Thread for being unnecessarily hostile to people who hate power metal

you fuckin pointy-headed fucks really think you've got shit all figured out, don't you? well, Epica is awesome, so eat shit.

this thread's going to be a roaring success, I can feel it - get ready for your comeuppance, people who hate power metal

hey I hear you're not into Kamelot. hope your whole life is fucking misery

not a Savatage fan, eh? you know who else hated Savatage, HITLER

i wish there were more bands like midnight sun. cuz i like a little disco in my power metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZedLgoZospo

can't even tell you how many times i've played that song over the years.

digging the new turisas on youtube the other night. the one everyone has been raving about on the metal thread.

i would KILL for a vinyl copy of the midnight sun cuz it would be in every dj set i ever did. not that i dj, but i would be ready just in case.

scott I am feeling your posts here but would like a little more animosity toward the encroaching hordes of dickheads who hate on power metal

what about those of us who are power metal agnostic?

with us or against us iirc

i don't even know what it is

holy cow scott that midnight sun is outstanding, are you gonna run a copy of that for yr man underrated a or what

its cheese

xp

okay disco power metal has me intrigued

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml_hrnEkBKA

That midnight sun is incredible. More youtubes, please.

i like cheese.

was never quite sure what power metal was...is manowar power metal?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_metal_bands

manowar played here recently, kinda pissed I missed it

Keeper of the Seven Keys? more like Keeper of the Seven Keyk your fucking ass!

Power metal haters; I'LL SEE YOU IN HEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMOeBTHbTUs

This is unfuckwithable as far as I am concerned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOKbqfzD6rc

man just today I heard about some guy who didn't like power metal and even though I didn't know the guy in my mind I was like "fuck you, dude"

see now that just seems like necessarily hostile to me

this hate furnace isnt going to stoke itself dude

Scott may have just given me the subject of my next Deciblog column.

hahaha jjjusted

right now I'm listening to Epica, a Dutch power metal band. Do they sample Malcolm X in "The Price of Freedom - Interlude"? yes, yes they do.

anyway yeah let me get back on the stick here, attn power metal haters, I hope your eyes fall out and some guy in chain mail stomps on them while yelling RRRAAAGGGGHHHH and it's like he's doing it right in front of your eyes except you don't have eyes any more because power metal dude just stomped on them

sad 4 u, hate power metal + have no eyes

this now resembles a pantera message board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anz_kVX3KGk

"I'LL KICK YA FUCKING NOSE OFF, STOMP, STOMP, LEFT, STOMP, STOMP, RIGHT, I'LL BOX IN YA FACE TILL THERES NO TEETH LEFT!"

that's not power metal.

he might be smithys power metal lovin dude who is doing the stomping

I hope a dragon eats your bones.

go back to your D&D

This is the thread for being unnecessarily hostile to people who hate power metal, not people who love power metal.

this now resembles a pantera message board

I guess if there's a pantera message board with a power metal subforum, maybe

let me know if I should move any further responses to the "thread for being necessarily condescending to people who don't know what power metal is" though

attn Power Metal Haters: you fucked up

hahahahaha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_metal_bands

― I love victorias but I've chosen maidenform (Edward III), Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:36 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm really bad at distinguishing subspecies of metal. But I do really like all the bands on that list who I have actually HEARD. I guess I'm batting 1.000 on my power metal non-hating thus far!

the way you can tell it's power metal is a simple test -- "if I tell my friends I like this, will I get made fun of?" if "yes," then it's probably power metal

Recommend me a Man O' War record to listen to, O mighty lords of power metal...

where do kick axe fit in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dis39LcsbCU

in the axe iirc

Recommend me a Man O' War record to listen to, O mighty lords of power metal...

ALL OF THEM.

OK, maybe just the first four.

deal, thanks!

Wimps and posers, leave the hall!

Power metal. in my experience, is either really really good or really really awful. There isn't a whole lot of mediocre. Basically, if you are going to go power, go hard or go home really. You can't half ass this stuff.

