erekose
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can anyone recommend power metal bands that have thrash elements and aren't cheesy?
Rage - Black In Mind ... dark, thrashy. I think you could enjoy it.
can anyone recommend power metal bands that have thrash elements and aren't cheesy?
I tend to agree, in particular Powerplant and NWO have a lack of fresh material. I can enjoy the albums despite this, but there's a noticeable drop in creativity following SOIS.
Hmm... I think Dirk was writing a lot more of the exotic and theatrical songs that were so enjoyable from their early/mid period ("Shine On", "Heal Me", etc.) and now his share of the songwriting falls to Henjo and Dann. Henjo tends to write a lot of the more "repeated" stuff (even "Guardians of Mankind" from SOIS), so maybe his philosophy is that while his band has used a melody before, he hasn't actually composed it, so it's ok. That said, he wrote "Fight", one of the best songs on Majestic. Dann can't write well at all compared to his bandmates, evidenced by easily the two worst songs on Majestic.
Also, they were during the PP-NWO period a more regularly-touring act, whereas it seems they worked more sporadically as a live band during the mid 1990s. So naturally their newer material will be written as more suited to a live band's performance, or even the performance of four guys in the rehearsal room. In Flames is an example of what I'm talking about here, they didn't really tour until after Whoracle, and you can hear the influence of the stage format on the material that followed. (Obviously this is not an apples to apples comparison, just a clarifying analogy.)
There's also this to be considered -- heavy metal was not very popular or very cool when they started out.
call me lame, but I never got what was so great about power metal.
1. no aggression
2. silly lyrics about wizards and dragons
3. instrument wankery
sounds like garbage to me.
to be fair, I did give Blind Guardian a chance, it just wasn't my cup of tea. can anyone recommend power metal bands that have thrash elements and aren't cheesy?
call me lame, but I never got what was so great about power metal.
1. no aggression
2. silly lyrics about wizards and dragons
3. instrument wankery
sounds like garbage to me.
to be fair, I did give Blind Guardian a chance, it just wasn't my cup of tea. can anyone recommend power metal bands that have thrash elements and aren't cheesy?
Iced Earth: Schaffer hates Burnt Offerings, but I cannot find any other album by any other band that could be compared to this style...really dark power metal, and Matt Barlow was a superb vocalist. Talk about silly lyrics and no aggresion here....
Agreed. Are you surprised why he hates it??? It's good music.
You're the one who started this topicBut surely we're not going to get into category definitions. That's so 90's.
No, that was an early Pantera record (when they were still a hair band)
To me power metal is cheesy euro speed, or Hammerfall-type stuff if you like. I own several titles on Necuratul's list and nobody called it power metal back then. I don't see the point in renaming things in hindsight. That's just as silly as calling Black Sabbath or Blue Cheer stonerrock.