True Black / Power metal: Who's cheesier?
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Ellestin
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Thanatopsis123
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lizard said:
That's true, their artwork has never been great. Mandylion probably has the best coverart come to think of it and it's nothing special.
Man, this is not the first time your doing this oh-so-original kind of post. Why can't you just ignore the thread?Ellestin said:
Thanatopsis123 said:That's true, their artwork has never been great. Mandylion probably has the best coverart come to think of it and it's nothing special.
Mandylion has a descent coverart. Still, this one's my favorite:
Hell Mike
fuck melodic black metal
Since you said TRUE black metal I'm going with that.. As in actually true black metal and not posing as true with corpsepaint and using a tape recorder you found in mom's attic to record etc. (Going with that as the seriously kickass one of the two, so my vote was power metal)
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Sadguru said:Mandylion has a descent coverart. Still, this one's my favorite:
I don't own that yet and can't say I've seen that coverart that I can remember. That looks really cool.
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lizard
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I kinda forgot about this one. That's "Accessories", 2 cds of B sides, rarities and demos. some of it is excellent, some meh...but I'm a fanboi, so...Sadguru said:Mandylion has a descent coverart. Still, this one's my favorite:
I bought the manticore cd cause some folks were raving "omg power metal sux but manticore is the shitz" and I'll just say they were nowhere near the hype. Angra rules them totally.
Necromunchkin
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I could never get into Manticora. And let's just say I take my power metal (and death metal, and thrash metal, and black metal) seriously. Have to agree, Angra rules them. As does BG.
JayKeeley
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Lost Horizon rule BECAUSE they're cheesy. Thing is, they've got the speed metal mammoth grinding riffs to back it up.
"mammoth grinding" <- rules
"mammoth grinding" <- rules
Ellestin said:Hey I'm supposed to be the Erik substitute while he's gone
Oh. Sorry but that, I had a hard day. No hard feelings...
lizard
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Im so damn confused, I dont even know what cheesy is anymore. I used to think bands like Manowar and Rhapsody looked silly and played over the top music, now it just sounds like really awesome metal to me. I mean, do people realize that most of these bands fans take those bands more seriously than the actually musicians themselves ?
lizard
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I have to say Rhapsody gets the greatest sound on their recordings, but I just can't embrace the concepts.
JayKeeley
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En Vind Av Sorg said:
Good point.
I think a lot of it has to do with "old school" becoming somewhat 'fashionable'* again. That applies to both image and sound.
* And I don't mean Trivium wearing Darkthrone shirts. I'm talking Usurper, D666, Desaster -- that whole style that spawned from the whole bullet belt, axe wielding, dragon killing themes of yore.
Demilich
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Yea I definitely agree with that, it is seeing a rise in popularity. Seeing both bands live really floored me too, Manowar is a riot on stage, especially Joey
