Controversial opinions on metal
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Mort Divine
Shrine Maiden of the In-Crowd
Err, a lot of Europower metal sounds nothing like early speed metal.
Neurosis is one of the best metal bands in history, 23 years of existence, 10 albums, each one of them is amazing, about four of them are sludge classics!
Neurosis is one of the best metal bands in history, 23 years of existence, 10 albums, each one of them is amazing, about four of them are sludge classics!
Eh, Blind Guardian is a progenitor of the power metal scene. I've only heard a bit of Euro power metal, but it sounds more like speed metal than Iron Maiden
Vilden
From the holy kingdom of Harmonia
That's okay, since Iron Maiden definitely listened to Judas Priest before recording their music, and both bands and most power metal bands have definitely listened to the Queen albums from the 70's.
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Orion Crystal Ice
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Satanstoenail
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Vilden
From the holy kingdom of Harmonia
But the band Priest influenced (Maiden) isn't a euro power metal band unlike Helloween.
(disregarding the fact that they probably listened alot to Priest to but what the hell, I'm just tired of people going overboard here. Ofcourse Priest were more influental than Maiden, they were one of the protobands that really definied the metal, but just because of that, doesn't magically make Maiden not influental at all, especially when it comes to a genre that has more of a Maiden sound than Maiden itself alot of the time, shut up.
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Orion Crystal Ice
Rider of the Astral Fire
The 'Keeper' albums are quite literally Maiden, Priest, and EP-Queensrÿche thrown into a teutonic blender...
Vilden
From the holy kingdom of Harmonia
I just said that they were influenced by Priest too didn't I?
Edit: And to me it seemed that both Ozzman and Omni tried to belittle Maidens influence (not saying that they said that they weren't infleuntal). I may be wrong there, but I interpretet it like that, hence my "attack".
Einherjar86
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Both bands were definitely influential. Anyone who says otherwise is just an idiot.
I just find Priest to be infinitely better than Maiden
By the way, I wasn't trying to belittle anything, nor did I say anything that sounded like I was. I was talking about how linked all those bands were in influencing each other, and about a common influence that all of them definitely share to a pretty big extent.
ShredHeadJHJ
oh noes itz a opinionn
ShredHeadJHJ
oh noes itz a opinionn
When I think about the bands that are the biggest influence on Euro Power Metal I'm thinking of the bands that influenced THESE 2 bands. Go back before these bands. Even Yngwie was a bigger influence on the scene than these bands. Actually, I would say Iron Maiden & Yngwie are likely the biggest overall influences on the power metal scene.
ShredHeadJHJ
oh noes itz a opinionn
By the way, I wasn't trying to belittle anything, nor did I say anything that sounded like I was. I was talking about how linked all those bands were in influencing each other, and about a common influence that all of them definitely share to a pretty big extent.
You know, we can all speculate, nothing wrong with that. Unless we were around & deep in the metal scene in the late 70's/early 80's that's all we will be doing here, speculating. I was born in '84, & judging from that "What's Your Age?" thread I'm probably older or at least around the same age as 85% of the people in this argument, & that's not old enough to get the big picture.
I'm not saying that the shit that myself, you, Dodens, Ozz is right or wrong. I'm sure that there's some truth in all of it. I would agree Priest is the common influence & definitely an "indirect" influence to a lot of bands who probably weren't trying to replicate anything they did directly.
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