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BlutAus, these are a bit on point, but not entirely what I meant. Symphonic metal is something very different and its the first thing I looked in when trying to find more songs like the one I linked. But from my experience Symphonic Metal is different, hence why I used the term "Orchestral" metal. From the guys at another forum, I found a few more examples - these ones are almost perfect. And But one song in particular by them blew me out of the water, "Pathfinder". Absolutely beautiful. Elegy had a similar effect Fleshgod Apocalypse is basically the perfect example of what I was looking for. There any more like them? I'm not specifically looking for Black/Death metal either, I can definitely work with orchestral instruments in Viking/Folk/Power metal too (like good old Amon). Edit: Dimmu Borgir turned out to be pretty nice too.

As far as I know, this is a sub-genre that doesn't exist - but I want to find more like it anyhow. I recently got done listening to something by Amon Amarth; Specifically their song "Live for the Kill" and during the last minute of that song I heard probably one of the most beautiful things I had ever heard in a metal song. A cello. [ http://youtu.be/0HotjzABI0w?t=2m45s , listen until the end ] I did a bit of looking and found out that this cello performance was done by Apocalyptica. [ ] However, Apocalyptica does entirely cello-based music, meaning no guitar, no bass, no drums or anything. What I'm looking for is metal with orchestral instruments in the background, like during that one Amon Amarth song. Any orchestral instruments - violins and church-organs would probably be nice too. One thing to note is that during Live for the Kill, there is a cello solo, and once the solo is done and the other instruments kick in the cello still plays and becomes part of the song. I'm not looking for just solos in between the metal bits like Apocalyptica does. The only other example I can think of that demonstrates what I mean is this one song by Dark Funeral. [ ] Starting at 0:15 and going all the way until the screeching vocals start in 0:59. I've listened to many songs by Dark Funeral, but this is their only song that I truly love, if only because of that opening minute. Sadly, this is their only song that uses the kind of "orchestral" sound I'm referring to. Now, based on the final minute of that Amon Amarth song, and the opening minute of that Dark Funeral song, you should get a pretty good idea of what I mean by now. My question then WHERE CAN I FIND MORE OF THAT? It's such an incredibly beautiful sound, I feel like I've found true love or something.