Thread for being unnecessarily hostile to people who hate power metal

can't even tell you how many times i've played that song over the years.

digging the new turisas on youtube the other night. the one everyone has been raving about on the metal thread.

i would KILL for a vinyl copy of the midnight sun cuz it would be in every dj set i ever did. not that i dj, but i would be ready just in case.

scott I am feeling your posts here but would like a little more animosity toward the encroaching hordes of dickheads who hate on power metal

what about those of us who are power metal agnostic?

with us or against us iirc

i don't even know what it is

holy cow scott that midnight sun is outstanding, are you gonna run a copy of that for yr man underrated a or what

its cheese

xp

okay disco power metal has me intrigued

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml_hrnEkBKA

That midnight sun is incredible. More youtubes, please.

i like cheese.

was never quite sure what power metal was...is manowar power metal?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_metal_bands

manowar played here recently, kinda pissed I missed it

Keeper of the Seven Keys? more like Keeper of the Seven Keyk your fucking ass!

Power metal haters; I'LL SEE YOU IN HEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMOeBTHbTUs

This is unfuckwithable as far as I am concerned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOKbqfzD6rc

man just today I heard about some guy who didn't like power metal and even though I didn't know the guy in my mind I was like "fuck you, dude"

see now that just seems like necessarily hostile to me

this hate furnace isnt going to stoke itself dude

Scott may have just given me the subject of my next Deciblog column.

hahaha jjjusted

right now I'm listening to Epica, a Dutch power metal band. Do they sample Malcolm X in "The Price of Freedom - Interlude"? yes, yes they do.

anyway yeah let me get back on the stick here, attn power metal haters, I hope your eyes fall out and some guy in chain mail stomps on them while yelling RRRAAAGGGGHHHH and it's like he's doing it right in front of your eyes except you don't have eyes any more because power metal dude just stomped on them

sad 4 u, hate power metal + have no eyes

this now resembles a pantera message board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anz_kVX3KGk

"I'LL KICK YA FUCKING NOSE OFF, STOMP, STOMP, LEFT, STOMP, STOMP, RIGHT, I'LL BOX IN YA FACE TILL THERES NO TEETH LEFT!"

that's not power metal.

he might be smithys power metal lovin dude who is doing the stomping

I hope a dragon eats your bones.

go back to your D&D

This is the thread for being unnecessarily hostile to people who hate power metal, not people who love power metal.

this now resembles a pantera message board

I guess if there's a pantera message board with a power metal subforum, maybe

let me know if I should move any further responses to the "thread for being necessarily condescending to people who don't know what power metal is" though

attn Power Metal Haters: you fucked up

hahahahaha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_metal_bands

― I love victorias but I've chosen maidenform (Edward III), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:36 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm really bad at distinguishing subspecies of metal. But I do really like all the bands on that list who I have actually HEARD. I guess I'm batting 1.000 on my power metal non-hating thus far!

the way you can tell it's power metal is a simple test -- "if I tell my friends I like this, will I get made fun of?" if "yes," then it's probably power metal

Recommend me a Man O' War record to listen to, O mighty lords of power metal...

where do kick axe fit in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dis39LcsbCU

in the axe iirc

Recommend me a Man O' War record to listen to, O mighty lords of power metal...

ALL OF THEM.

OK, maybe just the first four.

deal, thanks!

Wimps and posers, leave the hall!

Power metal. in my experience, is either really really good or really really awful. There isn't a whole lot of mediocre. Basically, if you are going to go power, go hard or go home really. You can't half ass this stuff.

Wimps and posers, leave the hall!

lol

THEY ARE BABIES THAT SHOULD BE THROWN INTO THE FIERY PITS OF HELL WHERE THEY WILL SEE THE AWESOME POWER METAL PLAYING ALL AROUND THEM AND REALIZE THAT THEY LEFT IT TOO LATE TO APPRECIATE THE AWESOMENESS OF POWERMETAL WHILE ON EARTH AND NOW THEY ARE DEAD AND IN HELL SO HAHAHA ALL OF THEM THEY ARE LOSERS WHO WOULDN'T KNOW A DRAGON OR A DECENT CODPIECE IF IT KNOCKED THEM OFF THEIR STUPID BICYCLE

Hey people who hate power metal, nice crackerjack clothes, chumps!

otm, lol @ those dudes, what is wrong w/them

how do you even hate Manowar. I don't understand

surely this is some kind of joke?

