Okay, I thought I´d give this a try and it turned out to be much harder than I expected. This little top 10 is far from perfect and there is a lot more songs that I wanted to include. Also, I kinda arranged this list by band. Enjoy!
10. ReinXeed - Reach For The Sky
Not their best song off "1912" or any of the other albums, but the chorus is catchy and full of energy. Sorry for the vid with crappy audio, it does sound way better on the real disc.
9. Qantice - Pirates
Excuse me for throwing in a more proggy/symphonic sound, but I absolutely love this chorus. I'm really looking forward to their next album.
8. Freedom Call - Merlin - Legend Of The Past
Great song by a great band. Although I do not like all of their songs off "Legend Of The Shadowking", this one probably has the most powerful chorus, which sticks too.
7. Stratovarius - Darkest Hours
I must admit that I'm not familiar with Stratovarius' older stuff (which is a lot of albums by the way), but "Elysium" rocks! "Event horizon" is another great song on the album, but I liked the chorus in "Darkest Hours" much better.
6. Sinbreed - When Worlds Collide
Oh man, this band is crazy really, the good stuff Ulterium Records provides us with. Also, they're one of the best descriptions of powermetal out there in my opinion. There are many good songs on this album, but the titletrack has a chorus that I LOVED from the first time I heard it.
5. Theocracy - A Tower Of Ashes
Although as a band much higher on my list, I couldn't get Theocracy a ticket to my top 4 best powermetal choruses (sorry Matt...
). A Tower Of Ashes is a perfect example of everything I love about power metal though, and the chorus is great.
4. Sonata Arctica - Flag in the Ground
My personal favourite off "The Days Of Grays" and one of their best choruses ever, 'nuff said...
3. Kamelot - Centre Of The Universe
Oh, this one was really hard, as there's so many amazing melodies to choose from. Picking a favourite Kamelot chorus is like:
"Ohh, ´Farewell´ is great!.....but ´The Center Of the Universe´ is amazing too....but then again, ´Forever´ is awesome as well...hmmm, and what about ´Ghost Opera´?..."
´Center Of The Universe´ was both the first Kamelot and powermetal song I ever heard, and there aren't many songs that are so dear to me as this one.
2. Avantasia - Sign Of The Cross
Recently started listening to these guys, and similar to Kamelot, Avantasia has many mind-blowing, melodic choruses, like ´The Tower´, ´The Seven Angels´, ´Chalice Of Agony´, ´Lost In Space´, etc. ´Sign Of The Cross´ takes the cake, though I can´t really say why I love it more than Avantasia's other stuff.
1. Symphonity - Gates of Fantasy
If I were just as *extremely* scientific as Matt, I'd say this song has the ultimate goosebump factor in the universe. Really, this song´s got more hooks than a whole legion of pirates, its melodies are very powerful and the chorus is dang near perfect. Well, in my opinion at least...
Ironically, the Youtube vid´s got kind of a crappy audio track.
