Symphony X Candlelight Fantasia

[apatheist89]

This song is about a talented artist that just does not get any credit with his work and when he dies all will be forgotten and his art will not live on. I hope Symphony X will not have that fate.

[MrMrFreddy]

This is art.

[kobana23]

I can't stop listening to this! <3

[metalicarus2008]

perfeito, baita dinamica do caramba...

[jebemumater666]

great music.. it's hard to get used to their new style.. i like the old albums better.

[anthrmthrfckr]

Lonely roses slowly wither and DIIIIEEEEE!!!

[cpuser37]

1:08

MediEvil anyone?

[ihatebobsaget1989]

this whole album seems like it would be a soundtrack for diablo 2.

[1bol1]

@ihatebobsaget1989 well the album and the game are FUCKING EPIC

[ihatebobsaget1989]

@1bol1 diablo 2 was awesome

[1bol1]

@ihatebobsaget1989 Exactly! although i haven't played it very much

[ihatebobsaget1989]

Respond to this video... romeo's lead guitar is amazing.

[kobana23]

This is one of their best songs, among the The Divine Wings of Tragedy, The Odyssey, Thorugh the Looking Glass and both Accolades :)

[kiwiteepee]

I first heard this song while on Acid.  :3

[steininja]

@kiwiteepee shiiiit

[trancerecordlabel]

its beautiful! its a masterpeace!... its symphony x!

[goth69heartgram]

この煌めくメロディをアメリカ人が書いたとは信じられない。スゴ­イ

[1bol1]

@goth69heartgram i like cats too.

[goth69heartgram]

@1bol1 meow（●＾o＾●）

[TheCrackedBrick]

It's all about Symphony X

[tortoise656]

singings ok not that amazing its all about the romeo and panella ledgends fuck the other 3 haha

[chezzo88]

AAAANND DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEE *___*

[ScienceAperture]

For me, this and the title track are the absolute peak of their creativity.

[horaciodib]

I am madly in love with this song

[Necryte]

YOU CAN'T HAVE SEX WITH PEOPLES VOICES!

[givemeajackson]

@Necryte i like pancakes :D

[funkyflapjacks]

like. im heterosexual, but im seriously aroused at his voice.

[76majesty]

one of the most beautiful songs ever written

[molkir]

This song is a masterpiece, there's nothing else to say.

[RomulusRomulus111]

Ronaldo?

[narwaldik]

4:04 Amazing solo

[ilpazzosiciliano]

i love this song!

[darfunkelidas]

Lady of the snow was also Miller's. He has a new band, but man, when he was with Romeo they made such awesome music. Lepond is a monster in terms of technique but not even a shadow of Miller's composing craft.

[lobitoldkx1]

yo soy el 200....el 1 negativo fue un sordo

[cvasudevan82]

Midsection of the track sounds a lot like fatal tragedy (DT)

[darfunkelidas]

@cvasudevan82 This precedes DT's SFAM (great album by the way) by a couple of years.

[redkiller777]

@dethfan333

is that possible

[nefelh55]

ta spaei to kommati proskunawww!!!

[1983Valhalla]

Yeah really, go to a fuckin' porn site ifyou wanna say perverted things

[DJMetalstone]

Such a lovely song !

[darfunkelidas]

@DJMetalstone This was one of Thomas Miller's song. Really miss the guy's dark mellancolic sound that is no longer part of Symphony X.

[luckyluke193]

sick... just sick...

im not talking about the song, im talking about the comments below lol

[jeez0o]

guys, stop saying bullshit :D Its Candlelight fantasia, not Pervert fantasia.

[orichalcum]

am I the only one who's actually impressed how the drums and the guitar sound at 4:13 ? I mean, Romeo obviously play way more attractive parts, but this part... I don't know, sound a lot good. Really good actually, I got really curious on what makes this part so cool. And it's not the keyboard solo, 4:13 is the moment the solos breaks for a while.

[dragonbeast2001]

Quanto ricordi ...capolavoro immortale.

[dannyhood66]

Where is the trippy exotic shit at, that these dudes sometimes play? Its like i have to wait for Michael Romeo's guitar solos and his off the hook guitar riffs with the band before i get a good fix out of it..

[JaketheSnakeESP]

@dannyhood66 Sounds like good marketing, lol

[SilverSurfer102]

does someone know when they are going to realease a new album ? I cant wait !

And this song is fantastic

[neraida1231]

one of my favorites... so emotional and pute it talks directly to the heart

[76majesty]

beautiful

[Delpifo]

in 200 years, i bet people will honor Symphony X like we do Mozart and Bach now.

This is raw and timeless musical expression in it's purest form, excecuted to perfection.

[IndyCovaHart]

@Delpifo Don't bet on it. lol Even here on YouTube I was expecting far more recognition.

