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Lol! It’s like flag in the ground from an alternate, dorky universe.
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Power Metal makes me really loving happy and I’m glad I found it as a teen. It’s like a wide open door inviting you in to be the biggest loving nerd possible and have a great time.
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Power metal is a great gateway drug The orchestral synths made Dimmu Borgir not too far a leap From there, well, better black metal
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Feb 8, 2023 19:27
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Power metal led to Master of Puppets and becoming a thrash fan which led to Death and that was the ballgame.
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Feb 8, 2023 19:32
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I've actually become increasingly fond of a variety of power metal as I've grown older. Even the cheesier stuff. I got into metal at the peak of the thrash years, went on through to death metal, was there for the 90s Norwegian black metal wave, lots of doomdeath like early Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride and whatnot, funeral doom in the early 2000s and so on... there were always a handful of lighter/happier bands that I respected and liked but whenever I felt like listening more to power metal I just ended up spinning Nightfall in Middle Earth a bunch of times. Until fairly recently.
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With the north star to guide us we ride on the sky Blazing up through the heavens like eagles we fly And the horsemen shall come they will judge all your lives Revelations will now be unveiled
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most power metal is not tolerable imo but i loving love early blind guardian
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Feb 9, 2023 01:36
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Nightfall in Middle Earth is the best power metal album there is, and pretty high up the list of metal in general
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Feb 9, 2023 01:53
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im partial to imaginations from the other side, and despite being incredibly loving cheesy (it has loving horse-claps) “battlefield” is an alltime banger
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Gio posted:most power metal is not tolerable imo but i loving love early blind guardian Hello, are you me?
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Feb 9, 2023 01:58
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I wouldn't call most power metal intolerable but it is very much a small-doses thing 99% of the time and the ballads are near universally awful. Unfortunately power metal albums are like 58 minutes long on average and have at least two of those. But Blind Guardian are one of the best metal bands, full stop.
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Feb 9, 2023 02:11
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Post your favorite mega over-produced power metal tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L89jUOVHtps that kick drum is unreal
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Very few metal bands are as cool as Lost Horizon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5lXZEawufc In general I like power metal that riffs hard like the most perfect power metal album, imo, Hibria's Defying the Rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMgZiXV--wY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zel1qUODdzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkoHecXIImA Dimebags Brain fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Weaponized Cum posted:Post your favorite mega over-produced power metal tracks Also they made one of the best covers of Smoke on the Water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5knH2mYCuE Dimebags Brain posted:In general I like power metal that riffs hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djUppB_O1DU Actually, I just noticed a good "degrees of separation" kinda chain here. Bear with me. So, Iuri Sanson from Hibria is also in Eternity's End. They in turn had guest background vocals from Piet Sielck of Iron Savior, who are also a staple "PROPER loving power metal" band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnMFjC7QMGc Of course, Iron Savior also used to have Sielck's buddy Kai Hansen (Reminder that they co-wrote a power metal song so good it was on both Iron Savior's and Gamma Ray's albums). Kai Hansen also did a guest appearance on what is secretly one of the best power metal albums since the early 2000s, the criminally overlooked Reverence by Merging Flare. They have that signature joyful Euro power metal energy, but also GUITARS and a sound with some edge to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOcNfbmQv_4 Merging Flare's vocalist, Matias Palm, is also currently the vocalist in Blazon Stone, who are easily the best Running Wild worship band, and these days arguably a better Running Wild than Running Wild are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me-fcouE7c0 And, lastly, whatever their current state might be, Running Wild are still Running Wild, and as such have the actual loving best power metal riffs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiUIR6pfF2c
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Blind Guardian is one of the greatest bands of all time, period.
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Oh man, speaking of heavy riffing and Running Wild, I recently ran across the best RW-inspired album I've heard in a long rear end time, Whirlwind's 1714. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWmmFR0sQKc
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Feb 9, 2023 05:44
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Count Thrashula posted:Nightfall in Middle Earth is the best power metal album there is, and pretty high up the list of metal in general It really is, isn't it? Having been put on, it demands being played to the end, no skipping of anything, not even the spoken interludes.
