Which is your favorite? Did I miss any obvious ones??

My late grandfather wondered why I loved metal so much. He got me into all of the classical music. I never noticed it in all of my music but when pointed out I do hahaha. Between him showing me classical and my mother with the 80's hair it is no surprise.

CoB was such an excellent band, especially the first half of their career. The combination of classical music, extreme metal and that raw punk attitude created something magical and special (or Something Wild? hehe). Such an unique band with a signature, unmistakable sound, and style that could be basically classified as their own genre. One of my all time favourites, genius music.

Rest in Peace Alexi Laiho...the way he played all those solos sounded original...

The list could be complete with just Cob Songs. They‘ re just so good.

This is why we always say Classical music is the most metal non-metal genre

Children of Bodom hands down, their first three albums is insanely good. How can someone so young write such masterpieces? Alexi Laiho's work in Sinergy is equally impressive. I'm happy I got to follow his career for so long. Rest in peace.

Children Of Bodom just nailed it. Still getting goosebumps everytime i hear this well composed songs.

Vivaldi's four seasons but it's just the original song because you KNOW if Vivaldi had an electric guitar he would have been the sickest shredder of all time

Alexi mixed classical music with metal in such a great way. Those old-school Children of Bodom songs never get old.

You could use almost every early Symphony X song and pinpoint lots of classical elements! I love that so much about the band!

Alexi Laiho will always be my go to example for a neoclassical metal guitarist. It made the band stand out so well.

Wizard's Last Rhymes absolutely slaps. Symphony 9 is my favorite classical piece and it translates to metal so smoothly.

Bach is the whole reason we love classical and metal

I always liked Helloween's use of Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" on "Gorgar" (from "Walls of Jericho")

Children Of Bodom is one of my alltime favorite bands, and "Red Light In My Eyes" both part 1 and part 2 are super great, I love it so much. I own their Stockholm Knockout Live DVD and I watch it regularly \m/

There’s a couple other classical head-nods/samples in Necrophagist. The solo in Advanced Corpse Tumour is massively inspired by Paganini’s Caprice No. 5 in D Minor, and interpretations of Beethovens Fur Elise can be heard throughout The Stillborn One. Apparently Muhammed was brought up playing classical/baroque music on the piano, you can hear Bachs use of pedal tone on nearly every Necrophagist track

Cob's Something wild and Hatebreeder are pure masterpieces.

Symphony X's V is my all-time favorite album, so I'm glad you've included so many examples from it!

i also like bands who use classical songwriting structures in their extreme metal, such as Gorguts. Luc Lemay is a big fan of classical music

Well it looks like I need to listen to more Children of Bodom!

And that´s why Children of Bodom is one of the best band ever

Great to see Symphony X and Kamelot getting shout outs, but it’s a sin to not include ANY Dark Moor. They literally did a cover of Vivaldi’s Winter

I love Galneryus, found them about 4 years ago. Also Children of Bodom will for ever be in my heart! RIP Alexi

I’m always torn between Classic Bodom and Modern Bodom. The band really hit their own stride and found their identity in “Are You Dead yet?” and “Blooddrunk” but Alexi was at peak guitar virtuosity in early albums like “Hatebreeder” and “Follow the Reaper”. They are such a fun band to listen to musically. Rest in power sweet prince

Young Alexi did some sick arrangements on couple first COB albums!

I remember hearing Children Of Bodom reference Mozart’s Queen Of The Night Aria for the first time and I laughed out loud 😂 amazing song and amazing use of the melody 🤘🎸

Loving the amount of Children of Bodom in here. ❤️

The first music in the list (Mars, The Bringer of War) also was used on "The Divine Wings of Tragedy", by Symphony X (precisely on 1:41 of the music). And they also mention "The bringer of war" on the lyrics. Very cool!

I really love the synergy between metal and classic. It fits perfect. Thank you for the video.

3:43 Verdi's "Dies Irae/Tuba Mirum" is, for me, the most bombastic and badass piece of Classical Music to ever exist. Hearing that played live in a cathedral or concert hall is on my bucket list!!

as a new listener to classical music I thank you mr. Hall for this educating guide, I had no idea how much COB used classical pieces. Yngwie talks about that all the time, of course.

I have never anticipated anything in my entire life more than the next Symphony X album

Children Of Bodom has best uses classical music in metal IMO.

"Evil Warning" is one of Angra's songs that use classical pieces. Their album "Angels Cry" is amazing!

Angra is an incredible band. I highly recommend checking out their new album, Cycles of Pain, their best work in years.

Really hope Symphony X bring these back in their new album. Wish they would give us an update on it as well. Kinda hate how disconnected they are with their fans. I would guess a single in spring of 2024 but who knows...

