovich might be a good candidate. An honorable mention goes to Tchaikovsky for being one of few composers to include a battery of cannon in his percussion section (the "1812"-overture).

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bluerodeosexshow OP t1_ixp4cbg wrote

Thanks for the response. I’m not looking for any particular era just classical that’s got that heavy sound.

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KODO5555 t1_ixp6w25 wrote

Listen to the second movement of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony it is literal head banging music.

Also the Dies Irae from Verdi’s Requiem.

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navywater t1_ixp4uhm wrote

Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky

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357Magnum t1_ixp5axz wrote

How has no one said Mahler yet?

Strongly recommend his 2nd and 6th symphony

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fusionsofwonder t1_ixpd3kg wrote

Tchaikovsky used cannons. Literally metal.

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THE_MANTELOPE t1_ixosqni wrote

ive seen vivaldi’s la folia being described as “metal”. Dance of Knights by Prokiev has some dope beat drops. In terms of emotional output, im a fan of a modern piece called “The moon over the ruined castle” by Rentaro Taki and Georg Friedrich Haas has some cool stuff

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TheJ-Cube t1_ixoyfd9 wrote

Dave Beeth-Oven is most excellent!

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smileymn t1_ixp02ij wrote

Lutoslawski for a good time

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Lazy-Lawfulness3472 t1_ixp4kr5 wrote

Mozart-hes intense with the 32nd notes and 16th notes riding the ruthems behind the scenes. He's one complicated dude.

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SnooCats2404 t1_ixp5ij4 wrote

No no no y’all… he means METAL. I say Schwantner. “…from a dark millennium”

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Sol5960 t1_ixp6lo1 wrote

Mahler. His shit is turbo dark, massive, resonant and a bit soul-killing.

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SternLecture t1_ixp6xrd wrote

There is a banging YouTube video of I think it's bach fugue in g minor. It rips.

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gypsybiker t1_ixpbi9v wrote

Beethoven, yes.

Mahler!!! Wagner!!

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Clivodota t1_ixq5vsc wrote

Rachmaninoff prelude in c sharp minor. 🤘

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Biomasssa t1_ixsyz16 wrote

Paganini. Caprice #5, Caprice#2

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Viperzz3 t1_ixothna wrote

Joseph Hayden, he wrote surprise symphony’s and his music was very intense at points

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