Loud, epic and powerful music!

[Wadders]

Hello there Escapists, I'm currently working on a University essay due in about 23 hours, and I'm in dire need of aural inspiration and motivation, so lets hear your favourite peices of epic music!

Anything with a choir, an orchestra, whatever really, just as long as its awesome and in a similar vein to the songs below.

Here's a couple of easy ones to get the ball rolling, bring it on

 

[TornadoFive]

Damn! I saw the title and was all ready to bust out the Two Steps From Hell guns . . . and saw you'd already put that down. As a back-up I'd recomend X-Ray Dog. Not quite as good as TSFH in my opinion, but still some damn fine stuff.

 

[ChippedShoulder]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFo28_VbQf4 I just heard it and i love it.
(Would it be inappropriate for me to ask how to put videos on the actual page rather than links?)
Edit: Here is the actual video. v=vFo28_VbQf4

 

[viranimus]

for loud, powerful and epic how can you avoid two steps from hell.


Ill throw this one in on the fire as well.

 

[Marter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFo28_VbQf4 I just heard it and i love it.
(Would it be inappropriate for me to ask how to put videos on the actual page rather than links?)

Take the "vFo28_VbQf4" part of your YouTube link and put at the end of this type of tag: [ youtube=]. (Just without the space at the front).

 

[Au Naturel.]

All of Daisuke Ishiwatari's work! Brilliant composer, my favorite in the videogame industry right now!

Check out Overture's version of Holy Orders!

 

[TheHecatomb]

TornadoFive, that's an awesome avatar.

Personally I'd go for something like this but I guess most people on these boards will definitely not appreciate it.

Spoiler: Evil Activities vs. Tha Playah - Imperial

 

[emeraldrafael]

I'll just quote myself here:

Then again...
<spoiler=I got a 40 dollar ticket from police for playing this really loud at 6 am in the morning><youtube=KyBhBfuXdPs>

Which is crap, cause no one even cared and afterword I had people laughing about it when we had block parties (it became a regular song). But meh.

it works, its funny, and if you have any WKUK they'll appreciate it.

As for EPIC:
<spoiler=Cant go wrong with some AiC><youtube=uAE6Il6OTcs><youtube=ODTv9Lt5WYs>

 

[tris4992]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2W1Wi2U9sQ

really nobody posted overture yet ? its the first song that came to my mind when I saw this thread

 

[MarkDavis94]

Not exactly the same type of music but the lyrics have a powerful meaning, and its just an epic song.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

TornadoFive, that's an awesome avatar.

Personally I'd go for something like this but I guess most people on these boards will definitely not appreciate it.

Spoiler: Evil Activities vs. Tha Playah - Imperial

Spoiler: Evil Activities vs. Tha Playah - Imperial

Well some of us like it. (Aka me) But I guess most people outside of Holland wont really like it.

Cant go wrong with Poisonblack.

Spoiler: Poisonblack - Lowlife

<youtube=MIpL_jZQlOM>

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

Let's avoid linking Ghost Love Score by Nightwish. We'll get fucking sued or something.

How about some E.S. Posthumus instead.
Can't go wrong with those guys.

 

[The Apothecarry]

Look up Jeremy Soule or Martin O'Donnell. They have some great scores for games.

Soule:
-Total Annihilation
-Dawn of War
-The Elder Scrolls IV/V

O'Donnell:
-Halo

As for my personal tastes, I'd go with Slipknot, Chevelle, or Tool.

 

[Ponce Master-General]

I know this isn't what you specified, but GOD DAMN this song is so epic.

 

[WendelI]

Globus- Take Me Away [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6KilO_AiZU]
It takes a while to get started but hell is it fun.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

I'd say this should suffice

 

[InsomniJack]

Only one thing to do in this thread:

Spoiler

 

[Chromatic Aberration]

Orchestral Epicness? I can provide that. Here you go:

Spoiler: Echoes Of War - Eradicate and Evolve (Starcraft Zerg Themes)

Spoiler: The Orchestral Game Concert #5 - Meridian Child (Seiken Densetsu 3)

Spoiler: Akiko Shikata - Katayoku no Tori

And if you also like something more metallish - how about the Illiad and the Odyssey in metal?

Spoiler: Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence

Spoiler: Symphony X - The Odyssey

 

[dkcecil]

Tacere

I love these guys.


and how about one of the most epic metal bands ever:

Blind Guardian

 

[Austichar]

Mestecanis - Bucovina [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k32xONvGApk] Seriously epic ass song from a band in Romania. It's really good for midevil settings (fits Dragon Age perfectly for example)