Wimps and posers, leave the hall!

lol

THEY ARE BABIES THAT SHOULD BE THROWN INTO THE FIERY PITS OF HELL WHERE THEY WILL SEE THE AWESOME POWER METAL PLAYING ALL AROUND THEM AND REALIZE THAT THEY LEFT IT TOO LATE TO APPRECIATE THE AWESOMENESS OF POWERMETAL WHILE ON EARTH AND NOW THEY ARE DEAD AND IN HELL SO HAHAHA ALL OF THEM THEY ARE LOSERS WHO WOULDN'T KNOW A DRAGON OR A DECENT CODPIECE IF IT KNOCKED THEM OFF THEIR STUPID BICYCLE

Hey people who hate power metal, nice crackerjack clothes, chumps!

otm, lol @ those dudes, what is wrong w/them

how do you even hate Manowar. I don't understand

I think I'm gonna listen to nothing but Manowar on my flight(s) from NJ to Texas tomorrow. That should properly prepare me for SXSW.

GUYYYYYANNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Do IN FLAMES count as power metal? They were my first US concert

All the song names on that Midnight Sun album are pretty great:

Metal Gods
Dungeons And Steel
Temple Of The Graal
Steel To Steel
Metal Machine
FIght
Distorted Eyes
Your Blood Burns In Hell
Keeper Of The Gate
Metal Will Stand Tall

how do you even hate Manowar. I don't understand

― VegemiteGrrl,

they do nothing for me. Neither does cheesy power metal.

all metal is kindof appalling to me i could list other things

Bands on that wiki i do like
Hammers of Misfortune

you realize that you are posting on the thread for being unnecessarily hostile to people who hate power metal, and that in your multiple posts to said thread you are saying that you hate power metal

just making 100% sure that you are saying "unload and pelt me with baseless, gratuitous abuse" because this thread in its title announces that its intention is to give you exactly that if you hate power metal & I don't want to hear any power-metal-unworthy whining when your grace period expires

hey, you cant like everything.

hey algerian goalkeeper hey plaxico EAT COW PATTY

ooh harder

right AG but again you are not posting on "Power Metal Classic or Dud" or "Let's Talk About Power Metal" you are posting on "Thread for being unnecessarily hostile to people who hate power metal." I don't want to hear any complaints when I propose that you be placed in a capsule and launched into space

and that when you get out into space you learn that your water bottles are full of Kai Hansen's piss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9FNIJI603M

fuck yall we're from texas

Algerian Goalkeeper, we are armed with flying dragons and battle-axes and flaming swords of death and WE ARE NOT AFRAID TO USE THEM

back away slowly or start digging your grave. Up to you

these youtubes are probably all terrible

YOU ARE ALL TERRIBLE PLAXICO YOU DUMB JERK

see

plax (ico) more like plax (i got eaten by cannibal vikings and the last think I heard was a Virgin Steele song) amirite

Unnecessary hostility is fun

aerosmith this is my dream thread

ur insults are as bad as the music you champion on plaintext msgbrds

& you said think instead of thing because the viking cannibals were chewing on your tongue while you were still alive & it totally sucked but there was nothing you could do about it and you cried but they laughed

i never cry

BLACK WIND FIRE + STEEL - WE WILL TEACH THEM ALL TO HEEL

in an act of v. aggressive and truly unnecessary hostility I post this picture of Virgin Steele, I apologize for nothing

http://www.virgin-steele.com/vs1.jpg

Vlagina Steel

I don't even know what that means, sorry

LOL YOU GUYS LIKE THIS SOCCER METAL BULLSHIT

It's on now, I see.

I had no idea Beau Bridges was in Virgin Steele. Love them all the more for it.

hese youtubes are probably all terrible

― plax (ico), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:34 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

YOU ARE ALL TERRIBLE PLAXICO YOU DUMB JERK

― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:35 PM (2 minutes ago)

I APPROVE OF THIS WITH LOLZ. AND Uh... FLAMING GARBAGE BALLS IN U FACE

give me my broadsword.

i bet u beowulf listened to power metal.

