I've only heard Learning to Fly with Stratovarius. I though I was going to die the first time I heard it; I couldn't stop laughing my ass off.
It has just about everything power metal. Cheesy lyrics, a chord progression that would fit in Eurovision Song Contest, and those vocals... Oh my, why can't they see that he CAN'T sing, THAT high? The original key signature is so high that he can't sing properly, and they change it two times; at the end he sounds like the rest of the band are cutting off his balls while he's singing... he can't even hold out the notes, he just moans.
No, I don't like them because they're good, I like them because they're funny.
Related to the subject now, have any of you guys heard Steel? That's the side project of the singer in Opeth, where he tries to mash together all the cliches of 80's metal. Tapping solos, high-pitched singing, double pedals, cheesy chord progressions... this band has it all, and they're humourous!
I've heard a couple of Nocturnal Rites tracks, by the way, but I don't remember what I thought about them.
