Favorite Song "Arcs"

[parasyteFMA]

So many bands/artists have done song arcs. Songs that have a recurring theme/continuing story that usually gapless in the fact that these songs go into each other seamlessly. What is one that you can't seem to find another one to top it or just one you really enjoy.

For those comic book fans here (which I'm sure there are), Iced Earth has an album called "The Dark Saga" which is a concept album based on Spawn. The last three songs Scarred, Slave to the Dark, and A Question of Heaven are an arc pretty much explains the Spawn story. Very cool and quite possibly the most epic thing I've listened to. This is definitely my favorite.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Its not so much an arc in the songs but the album Touched by the Crimson King has a good portion of its songs to match The Dark Tower Book series.

sorry, if I want arc, I'll read a book/watch a movie.

 

[Stranger of Sorts]

In The Attic of The Universe - The Antlers

Not very well known but they did release, in my very humble opinion, the best album of the last 5 years (Hospice). This isn't quite as good but it's essentially one 35 minute song about his dreams and ideas.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Any Ayreon Album(or all of them together?), Ajren Lucassen's Guilt Machine, Epica and The Black Halo by Kamelot. I listen to a fair amount of gapless albums with recurring themes/stories.

 

[NeW SpEcTrUM]

Aina and the album 'Days of Rising Doom'! The best metal opera ever! Seriously, go track that down because it's hard to get a hold of other than through torrenting. Other than that, Ayreon with '01011001', Epica's recurring 'A New Age Dawns/The Embrace That Smothers' tracks, and Within Temptation has an interesting concept album coming out soon, 'The Unforgiving'.

 

[parasyteFMA]

Any Ayreon Album

The Human Equation is definitely my favorite of theirs.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Any Ayreon Album

The Human Equation is definitely my favorite of theirs.

It is quite good, it's kind of a shame that the others didn't sell as well as it though. They were all pretty good.

 

[JRCB]

The Wall by Pink Floyd, for sure. I've done projects on it at school, actually.