WHAT THE FUCK DOES SOCCER METAL EVEN MEAN YOU RIDICULOUS, FETID NONSENSICAL PIECE OF WASTE

many xposts to hawkwindz

i bet u beowulf MADE powermetal

wtf u think they did in them mead halls

they fucking JAMMED is what

i tell you what

Do power metal people use the term Cum Serpent?

i bet u beowulf listened to power metal.

Beowulf didn't listen to power metal, Beowulf IS power metal:

http://www.metalkingdom.net/band/5279_beowulf

I am the one - you are the ones
I will protect you - my brothers and sons
I have returned - to fight this battle
I am the savior - my heart is made
Made of metal

FUCK YEAH DUDE

I am

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/5/6/5/1565_logo.gif

@ those of u who hate power metal!

come close + listen to unferth tell the story of when beowulf rocked out every serpent in the sea and guitar dueled breca the bronding for seven days + seven nights

\m/

I gotta check out but I have to give powerful metallic thanks to the warriors & valkyries who have kept this thread strong, destroying anti-power-metal weaklings comes as naturally to you as breathing, lol @ yr enemies

And of course, songs about Beowulf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPYxZHXlRY

if u dont like power metal ur fate in hell will be to swim in a like of diarhea. if u dont like angra u make me ang-ry

HAIL MIGHTY AERO KEEPER OV THE FLAME \m/

[door opens]
Excuse me, is this the right room to tell the Beatles to fuck off?

well met dear brother aerosmith, may the beast deliver you safely to the womb of your beloved demon goddess of fire

xpost CLOESTH THE BLASTED DOOR INTERLOPER

holy shit Virgin Steele i have one of their albums, it's something. really tryin on this Atlantean Kodex thing, too

no wonder you are all so angry listening to such terrible music you should listen to something good and maybe you will all chill out a bit

remember what happened to that cameron dude, plax

lost his reallity iirc

The last thing plax will see tonight before he sleeps...forever.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HsPYTX26v2c/0.jpg

atlantean kodex rule

forgot to get this, anyone heard it?

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/0/9/7/10978.jpg

and that when you get out into space you learn that your water bottles are full of Kai Hansen's piss

― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:27 AM (30 minutes ago)

you are the fucking best

PLAXICO YOU WITTERING SIMP I WILL ROAST THE FLESH FROM YOUR SCRAWNY FRAME AND WEAVE A DELICATE TAPESTRY WITH YOUR COWARDLY ENTRAILS

and you are still a big dumb jerk

do any metalheads have pointy heads... just curious

Pointy teeth all the better to eat you with dear Lorax

I can legitimately understand how the shape of someone's head can effect musical preference

and make some people join the army

I feel like a lot of this hostility is kind of necessary. Any way we can make it a little so?

ONLY WITH YOUR FIRST BORN

Is this just all dudes who wear black and have bad hair?

pointy heads
o' pointy pointy
anoint my head
anointy nointy

dunno bout modern manowar albums but modern manowar dvds are great

afaict the intersection between power metal and prog-metal is of a similar integrity (but of a different nature) to the intersection between prog and prog-metal, although the colouring of the clothes loses its exclusive blackness somewhere around the prog-metal vicinity

basically i am trying to formulate an opinion of power metal based on my less-than-favourable opinion of prog-metal, therefore qualifying for a kicking itt

vegemite grl u r mean im just gonna retract all my previous (tho true) statements if you will just leave me alone

NOT UNTIL YOU ADMIT THAT POWER METAL IS YOUR TRUE LORD AND MASTER

alternate option: we can throw you into the pyre and dance around it until we forget about you

that seems so unnecessarily hostile!

that means i get a gold star. which i will put on my mace with which i will brain you all.

I like jjjusten's idea: onto the pyre with you Plaxico. I grow weary of you

perhaps unwisely, I will use this thread to unveil my most shameful metal secret... I was always more of a sci-fi guy and never really cared about lord of the rings.

please do not judge me too harshly, for I still know what is best in life. (crushing your enemies, seeing driven before you, hearing the lamentations of the women, and power metal.)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tQLEnUNma7s/TJTzMwEAq1I/AAAAAAAAAIo/gUwwCUFmukM/s320/Loincloth+logo.jpg

xpost This isn't group, Alan. pick up your mace and help get plaxico onto the fire

Loincloth (southern lord one anyway) weren't power metal.

