I love this band. Every reaction channel reviews The Divine Wings Of Tragedy and The Odyssey. They are good ones but if you want to do something different than all the other channels you can try Through The Looking Glass, The Accolade, Candlelight Fantasia, or To Hell And Back
a lot of symphony x's songs should be listed to as whole albums. they are metal operas, for example Iconoclast is about an AI that brings about armageddon, or the new mythology suite tells the tale of the fall of atlantis and the death and rediscovery of ma'at's teachings.
Symphony X suffers the same thing as many other Prog Metal bands do, but they just sound better doing it; they haven't learned that sometimes less is more. Take classic bands like Yes and Rush, they knew when to hold back. You had guitarists like Steve Howe whose solos were off-beat, and weird sounding, but rarely played an actual solo despite playing lead riffs throughout many Yes songs. Then you had Alex Lifeson who could shred with the top tier of the shredders, but held back to weave in rhythms, and oddball chord arrangements while the bass or drums took the spotlight for a few seconds and on many songs, never even played a solo or lead section despite the insane talent he has for doing so. Symphony X kills me because these guys are good, they're really fucking good! But their really early songs are just so far out in Left Field, that you can't wrap your brain around the instrumentation, or their newer stuff is super loud and heavy with just a wall of sound being blasted at you. IMO they reached their peak at The Odyssey in the early 2000's, with the right blend of complexity and melody. Before that, their songs would just kind of trail off and lose you in the cosmos, and after, they would cause blunt force trauma to your ears.
BTW the lead singer of Symphony X is also one of the singers of Trans Siberian Orchestra.
You have to play The Odyssey by them!! Lots of time signature change ups.
And it’s the 2112 of Symphony X
The Walls of Babylon should be your next listen. It's got it all.
Every Symphony X song is very unique in a way
Keep going, you'll be surprised very often
I love this band. Every reaction channel reviews The Divine Wings Of Tragedy and The Odyssey. They are good ones but if you want to do something different than all the other channels you can try Through The Looking Glass, The Accolade, Candlelight Fantasia, or To Hell And Back
A full listen right through of V is something I rarely see, but is is my favourite from them.
you will go down a rabbit hole of madness riffs and beautifull melody!! trust me!!
Walls of Babylon for their heavier side or The divine wings of tragedy if you want an epic 30 min prog song
Divine wings of tragedy is phenomenal
Divine Wings is only 20 minutes. The Odyssey is 24. Both good choices. Though this band has no bad songs, so it really doesn´t matter.
This has become one of my favorite bands
a lot of symphony x's songs should be listed to as whole albums. they are metal operas, for example Iconoclast is about an AI that brings about armageddon, or the new mythology suite tells the tale of the fall of atlantis and the death and rediscovery of ma'at's teachings.
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The Odyssey
Walls of Babylon
For me the best Symphony X song is Awakenings. You can try it.
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Symphony X suffers the same thing as many other Prog Metal bands do, but they just sound better doing it; they haven't learned that sometimes less is more. Take classic bands like Yes and Rush, they knew when to hold back.
You had guitarists like Steve Howe whose solos were off-beat, and weird sounding, but rarely played an actual solo despite playing lead riffs throughout many Yes songs. Then you had Alex Lifeson who could shred with the top tier of the shredders, but held back to weave in rhythms, and oddball chord arrangements while the bass or drums took the spotlight for a few seconds and on many songs, never even played a solo or lead section despite the insane talent he has for doing so.
Symphony X kills me because these guys are good, they're really fucking good! But their really early songs are just so far out in Left Field, that you can't wrap your brain around the instrumentation, or their newer stuff is super loud and heavy with just a wall of sound being blasted at you. IMO they reached their peak at The Odyssey in the early 2000's, with the right blend of complexity and melody. Before that, their songs would just kind of trail off and lose you in the cosmos, and after, they would cause blunt force trauma to your ears.