Power Metal Ballads

[Michaela]

Which one are your favorites? Which one can you recommend?

For me:

1) Jag Panzer - Take this pain away
2) Stratovarious - Forever
3) Sonata Arctica - The Misery
4) Edguy - Scarlet Rose
5) Gamma Ray - Lake of tears

I need ballads from time to time

 

[Katana Overlord]

Forever is an amazing ballad.
If you consider Manowar power metal Master Of The Wind is one of my favourites.

 

[metalgtr84]

Forever is an amazing ballad.
If you consider Manowar power metal Master Of The Wind is one of my favourites.

What do you mean IF??? Was there ever a doubt?

 

[Nick Brookes]

manowar - master of the wind
Dragonforce - starfire
hammerfall - i belive
helloween - in the middle of a heartbeat
stratovarious - Forever

my list goes on

 

[Harry(not the Tyrant)]

Sound of Silence-Nevermore.

 

[Mr Blackwell]

Another Day - Armored Saint
Believe - Savatage
The Crucifix - Jag Panzer
Watch The Children Pray - Metal Church
I Died For You - Iced Earth

 

[Roddoliver]

As I don't know what you consider power metal, I will just put some of my favorite ballads from metal bands:

1 - Fading Hours (Rage)
2 - Melancholy (Iced Earth)
3 - Remember Yesterday (Hammerfall)
4 - Spread Your Wings (Silent Force)
5 - Dust (Rage)

 

[Harry(not the Tyrant)]

Hey Mr.Blackwell,where is "Beth"??

 

[Katana Overlord]

I never though of Crucifix as a ballad, more epic.

 

[Michaela]

As I don't know what you consider power metal

power metal is just power metal , lol

Power metal is a style of heavy metal music pioneered and largely practiced in Germany and Scandinavia.

The first power metal song is arguably the 1976 song "Stargazer" by the band Rainbow.

Power metal was developed in the mid-1980s primarily by the German band Helloween, who were influenced by bands such as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Power metal borrows from 1970s metal styles, but adds important elements of speed and melody. Whereas most genres of rock focus largely on personal experience, historical incidents, social commentary, or other aspects of "real life", power metal often treats cosmological or metaphysical themes. As such, lyrics draw heavily from science-fiction, mythology, and fantasy; Tolkien-esque imagery is especially common in the latter.

Power metal vocals are generally clean (as opposed to the growling vocals that characterize Death Metal) and delivered by a trained vocalist; singing power metal involves more than a few high notes. Often power metal vocals have multi-layer vocals similar to Queen. Typical power metal bands consist of a vocalist, two guitarists, a bassist, and a drummer. Many bands also play with a keyboardist and a few, such as the Italian band Rhapsody, have been known to record with more symphonic elements.

This style is most popular in Europe, Japan, some countries of South America and has a growing popularity in certain parts of North America.

 

[Human Vulture]

Stratovarius' "Forever" and Savatage's "Believe" are both AMAZING ballads! Actually, Savatage have quite a few great ballads; Summer's Rain, If I Go Away, All That I Bleed, When The Crowds Are Gone, Sleep, Somewhere In Time, St. Patrick's, etc...

One of the all time great power ballads is Fates Warning's "Guardian". Queensryche's The Lady Wore Black is right up there too. (I would describe their first EP as early power metal before they got more progressive).

Also partial to Armored Saint's "Aftermath" and "Isolation", Helloween's "A Tale That Wasn't Right", Angra's "No Place For The Dead", just to name a few...

 

[Aias]

Metallica "Fade To Black" (The be all end all of ballads!)
Dokken "Alone Again"
Twisted Sister "The Price"
Judas Priest/Agent Steel/Blind Guardian "Beyond The Realms Of Death"
S.O.D. "The Ballad Of Jimi Hendrix"

 

[Mr Blackwell]

Hey Mr.Blackwell,where is "Beth"??

LOL!!!
I never considered KISS a power metal band, but there's plenty of room in your top 5 list, Harry

 

[Harry(not the Tyrant)]

Hm,Dokken and Twisted Sister are for sure also no "Power Metal Bands"..
Metal ballads would have been a better title for the topic.
OK,here are my top five...

Metallica-The Unforgiven
Nevermore-The Heart Collector
Nevermore-Sell my Heart for Stones
Jag Panzer-Sonet of Sorrow
Skyclad-Constance Eternal

 

[Fangface]

Believe - Savatage
Watch The Children Pray - Metal Church
I Died For You - Iced Earth

A few more :

Judas Priest - Dreamer Deceiver
Nevermore - The Sorrowed Man
Virgin Steele - Child of Desolution
Grave Digger - The Ballad of Mary
Savatage - Alone You Breathe
Primal Fear - Tears of Rage
Queensrÿche - I Will Remember

I'm not very fond of 'happy' metal ballads though, a few exceptions aside ("The Silence" by Gamma Ray...).

 

[Katana Overlord]

I forgot:
Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave

 

[bnor]

in no particular order:

demons & wizards - fiddler on the green
bathory - ring of gold
gamma ray - lake of tears
timeless miracle - the red rose
edguy - save me

 

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[sonatarctica]

this one's easy
1. BLind Guardian - Bard's Song
2. Sonata Arctica - GravenImage
3. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
4. Cain's Offering - Elegantly Broken
5. Edguy - Save Me
6. Circus Maximus - Silence From Angels Above
7. Nightwish - Eva
8. Sonata Arctica - Shamandalie
9. Dark Moor - Green Eyes
10. Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion
.......these 10 songs shall set you free, lol

 

[TIKHO]

1. Dionysus - Don't Forget
2. Labyrinth - Failling Rain
3. X Japan - Tears
4. Angra - Bleeding Heart
5. Helloween - In The Middle Of A Heartbeat
6. Insania - One Day
7. Serenity - Changing Fate
8. X - Say Anything
9. Helloween - Forever and One (Neverland)
10. Dionysus - Forever More
11. Versailles - Remember Forever

How about these