What Are You listening To V.III Metal!

supermarlin · 12-13-2011, 12:30 AM

TYR - Wings of Time

The Batlord · 12-13-2011, 09:31 AM

I love how most of their songs are actually thinly veiled metaphors for a call to arms to fans of true metal. I won't lie, sometimes I get kinda choked up.

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Sight a brand new horizon
Ascending from the hearts of those who couldn't see
The decline of man, the final stage of war

Spectral forces of mankind
We're all trapped inside the core of the machine
Our time has come to find a way back home

We seek our destiny in thee
In the eye of the storm
A genesis is born, reborn

Riders of the storm - one with the wind, defenders of
creation
Riders of the storm - aligned with the sun

Phantom powers rule the earth
Descending down, controlling you and me
What is left to see, is it all but a dream

On the inside looking out
Kept within a cage, behind a false facade
They can't keep us down cause our strength is our will

We dream of a genesis reborn
Where our spirits fly free
Let us choose our own destiny

Riders of the storm - one with the wind, defenders of
creation
Riders of the storm - aligned with the sun

Speak the word of Nemesis
Call for thunder call for rain
Let us meet our Genesis
Save us from the unholy pain

Riders of the storm - one with the wind, defenders of
creation
Riders of the storm - aligned with the sun

hip hop bunny hop · 12-13-2011, 04:37 PM

Manilla Road's "The Ram", from their '83 album "Crystal Logic". What they purveyed was deemed "epic metal".... which is basically proto-power metal. The vocals are largely flat, almost spoken, and the only actual singing takes place to contrast guitar melodies and give the album a feeling of speed.

It works really well. The riffs are great, and there's a production effect - towards the end of the song - that makes the riffs sound like they're washing in and out while a truly frantic guitar solo is played.

almauro · 12-13-2011, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop

Manilla Road's "The Ram", from their '83 album "Crystal Logic". What they purveyed was deemed "epic metal".... which is basically proto-power metal. The vocals are largely flat, almost spoken, and the only actual singing takes place to contrast guitar melodies and give the album a feeling of speed.

It works really well. The riffs are great, and there's a production effect - towards the end of the song - that makes the riffs sound like they're washing in and out while a truly frantic guitar solo is played.

Nice, I can hear why Manilla Road has so many backers. I'd say that it's pretty darn close to full fledged power metal though, everything seems to be fully developed, from the flashy distorted guitar playing, fast pace, complex song structure and the time signature, or to use the parlance of our times, "the breakdown". Early Budgie which was a kicks ass blues based "early-metal" group, utilizing those huge Iommi distorted riffs to drive the song. The music is simpler than "The Ram" , but it's heavier and more a kin to thrash or stoner metal, rather than epic power metal. Budgie were also know to throw in a "breakdown" once in a while, too.

The Batlord · 12-14-2011, 08:46 AM

Gloriously cheesy and totally infectious. Helloween were the masters of early power metal.

almauro · 12-15-2011, 07:08 PM

^I always thought Helloween would be a great Broadway act...soooo theatrical and dramatic. When you're talking early cheese, though Manowar were the kings.

The Batlord · 12-16-2011, 08:31 AM

^Ah, Manowar. Cheeseball perfection.

This band doesn't give a **** that their old school heavy metal sound is cheesy and outdated either. \/

Howard the Duck · 12-16-2011, 04:58 PM

last metal album I heard was Black Sabbath's Heaven & Hell

RJ self-plagiarised "Lonely Is the Word" for one of his Dio songs (can't remember which one)

Salami · 12-17-2011, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

^Ah, Manowar. Cheeseball perfection.

This band doesn't give a **** that their old school heavy metal sound is cheesy and outdated either. \/

Great. I love old school cheesy metal, whether it be hair metal, power metal or Himalayan Hobbit metal. I'll check them out.

Howard the Duck · 12-17-2011, 07:44 AM

last i heard was Morbid Angel's Blessed Are the Sick

12-13-2011, 04:37 PM	#263 (permalink)
hip hop bunny hop Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,381	Manilla Road's "The Ram", from their '83 album "Crystal Logic". What they purveyed was deemed "epic metal".... which is basically proto-power metal. The vocals are largely flat, almost spoken, and the only actual singing takes place to contrast guitar melodies and give the album a feeling of speed. It works really well. The riffs are great, and there's a production effect - towards the end of the song - that makes the riffs sound like they're washing in and out while a truly frantic guitar solo is played. __________________ Have mercy on the poor.

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almauro Way Out There Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 850	^I always thought Helloween would be a great Broadway act...soooo theatrical and dramatic. When you're talking early cheese, though Manowar were the kings. __________________ rock n music blog

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