They reunited in 2010 with Steve Cox on guitar. Devon Graves and Dan Rock, replacing Steve Cox, would join the band later on to complete the original lineup.

http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=881

go play an acoustic guitar guys

btw i have this thread to thank for inspiring me to start my metal videos of youth thread on idiot thread repository so thank you thread you have brightened my week

lol is this actually catholic power metal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yUKolUisz0

acoustic guitars are acceptable if used during a brief interlude during a suite that musically explores the life of king james iii

zxpost

http://www.truemetal.org/mastersofmetal/images/firewal.gif

xpost to Alan- and two of them were a band called Teabag. How bout that.

really in some sense all power metal is Catholic

xpost Alan N so totally otm, illuminating the dark path of the nonbeliever

Here's some acoustic guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utCLHdqACi0&feature=related

ok still kinda dope:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBmtkNv4t-Y

solo in the edenbridge track has caused me to shed a single (powerful) tear

Power metal is probably the only kind of extreme metal (defined by me as metal with growling vocals) that I don't actively hate. Well, that and doom metal. Not that I am a fan either (just cannot stand growling vocals regardless of style), but the prog elements tend to be quite interesting.

Yngwie Geir Malmsteen

(pours cup of mead for Geir)

Ingwee's Momstinks

I'm confused... Did we decide if Yngwie is power metal or not... lol

I say NOT... just because of Joe Lynn Turner singing

i think he's just yngwie

This is amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMRsR8MQFqw

Anyone who disagrees is a shit-stainjed scotum sucker who should leave the hall (he says, with unnecessary hostility).

So, like, are Savatage done?

Their website's still up, but all of the news from like the last ten years has to do with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, or any of the bandmates side projects. Jon has his "Oliva" project now - are they packing it in?

Think it would be sad for them to end things on "Poets and Madmen", which was a weirdly assembled release given Zak Stevens' sudden departure. and that 'new' vocalist Damond Jiniya was in the band for all of five minutes!

also I saw Manilla Road at Death Fest and they rocked and anybody who doesn't like Manilla Road will be impaled upon my studded codpiece

dont you dare compare the mighty manilla road with the shite on this thread!

I'm still not convinced Manilla Road isn't an ironic performance art piece.

bill magill was really upset they made the top metal albums of alltime poll

Every piss I take that's not on the severed head of a Power Metal Hater is a piss wasted.

if you don't like Labyrinth's "Return to Heaven Denied" Ima stick your nuts in a blender

lol i love this thread, and fuck you if you don't like power metal

otm

I used to outright loathe power metal. But since I've started to listen to more and more metal in the past few years/started valuing escapism above pretty much anything else (in music), my stance has softened (er... hardened?) towards it as I probably listen to stuff that wobbles dangerously close power metal territory. Can't help but hate myself for that, just a little.

is hammers of misfortune power metal? new album is good

or is power metal one of those things like goth where no good band who is goth actually calls themselves goth and any band who cops to it probably sucks?

There's a pretty trustworthy regional divide in quality. US power metal is mostly pretty cool, because it's basically just plain old heavy metal. European power metal is the kind with giggly crackhead elf vocals, synth and a general sense that all the metal got sucked out of the equation.

No. Power metal is not fucking like fucking goth. Power metal is about well-justfied high self-esteem.

xpost: European power metal is awesome. Synthesizers in metal are awesome. Elves will kick your ass if they have to make a giant elf-pyramid to reach it.

Got the new Hammerfall album this week - they've switched labels, from Nuclear Blast to Napalm. First song on the record is called "Bring It!" and totally lives up to that title - chorus is a gang shout.

Oh, and to keep to the thread's purpose, anyone who doesn't like Hammerfall can catch a hammer in the teeth.

Gang shouting is the original and proper meaning of "chorus".

finally getting around to hearing Hammerfall (Glory to the Brave). this is my wheelhouse. I'm not into the proggier or the more ridiculous power metal, but the Maiden-y heavy metal stuff with soaring choruses and cheese-factor = my love.

what other stuff is worth checkin' out from this here genre

I guess I like Grave Digger now? I was sour on them at first cos I saw them open for Blind Guardian, and nobody was going to measure up to BG that night, but this is pretty fun stuff and it's not weenie-like.

oh wait I forgot the thread conceit.

lol if u don't like Grave Digger I'll dig urs u fukin pussy

u don't like Eternal Champion because ur a transient loser

if u don't like Burning Witches there's a stick up ur ass

if you listen to symphony x and you are like, "no, fuck this," maybe you should reconsider all of your terrible life decisions up to this point

― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:57 PM bookmarkflaglink

should have known Brad was a scholar almost 11 years ago with this post.

if you don't like Divine Wings of Tragedy, i will vivisect you!

If you didn't like Warlord in 1983 you were a shitlord who probably listened to Pyromania and .38 Special instead.

Iced Earth? You seem like the type who will participate in an insurrection!

haha bewm

if you hate Gamma Ray, I hope an antelope shits in your mouth while you are slowly killed by jackals and your girlfriend has sex with someone else in front of you

I unapologetically love Symphony X

oh I forgot the thread theme, uh, if you don't, then suck my dick

If the unbridled positivity of Fellowship doesn't thaw your frozen heart, then you probably just hate hobbits tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p75OnvNL-HY