For me, one of the most obvious examples: Belphegor - "In blood: Devour this sanctity" where they use a part from Brahms' "Hungarian Dance No.1" And it is mindblowingly good.

Man, this is one of the best and most insightful videos on classical music in metal I've ever seen!

Happy to see early Children of Bodom on here. Great Band and Alexi was incredible. First 3 to 4 albums were incredible with tons of classical influence.

Upon discovering neoclassic metal, my entire concept of playing guitar shifted. Everyone I knew in school that played guitar were all blues-based players, I was the nerd listening to Yngwie, Racer X and Symphony X. Thank god my music teacher in high school encouraged me... I'd be a completely different player if she didn't.

Symphony X is so amazing, Im hoping for a new album in 2024!

You start off so strong with the use of Diamond Head! Absolutely love those guys, very unique for their time! Classical and Metal go so cool together!

Man... Symphony X (Michael Romeo and Russell Allen especially) need their flowers, what an insane talent they are. The Odyssey and Paradise Lost are cheesy in places but goodness me do they sound bigger than anything else out there

So nice to see Angra mentioned in this video, one of the greatest brazilian metal bands!

That Icarus dream suite is such a beautiful piece of music. My favorite song by Malmsteen

Some favourites of mine that you didn't include would be Dark Moor - The Moon (uses several different classical pieces) and Dragonland - Beethoven's Nightmare (uses a couple of Beethoven pieces, not surprisingly, but most obviously Moonlight Sonata 1st and 3rd movements). There are also bands like At Vance who have done full rearrangements of classical pieces (at least 3 of the 4 seasons by Vivaldi, Beethoven's 5th symphony, etc), though that doesn't quite fit the remit of this video! I enjoyed this list a lot! I did like that you used the Evanescence version of Lacrimosa, even though Symphony X has used the same piece... can't have the whole video being just Symphony X and Children of Bodom, after all! Also, Angel of Salvation is incredible, everybody should go and listen to it immediately if they haven't heard it before! (or if they have tbh)

Never expected to see Galneryus in a mainstream metal context here...one of the best Japanese bands if you're into the power metal side of things Syu is one of the best metal guitarists today imo

A honorous mention to Dark Moor's Dies Irae, which covers both Confutatis and Dies Irae from Mozart.

I just love what Wolf Hoffman did to Für Elise. The Metal Heart solo is to me one of the greatest solos of all time. One addition to the list: Bathory - Hammerheart, Holst - Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity

I have always found Fur Elise as spooky and creepy and I don't know why. Is there any backstory that I'm missing? Chills run down my spine every time I hear it. I love it tho.

I like that Yngwie used some deep cuts, and using Bach on the vocal line is pretty clever

Forever by Kamelot is just sooooo good.

lol I knew Bodom was gonna be all over this list. Absolutely love them

I'm surprised why i happen to like classical music, but then i came to understand that Children of Bodom, Symphony X, Rhapsody of Fire have been my top fav bands.

I grew up on Classical so I recognized those elements when I started listening to Metal as a teen… I like seeing someone put a list of examples like this 😎 ✨🔥🖤🎸🖤🔥✨

I believe Js Bach to be the greatest musician to ever live. I hope i am not alone in this

Angra has a lot of classical music usage on their materials, amazing band

classical music in metal fills my heart with joy every single time

6:12 so bloody fucking good. Wow! The whole album is gold. I love Something Wild too (actually my favourite COB's song is "In the Shadows")

Neoclassical is the best! You could have made this top with just Symphony X Also I reccomend listening to Dark Moor, they used to be fully into neoclassical metal, having Vivaldi's Winter and Summer, Dies Irae, Swan Lake, Moonlight Sonata and Danza Ritual de Fuego (Manuel de Falla, a famous Spanish composer)

You are a legend for putting this together man, this is one of the reasons why metal rules. And thanks for reminding me again why I love CoB and Symphony X so much. what unique, incredible bands. The first 4 albums of CoB are among the greatest ever released. RIP Alexi.

The whole "DIVINE WINGS OF TRAGEDY" has a classical cue between its tracks. The intro choir for the above song is based on Bach's Mass in B Minor : Confiteor (the second part) Divine Wings tracks also has Holt's Mars as the intro for the band section. The Witching Hour is Mozart's Piano Sonata n 1 k279 Damnation Game intro is by C.P.E. Bach's Solfeggietto Also, Bach's prelude in Cm is present in Dressed to Kill Prelude in V: The New Mythology is literally Verdi's Requiem Dies Irae Also Lacrymosa's 2nd part is by Mozart.

Wow, I know "most" of the popular metal and classical songs, but you found a number that I had NO idea were there....FANFUCKINGTASTICKLY DONE, BRAVO!!!

