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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)

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Post by einherjae »

dazzawazza wrote: post #13
DeathArrow wrote: post #8

I 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 ;)

Jorn is (Nor), not (Swe)

- A Norwegian

Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)

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Post by tmtvl »

agubelu wrote: post #49

I'd like to use this thread to spread the word of our lord and savior Powerwolf. I discovered them just over two years ago and they immediately became my favorite band: their mix of themes, aesthetic and impressive vocals are amazing. Plus they're a ton of fun live and sound just as good :)

I dunno, I got one of their albums on Google Play Music (before Google killed it) and it just didn't grab me the way Hammerfall or Grand Magus did. The album I picked up is 'Blessed And Possessed', so I dunno, maybe I just picked up their 'Demolition', to make a Judas Priest parallel.

Which of their albums would you recommend to start with?

Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)

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Post by camel-cdr »

feldrim wrote: post #5

Impressive work. I believe Encyclopaedia Metallum[0] would be a better source for the corpus, though the noise rate would be higher as there are many one-song/single/demo album bands, along with bands making music in multiple genres in different eras in their lifetime. 0. https://www.metal-archives.com/

Encyclopaedia Metallum is an amazing resource, it's also quite scrapable. I managed to quickly throw thogether a set of small bash scripts to crossreference the midgard [0] leaks with metal artists.

[0] The midgard (Nazi online shop) sales record was leaked, including personal information, so I won't link it here

Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)

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Post by fallinditch »

For those who like metal and are open to more experimental and avant garde, progressive styles I highly recommend the 2023 albums by Thantifaxath and Blut Aus Nord. But the best metal album of 2023 (surely! IMHO) is Terrasite by Cattle Decapitation. These bands are producing complex, esoteric, heavy music, no dragons.

Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)

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Post by hypercube33 »

scop wrote: post #40

I only recently discovered Blind Guardian. Typically listened to thrash, rarely power metal. Man, what excellence. Brilliant vocals, great choruses, distinct and unique sense of melody both on guitar and vocals. Something I really love about them is that vocals, guitars, and drums all have very prominent and distinct parts. In many bands I feel like one instrument will often dominate and the band becomes boring. I.e.…

One thing that's changed my metal taste is going to metal festivals that mish mash everything together and making an effort to just go see bands who I have no idea about even if I listen to their music and am unsure about liking it.

One of my favorite things about metal is how diverse it is and sometimes it just gets silly even if it appears absolutely serious - I think seeing the bands when they are having the most fun let's them try things you won't see in their music or videos or even on a regular tour.

In case anyone is into video games and power metal and lives somewhere near Madison WI there is a festival called Mad With Power my wife found last year that falls into the bucket of how is this even a thing but it's a joy to experience.

There are also a few metal cruises I've been on that are absolutely not what you'd expect and are mostly people hugging everyone and have things like cupcake decorating classes.

Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)

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Post by hypercube33 »

btown wrote: post #42
feldrim wrote: post #5

Impressive work. I believe Encyclopaedia Metallum[0] would be a better source for the corpus, though the noise rate would be higher as there are many one-song/single/demo album bands, along with bands making music in multiple genres in different eras in their lifetime. 0. https://www.metal-archives.com/

The ability to find lyrics on lyric sites would be a reasonable proxy for sufficient popularity, I’d imagine. On a semi-related note, when talking about large genre-specific corpuses, https://vgmdb.net has a fascinating scope definition across all things game and animation adjacent, including both the massive doujin (fan-made) music scene and the full discographies of many j-pop artists and composers, all annotated b…

For metal lyrics the go to used to be dark lyrics but it never shows in search results.

Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)

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Post by hypercube33 »

aerhardt wrote: post #32

Only in Hacker News would I find a post about data science and power metal. Geeky af, but rad!

I think it's mutually inclusive since the interests are shared by some - I've found a bunch of business intelligence nerds at metal festivals running stats on everything they can get data for.

For example the metal cruise festival I go on has a group that made their own bands on board tracking app and they release stats on who wants to see what bands and if people marked later that they enjoyed it, etc.

Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)

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Post by aerhardt »

scop wrote: post #40

I only recently discovered Blind Guardian. Typically listened to thrash, rarely power metal. Man, what excellence. Brilliant vocals, great choruses, distinct and unique sense of melody both on guitar and vocals. Something I really love about them is that vocals, guitars, and drums all have very prominent and distinct parts. In many bands I feel like one instrument will often dominate and the band becomes boring. I.e.…

Here in Spain they were arguably the biggest power metal band ever. Shirts with their art were very common - a tier below Maiden shirts, but putting up a respectable fight in popularity. They also filled some of the best venues - not stadiums, but the tier right below, the premium venues, which I think is a great achievement for such a niche genre.

When I was a kid I loved some of their classics like Mirror Mirror, but I wasn't as much into them as some of my entourage, as I preferred other styles of vocals. Recently however I've come to appreciate them again because Spotify suggested "Sacred Worlds" from the album Edge of Time. I love fully orchestrated metal - Metallica's S&M with the San Fran Symphonic or Nightwish's Once with the London Philarmonic - and "Sacred Worlds" is an absolute banger within this rare subgenre.

Re: Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)

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Post by kriberg »

einherjae wrote: post #51
dazzawazza wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ;)

Jorn is (Nor), not (Swe) - A Norwegian

I'll fetch the oars. These folks need a visit
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