Top 10 Power Metal Albums

[The Don]

OK I know there is already a thread for power metal recommendations, but every now and then i like to take a nice little break from death metal and get gay with myself and just hit straight power metal for a few weeks at a time. I've already heard of most of the bands everybody's listed, and im looking more for which albums are truly excellent, so I decided to see what everybody's top 10 power metal albums were! (oh and please don't list maiden or priest we all know they are the king of kings but i'm looking for some more recent stuff)

for me it's:

1. Rhapsody - Legendary Tales
2. Sonata Arctica - Silence
3. Dark Moor - The Hall of The Olden Dreams
4. Edguy - Hellfire Club
5. Dragonforce - Valley of the Damned
6. Avantasia - The Metal Opera Pt. I
7. Nightwish - Wishmaster
8. Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy
9. Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
10. Angra - Temple of Shadows

I guess I'm kind of looking for recommendations as well, but more just curious as to see what everyone else's favorite power metal albums are, and maybe give them a listen if I haven't already...

 

[xshadowsoulsx]

OK I know there is already a thread for power metal recommendations, but every now and then i like to take a nice little break from death metal and get gay with myself and just hit straight power metal for a few weeks at a time.

i never really just go a week or more just listening to power metal, it just depends on what i wanna listen to.

ill post my top 10 later.

 

[xshadowsoulsx]

allright well this is difficult, so im not gonna put it in any order

Edguy - Hellfire Club
Nocturnal Rites - Shadowland
DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm
Dream Evil - Dragonslayer
Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave
Hibria - Defying The Rules
Nocturnal Rites - Grand Illusion
Primal Fear - Devil's Ground
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Stratovarius - Visions

there are to many great power metal albums.

 

[hibernal_dream]

1. Helloween - Keeper Part I
2. Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
3. Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider
4. Jag Panzer - Casting The Stones
5. Hibria - Defying The Rules
6. Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free
7. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
8. Dungeon - Resurrection
9. Nocturnal Rites - Shadowland
10. Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave

this was very difficult, there really aren't that many good power metal bands out there

 

[zero88]

1. Sonata Arctica - Silence
2. Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
3. Dragonforce - Valley of the Damned
4. Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
5. Hammerfall - Legacy of Kings
6. Demons and Wizards - Demons and Wizards
7. Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
8. Kamelot - The Black Halo
9. Symphony X - V
10. Symphony X - The Odyssey

 

[Turbo]

1. Helloween - Keeper Part I
2. Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
3. Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider
4. Jag Panzer - Casting The Stones
5. Hibria - Defying The Rules
6. Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free
7. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
8. Dungeon - Resurrection
9. Nocturnal Rites - Shadowland
10. Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave

this was very difficult, there really aren't that many good power metal bands out there

Some good albums in this list. The rest im going to have to buy

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Heavenly!

 

[666laiho_4evacobhc]

I hate power metal. I put rhapsody on when when im playing baldurs gate thought

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Blind Guardian- Follow the blind
Edguy- theatre of salvation
Blind Guardian- nightfall in middle-earth
Helloween-keeper part 1
Stratovarius-visions
Dragonforce-valley of the damned
Edguy-hellfire club
Sonata arctica-Silence
Blind Guardian-tales from the twilight world
Dio-holy diver, dont know if id classify this as power metal but whatever

 

[JausmetalJ]

In no particular order:
Dungeon - Ressurection
Dungeon - One Step Beyond
Helloween - Keeper Pt II
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Dragonforce - Valley of the Damned
Black Majesty - Silent Company
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the othersde
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Crimsonfire - Crimsonfire
Vanishing Point - Embrace the Silence

 

[lucifer1126]

Blind Guardian's new album is going to be my top 10 soon!!! if you guys haven't heard it, go check it out throught their myspace by clicking my banner! and enter the guitar contest!

 

[flemflames]

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Seriously guys if you really love Kalmah then you will love "Dark Moor".

Maybe they have been talked about or recommended already but seriously: Dark Moor is like powermetal Kalmah.

Dark Moor - The Gates Of Oblivion





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[The Don]

Thanks for all the replies everyone. Right now I've been enjoying my ass off with Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle Earth and A Night at the Opera, as well as Gamma Ray's No World Order