100 Greatest Power/Progressive Metal Bands Criteria: - Power & Progressive Metal Ba

Iced Earth, Helloween, YJM and Manowar above Blind Guardian? Pah! PAH I SAY!
 
Not denying that those bands are fucking great... But better than BG? Well that's just a no.
 
not having Angra on the power metal list is rubbish.

Angels Cry and Holy Land are two defining albums for the genre.

lists suck though.

And I like Between the Buried, but how are they ranked above Psychotic Waltz. really?
 
It's all in the lyrics!

I mean, compare the awesome poetry of "You have a pussy, I have a dick!" to the mundane, boring and somewhat dorky lyrics that Cynic produces. Besides, Rammstein uses more pyrotechnics... and pyrotechnics kind of rhymes with progressive... in a way... sort of...