Softer songs by Metal bands

[rockbrigade]

ive been putting together a nice playlist on my ipod for just chilling out, and basically im asking for sudgestions along the lines of

running blind - godsmack
voices (acoustic) - godsmack
chasing blue sky - queensryche
nothing else matter - metallica
hotel california ft Eric Clapton - eagles
covered in rain - john mayer
etc

so if anyone has any sudgestions that would kind of fit into this "category" (kind of prog???) or "mood" it'd be appreciated.

my favorite of these is running blind by godsmack, so any more sudgestions of chilled out godsmack, it would be especially appreciated

basically, softer songs by good metal/prog bands that would fit in a playlist like the ones i put above....any sudgestions?

[Riva]

I don't think you meant it to sound like that, but you know that The Eagles and John Mayer aren't metal, right?

[Toaster]

Well, they sort of are. If extreme death/grind counts as metal.

[Riva]

Wrong thread?

You want the any other death heads?, that is on floor 4, with Ladieswear and Perfume.

[Toaster]

No, bad joke. :(

Seriously, From Eden Estranged by Augury is a chilled song that I really like. You'll get a lot of Opeth recommendations - they released an entire album of soft songs.

[rockbrigade]

I don't think you meant it to sound like that, but you know that The Eagles and John Mayer aren't metal, right?

no i didnt mean it to sound like that, i just thoiught they went nice with my playlist so they are on there lol


but ya, as i said, im lookin for a few chill out songs that are well done...and usaully this best accomplished by metal/prog bands so that it doesnt turn into a ballad emo fest... :)

[Sleeper]

*waits for the swarm of Opeth songs*

[thegrimjester90]

Anything out of Damnation (soft album Toaster was talking about) by Opeth.

[rockbrigade]

i just skimmed a bit of a listen to that opeth album damnation and its close...but maybe just a little slighty "darker" mood then what i had in mind...

[Chu]

Metallica - Fade To Black, and, Metallica - Sanitarium?

[Sleeper]

Fear Factory - Bite The Hand That Bleeds

[Chu]

Harvest by Opeth :D

It's pretty happy, at least i think so, very chilled out at least.

[G_Mac07]

Guns N' Roses - Patience, Knocking On Heavens Door, Don't Cry & November Rain
Nevermore' - The Heart Collector & Sentient 6

[actionfan32]

Don't know if these are exactly what you're looking for, but...

My Dying Bride - Sear Me MCMXCIII
Novembers Doom - Autumn Reflection
Opeth - The Drapery Falls

And as G_Mac07 said, Nevermore - The Heart Collector and Sentient 6.

[rockbrigade]

ya that opeth song harvest is more like it :)

and also someone sudgested pantera planet caravan...i like that as well

[Chu]

There's more Opeth similar to Harvest, the whole Blackwater Park is an amazing listen, although it does get pretty damn heavy at some stages, it's just one of those albums you can have playing in the backround, concintrating on other things, but still listen to it.

Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde

[rockbrigade]

i do have a tout le monde, ..thanks for reminding me to put it on my list lol

[Chu]

Megadeth - Forclosure of a Dream? I don't actually like it that much, but meh, it might fit the requirements?

You might enjoy Metallica's Orion, and The Call of The Ktulu, although not really what you're looking for, they're instrumentals, get a bit heavy in some parts, but they're very chilled.

[Jacaranda]

hotel california ft Eric Clapton - eagles
wait what.
good job limewire you tricked another idiot!

[Txus]

Just listen to Rodrigo y Gabriela. Awesome stuff, not Metal..but they are really damn good :)

[Chu]

That was kinda uncalled for.

[rockbrigade]

wait what.
good job limewire you tricked another idiot!

its a live version that has some differnt guitar played over....so it seems legit to be listed as "eaglies featuring eric clapton"... or am i just totally wrong? lol

[Det_Nosnip]

While you're on the subject of Opeth, "Face of Melinda" is another great example.

Green Carnation would be another great band - "The Burden is Mine" is a fantastic track in the vein of what you're describing, as is "Sweet Leaf" and "Alone."

Katatonia - Omerta possibly, although the subject matter is rather dark. "Deliberation" and "My Twin" aren't really ballady, but they might work.

"Intrinsic" by After Forever is great.

[Jacaranda]

I'm fairly sure its just Joe Walsh live.

[chorbalan]

Faerum Aeternum by Ensiferum is pretty soft, and folky throughout the entire thing, it actually has no metal in it when I think about it.

