Traditional Metal

[Master_Yoda77]

If you want Pagan Altar-esque stuff and you haven't heard Cauchemar yet, you should get on that.

 

[Omni]

I've mentioned it a few times before, but the recent reissue of Angel of Mercy's The Avatar is worth seeking out if you're after something different. It's got a pretty diverse set of songs, with influences from early NWOBHM and 1970s rock. I think that it would appeal to people who like niche NWOBHM, Manilla Road, Pagan Altar and a lot of the other GMD canon trad bands while not really being the same thing as any of that. There are definitely flaws, but the best moments really stand out.



I'm also glad to see @Storrsson on board here. Keep up the good work.

 

[CiG]

My favourite traditional/power/classic/epic metal releases 2008 to 2018, probably missed a whole bunch and I didn't include anything too obvious:

Aircraft - Demo 2015 (some of the coolest almost-off-the-rails heavy metal ever)
Aircraft - Maximum Destruktion
Aktor - Paranoia
Allagash - Canadian Encounters
Ancient Empire - Ancient Empire
Ancient Empire - Other World
Ancient Empire - The Tower
Angel Sword - The Midwinter Tapes
Angel Sword - Rebels Beyond the Pale
Axe Battler - The Wrath of My Steel
Barrow Wight - Kings in Sauron's Service
Borrowed Time - Fog in the Valley
Candle - Demo 2016
Candle - The Keeper's Curse
Cast Iron - Leather & Metal
Chevalier - A Call to Arms
Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium
Christian Mistress - Possession
Convent Guilt - Guns for Hire
Crimson Dawn - Chronicles of an Undead Hunter
Dark Forest - Dark Forest
Dark Forest - Dawn of Infinity
Dark Forest - The Awakening
Dark Forest - Beyond the Veil
Deathman - 3 Track Heavy Metal Tape
Demon Bitch - Hellfriends
Eisenhand - Demonstration Tape
Eldorado / Scalare - City of Gold / Caught by an Evil Spell (especially Eldorado's side)
Freeways - Cold Front
Gentry Lord - Signals from the Mystiverse
Ghost Tower - Head of Night
Griftegård - Solemn • Sacred • Severe
Hellwell - Beyond the Boundaries of Sin
Hellwell - Behind the Demon's Eyes
Herzel - Unis Dans la Gloire
Hrom - Blesk
Hrom - Legends of Powerheart part I
Ice Sword - Dragon Magic
Ice War - Ice War
Illegal Bodies - Mindflayers
Iron Dogs - Cold Bitch
Iron Dogs - Free and Wild
Ironflame - Lightning Strikes the Crown
Iron Griffin - Iron Griffin
Iron Kobra - Battlesword
Ironsword - None but the Brave
Johnny Touch - Inner City Wolves
Khan - Barbarian Warriors (seriously one of my favourite metal demo tapes ever)
Legendry - Mists of Time
Legendry - Dungeon Crawler
Legionnaire - Dawn of Genesis
Lord Fist - Green Eyleen
Lunar Shadow - Far from Light
Luzifer - Rise
Luzifer - Black Knight
Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
Manacle - No Fear to Persevere...
Mausoleum Gate - Gateways for the Wicked
Mausoleum Gate - Mausoleum Gate
Mausoleum Gate - Into a Dark Divinity
Metal Grave - The Eternal Flame of Deception
Midnight Priest - The Priest is Back
Moros Nyx - Rite of Rebellion
The Oath - The Oath
Outcast - Outcast (Australian traditional metal MLP)
Possessed Steel - Possessed Steel
Possessed Steel - Order of the Moon
Pulver - Pulver
Quayde LaHüe - Day of the Oppressor
Quicksand Dream - Beheading Tyrants
Ravensire - Iron Will
Ravensire - We March Forward
Ravensire - The Cycle Never Ends
Realmbuilder - Summon the Stone Throwers
Realmbuilder - Fortifications of the Pale Architect
Realmbuilder - Blue Flame Cavalry
Sacral Rage - Illusions in Infinite Void
Savage Machine - Abandon Earth
Skelator - Give Me Metal or Give Me Death
Skelator - Time of the Sword Rulers
Skelator - Death to All Nations
Skelator - Agents of Power
Sons of Iniquity - Hang 'em High
Spell - The Full Moon Sessions
Stallion's Mane - Stallion's Mane
Stone Dagger - The Siege of Jerusalem
Storrmbringer - Among the Flames of War
Tales of Medusa - Triumphant Serenade
Tanith - Citadel
Tarot - The Warrior's Spell
Tarot - Reflections
Terminal - Heavy Metal Lokomotiva
Terminal - Satanski Naročila
Terminal - Zadnji Izlet
Terminus - Into Exile...
Terminus - The Reaper's Spiral
Teuton - Full On Power
Thorzel - Thorzel
Traveler - Demo 2018
Trial - The Primordial Temple
Tungsten Axe - Swedish Iron
Tyfon's Doom - Emperor's Path
Vendel - Vendel (aka Slayed Not Enslaved)
Vultures Vengeance - Where the Time Dwelt In
White Magician - The Pledge
Witch Blade - Oskuldernas Eld
Witchtower - Return to the Witches' Castle
The Wizar'd - Infernal Wizardry
The Wizar'd - Pathways into Darkness
The Wizar'd - Ancient Tome of Arcane Knowledge
Wrathblade - God of the Deep Unleashed
Züül - Out of Time
Züül - To the Frontlines

