List of songs with particularly long titles

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[edit] Definition

The definition of 'particularly long song titles' is of course subject to debate as there is no consensus in determining what is 'long' and what is not. What follows is a list of the more extreme cases as found in metal music, with song titles of at least fifty characters.

[edit] Song titles

  • Absu (1993) - Fantasizing To the Third of the Pagan Vision (Quoth The Sky, Nevermore Act II)
  • Absu (2001) - The Cognate House of Courtly Witches Lies West of County Meath
  • Anal Cunt (1997) - No, We Don't Want to Do a Split Seven Inch With Your Stupid Fucking Band
  • Anal Cunt (2001) - Even Though Your Culture Opresses Women, You Still Suck You Fucking Towelhead
  • Bal Sagoth (1995) - Into the Silent Chambers of the Sapphirean Throne (Sagas from the Antediluvian Scrolls)
  • Bal Sagoth (1996) - To Dethrone the Witch-Queen of Mytos K'unn (The Legend of the Battle of Blackhelm Vale)
  • Bal Sagoth (1996) - As the Vortex Illumines the Crystalline Walls of Kor-Avul-Thaa
  • Bal Sagoth (1996) - Starfire Burning upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule
  • Bal Sagoth (1996) - Journey to the Isle of Mists (Over the Moonless Depths of Night-Dark Seas)
  • Bal Sagoth (1996) - The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire
  • Bal Sagoth (1996) - And Lo, When the Imperium Marches Against Gul-Kothoth, then Dark Sorceries Shall Enshroud the Citadel of the Obsidian Crown
  • Bal Sagoth (1996) - In the Raven-Haunted Forests of Darkenhold, Where Shadows Reign and the Hues of Sunlight Never Dance
  • Bal Sagoth (1998) - The Dark Liege of Chaos is unleashed at the Ensorcelled Shrine of A'Zura Kai (The Splendour of a Thousand Swords gleaming beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire Part II)
  • Bal Sagoth (1999) - Behold, the Armies of War Descend Screaming from the Heavens!
  • Bal Sagoth (2001) - Cry Havoc for Glory, And the Annihilation of the Titans of Chaos (The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath The Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire, Part III)
  • Bestial Warlust (1994) - Hammering Down The Law Of The New Gods / Holocaust Wolves Of The Apocalypse
  • Incantation (1997) - Lusting Congregation of Perpetual Damnation (Eternal Eden)
  • Incantation (1997) - Twisted Sacrilegious Journey into Our Darkest Neurotic Delirium
  • Incantation (2002) - The Sacrilegious Apocalypse of Righteousness And Agonizing Dementia (The Final Defilement of Your Lord)
  • Macabre (1987) - Mass Murderer A. Sulfuric Acid B. Morbid Curiosity C. Lethal Injection
  • Messiah (1987) - Johannes Paul Der Letzte (Dedicated In Hate to Pope John Paul II)
  • Mutilated Bones (1989) - Flagmantuche im Tertz 4 am Claustrowiebeln Orchestra Sonate im Lage D Strofe
  • Mystifier (1993) - The True Story About the Doctor Faust's Pact With Mephistopheles
  • Mystifier (1993) - The Baphometic Goat of the Knights Templar in the 12th Century
  • Nile (2000) - Libation unto the Shades Who Lurk In the Shadows of the Temple of Anhur
  • Nile (2005) - Dusk Falls Upon the Temple of the Serpent On the Mount of Sunrise
  • Nile (2005) - Chapter of Obeisance Before Giving Breath To the Inert One In the Presence of the Crescent Shaped Horns
  • Sunn O))) (2002) - FWTBT (I Dream of Lars Ulrich Being Thrown Through the Bus Window Instead of My Master Mystikall Kliff Burton)
  • The Great Kat (2002) - Act 1: War - Wagner’s "The Ride of the Valkyries" (from the Opera "Die Walkürie") for Symphony Orchestra, Band & Opera Singers
  • Type O Negative (1996) - The Glorious Liberation of the People's Technocratic Republic of Vinnland By the Combined Forces of the United Territories of Europa


For now, particularly long album titles are included, with a minimum of forty characters.

[edit] Album titles

  • Anal Cunt (1989) - We'll Just Have To Acclimatize Ourselves to the Post-nuclear Era (split with 7 Minutes of Nausea)
  • Bal Sagoth (1996) - Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule
  • Mystifier (1996) - The World Is So Good That Who Made It Doesn't Live Here
  • Mystifier (1999) - Demystifying the Mystified Ones (For A Decade In the Earthly Paradise)
  • Suicidal Tendencies (1988) - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today
  • Woods of Ypres (2002) - Against the Seasons: Cold Winter Songs From the Dead Summer Heat

[edit] See also

[edit] Sources

Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (external link)