I've come to the conclusion that Cake does not have a bad song. Look 'em up.
Agreed. The Distance is so fucking epic.
My musical taste is pretty broad, but its mostly based around metal. Not raw, gore, shit metal or epic-fail power metal(Dragonforce); I like folk//melodic death metal, along with a little black metal.
For folk/viking metal I suggest Finntroll, Ensiferum, Wintersun, Elvenking and Moonsorrow.
The best melodic death metal I've heard is Kalmah; If you're into stuff like Children of Bodom, I assure you it's 2x better than it. Or if you want brutal melodic, I'd say DETHKLOK :>
There isn't a lot of good black metal to be honest; But I suggest Ulver's first CD Bergtatt(folk black metal), Rivendell's CD The Last Dawn(more folk black metal) and Windir.
Also Sigh is the most awesome experimental metal band from Japan. I suggest Imaginary Sonicscape.