"Heavy" power metal: A dying breed....
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TwizstedJesus
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I think the problem with new "Heavy" power metal bands these days is...the genre is being swallowed up by mediocrity. So many bands that just are not a strong example of powerful heavy metal. There are fewer and fewer examples of standout discs, and I believe that alot of that may be due to the lack of true record companies anymore. The money is not there for these bands to work on their ideas, theres little or no producer input, and the album suffers...just my two cents
jem777az
Bozzman
jem777az
Bozzman
guardian26
Mike the Cop
General Zod
Ruler of Australia
Does this band have a CD? Their MySpace has no songs and while their web page has a medley, everything about them and their music is "TBD".
Claus / Intromental
20 years of uniting the powers of metal
Debut album is being mixed right now by Neil Kernon (Queensryche, Nile, Nevermore, etc).
Release will be late October/early November.
Announcement on label etc. coming really soon.
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General Zod
Ruler of Australia
Nicely done. I'm definitely gonna have to check this out.
Intriguing. Adding to my queue.
Significant props to Wolf for using clips from two of the greatest movies ever made Hercules and Hercules Unchained. I saw Wolf perform in Cleveland and they didn't grab me. Never really checked out their discs, but this track is a strong one. Must investigate.
Digging this. Nice recco.
Cool. Looking forward to it.
Nice. How did I miss this?
Fracture... very, very cool.
Cool vocals, solid music. If I could stop laughing at the lyrics ("St. Satan's Day" and "Werewolves of Armenia") I would totally buy this. Maybe I'll buy it and just deny owning it if anyone asks me.
Is Nightmare releasing this? This is pretty badass.
Nice. One of your bands? Hopefully there will be a post when this is released. (hint)
Matt Crooks
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eaeolian
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eaeolian
Division Guitarist
In all seriousness, part of the reason for this is the turn away from actual, you know, vocals in metal. Bands with a singer tend to lean towards the prog or trad end of the spectrum because it's expected. This particular genre has never been a big item on the "radar screen" of metal, anyway, which kinda pisses me off, but...
FriendOfEntropy
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Orion Crystal Ice
Rider of the Astral Fire
I'll go ahead and plug my band. It's in the signature down there. Whole demo streaming on the MySpace. Yes...demo....but that's what happens when one guy has a job and the others are in college. Recording a couple of others later this year too, though HOPEFULLY at some point maybe fairly soonish there can be much more than that type of thing.
ARTILLERY - by no means a new band, they have been around for quite awhile but their last album saw their traditional thrash past fuse with some darker power metal elements. This song was one of my favorites from last year and reminds me of the topic at hand.
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nomisofsiman
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I need to give that disc another listen. I never actually gathered any power metal association at all, but this song definitely has some. Great band though.
The arrangements are very thrashy but the vocals have a lot of power metal appeal to them on this song and I feel throughout the album and some of those midway through guitar parts in this song and others is where I hear power metal as well but yeah for the most part they are thrash just with some of the elements we are talking about.
booB
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Does Benedictum count? They only have two albums out. Or are they too "traditional"? They were very heavy at CPF a few years ago.
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