Resurrected Power Metal Thread

[Mr. Bungle]

Also, I got tha new Falconer, and you guys were right, slightly dissapointing. It has some great songs though, Boiling Led is one of the best song they've done IMO. It's not bad, just not as great as their first 2 or Northwind.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

I checked them out a number of years ago when the album first came out. Not very many of the songs stuck with me aside from "Fly". I dig the use of electronic-styled keys and the guitarist is fucking incredible in his solos, but the songwriting is so boring aside from those elements I mentioned.

Try Labyrinth - No Limits, Keldian - Journey of Souls, and Luca Turilli - Prophet of the Last Eclipse for excellent usage of electronic styled keys...

Romanticide rules man.

Ugh, I hated that one more than most. The chuggy breakdown thing like the type that song is filled with is one of the worst ideas to ever come out of heavy music, and Nightwish doesn't even have slightly decent ones..

Also, I got tha new Falconer, and you guys were right, slightly dissapointing. It has some great songs though, Boiling Led is one of the best song they've done IMO. It's not bad, just not as great as their first 2 or Northwind.

I think I would rate mine this way..

1. self titled
2. Sceptre of Deception
3. Northwind
4. Chapters From A Vale Forlorn
*big drop*
5. Among Beggars & Thieves
6. Grime VS Grandeur

I really really love 'Sceptre of Deception', but it still doesn't seem like it's really caught on with most fans yet......

 

[Element_man]

Try Labyrinth - No Limits, Keldian - Journey of Souls, and Luca Turilli - Prophet of the Last Eclipse for excellent usage of electronic styled keys...

Oh, I know. Trust me, I know. The only one of those that really stuck with me out of those was Luca Turilli. Prophet of the Last Eclipse is my favorite album of music by Luca Turilli, I think I like it even more than the majority of Rhapsody albums.

 

[Mr. Bungle]

Ugh, I hated that one more than most. The chuggy breakdown thing like the type that song is filled with is one of the worst ideas to ever come out of heavy music, and Nightwish doesn't even have slightly decent ones..

Well, to each their own I suppose. Oceanborn is probably my favorite Nightwish album anyway, but Once is up there, top 3 for me.

I think I would rate mine this way..

1. self titled
2. Sceptre of Deception
3. Northwind
4. Chapters From A Vale Forlorn
*big drop*
5. Among Beggars & Thieves
6. Grime VS Grandeur

I really really love 'Sceptre of Deception', but it still doesn't seem like it's really caught on with most fans yet......

I'd say:
1.ST
2.Chapters From A Vale Forlorn
3.Northwind
4.Sceptre of Deception
5.Among Beggars And Thieves
6.Grime Vs. Grandeur (don't really dislike any of the albums besides this one)

 

[metal evilution]

On the subject of Power Metal feel free to check out Australian band DARKER HALF.
http://www.myspace.com/darkerhalf

They are all just out of their teens and have a decent mixture of MAIDENish melodies, NEVERMORE heavyness and SLAYER speed at times.
Anyways hopefully they get some overseas interest soon.

 

[Einherjar86]

I think I would rate mine this way..

1. self titled
2. Sceptre of Deception
3. Northwind
4. Chapters From A Vale Forlorn
*big drop*
5. Among Beggars & Thieves
6. Grime VS Grandeur

I really really love 'Sceptre of Deception', but it still doesn't seem like it's really caught on with most fans yet......

Sceptre of Deception is a great album. I never understood why people disliked it either. However, I would still say that Chapters From a Vale Forlorn and Northwind are better than Sceptre. My list would go:

1.s/t
2.Chapters
3.Northwind
4.Sceptre
*(unfathomable drop)
5.Beggars n' Thieves
6.Grime n' Grandeur

 

[Mr. Bungle]

I'm surprised you guys think the new one is that bad, I mean yeah, it's not great, but it has some awesome songs. Man of the Hour is really good, and as I said before, Boiling Led is one of my favorite songs I've heard from them.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

Yea the new Falconer isn't that great. Northwind is awesome, though.

 

[Cronopio]

s/t
Northwind
Chapters From A Vale Forlorn
Among Beggars & Thieves
Grime vs Grandeur
The Sceptre of Deception

 

[Tennyson]

My list would go:

1.s/t
2.Chapters
3.Northwind
4.Sceptre
*(unfathomable drop)
5.Beggars n' Thieves
6.Grime n' Grandeur

this imo!

And I always laugh inside when I hear "child of innocence" on sceptre. It just doesn't seem like it should be sung, as if he is reading off some manuscript in verse. But it's still glorious and I love it!

 

[Einherjar86]

What I don't understand is why Beggars and Thieves is basically at the same level as Grime and Grandeur. Sceptre of Deception is better than Beggars and Thieves (or what I've heard of it), and Mathias didn't even participate in the writing on that one.

 

[SweptbackFlame]

Anyone ever listened to the French Power Metal band, "Manigance"?

I actually thought it would be stupid as hell singing in french, but it's actually really good.

 

[Ross]

i have


it was


meh

 

[SweptbackFlame]

^fair enough

So this is by far the best King Diamond cover I've ever heard

Pagan's Mind - At The Graves

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

great cover, too bad the original material on that album mostly bores me to tears, and I'm a pretty huge PM fan. Cool style, sort of a more power metalled Arch-era Fates Warning.... but the songs are like the more unmemorable ones of those albums..........'ID' on to 'Celestial Entrance' is like

 

[SweptbackFlame]

great cover, too bad the original material on that album mostly bores me to tears, and I'm a pretty huge PM fan. Cool style, sort of a more power metalled Arch-era Fates Warning.... but the songs are like the more unmemorable ones of those albums..........'ID' on to 'Celestial Entrance' is like

See, I never really liked Pagan's Mind until now, maybe it's because back then I didn't like Power Metal as much, but now it's like my favorite genre, so far my fav album by them is "Celestial Entrance".

 

[metal evilution]

^fair enough

So this is by far the best King Diamond cover I've ever heard

Pagan's Mind - At The Graves

Totally agree!

The decisive fact is definately the vocals. He does an exceptionally good KING DIAMOND imo .

 

[Einherjar86]

Cover art for Wintersun's next album has been released:

Looks like something Nightwish would put on an album cover.

 

[Tennyson]

it looks like glory

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

Very cool looking cover.


Sky theme is oddly reminiscent of many photographs of the Orion Nebula. Good old hydro-emissions.. :

I'll listen to it and try my hardest not to read anything at all about it, since it seems the only people who ever talk about the band have a strange Opeth/Dream Theater-type ultra-fanboy or band's-worst-enemy complex.....