CiG
Harbinger of Metal
bahahhaha read what you quoted. Are you still half asleep?
And again .... are Dio, Maiden, Priest etc power metal bands?
Obviously not and I never said they were nor implied that. What I'm saying is OP seems incapable of understanding that the culmination of a genre won't sound the same as its origins, and USPM is an early form of power metal that doesn't sound all that similar to the more flowery Euro bands.
Leaving Manowar aside, you also have Ample Destruction out in '84 that is a certified classic of USPM.