more bands need an "x" at the end of their names
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
can we petition the other guys on your list to add x's after their names? just to make the list cooler
xpost
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
"iced earth x" just sounds better imo
lol xpost
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
you cant make "helloween" cooler because it is already the coolest name there is or ever will be.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
hellaween
― adult music person (Jordan), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i love that websites about these bands look exactly the same as they did in '95: http://www.truemetal.org/mastersofmetal/eternityx.htm
― adult music person (Jordan), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
like putting an x after savatage would be like taking a bruch symphony and autotuning the violin parts or something
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.truemetal.org/mastersofmetal/eternityxpics/etxte.gif
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
hope this thread is still sfw
The Edge explores the journey on the edge of sanity. It is a very powerful album. It is filled with complex musical nuances.
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
can we bookend all future posts to this thread with a
http://www.truemetal.org/mastersofmetal/images/firewal.gif
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost album description OTM
do you ever wonder what happened to Psychotic Waltz?
― CharlieS, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
go play an acoustic guitar guys
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 March 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
lol is this actually catholic power metal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yUKolUisz0
― adult music person (Jordan), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
acoustic guitars are acceptable if used during a brief interlude during a suite that musically explores the life of king james iii
zxpost
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost to Alan- and two of them were a band called Teabag. How bout that.
― CharlieS, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
really in some sense all power metal is Catholic
xpost Alan N so totally otm, illuminating the dark path of the nonbeliever
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's some acoustic guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utCLHdqACi0&feature=related
― Threadkiller General (Viceroy), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ok still kinda dope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBmtkNv4t-Y
― adult music person (Jordan), Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
solo in the edenbridge track has caused me to shed a single (powerful) tear
― original bgm, Thursday, 17 March 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Yngwie Geir Malmsteen
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
(pours cup of mead for Geir)
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― SeanWayne, Friday, 18 March 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i think he's just yngwie
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 18 March 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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).
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 18 March 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 29 June 2013 04:25 (ten years ago) link
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
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 29 June 2013 04:26 (ten years ago) link
dont you dare compare the mighty manilla road with the shite on this thread!
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 29 June 2013 04:31 (ten years ago) link
I'm still not convinced Manilla Road isn't an ironic performance art piece.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 29 June 2013 04:33 (ten years ago) link
bill magill was really upset they made the top metal albums of alltime poll
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 29 June 2013 04:40 (ten years ago) link
Every piss I take that's not on the severed head of a Power Metal Hater is a piss wasted.
― Clarke B., Sunday, 29 September 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
if you don't like Labyrinth's "Return to Heaven Denied" Ima stick your nuts in a blender
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
lol i love this thread, and fuck you if you don't like power metal
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 04:50 (seven years ago) link
― brimstead, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 05:06 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 11:10 (seven years ago) link
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?
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
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.
― punksishippies, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
Oh, and to keep to the thread's purpose, anyone who doesn't like Hammerfall can catch a hammer in the teeth.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
Gang shouting is the original and proper meaning of "chorus".
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
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
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 21 January 2018 18:11 (six years ago) link
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.
― Wrong Screamed Barney (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 February 2021 02:46 (three years ago) link
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
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 02:48 (three years ago) link
if u don't like Burning Witches there's a stick up ur ass
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 03:20 (three years ago) link