power metal, anyone? (dance, rock, covers, quote, bands)

Cghost · 01-09-2008, 12:44 AM

lol @ Iron Maiden and Judas Priest being power metal

Blind Guardian. Maybe Slough Feg if you consider them Power Metal.

jackhammer · 01-09-2008, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Cghost

lol @ Iron Maiden and Judas Priest being power metal

Blind Guardian. Maybe Slough Feg if you consider them Power Metal.

We were discussing their merits as influencing the power metal genre, not actually being power metal. Read the thread properly.

riseagainstrocks · 01-09-2008, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Cghost

lol @ Iron Maiden and Judas Priest being power metal

Blind Guardian. Maybe Slough Feg if you consider them Power Metal.

Slough Feg is great.

and I stand by my statement on Iron Maiden being Power Metal. Vocal style/lyrics as well as the classically influenced guitars (in terms of overlapping melodies and octave leads, basically ripped straight from classical counterpoint) define their sound.

Seltzer · 01-09-2008, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Soulfire77

Why do people like Dragonforce so much? I saw them at Ozzfest and they were so LAME. I had never even heard of them before that... With the leather pants and the keytar, I thought they were some sort of joke band like Spinal Tap. It seems like every thread on this board mentions them at some point.

Am I missing something here?

Nope... it's just ultra-generic annoyingly over-happy power metal with gimmicky leads, obnoxious vocals, and boring bass/drums.

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I don't actually mind the first few Dickinson albums. It's just from Powerslave onwards they seemed to get more & more polished & lose that edge that appealed to me.

Powerslave is my probably my fav Maiden.

Followed by Killers and NOTB.

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Originally Posted by gpackin

Speaking of Bruce, his solo albums are pretty good. His last album Tyranny of Souls is great.

I enjoy Tyranny of Souls, especially Navigate the Seas of the Sun.

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Originally Posted by Cghost

lol @ Iron Maiden and Judas Priest being power metal

Blind Guardian. Maybe Slough Feg if you consider them Power Metal.

Slough Feg is a great band... and hard to classify too. I just chuck them in my heavy metal folder and be done with it.

Cghost · 01-09-2008, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by riseagainstrocks

Slough Feg is great.

and I stand by my statement on Iron Maiden being Power Metal. Vocal style/lyrics as well as the classically influenced guitars (in terms of overlapping melodies and octave leads, basically ripped straight from classical counterpoint) define their sound.

They don't really have a Power Metal sound though. They're missing some key components that are vital to Power Metal, like the over the top keyboard work, songs that are altogether too fast, and ridiculous amounts of double bass. While Maiden's guitar work did obviously influence power Metal, I can't say it resembles Power Metal. Power Metal is usually incredibly polished and played mindnumbingly fast (with a mindnumbing amount of cheese). Maiden was polished, but it still had something of a raw feeling to it; it was still something you could sit down and go "That was one badass riff." Power Metal is more about being as epic as effing possible whereas Maiden as all about playing balls to the wall heavy metal. I can see the influence, but I really don't see how the tag can be applied to Maiden at all.

riseagainstrocks · 01-25-2008, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Cghost

They don't really have a Power Metal sound though. They're missing some key components that are vital to Power Metal, like the over the top keyboard work, songs that are altogether too fast, and ridiculous amounts of double bass. While Maiden's guitar work did obviously influence power Metal, I can't say it resembles Power Metal. Power Metal is usually incredibly polished and played mindnumbingly fast (with a mindnumbing amount of cheese). Maiden was polished, but it still had something of a raw feeling to it; it was still something you could sit down and go "That was one badass riff." Power Metal is more about being as epic as effing possible whereas Maiden as all about playing balls to the wall heavy metal. I can see the influence, but I really don't see how the tag can be applied to Maiden at all.

Well, we have a fundamental disagreement then. The lack of Keyboards doesn't mean a whole lot. Look at bands that you called Power Metal, such as The Lord Weird Slough Feg. No keyboards in their music (at least on Traveller and Hardworlder). Blind Guardian even doesn't have very prevelant keyboards. They go so far as to keep it to studio only, adding flourishes to their songs.

Power Metal is a relatively diverse genre. Epic is good, but not a requirement. The only things I feel are needed are lyrics dealing with mythos, aliens, or other fantasy material, guitars that are rooted in classical counterpoint ("dueling" solo's, straightforward minor arpeggios and leads), and strong fantasy imagery. Maiden has those traits in spades.

and as far as "best" goes the answer is Blind Guardian. This isn't even debateable.

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