The_Voice wrote:
Pasqua wrote:
I don't know what power metal is.
I have seen these statements in this board:
- Iced Earth is power metal.
- Sonata Arctica is power metal.
- Lost Horizon is power metal.
- Kamelot is power metal.
These four bands, IMO, sound very different from each other ... Is power metal that broad ?
The way i see it Power Metal started in the 80s and was actually a combination of thrash and heavy metal, thus you have bands like Iced Earth, Metal Church, Jag Panzer and Agent Steel to be called Power Metal, but there was actually another type of power metal wich was a combination of speed and heavy metal with fantasy or medieval elements like Helloween, Blind Guardian, Gamma Ray,Hammerfall, Nocturnal Rites, Edguy, etc, wich later developed in to a more melodic and keyboard oriented type of metal like sonata Arctica and all of the so called "Flower Metal" bands, since this kind of power metal (some people actually refer to it as just melodic metal) became more popular people start to asociate all power metal with homosexual behavior and silly songs about girls named Dana

, and thats why all those Power Metal bands you listed do not sound alike.
ha, I tried that argument about 6 months ago and every yelled at me. I always contend that true Power Metal is from the US and bands like Warlord, Omen, Jag Panzer, Armored Saint, Cirith Ungol, Maniala Road etc....... That bands today such as Paragon, Tad Morose, Morgana Lefay, Brainstorm, Angel Dust and some others are the true Power Metal where as the whole Euro Fairyland stuff like Stratovarious is just a symphonic offshoot of speed metal.