[In5anityi5Awe5ome]

@Delpifo Hopefully.

[karpolla]

@Delpifo

What a perfect way to put it. Cheers!

[twooffour]

@Delpifo

An incredibly naive thing to say.

This song might be remembered like we remember "Fenesta Vascia" (1852) - a beautiful SIMPLE POP SONG.

Mozart and ESPECIALLY Bach wrote complex music that provides material for decades of study and analysis.

Symphony X won't be remembered in the same way as Bach, at least not judging by this song ;)

[Pokedrummer5]

@twooffour this isn't pop, and I think it's a bit naive to think that this isn't complex music. This is one of their best songs in my opinion, and I think they will be remembered well, but perhaps not as well as Bach and Mozart, but still pretty well!

[twooffour]

@Pokedrummer5

You shouldn't be comparing this to "Bach and Mozart" without first taking into account the countless other known, less known, and hardly known composers from those eras - even if just to avoid sounding cheesy ;)

I'll give this song more attention in short time, but I don't see what's so "complex" about it. It's not vapidly primitive, has an atmospheric background, very nicely intonated vocals and lead guitar.

Still, the harmony and structure are pretty simple and repetitive.

[twooffour]

@Pokedrummer5

Who said that pop or folk music can't be advanced and difficult?

watch?v=WYlFxupY5YE

Or simply very good, and well remembered after centuries?

watch?v=Thy4nUUHc5I

Having that said, it won't be remembered "the same way" as the classical composers, as it is nowhere near the compositional complexity those guys achieved in their works (even though with Mozart, some of his lighter pieces are pretty simple, as well).

Not all prog rock, I'm talking about this song in particular.

[MALSTRUMX]

@twooffour Dont know why one would state such a thing about those videos, but have come to the conclusion you should not be enjoying this song. a big fan of symphony x i am not, i like this song until halfway when they abandon trying to be melodic, and it does not have complex 3 or 4 part counterpoint like bach, but as a composer myself i can state itsnot that hard to accomplish, just writing note that fit harmonically going in opposite direction.and yes i love bach's music, but am aware of more

[twooffour]

@MALSTRUMX

Not sure why you're saying that - I was the one to say that this song wasn't "that impressive", so you're not contradicting what I said, you reinforce it :)

The Tarantella was played in a pretty fast tempo, the singer pulls off fast jawbreakers, the violinist plays rapid notes with harmonics manipulation... it's fairly "technical" by pop standards, which is not to say that is somehow stands out when it comes to "advanced folk music".

If I had to judge, I'd say somewhere...

[twooffour]

@MALSTRUMX

... on the level of common trash metal.

Fenesta Vascia, as I said, is a popular Italian song from way back, and was good enough for Liszt to use in his Tarantella.

It's already impossible for me to "forget" about it because of that, but I've especially noticed how its "simplicity" in comparison to Liszt doesn't detract in any way, and is in a way more attractive than the transcription (which is, in turn, preferable in other aspects).

[twooffour]

@Pokedrummer5

Oops, mixed up the links - Fenesta Vascia is the one "remembered" after centuries, as it's a popular Italian song ;)

Probably owes some of its fame to the fact that Liszt arranged it in his Tarantella, though.

[MALSTRUMX]

@twooffour You have a very particular taste and music. When i started reading your comments i felt that you sounded somewhat like myself in opinion. then i saw the videos you said should be viewed, i am a musician and have a vast love for prog, classical, world and folk music. The first video was not very tasteful or "advanced", the second video.. well i have already forgotten the melody for it was nothing special or worth banking in my musical memory

[felixd7]

at 2:28 it sounds a bit like champion of ithaca.

[WhiteBassCT]

@felixd7 Maybe the last part of "The Odyssey" sounds like that because TIO was made in the end of 1997 and published in 1998 ;)

[Drahgma]

epic.

[delt01]

this.

band.

fucking.

rocks.

[eldadmi]

this is a masterpiece! my favorite one

[howdyfeller]

my favorite part is 0:00 - 6:50

[MadMonsterMansion]

i own this cd it kick ass

[Schandherz]

i would have sex with his voices and with michael romeos finger technic

[kiwiteepee]

That guitar part starting at 2:26 is so subtle but so siiiiick!

[DackIsBack]

Symphony X are racking up so many veiws!! w00t!!

They are getting the fame they deserve...

[bellosquardo]

Fantastica! *-*

[GeninShin0bi]

this is what one would call EPIC METAL a whole genre in its own.... :D

[mcnutty226]

WOOOOO midi violin FTW!!!!!

[him8913]

@mcnutty226 lul so true

[Ascension717]

It's a great shame music like this isn't usually played on the radio.