[exojjl]

Meshuggah - Acrid Placidity
Pantera - This love
Pantera - cemetary gates
Mudvayne - dig
Meshuggah - sum
Slayer - Seasons in the abyss
King Crimson - (any song will do really!)
Slayer - South of heaven
Jimi Hendrix, Led zeppelin, Neil Young,
****, PINK FLOYDof coarse! Cream.
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Anthrax - I am the law
Do not, what so ever put Metallica on your playlist although they are a chill band, every song of theirs is chill and that's why they ****in suck the **** alot!
Oh, How could I forget, ISIS, chill but heavy. Visionists with a fairly deep spiritual aspect in their writing process.
Mr. Bungle - what song? I don't know, choose any. they're chill, then BAMM! 10 seconds later they **** you up, then bamm, your listening to latin music, then KABAAMOOO KABOMMMIe!!! yor listening to hawaiian music, then ASHSTII WERT MEtal music, then like, KABAMM chill music, then KABAMMOOOOO!!AGAIN! your listening to some other genre of music and THEN KABAMM you hear like 40 different genres of music all on one album and avreage like 6 genres in 1 one songs and it all flows perfect to appear to listeners of any genre of music assuming they can chill out enough to actually listen to the ****ing music man!

[Apocalyptic Raids]

Darkness Descends? I assume that was sarcasm :|

[Steerpike]

Land of the Miracle - Edguy
Purple Heart - Sabaton
Only You Can Save Me - The 69 Eyes (yes, it's basically a Christian song, but don't let that scare you)
I Love the Night - Blue Oyster Cult
Starfire - DragonForce
Forgive and Forget - Human Fortress
Send Me an Angel - Scorpions
You Awful Me - Gotham Road
Send Me on My Way - Rusted Root

That should help you out.

[Wish]

Mudvayne - digGoodbye would be a better choice imo

Machine Head - The Burning Red/Descend The Shades Of Night.
Dream Theater - Through Her Eyes.

[Stoo]

Meshuggah - Acrid Placidity
Pantera - This love
Pantera - cemetary gates
Mudvayne - dig
Meshuggah - sum
Slayer - Seasons in the abyss
King Crimson - (any song will do really!)
Slayer - South of heaven
Jimi Hendrix, Led zeppelin, Neil Young,
****, PINK FLOYDof coarse! Cream.
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Anthrax - I am the law
Do not, what so ever put Metallica on your playlist although they are a chill band, every song of theirs is chill and that's why they ****in suck the **** alot!
Oh, How could I forget, ISIS, chill but heavy. Visionists with a fairly deep spiritual aspect in their writing process.
Mr. Bungle - what song? I don't know, choose any. they're chill, then BAMM! 10 seconds later they **** you up, then bamm, your listening to latin music, then KABAAMOOO KABOMMMIe!!! yor listening to hawaiian music, then ASHSTII WERT MEtal music, then like, KABAMM chill music, then KABAMMOOOOO!!AGAIN! your listening to some other genre of music and THEN KABAMM you hear like 40 different genres of music all on one album and avreage like 6 genres in 1 one songs and it all flows perfect to appear to listeners of any genre of music assuming they can chill out enough to actually listen to the ****ing music man!


What the ****?

South Of Heaven
Darkness Descends?

Tool.

And I mean you're a ****ing Tool, I'm not suggesting a band.

[Mother]

into eternity - buried into oblivion , morose seclusion

[Steve DeBerg]

Casting Shade - Shadows Fall
Inhale - Killswitch Engage

Both instrumentals but they should do the trick.

[bebubly]

system of a down - roulette??

[infinitestrain]

I second Opeth's tunes. The Drapery Falls is a good one to listen to. If Damnation is not mellow enough to chill out to, then what kind of slow metal songs we talkin'? Because when I read in this earlier you said that you liked the Eagles? That isnt metal if you ask me. If your not really in a metal setting you should check out Porcupine Tree Waiting Phase 1 or something like that.

[Tyr]

Since you had Chasing Blue Sky by Queensrÿche on the list, you might want to check out The Lady Wore Black and Roads to Madness by them.

[GrantHatfield]

Try maybe these if there your cup of tea:

Dream Theater - Images and Words (the song).
Judas Priest - Try maybe either Dreamer Deciever or Deciever, one is soft.
Alice in Chains - Rooster, (I'm sure there are others).
Nightwish - Ever Dream, Ocean Soul, Feel For You, (If you can appreciate the various orchestrated parts and the quality of Tarja's voice).
Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do
Led Zeppelin - Rain Song, Stairway to Heaven, (just check out Led Zeppelin III, theres around six acoustic songs on there, great album.)

