Stoner metal has entered the chat

'the song really picks up about 7 mins in'

Post rock, "AMATEURS!"

I wish TTRPG battle/ambience music tracks would be at least 10min long, even if they are looped by their creators. So many tracks are great that I buy but are only 2-3min long and aren't created to loop naturally. So my table is constantly listening to the intro/outro sections that tend to be more attention grabbing. I've had to learn to use audacity to fade them in and out but it's extra labor that doesn't always work.

This is more of an exception, but melodic death metal joins the table (OK, it's actually just above 19 minutes)

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=X7f2SdZey-Y&si=EE059IBXVlS6vu_4

Black metal should also be here.

Don't forget improv/jambands!

https://spotify.link/AAg8Sm9zaDb

Funeral Doom Metal is too occupied walloping in a blacked pit of despair to join the chat

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kht7EH3PjGw

Also an experience: a longer overarching story across an entire album.

Examples: Metropolis pt. 2 (Dream Theater), or basically anything Ayreon.

Also post rock

Godspeed

Hey babe, want to hear my mixtape? It's all Rush and there's only like four songs but it's two hours long.

No wait, please come back....

Nightwish has entered the chat.

Hey, I love all of these

I mixed prog rock/metal with electronic and the resulting industrial metal somehow cuts songs down to 5-7 minutes.

/cries in jazz

🎵 And Alice's Restaurant. 🎶

Nine Inch Nails: Let's do all three. At the same time.

Classical music is still looking down at you from above. Kaikhosru Sorabji especially. He wrote a piece for piano that lasts 8 to 9 hours.

And live versions of worship music.

May I introduce you all to the decline.

I'd rather have a concept album of songs that play into each other and advance the narrative than one 20 minute song. I hate progressive music. I used to bounce at a bar whose owner's son would book bands, and 90% were prog bands. Averaged 14 minutes a song, brought in lots of people who bought zero drinks but lots of waters. And they were all dickheads.

Classical music can also be much longer. Symphonies, masses, or operas are many hours long. Kind of like an album of dozens of the shorter 20 minute pieces.

Just gonna drop by real quick to drop my favorite ~20 minute prog-rock song

Close To The Edge has two of Yes's best songs.

Close To The Edge has three songs.

Soft Machine's Third has four songs.

Soft Machine's Third has four sides.

Echoes

Also 90% of songs by the Swans.

Check out this, it's like a blend of classic and electronic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_UOmAed5O8