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Old 01-28-2012, 02:06 PM   #161 (permalink)
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I need to re listen to that album then, didn't think it was one of their best by a long shot.
I'm still discovering it, but it's pretty epic so far. I'm not sure if "epic" counts as a pun...

...but this song destroys.

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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 01-28-2012, 02:17 PM   #162 (permalink)
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I'm still discovering it, but it's pretty epic so far. I'm not sure if "epic" counts as a pun...

...but this song destroys.
Its a good Manowar song for sure.
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Old 01-30-2012, 04:31 AM   #163 (permalink)
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Loving this thread so far guys, starting to get into power metal and this has been a great learning tool so far, cheers

Has anyone by any chance heard of Dungeon? They are an Australian power metal band, i THINK they have recently split, but have been around the Aussie metal scene for quite a few years.

Sorry for the poor quality video, but youtube does have a limited supply of this band.

Check it out guys if your interested

EDIT: sorry can't post links yets, but go to youtube and search Dungeon - The Art of War for starters
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Old 01-30-2012, 12:10 PM   #164 (permalink)
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Loving this thread so far guys, starting to get into power metal and this has been a great learning tool so far, cheers

Has anyone by any chance heard of Dungeon? They are an Australian power metal band, i THINK they have recently split, but have been around the Aussie metal scene for quite a few years.

Sorry for the poor quality video, but youtube does have a limited supply of this band.

Check it out guys if your interested

EDIT: sorry can't post links yets, but go to youtube and search Dungeon - The Art of War for starters
Glad you're enjoying the thread as there are not too many power metal fans on MB

No I've never heard of Dungeon, but see they have a lot of stuff written about them on wiki, will be sure to check them out.

As far as I'm concerned the best heavy band out of Aus were Buffalo who were around in the 1970s.
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Old 02-01-2012, 09:40 AM   #165 (permalink)
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Some great stuff came out in 1996 and yet again Iced Earth didn't disappoint with The Dark Saga, a concept album about a man who sells his soul to the devil (yep this is a highly original idea from a metal band As usual Jon Schaffer laid down the tracks and Matt Barlow belted out the vocals.

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Old 02-01-2012, 09:43 AM   #166 (permalink)
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The crunching guitar intro to this song is fucking A and Matt Barlow sounds like a more wayward James Hetfield.


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Old 02-01-2012, 09:46 AM   #167 (permalink)
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My least favorite Iced Earth album. The music was just dumbed down and horribly melodramatic. Before they'd combined 80's Metallica with Iron Maiden, but now they were combining 90s Metallica with a parody of their earlier sound. This actually used to be my favorite IE album when I was younger, since it was definitely their most accessible, but over the years I have just lost all interest in that album.

Burnt Offerings, Horror Show, and Something Wicked This Way Comes were vastly superior if you want to get into Mat Barlow era Iced Earth.
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My least favorite Iced Earth album. The music was just dumbed down and horribly melodramatic. Before they'd combined 80's Metallica with Iron Maiden, but now they were combining 90s Metallica with a parody of their earlier sound. This actually used to be my favorite IE album when I was younger, since it was definitely their most accessible, but over the years I have just lost all interest in that album.

Burnt Offerings, Horror Show, and Something Wicked This Way Comes were vastly superior if you want to get into Mat Barlow era Iced Earth.
One of my fav aspects of 90's and 00 metal, were bands being influenced by Metallica for an album or two, from Iced Earth to Paradise Lost to Corrosion of Conformity and upto Trivium all put out great Metallica sounding albums, in fact bands that sound like Metallica could be a good war on Metal Wars

As for Matt Barlow era Iced Earth

Something Wicked This way Comes>Burnt Offerings>The Dark Saga>Horror Show.
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BTW just finished listening to the first Omen album Battle Cry and its some great early 1980s metal, sure its Maiden influenced but the band are talented enough to pull it off in their own style, J.D Kimball was a good vocalist but sadly died back in 2003.
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Old 02-01-2012, 10:16 AM   #170 (permalink)
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One of my fav aspects of 90's and 00 metal, were bands being influenced by Metallica for an album or two, from Iced Earth to Paradise Lost to Corrosion of Conformity and upto Trivium all put out great Metallica sounding albums,
I'm not totally against the idea, it's just that Iced Earth sounded like retards on Dark Saga. I always knew Jon Schaffer probably wasn't the most mature dude on Earth. But I love that he embraces his own goofiness and just does what he wants. But on Dark Saga, I honestly started to wonder if he wasn't developmentally challenged.

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