hessian's Journal: Classical music for metal fans

I went from being a metalhead who had a couple classical albums to a classical and metal listener. The two musics are really similar: like metal, classical strings together a series of riffs to tell a story.

My favorite composers are:

• Franz Schubert
• Ottorino Respighi
• Gustav Faure
• Anton Bruckner
• Camille Saint-Saens
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Robert Schumann

All of these dudes are extremely "metal": stormy, powerful, dark and lawless music.

Some of my transition was inspired by the Talk Classical metal forum and "Classical Music for Metal Fans".

Anyone else listen to classical?

Metal and Classical

[RailGunner]

You might also check out Mozart - Symphony No. 25 has got an edge to it - so does the Requiem Mass (Confutatis especially, which Trans-Siberian Orchestra has done a metal version of), and Rondo Alla Turca has had a metal version of it done by Scatterbrain.
J.S. Bach also is recommended (they call some of the 80's metal 'Bach Rock' for a reason).

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[pudge_confirmer]

You know, it is almost like you and cgn share the same tastes. Good taste, if I do say.