As someone who plays both classical and metal, the only difference is instrumentation in most cases.

This is really cool. Hopefully there will be a part two. Dark Moor has a lot of passages borrowed from classical music, Grave Digger's Rhinegold album borrows a lot of motifs from Wagner, Exmortus has some classical covers, and Blind Guardians has a few songs with parts taken from classical music.

Queen of The Night Opera by Mozart, which was also covered by Children of Bodom is my fav probably. It's like my favorite part of Hatebreeder.

Man I love Children of Bodom!

I love this so much, thank you for doing it! Galneryus is so great! Extreme Play with me will never get old.

Metallica's The Thing That Should Not Be bridge/ending riff = Stravinski's Rite of Spring second act ''Auguries of Spring'' at first 3 mins According to James Hetfield he was digging a lot that section of Rite of Spring that he took it as an inspiration to write The Thing

Metal and classical music fuse so goed together. It completes each other.

I wish classical music was more popular and way more of an influence over todays music rather than jazz and blues.

The first excerpt from Holst always reminds me of a scene in Star Wars where I think they’re just about to fire the death star

My wife is an educated pianist and singer. Her all-time favorite metal band is CoB. Kinda makes sense now. 😆

Honestly this might be one of my favorite videos ive seen on this channel. Good job, good sir.

It's amazing that after all this years of content you could create such glorious video. My two favourites genres, metal and classic. Thanks a lot.

I'm a huge fan of COBHC. about metal heart of accept, i discovered this song with Dimmu Borgir and she's so powerfull.

You could do an entire video on SYMPHONY X all by themselves! Please include the band LOVEBITES in part-2! Miyako's background is classical piano.

This was epic ! Need a pt.2 ❤

Savatage used to have lots of classical pieces in their song!

Solid list Brad, I dont think you missed any of the big ones, but here are a few suggetions, some of them being more of a full blow metal cover of a classical piece though : - Overture 1622 by Yngwie Malmsteen (Mozart's Symphonie N.25 in G minor) - Rise From The Sea of Flames by Rhapsody (Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata - 3rd Movement) - Sting Of the Bumblebee by Manowar (Rimski Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee) - Hall of The Mountain King by Apocalyptica (Grieg's In the Hall Of The Mountain King) - Vivaldi Tribute by Patrick Rondat (Vivaldi's 4 seasons - Summer 3rd Movement) - Chopin Fantaisie by Ron Thal

Bach is the composer that repeats the most in this list, second one is Mozart..... It's weird for me that Vivaldi didn't shows because for me is the power metal composer of baroque music.

Today I learned I should listen to more children of bodom

Wow that's awesome, thanks for that video Bradley. I did not know there soo much classical influence into metal. Very good video.

Belphegor used Hungarian dance no 1 in "in blood" chorus Michael Romeo also used the Prelude in C on Dressed to kill Any At Vance Song Yngwie malmsteen used also on his live Performance with the Orchestra pieces de clavencin in e minor by jean philippe rameau Or any dark moor song Marcin jakubek Wolf hoffmann And son of a bach also very underated neoclassic musicians/bands Yngwie also used the caprice 24 of paganini in "wolves at the door" i could name so much more, but i think u get my point. I also do some sort of neoclassic black metal used the Sarabande of Händel, dorian toccata of bach, lacrimos of Mozart, moonshine first movement etc, its just perfect

I had a metalhead friend that learnt a few scales and he immediately started using the word 'piece' instead of 'song', and called his pieces something like "Overture in D minor Op. 13 No.6" He represents 90% of the power metal, symphonic metal and neoclassical guys

Nice compilation mate!

You could probably make this list all Yngwie Malmsteen songs. That being said, CoB and SymphonyX both have a decent amount too.

top notch editing and song choice, Bradley!

Nice video mate. Very good.

Enjoyed this very much sir Bradley! I think i gotta stick with Last Rites by Mustaine & friends. Really cool watching through and learning the actual classical references 🖤

Gracias por esta genial compilación 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

I heard a live version of Metal Heart, and the crowd was singing along. It was impressive-sounding

Great video 👍 So many rock and metal musicians are inspired by classical music.

I like to think early Bodom is what would have happened if Dracula took some other vampires and formed a metal band

this is a really cool video man

legit good stuff thx bradley😊😊😊

What about Savatage...? 😢 Prelude to Madness and Hall of the Mountain King.

Alexi kicked so much ass!! What a talent!

A small correction: it's Albinoni adagio, not Albioni. Interesting story: Giazotto was a musicologist. He literaly invented the story that he found some fragments of Albinoni's work. But it was instead an original composition by himself. He invented this story to give visibility to his composition.