This got pretty autistic but I hope it helps anybody who bothers to search up any of these releases.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I've mentioned it a few times before, but the recent reissue of Angel of Mercy's The Avatar is worth seeking out if you're after something different. It's got a pretty diverse set of songs, with influences from early NWOBHM and 1970s rock. I think that it would appeal to people who like niche NWOBHM, Manilla Road, Pagan Altar and a lot of the other GMD canon trad bands while not really being the same thing as any of that. There are definitely flaws, but the best moments really stand out.

This is so up my alley, some elements like the vocal inflections even remind me of the Mistreater EP. Thanks for this.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

This album's probably a bit too much of a homogeneous suite to make my '85 list, but holy fuck what an opener:

 

[Storrsson]

Cheers for the list, CiG, I'll start with that and then work my way back through this thread

Liking Aircraft so far! Need to work on getting a sound like this. Probably requires reel-to-reel etc.

 

[CiG]

I almost put Hundred's The Forest Kingdom (Part 1) and Charge into Glory in the list but caught myself.

 

[CiG]

For anybody in here who liked Flight's debut:



They've got a new album out soon.



And for anybody who liked Outlaw's demo as much as I did:



They've got a debut full length out soon.

 

[The Ozzman]

I may pick up that Flight release just for the artwork

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

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that's some sweet ass artwork.

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[CiG]

Yeah I immediately thought of Samson when I saw that myself lmao.

 

[CiG]

I may pick up that Flight release just for the artwork

that's some sweet ass artwork.

A song from the album was uploaded last night:

 

[CiG]

Don't let the band name fool you.

 

[Omni]

https://cirithungolofficial.bandcamp.com/releases

I've known this was coming for a while, but now it's here.

 

[CiG]

For anybody who enjoyed their EP The Pledge they have a new split coming out very soon and they've put the two tracks on their Bandcamp ahead of time. This is really good stuff as I expected, something in the water in Michigan man, so much great stuff comes out of that place.

 

[CiG]

 

[CiG]

He does a little cover of "Emerald" by Thin Lizzy at the start.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Asparez - Traditional heavy metal from soviet Armenia.....


Aslan (Psychotic Waltz) -

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Asparez - Traditional heavy metal from soviet Armenia.....

Haven't heard this one in a while. I still like it too.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

He does a little cover of "Emerald" by Thin Lizzy at the start.

I get to hang out with this cutie in about two weeks on the beach!