Thread for being unnecessarily hostile to people who hate power metal

can we bookend all future posts to this thread with a

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

xpost album description OTM

do you ever wonder what happened to Psychotic Waltz?

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