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Surely Nightwish are the paradigmatic example?
And here we are arguing about subgenres and band classifications. I knew we'd get here! Nightwish is a good fit except the "power" part.
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There may not be. There seems to be something obsessive about metal fans to catalog and classify and document. I mean, look at the wiki page on subgenres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_genres It fills me with awe and giggles.
Musical genre multiplication and creation is just an internet disease where a bunch of would-be critics put original research on wikipedia and retroactively justify it by referencing one sentence in a 10 year old Slate article by some actual critic of no particular note. Most of the people included in these genres had no idea they were in them when they created the music (because they didn't exist.) Plenty of them st…
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I’m not sure what you’re talking about but excuse me while I turn on some female-fronted symphonic power metal.
I prefer my female-fronted metal to be "glam", not the inferior "symphonic power". I actually owned a couple of her LPs in the '80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lita_Ford Since our tastes are so far apart, I guess we have nothing else to talk about.
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I prefer my female-fronted metal to be "glam", not the inferior "symphonic power". I actually owned a couple of her LPs in the '80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lita_Ford Since our tastes are so far apart, I guess we have nothing else to talk about.
Kiss Me Deadly is probably the origin of my love of all things metal.
A friend of mine at work mentioned around 1988 that I should listen to 10,000 Maniacs--the name sounded interesting, and (I'll probably get beat up here for saying this) Natalie Merchant's Greek Siren-like voice led me down a more, er "primrose path" musically. Peter Tosh, too.
[On a personal note, I might have been able to get the courage to ask Natalie out back then even though she was totally out of my league--like my wife, and I dated a few women like Lita over the years, but asking Lita out? That's a whole other level of courage. Iommi was engaged to her, by the way, for reference.]
I'm 55 and I still listen to metal especially while working, but I stopped trying new stuff in the early 2000's. So the newest I listen to would be Slipknot or Soulfly. My brother tried getting me to listen to modern "Norse Core" or something, but I didn't get it.
I suspect my wife got into metal through the albums of Bon Jovi, but she denies it.
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Kiss Me Deadly is probably the origin of my love of all things metal.
My gateway metal idols were Tony Iommi, Randy Rhoads and Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, all of whom I got to see in concert. And I'm going to just going to say it, "1984" was one of my favorite albums (although not really metal, the cover reminded me of the one on Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell"). Paul Graham's description of high school in one essay was right on the mark for me, I sat at the heavy metal table at lunch…
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