Something of Something or Something of the Something

Two CDs arrived in my mailbox today.

Three songs off of both albums have [Fill in the blank] of [Fill in the blank] titles.

Manilla Road - Spiral Castle:
Throne of Lies
Merchants of Death
Sands of Time

Morgoth - Ungod:
House of Blood
Voice of Slumber
Battalions of Strangers

classic genres tend to be epic, and titles like that definitely come across as epic.

Ten is such a f*cking rad awesome.

The new Iron Maiden album has:
Speed of Light
The Book of Souls
Shadows of the Valley
Tears of a Clown
The Man of Sorrows
Empire of the Clouds

That's 6 out of 11 songs, and 4 out of 5 on the second disc.

Just got Legendary Tales by Rhapsody the other day and noticed that seven of ten songs follow this titling scheme. So I glanced at the rest of their albums and...well, holy shit!

A Tale of Magic
Aeons of Raging Darkness
Angel of Light
Crystal Moonlight
Custode di Pace (translation: Guardian of Peace)
Danza di Fuoco e Ghiaccio (translation: Dance of Fire and Ice)
Dargor, Shadowlord of the Black Mountain
Dark Reign of Fire
Dark Wings of Steel
Dawn of Victory
Echoes of Tragedy
Flames of Revenge
Forest of Unicorns
Gargoyles, Angels of Darkness
Ghosts of Forgotten Worlds
Guardians of Destiny
Heart of the Darklands
Heroes of the Lost Valley
Heroes of the Waterfalls' Kingdom
Knightrider of Doom
Labyrinth of Madness
Land of Immortals
Lord of the Thunder
Old Age of Wonders
Power of the Dragonflame
Queen of the Dark Horizons
Rage of Darkness
Rage of the Winter
Rain of a Thousand Flames
Realms of Light
Reign of Terror
Riding the Winds of Eternity
Sacred Power of Raging Winds
Sea of Fate
Shadows of Death
Silver Lake of Tears
Son of Pain
Steelgods of the Last Apocalypse
Symphony of Enchanted Lands
Tears of a Dying Angel
Tears of Pain
The Bloody Rage of the Titans
The Dark Tower of Abyss
The Frozen Tears of Angels
The Kiss of Life
The Magic of the Wizard's Dream
The March of the Swordmaster
The Mighty Ride of the Firelord
The Mystic Prophecy of the Demonknight
The Myth of the Holy Sword
The Pride of the Tyrant
The Village of Dwarves
Valley of Shadows
Warrior of Ice
Wings of Destiny
Wisdom of the Kings

Suffocation also have a lot of song titles like this.

Effigy of the Forgotten (1991):
Liege of Inveracity
Effigy of the Forgotten
Seeds of the Suffering

Breeding the Spawn (1993):
Beginning of Sorrow
Epitaph of the Credulous

Pierced From Within (1995):
Thrones of Blood
Depths of Depravity
Brood of Hatred

Despise the Sun (1998):
Devoid of Truth

Souls to Deny (2004):
Surgery of Impalement
Demise of the Clone
Tomes of Acrimont

Suffocation (2006):
Translucent Patterns of Delirium
Creed of the Infidel
Entrails of You
The End of Ends

Blood Oath (2009):
Images of Purgatory

Pinnacle of Bedlam (2013):
Cycles of Suffering
Rapture of Revocation
Beginning of Sorrow (re-recording of the aforementioned song from Breeding the Spawn)

Hour of Penance have four songs in a row like that on their album they release this weekend.

Technically five, because the closing track is Latin for "condemnation of memory".

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Hour_of_Penance/Cast_the_First_Stone/609976