I could go on forever, hope this helped, tried to add some variety.

[VomitStainedCretin]

Try maybe these if there your cup of tea:

Dream Theater - Images and Words (the song).
Judas Priest - Try maybe either Dreamer Deciever or Deciever, one is soft.
Alice in Chains - Rooster, (I'm sure there are others).
Nightwish - Ever Dream, Ocean Soul, Feel For You, (If you can appreciate the various orchestrated parts and the quality of Tarja's voice).
Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do
Led Zeppelin - Rain Song, Stairway to Heaven, (just check out Led Zeppelin III, theres around six acoustic songs on there, great album.)

I could go on forever, hope this helped, tried to add some variety.

Yeah, add anything off Jar of Flies & Sap, plus Down in a Hole & Would? from Dirt and Frogs from the s/t (although virtually all AIC soft material is depressing, so don't come here for happy stuff)

Tool - Disposition/Reflection off Lateralus, Third Eye off Aenima (although it gets quite heavy at points).

In Flames - Evil in a Closet

At the Gates - Into the Dead Sky (instrumental)

I second Into Eternity and Opeth :thumb:

[Josh]

Iron Maiden - Journeyman (acoustic ballad!!)
Shadows Fall - Lead Me Home (just awesome!)
Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On (also awesome)

[Bartender]

Gordian Knot - Reflections
Cynic - Textures, Sentiment
Devin Townsend - Down and Under
earthtone 9 - binary101
Botch - Afghamistam
Meads of Asphodel - Guts For Sale

A bunch of songs by Miocene, too.

[Sleepy]

Deftones - Beware
Novembre - Child of the Twilight
Alice in Chains - We Die Young

[Kage]

Beware gets pretty damn heavy, bro!

[Fuel0262]

ha i love it how you have godsmack, queensryche, metallica,
and then
eagles and john mayer
anyway, check out "Believe" by Savatage, great ballad

[Apocalypticon]

Believe in Nothing - Nevermore
A Pastoral Theme - Empyrium
Honsfebilde(sp) - Ulver
You Were but a Ghost in my Arms - Agalloch
Benighted - Opeth
The Process of Suffocation - Pestilence
Svieri Doroga - Kalmah
The Cranes Will Never Return Here - Drudkh
The Crying Orc - Burzum

[Benzum]

Lyzanixa have some fantastic mellow tracks. A lot has already been mentioned.

[GrantHatfield]

Ah another Dream Theater fan, The Spirit Carries On is from a phenominal album, just wow! Before this album Scenes From A Memory I couldn't stand Dream Theater.

Someone mentioned In Flames am I the only one that just loves Satelites and Astronautes?

[ATM]

I love the commercial for the album of 80's metal ballads, and the guy is like "every metalhead has his soft side!"

[Det_Nosnip]

Oh, yeah...there's always "Every Rose Has Its Thorns." :lol:

[ATM]

http://image.listen.com/img/356x237/4/2/4/1/651424_356x237.jpg

hahah

[Epsilon]

Insomnium - Moment Of Reckoning (...most of it)
Iced Earth - Ghost Of Freedom
In Flames - Come Clarity
Blind Guardian - Skalds & Shadows
Amon Amarth - Under The Northern Star
At The Gates - Into The Dead Sky
Opeth - Isolation Years
Swallow The Sun - Hold This Woe

[Huber]

This might be kinda off the wall, but give Tool - Intension a try.

[Defender0FmetaL]

Manowar - The Crown And The Ring (Lament Of The Kings)

Demons & Wizards - Wicked Witch, Fiddler On The Green

Edguy - Sands of Time, Another Time

Bathory - Ring of Gold, The Ravens

Black Label Society - In This River, The Last Goodbye

Cromok - Another You (Instrumental)

Accept - Mistreated

[loathed]

Stone Sour - Through Glass

A suprisingly good ballad/song!

Unearth - Aries

[Iceman-rocker]

GREENDAY!!!!!!! OMGZORS!!!

how about.. uh touche (from godsmacks acoustic)
hmm. tons of tool songs are chill. -Lost keys(blame hoffman)
its a buncha cool noises. :)

[Suicide_Punishment]

Iced Earth-Watching over me,Question of heaven.

[Apocalypticon]

Stone Sour - Through Glass

A suprisingly good ballad/song!

Unearth - Aries
You're joking me right. Stone Sour aren't even metal.

