History Music / SymphonyX

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** ''V: The New Mythology Suite'' contains quotes from Verdi and Mozart's Requiems, Bach's "Concerto for Harpsichord in D minor" and the cantata "Ich habe meine Zuversicht", and Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra.

* FilkSong: Quite a few of their songs are based upon mythological tales or fantasy stories, like "Lady in the Snow", "The Divine Wings of Tragedy", "Through the Looking Glass", "The Odyssey", and naturally, the entire ''Paradise Lost'' album.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Not evident with their first two albums, but after ''The Divine Wings of Tragedy'', their catalogue showed a mixture of influences ranging from the standard progressive and metal fair to more obscure influences like thrash metal, symphonic, classical and even a bit of jazz.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: For the most part, about a 7, but a step or two higher or lower isn't unheard of. Their later work can go up to an 8 or even a soft 9 at times.

** Two songs: "Revelation (Divus Pennae ex Tragoedia)", whose subtitle and parts of its melody are based on The Divine Wings of Tragedy; and "Oculus ex Inferni".
*** The grammar for "Divus Pennae ex Tragoedia" is not quite accurate. It is meant to mean "Divine Wings of Tragedy", but "divus pennae" breaks the noun-adjective agreement rule, and "ex Tragoedia" suggests that the wings are the outcome of tragedy. Two potential corrections would be "Divinae Pennae Tragoediae" or "Divae Pennae Tragoediae".
*** "Oculus ex Inferni" could be taken to mean "Eye from Hell", or more literally "Eye from the Inhabitants of Hell". If the band intended the former, then a correction would be "Oculus ex Inferno". If the latter, then "Oculus ex Infernis" is another option.

* BlindIdiotTranslation:
** Song titles. One song has "Divus Pennae ex Tragoedia" in its name, presumably meaning "Divine Wings of Tragedy" (in reference to a previous album and song). It actually means "a rich man of the feathers tragedy out of". In other words, [[WordSalad complete jibberish]].
** Another, "Oculus ex Inferni" intended to mean "Eye of the Dead," actually says "Eye out of of The Dead Man".

** The title of the song "Revelation (Divus Pennae Ex Tragoedia)", whose subtitle and parts of its melody are based on The Divine Wings of Tragedy. They probably just looked up each word in an English-Latin dictionary as it's not even proper grammar. For the record, the grammatically correct phrase would be "Pennae Divae Tragoediae".

* {{Instrumentals}}: Several. "Into the Dementia" from ''Symphony X'', "Sonata" from ''Twilight in Olympus'', "Transcendence (Segue)" and "On the Breath of Poseidon (Segue)" from ''V: The New Mythology Suite'', and "Occulus Ex Inferni" from ''Paradise Lost''.

* ArcNumber: Five on ''V: The New Mythology Suite'' (hence the name).

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Song titles. One song has "Divus Pennae ex Tragoedia" in its name, presumably meaning "Divine Wings of Tragedy" (in reference to a previous album and song). It actually means "a rich man of the feathers tragedy out of". In other words, [[WordSalad complete jibberish]].

* NewSoundAlbum: Starting with ''Paradise Lost'', they began to lose some of their neoclassical and progressive influences and took on a harder-edged metal sound.

* UncommonTime: Used heavily in a very large chunk of their discography. Heck, there isn't a single song on ''The Odyssey'' that ''doesn't'' have this at some point.

* AltumVidetur: The title of the song "Revelation (Divus Pennae Ex Tragoedia)", whose subtitle and parts of its melody are based on The Divine Wings of Tragedy. They probably just looked up each word in an English-Latin dictionary as it's not even proper grammar. For the record, the grammatically correct phrase would be "Pennae Divae Tragoediae".
** Several tracks on ''V: The New Mythology Suite'' have Latin lyrics.

* PendulumOfDeath: "King of Terrors" is essentially a musical retelling and summary of The Pit and the Pendulum. Its second verse tackles this trope:

* VillainSong: ''Pharao'' (from ''Divine Wings of Tragedy''), ''Orion (The Hunter)'' (from ''Twilight in Olympus''), and ''Fallen'' (from ''V - The New Mythology Suite'') are early examples. The later albums mostly consist of villain songs, e.g. ''Set the World On Fire (The Lie of Lies)'', ''Domination'', ''Serpent's Kiss'', and ''Seven'' on ''Paradise Lost'' alone.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Song titles. One song has "Divus Pennae ex Tragoedia" in its name, presumably meaning "Divine Wings of Tragedy" (in reference to a previous album and song). It actually means "a rich man of the feathers tragedy out of". In other words, complete jibberish.

* XMeetsY: Music/DreamTheater meets Music/BlindGuardian.

* RockMeAmadeus: "The Divine Tragedy" quotes Bach's "Mass in B-minor" and [[GustavHolst Gustav Holst's]] "Mars, Bringer of War" from ''The Planets Suite''.

** One of the more ridiculous examples can be found in "The Accolade", which, at one point has has a 6/4 bell melody, a 7/8 chime melody, a 5/4 violin melody, a very different 5/4 piano melody, a 12/4 guitar melody, and an 11/4 drum beat and bass melody, '''all at the same time'''.

** one of the more ridiculous examples can be found in "The Accolade", which, at one point has has a 6/4 bell melody, a 7/8 chime melody, a 5/4 violin melody, a very different 5/4 piano melody, a 12/4 acoustic guitar melody, and an 11/4 drum beat and bass melody, '''all at the same time'''.

** Examples are: "Through the Looking Glass", "Candlelight Fantasia", "Lady of the Snow", "Paradise Lost" (twice), "The Sacrifice", "Revelation (Divus Pennae ex Tragoedia)" (inverted), "Iconoclast", and "The End of Innocence" (inverted).

* UncommonTime

* DarkerAndEdgier: Their music became much heavier throughout their discography. Compare some of their songs from ''The Divine Wings of Tragedy'' to their newer work, such as ''Paradise Lost'' and especially ''Iconoclast''.