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All this Blind Guardian talk pulled this out of my memory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAifTNcgYyc
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loving nerds!!!
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Cynicus posted:loving nerds!!! Hello yes you’ve reached the metal thread on the dead gay Internet forum, who am I speaking to
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Just realised we've reached the point where there's the same amount of time between Focus and Traced In Air as there is between Traced In Air and today
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Feb 9, 2023 10:59
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I never was much into powermetal but I fondly remember playing trashy online games with nerds on irc who briefly made me listen to blind guardian, demons and wizards and hammerfall
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Feb 9, 2023 11:29
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Dimebags Brain posted:Oh man, speaking of heavy riffing and Running Wild, I recently ran across the best RW-inspired album I've heard in a long rear end time, Whirlwind's 1714. This rules, will definitely be checking the whole thing out. Cheers.
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Feb 9, 2023 12:09
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Gio posted:im partial to imaginations from the other side, and despite being incredibly loving cheesy (it has loving horse-claps) “battlefield” is an alltime banger Imaginations is the best, but Night at the Opera is way better than it should be for how silly it is. I think it's the last Blind Guardian album I really like. Everything after that has been downhill. Twist in the Myth and Edge of Time had their moments but I never go back to those.
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I saw demons and wizards on their last tour and it fuckin ruled Also lmao I can't believe I was in the same room as a domestic terrorist
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This is a cool new release from a bunch of people I've never heard of before, rare for power metal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ydce6Euspk Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Killingyouguy! posted:I saw demons and wizards on their last tour and it fuckin ruled I saw Iced Earth weeks after 9/11, right before Barlow left, cut his hair and became a cop.
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this is actually worth a listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E8TWMiaaKU
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CornHolio posted:I saw Iced Earth weeks after 9/11, right before Barlow left, cut his hair and became a cop.
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Piss Creep posted:this is actually worth a listen you weren't kidding
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Kilometers Davis posted:Power Metal makes me really loving happy and I’m glad I found it as a teen. It’s like a wide open door inviting you in to be the biggest loving nerd possible and have a great time. indeed, i just like dumb stupid happy music sometimes and power metal fits the bill perfectly. same reason i like a lot of folk metal. For example, the opening riff to Little Dreamer by Ensiferum always, always puts a huge grin on my face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mknYjgk5K3Q
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I listen to way more black and death than power, but that's more so because there's a shitload more black and death bands. Pm was always the genre I liked most when listening to metal all the way back to the beginning when my gateway bands were all nwobhm so that transition was easy, and then pm was an easy gateway into melodeath and meloblack which then got me into the pure stuff. The last few years have been really good for pm, seems like every december when I look back on the best releases of that year there's multiple power or power adjacent albums I loved. Like this Dire Peril album, or the debut Fellowship. Really good music for just looping the same album you love while you focus on something else like painting warhams.
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power metal makes me drive really loving fast i cant help myself
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I still pretty much only listen to the same half a dozen (prog-)power bands I did when I was a young teenager, but I've considerably warmed up to the vocal style. This Galneryus song is a great tune to run to in general, but this particular live performance (at 8:35 if it doesn't automatically jump there) starts off with what might be my all-time favorite air raid siren impression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS3Xlot49Cg&t=515s It even has visual aids!
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Vulture Culture posted:he was twelve feet tall and his voice came from three places at once. absolutely unreal He was the most metal.  I've been listening to a ton of old Iced Earth. I miss old Iced Earth 
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I tried to sit through that new Iced Earth comp of old songs recontextualized as insurrectionist poetry and I almost found myself at an Arby's with a double-barrel shotgun in my mouth.
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Bleh, the new In Flames kinda sucks. The Great Deceiver is a legit banger, which gave me way too much hope. Nope. The rest is pretty pedestrian and forgettable. Bummer.
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Feb 10, 2023 07:52
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Hibria's first 2 albums loving rule.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Bleh, the new In Flames kinda sucks..
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Frustratingly, the late 1997/early 1998 lineup of In Flames reformed with Mikael Stanne on vocals and released an album last year, and even that kind of sucked
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