Power metal with Harsh vocals.....

[JosephAcevedo]

Looking for more bands that play this style that are awesome....

Any recommendations?

I already know of Cob , Kalmah, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Norther, Imperanon, Wintersun, Kiuas, ect...

Please no gothenburg bands (ala dark tranquillity, in flames, ect...)

 

[dcowboys311]

Skyfire (have some gothenburg elements, but are primarily power metal w/harsh vox)
Brimstone

 

[nailz]

I don't know if you're looking for bands like Mercenary or accepting bands like Iron Savior. Both have 'harsh' vocals, but different kinds.

 

[shaq]

How can you even call any of those bands power metal

 

[dcowboys311]

How can you even call any of those bands power metal

because they play power metal music?

seriously, if you took any of those bands and replaced their vocalists with clean vocalists, there would be no question as to what genre they are.

 

[J-Man]

RAINTIME!!!!

 

[Entrerie]

Compos Mentis http://www.composmentis.dk/

I really, really like this band!

Listen to their Drunken Diamond sample on their website, if that doesn't kick your ass nothing will.

 

[Creeps]

A lot of the new Machine Head has pwer/progressive elements.

 

[booB]

Divine Sin... a Swedish band from the 90's.

Also Morgana Lefay, but I'm not sure if that's the type of stuff you're looking for... Charles's vox are "clean", but very aggressive most of the time, sort of like Jon Oliva's early work in Savatage... and they're more thrashy/dark power metal, not neoclassical and/or speed like most of the bands you mentioned.

 

[JosephAcevedo]

Skyfire (have some gothenburg elements, but are primarily power metal w/harsh vox)
Brimstone

shit i forgot about skyfire.

 

[JenniferLynn]

Divine Sin... a Swedish band from the 90's.

Also Morgana Lefay, but I'm not sure if that's the type of stuff you're looking for... Charles's vox are "clean", but very aggressive most of the time, sort of like Jon Oliva's early work in Savatage... and they're more thrashy/dark power metal, not neoclassical and/or speed like most of the bands you mentioned.

Boob - your Scrubs pic RULES!!! I love it!!!

 

[Entrerie]

Can also try Anterior http://www.myspace.com/anterior

 

[booB]

Boob - your Scrubs pic RULES!!! I love it!!!

lol... thanks! I screwed it up, though... I messed up the resolution when I saved it, so that the text looks all crappy, but I couldn't fix it because I had already deleted the original screenshot. doh

 

[Wyvern]

It all depends what you call harsh vocals. For me 99.999% + of the time harsh vocals is synonymous of uke:

Blind Guardian and early Skyclad (I know more thrash than power) has why I consider harsh vocals. Now if you taking harsh like in some thrash/death, death, black bands well then...

Still some bands with not very melodic vocals have caught my attention in the power metal field, so I can recommend at least two Sabaton (SWE) and Vhaldemar (SP). The first is more straighforward, ballsy power metal, the second is more neoclassical/power.

Now not so much power, but definitively strong heavy metal I have to call Goddess Of Desire (NL).

NP: Scale The Summint - 'Rode In On Horseback'