[Det_Nosnip]

Right, but John Mayer is...:rolleyes:

[loathed]

Right, but John Mayer is...

:lol: Thanks...

You're joking me right. Stone Sour aren't even metal.

Whether they're metal or not remains debatable...but im just saying through glass is a good song

[rhcp pman]

No, bad joke. :(

Seriously, From Eden Estranged by Augury is a chilled song that I really like. You'll get a lot of Opeth recommendations - they released an entire album of soft songs.
Agreed - Augury is pure awesomeness.

Get Kamelot - Regalis Apertura. It is soft, but I don't know if it's in the vein of what you're looking for. Either way, it's probably my favourite album intro ever.

[Eliminator]

dude opeth have like tons of soft parts man listen to damnation dude seriously

[Kyle]

If your really into Godsmack then Alice In Chains is the only way to go. Not only did Godsmack take their name from an AIC song, but their sound is completely ripped off from them.

Any of their slow/acoustic stuff would work...

Rooster
No Excuses
Rotten Apple
Nutshell

etc

[Stoo]

GREENDAY!!!!!!! OMGZORS!!!

how about.. uh touche (from godsmacks acoustic)
hmm. tons of tool songs are chill. -Lost keys(blame hoffman)its a buncha cool noises. :)

Cool? Noises. No. Just crap.

[exojjl]

Darkness Descends? I assume that was sarcasm :|

goddamn ****in right! I think it was you who recommened Dark Angel to me in one of my threads, i downloaded some songs, damn, they are frikkin sweet! I thought Slayer was fast....Dark angel has to be faster! I gotta check them out more, been looking for their albums but it appears I gotta special order them or find em used. **** man. Anyways, "seasons in the abyss" is pretty chill........for a slayer song! hmm

Sepultura - "Kaiowas"
check it out.

[exojjl]

Cool? Noises. No. Just crap.

Well if he was reaching for the best chill TOOL song, he obviously meant to say "Parabol" or "Eon Blue Apocalypse". Then followed by "Triad" then track 69 on the album "Undertow" followed by the rest of the segues like blame hoffman and all the other segues on 10,000 days. Mynards dick is chill and funnie, and it's acoustic.

[EinzingerIsGod]

Mynards dick is chill and funnie

You had a reasonable argument until here.

[ArcLite]

Meshuggah - Acrid Placidity
Pantera - This love
Pantera - cemetary gates
Mudvayne - dig
Meshuggah - sum
Slayer - Seasons in the abyss
King Crimson - (any song will do really!)
Slayer - South of heaven
Jimi Hendrix, Led zeppelin, Neil Young,
****, PINK FLOYDof coarse! Cream.
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Anthrax - I am the law
Do not, what so ever put Metallica on your playlist although they are a chill band, every song of theirs is chill and that's why they ****in suck the **** alot!
Oh, How could I forget, ISIS, chill but heavy. Visionists with a fairly deep spiritual aspect in their writing process.
Mr. Bungle - what song? I don't know, choose any. they're chill, then BAMM! 10 seconds later they **** you up, then bamm, your listening to latin music, then KABAAMOOO KABOMMMIe!!! yor listening to hawaiian music, then ASHSTII WERT MEtal music, then like, KABAMM chill music, then KABAMMOOOOO!!AGAIN! your listening to some other genre of music and THEN KABAMM you hear like 40 different genres of music all on one album and avreage like 6 genres in 1 one songs and it all flows perfect to appear to listeners of any genre of music assuming they can chill out enough to actually listen to the ****ing music man!


http://i13.tinypic.com/483a0d5.jpg

Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green

[Frankensteinke]

Don't know if any of these have been mentioned or not, but these come to mind--

Cemetary Gates- Pantera
The Blessed Hellride- Black Label Society
Nothing Else Matters- Metallica
Fade to Black- Metallica
Knockin' on Heavens Door- Guns N' Roses
Patience- Guns N' Roses
Beth- Kiss
Fall to Pieces- Velvet Revolver

[Otisbum]

@Frankensteinke: Those last 4 aren't really metal, but still good songs.

Demon Hunter - My Heartstrings Come Undone
Demon Hunter - One Thousand Apologies
For metalcore/nu-metal fans.

Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Avenged Sevenfold - Seize The Day
Pantera - Hollow
Other metal.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[loathed]

Demon Hunter - My Heartstrings Come Undone
Demon Hunter - One Thousand Apologies

Hell yes! :thumb:

and also...

Demon Hunter - The tide begin to rise