[baretandwow1]

Reminds me of a Dark version of Legend of zelda, (i.e... majoras mask) in the beginning

[BenjaTooooost]

@baretandwow1 Ha ha, thats exactly what I thought when I first heard this song! X)

[baretandwow1]

@BenjaTooooost <3 Legend of zelda lol =]

[bloodnsoup]

Amazing.

[l2yanthegreat]

master singer

[KANCERBERO6666]

Yes, this is a true masterpiece, If you like this kind of stuff you may have to listen to a winter's dream, that's just amazing...

[JukeboxSuperHero]

One of my favorite songs

[NovembersDooom]

just amazing...

[poeureka]

Great images dude by far some of the best songs ever!!

[ag4taly]

Greatttttttttt Sounds!

[Subzro777]

The bass line gives it the perfect touch... Perfect melodic song.

[76majesty]

Beautiful song, seen em live a couple of years ago with DT in Glasgow, what a mind blowing night. 2 of my fav bands together on the same bil.

[AllenQuackenstein]

this song reminds me alot of Rhapsody of Fire but perhaps not as cheesy as some of Rhapsody's songs. Don't get me wrong, I like Rhapsody but you gotta admit, some of their songs are a bit...cheesy...ever see the music video for Rain of a Thousand Flames by Rhapsody of Fire? Yeah...you get my point? Exactly? Symphony X is Awesome :P

[Opethbass]

yeah, awesome all right :D yet the video for Set the world on fire is just as cheesy. or even cheesier

cheers!

[DJMetalstone]

@Opethbass hehe treu but the songs rock and that's what we want.

[alice420]

BEST SONG EVERת BEST BAND EVER...

[Patrickillian]

Hymn from "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" ?

[l2yanthegreat]

words cannot explain its beauty..

[pcrobot]

So the general consensus is.... All of it is awesome!!

[mortem6661]

uno de las mejores canciones de simphoni x

wenisimoooo

[KyleJPie10]

Not fond of the description though... The song "The Divine Wings of Tragedy" is much more melodic in my opinion... but this one is awesome too.

[KyleJPie10]

Such a beautiful composition. Thank you Symphony X for for being so fucking amazing.

[vermehIo]

my favorite parts were 0:00 to 4:50 and 4:51 to 6:43

[Neil2293]

I also liked 4:50 to 4:51

[flockemokke]

@vermehIo lol..

[infinitetoxin]

@vermehIo what about 4:50.5? didn't like it?

[SergioWW1WW2]

@infinitetoxin hahahaha

[stringdom123456]

@vermehIo haha fuckin right man

[Fernando666Moretto]

@vermehIo you forgot the part between 4:50 and 4:51

[Necryte]

@vermehIo I see what you did there.

[undercroftstories]

BEST .... BAND .... EVER .... BAR NONE!

[anotherholywar]

2: 27 is amazing

[DesertDogChile]

3:37 = what a great fucking riff...

[Ivale46]

EPIC describes this, hope there are more bands like symphony x

[HelderGhosT]

1:50 = awesomeness.

[IlPadroneDelleStelle]

lol

I was being sarcastic...

Allen is GOD

[DethFan333]

I would have sex with russell allens voice.

[DarkMaestro88]

@DethFan333 lmao, i know EXACTLY what u mean haha. Same goes for Roy Khan from Kamelot for me lololol.

[diebox14]

@DarkMaestro88  LOL

[Mustainecakes]

@DethFan333 I bet it would be soft and loving.

[FINhelmFI]

@DethFan333 I would have sex with michael romeos fingers



[DethFan333]

@FINhelmFI Ewwwww.....but yea, I know what you mean LOL

[jeez0o]

@FINhelmFI omg, you have your own hand for that :D :D :D

[reaper2ooX]

@FINhelmFI ew :P

[nikeja]

@DethFan333 :) i would do the same, but with the guitar :)

[CarlAfuPhace]

@nikeja lol i'd rather the keyboard

[jeez0o]

@DethFan333 how do you even imagine this for yourself? :D

[artha5]

@DethFan333 amazing singer

[HawthornWitch]

@DethFan333 And Jorn, and Roy Khan's. Id have a voice orgy with all three.

[stiltonchees]

@HawthornWitch Can we add Andy Kuntz's voice to that orgy? That would be so awesome.

[HawthornWitch]

@stiltonchees And while we are at it, Daniel Heiman, Tobias Sammet, and Pellek too

[stiltonchees]

@HawthornWitch Ooh Let's also throw in Tommy Karevik of Seventh Wonder.

[knumorvid]

@HawthornWitch both norwegians ! ;-D

[HawthornWitch]

@knumorvid Sexy Norwegian voice orgy

[mitsubachi2]

@DethFan333 I'm afraid that would get to be rather rough at parts. I guess it would depend on what song...

[bushydog]

Russell Allen is a great singer.