Competitive_Vast9832 t1_ixomplz wrote on November 25, 2022 at 1:59 AM

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Bartok "Allegro Barbaro"

DucksVersusWombats t1_ixonv01 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 2:09 AM

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"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.

elfmachine100 t1_ixoon9h wrote on November 25, 2022 at 2:16 AM

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Probably Mozart. His epics are pretty metal.

[deleted] t1_ixopb95 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 2:23 AM

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pancake_highfives t1_ixopexa wrote on November 25, 2022 at 2:23 AM

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Respighi

JRokafela t1_ixopjwg wrote on November 25, 2022 at 2:25 AM

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Replying to elfmachine100 (#659,948)

Definitely Mozart, fuckin rebel, very 'metal'

bluerodeosexshow OP t1_ixoqpi2 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 2:35 AM

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Replying to elfmachine100 (#659,948)

What are some of epics I should be checking out good sir?

Ghostlucho29 t1_ixordsq wrote on November 25, 2022 at 2:41 AM

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Replying to DucksVersusWombats (#659,858)

This is the only definitively “correct” answer

MikeW226 t1_ixorksq wrote on November 25, 2022 at 2:43 AM

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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.

SpaceCoast42 t1_ixorzz6 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 2:47 AM

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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.

BlackHoleHalibut t1_ixos7vv wrote on November 25, 2022 at 2:49 AM

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Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring thrashes.

THE_MANTELOPE t1_ixosqni wrote on November 25, 2022 at 2:54 AM

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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

Viperzz3 t1_ixothna wrote on November 25, 2022 at 3:01 AM

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

berger3001 t1_ixotpyf wrote on November 25, 2022 at 3:03 AM

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Replying to SpaceCoast42 (#660,345)

I’d say more prog rock

fredmull1973 t1_ixou2wz wrote on November 25, 2022 at 3:06 AM

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Stravinsky Rite of Spring, Firebird.

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana - O Fortuna.

Holst - planets - Mars, Bringer of War.

Random Wagner shit.

Tarkus-OR t1_ixoulak wrote on November 25, 2022 at 3:11 AM

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Replying to Competitive_Vast9832 (#659,724)

Which Emerson, Lake, and Palmer covered (as “The Barbarian”).

L3gb3rt t1_ixov6ge wrote on November 25, 2022 at 3:16 AM

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Rachmaninoff anyone? Dude shreds.

teotronix t1_ixovdcn wrote on November 25, 2022 at 3:18 AM

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modest mussorgsky has some heft https://youtu.be/iCEDfZgDPS8

TheJ-Cube t1_ixoyfd9 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 3:45 AM

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Dave Beeth-Oven is most excellent!

[deleted] t1_ixoyqjy wrote on November 25, 2022 at 3:48 AM

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Replying to Tarkus-OR (#660,705)

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cerebral_grooves t1_ixoz9b0 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 3:53 AM

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Richard Wagner

smileymn t1_ixp02ij wrote on November 25, 2022 at 4:00 AM

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Lutoslawski for a good time

bluerodeosexshow OP t1_ixp066v wrote on November 25, 2022 at 4:01 AM

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Replying to MikeW226 (#660,285)

Any particular pieces I should be listening to

bluerodeosexshow OP t1_ixp0ona wrote on November 25, 2022 at 4:06 AM

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Replying to fredmull1973 (#660,624)

Thanks for the pieces. I’ll be checking these out for sure. And Wagner is the bomb

as_it_was_written t1_ixp13zb wrote on November 25, 2022 at 4:10 AM

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Replying to DucksVersusWombats (#659,858)

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.

SabreG t1_ixp16aa wrote on November 25, 2022 at 4:10 AM

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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).