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Killingyouguy! posted:People like Winterhearts Guild more than Ecliptica? I've started just listening to the first 4 albums as 1 long album, but if I had to pick an absolute favorite of the 4 it's probably Ecliptica or Silence. Lots of very good pm being listed though, Gamma Ray's Blast From the Past is easily my favorite non-BG pm album right now
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Blood Incantation show sold out before i got a chance to save and get a ticket  used the $$$ to get a p cool Blood Incantation tshirt. Aliens are cool.
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remigious posted:Sometimes I feel like power metal should have its own thread, it gets tiresome when y’all poo poo on it. I’m sorry I just don’t like black metal Power metal can be pretty fun and can kick a lot of rear end. Problem is that so much of it is incredibly dorky and cringy. Iron Maiden's To Tame A Land rules, but I'll skip the poo poo out of Quest for Fire. But everyone loves different stuff, so don't feel bad for liking what you like. Unless it's Ghost.
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Oct 27, 2021 00:56
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Spanish Manlove posted:so much of it is incredibly dorky and cringy that's what rules about it tho
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Oct 27, 2021 01:23
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Sonata Arctica also rival In Flames for greatest fall from grace. I’ll gently caress around with up to and including Days of grays but everything after that is just completely unforgivable (Winterhearts is the most power metally power metal though)
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Oct 27, 2021 01:39
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Oct 27, 2021 01:45
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The sum total of all black metal can’t compete with a single Battle Beast song (“Black Ninja”), so they’re very angry about power metal in general and can only internalize it, because c’mon…SHE’S A BLACK NINJA!!!
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Oct 27, 2021 01:51
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Dimebags Brain posted:The best power metal album is Gamma Ray's Land of the Free. Sonata Arctica have never written a song half as good as Rebellion in Dremland or Land of the Free or Afterlife. You misspelled "Somewhere out in Space", "Beyond the Black Hole", "Men, Martians and Machines" and "Valley of the Kings". Nordick fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Oct 27, 2021 |
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Ok, respect where it's due and all, the man is basically the father of European power metal and he can do whatever he wants for all I care, but in every photo of Kai Hansen from about 2013-now all I can see is the ridiculous wig on his head and I wish he'd just bite the bullet and go full Halford at this point. (old pic but new ones are just as bad)
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Oct 27, 2021 03:01
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This thread is usually pretty cool if you talk about USPM instead of Euro. Manilla Road, Omen, Liege Lord, Riot etc.
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Oct 27, 2021 03:50
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forgetting jag panzer
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hot date tonight! posted:This thread is usually pretty cool if you talk about USPM instead of Euro. Manilla Road, Omen, Liege Lord, Riot etc. Forgetting Virgin Steele smh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGp1h3b-VKw
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Hog Fell on Me posted:Ok, respect where it's due and all, the man is basically the father of European power metal and he can do whatever he wants for all I care, but in every photo of Kai Hansen from about 2013-now all I can see is the ridiculous wig on his head and I wish he'd just bite the bullet and go full Halford at this point. (old pic but new ones are just as bad) Omg how dare I forget Helloween! https://youtu.be/dtPs1QrMI1I
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Spanish Manlove posted:Quest for Fire every time I see this I think about that movie with rae dawn chong. Freedom Trails posted:The sum total of all black metal can’t compete with a single Battle Beast song (“Black Ninja”), so they’re very angry about power metal in general and can only internalize it, because c’mon…SHE’S A BLACK NINJA!!! and now im thinking of a black metal version of that jennifer murphy tune
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hot date tonight! posted:This thread is usually pretty cool if you talk about USPM instead of Euro. Manilla Road, Omen, Liege Lord, Riot etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpyMlCPPTq4
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Newer bands like Eternal Champion, Visigoth and Smoulder hold the USPM banner high. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_PHiguMZek As a snooty euro, I have to say that I enjoy USPM/epic heavy metal more than I enjoy most europower. E: Blind Guardian is the best power metal ever, though. Specifically the TftTW to NiME period. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Oct 27, 2021 |
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USPM always strikes me as power metal but with people actually trying to take it seriously and that is the dumbest loving idea for the second dorkiest metal subgenre. Black metal is the dorkiest metal subgenre because power metal bands at least look like they're having fun with it. Abbath aside.
