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Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
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Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
#12I found power metal because I was looking for a more positive sub-genre of metal. What I was listening to before often had ahrimanic themes - death, violence, satanism etc.
I grew up on power metal and nowadays I mainly listen to two genres: black metal and classical music. One of the things they have in common is that I can't understand a word in either. I really appreciate that because I find lyrics in songs distracting and most of the time cringy.
Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
#13I listen to Power Metal only because it is the closest genre to classical Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne,Motörhead, Judas Priest) and almost no band sings classical Heavy Metal anymore.
I'll seed you Seven Sisters (UK), Riot city (Can), Traveler (Can), Toledo Steel (UK), Road Wolf (Austria), Bullet (Swe), Crazy Lixx (Swe).
Take those to BandCamp/Metal Archives and look for "bands like" these and you'll see there are hundreds of UK, Canadian and Swedish bands.
There is also the ever awesome Jorn (Swe) still putting out amazing Heavy Metal.
Hope that helps. No need to listen to power metal ;)
Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
#14I listen to Power Metal only because it is the closest genre to classical Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne,Motörhead, Judas Priest) and almost no band sings classical Heavy Metal anymore.
This. Also, it more closely butts up against a couple of other metals I enjoy including symphonic.
Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
#15I listen to Power Metal only because it is the closest genre to classical Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne,Motörhead, Judas Priest) and almost no band sings classical Heavy Metal anymore.
There's been a huge revival of traditional heavy metal over the last 10 or so years. Look up NWOTHM for a list of some of the bands.
Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
#16I found power metal because I was looking for a more positive sub-genre of metal. What I was listening to before often had ahrimanic themes - death, violence, satanism etc.
I grew up on power metal and nowadays I mainly listen to two genres: black metal and classical music. One of the things they have in common is that I can't understand a word in either. I really appreciate that because I find lyrics in songs distracting and most of the time cringy.
I'm the same. Fortunately for me, I don't understand Japanese, and there's some great Japanese power metal - e.g. Marge Litch and Alhambra.
Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
#17I found power metal because I was looking for a more positive sub-genre of metal. What I was listening to before often had ahrimanic themes - death, violence, satanism etc.
I grew up on power metal and nowadays I mainly listen to two genres: black metal and classical music. One of the things they have in common is that I can't understand a word in either. I really appreciate that because I find lyrics in songs distracting and most of the time cringy.
Almost the same for me, It's either blackmetal, classic or some ambient which works best for me when I want to concentrate on something. But sometimes I still need to listen to some good old cheesy Powermetal, sing along and feel like I should start immediately to conquer the world to defeat all the evil that is out there. ;)
Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
#18I listen to Power Metal only because it is the closest genre to classical Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne,Motörhead, Judas Priest) and almost no band sings classical Heavy Metal anymore.
Try some of these out:
Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
#19> Bands from Spain ... have an average of more than 1600 words vocabulary > Country, Nr of bands > Spain, 1
A pity, because there was a vibrant power metal scene here in the 90s and 2000s. They mostly sang in Spanish though.
Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
#20I found power metal because I was looking for a more positive sub-genre of metal. What I was listening to before often had ahrimanic themes - death, violence, satanism etc.
I found power metal when I was a kid because one of the things I like the most about rock and metal are operatic but growly vocals. I consider some of the singers in this list, like Jorn Lande (Masterplan, Ark), Oliver Hartmann (At Vance) and Michael Kiske (Helloween) some of the best singers in the history of rock, period.