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I accidentally (physically) bumped into Sonata Arctica at a Portland safeway the morning of their show with Nightwish like 10 or 12 years ago. I got super drunk the rest of the day and had a baller time late into the night hollering like a big power metal doofus at their concert. Welp, that's my story.
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:every time I see this I think about that movie with rae dawn chong. Probably. That whole album was basically inspired by a bunch of movies Steve Harris liked
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Oct 27, 2021 13:06
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I did a half-joke post about Dragonforce bc the cheesy video was great but don't get me wrong, power metal rules particularly Sellsword https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLnXNVPe2LY
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Oct 27, 2021 13:38
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This is the greatest Power Metal song in the history of forever. Fight me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_8VVbvHv8
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Oct 27, 2021 13:55
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Power metal can be great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0n6wa8sPuQ
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Dr. Capco posted:I accidentally (physically) bumped into Sonata Arctica at a Portland safeway the morning of their show with Nightwish like 10 or 12 years ago. I got super drunk the rest of the day and had a baller time late into the night hollering like a big power metal doofus at their concert. Welp, that's my story. Tony Kakko actually took this as you rejecting him and wrote a song about you breaking up with him
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Oct 27, 2021 15:34
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I highly recommend Dragonforce shows for a Good Time.
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:every time I see this I think about that movie with rae dawn chong. And Ron Perlman. Owns. So does the song.
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lol forgot that ron pearlman was in it. homeboy already looked like a caveman
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He's not a caveman, he's a maine coon.
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Reminds me of when I finally got to see Slough Feg live, and understood why Mike Scalzi writes so many songs about apes and cavemen.
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xzzy posted:He's not a caveman, he's a maine coon. Very true
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Groke posted:Reminds me of when I finally got to see Slough Feg live, and understood why Mike Scalzi writes so many songs about apes and cavemen. My favorite thing about Mike is not that he's a professor, it's that he's apparently a professor that all his students hate. Don't be fooled by the overall average, reading through the reviews is a great time.
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Freedom Trails posted:I highly recommend Dragonforce shows for a Good Time. I'll always remember the time I saw them live, and the singer did the "point the mic at the audience to have them sing a line while the band pauses" thing, but at such a random moment that nobody made a peep. Then he turned to the band and went like "Should we finish the song or just move on to the next one?" and the guitarist replied "Doesn't matter, they all sound the same anyway." It was extremely loving funny at the time.
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Freedom Trails posted:I highly recommend Dragonforce shows for a Good Time. Trampettes and hair blowing fans, it was like going to a circus and it was an utter blast (this was back in like 2005 or something, I'm curious as to what goes on now!)
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Yeah my older brother took my teen self out to see Dragonforce/Killswitch Engage/Sevendust and one of the DF guitarists runs out of beer (mounted on a micstand with a straw poking out) mid-solo, turns around, yells at a stage tech for more, and has it replaced before finishing the noodling. It was great
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Omnikin posted:Yeah my older brother took my teen self out to see Dragonforce/Killswitch Engage/Sevendust and one of the DF guitarists runs out of beer (mounted on a micstand with a straw poking out) mid-solo, turns around, yells at a stage tech for more, and has it replaced before finishing the noodling. It was great That's...an interesting bill.
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Lifeglug posted:USPM always strikes me as power metal but with people actually trying to take it seriously and that is the dumbest loving idea for the second dorkiest metal subgenre. it's not actually a bad thing to take the art you make seriously
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Nazzadan posted:My favorite thing about Mike is not that he's a professor, it's that he's apparently a professor that all his students hate. Don't be fooled by the overall average, reading through the reviews is a great time. If his lyrics are any indication, apparently the feeling is mutual. Mike Scalzi, yelling at clouds, posted:Amidst the burned-out minds
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A human heart posted:it's not actually a bad thing to take the art you make seriously I mean take it seriously as in being all PO faced about it and not realising that it’s all just silly theatrics. Unless you’re gonna say that people should think that PM about dragons and poo poo is meant to be very serious.
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