Heading out on a self-imposed mini-exile from ilx, but doing so in the spirit of this thread with Hammerfall blaring in my ears as I type.

finding it hard to reconcile any form of metal with all the fantasy names in that wikipedia list tbh

idk mellotron and flute/recorder seem to work under a banner that says 'GOBLINS' but no so much wailing 12-strings

Xxpost Go well, young Jon...may the beast protect you in your travels

Adam your jabbering is making my sword hand itch

you should have a sword in one hand and a lute in the other imo

none of this choppy electrified nonsense

oh that's adam?

I should have your throat in one hand and your entrails in another, insolent wastrel

you should have a sword in one hand and a lute in the other imo

how then do you propose to drink from a bone chalice, smart guy?

grow more arms with which to shred imo

fair enough

chop off both his arms and use him as the chalice, easily fixed

okay look basically if you have a big-arse gunmetal sword and a big-arse black suit of armour made of black armadillo hide and reside in a big black castle with gigeresque turrets and gargoyles and loads of lightning everywhere it's fine, but if you're in a calico sack and your ears are a bit pointy and you live in a village with a herb garden and an incidental cauldron you should not be hacking that stick bass like a norse warrior

xxxxxp i am at work

fwiw i am listening to neo-prog atm so my views may be unduly skewed

just to be clear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOAl0enE7kI

god okay

grow more arms with which to shred

the only time I have ever felt tempted to get a tattoo of something said on ilx

well besides the time I got "hate all the people who dis them but shot all the people who like them" done in Monika italic down the elbow side of my right arm

listened to Grief's Come to Grief earlier today ... :( ... feel as tho i should probably invest in those Barry Windsor Smith Conan the Barbarian comics that were recently compiled in hardbound volumes ... i am not worthy ... woe ... ;_;

now thats a proper great album (and isnt power metal)

(and isnt power metal)

my point exactly. woe be unto me. oh, woe ...

When losers say it's overwith, you know that it's a lie. The Gods made heavy metal and it's never gonna die!

people who don't like power metal are such herbs

go season a cooking sauce, power metal hating herbs

oof

Aerosmith otm. parsley sage Rosemary and douchebags

hate nightwish and you are fuckin dead to me

"bare grace misery" or gtfo

if you listen to symphony x and you are like, "no, fuck this," maybe you should reconsider all of your terrible life decisions up to this point

i can't listen to sonata arctica because i had a roommate who listened to sonata arctica all the time but whatever he is a better person than you who hate power metal

also if you can't get down with blind guardian then fuck you in your fucking face

i feel a little bad about all of my hostility in this thread so as a lift you up by your bootstraps attempt i offer sort of a beginners guide to people who hate power metal

1. listen to power metal
2. suck less
3. try it again
4. take a long serious look in the mirror and hate your weakness
5. listen to power metal
6. succeed in sucking less
(optional: fail in sucking less, stab your failing eyes out with the shards of your nickleback cd collection)

i like your cuirass around your ankles

We're all in agreement that Gamma Ray totally sucks though, right?

I can't get enough of Sonata Arctica. They're catchy, they're good live, and they're not above having some fun. Same goes for Edguy.

i met this dude and he wasn't even Preternatural Transmogrifier.

Is king Diamond considered Power Metal, I've never seemed to think he was.. If he is, he might be the only PM I like.. and maybe those two Grim Reaper songs that were posted above, bad wigs or not.. lol

http://www.allflac.com/covers/b_59326_Pantera-Power_Metal__Original_-1988.jpg

POSERS

I'd be okay calling King Diamond power metal...but then that drags me into well then what's Mercyful Fate...and in my dark little attic of a mind, they're both just kind of sitting there on their own, in their own category. Because, well...fuck, that's how it should be.

the glam Pantera hair makes me LOL and LOL and LOL mainly bc Anselmo looked like Rikki Rockett and no amount of hardcore dickishness can ever remove that image from my mind which is why I giggle whenever I see him

DEATH TO GIRLYMEN

DEATH TO GIRLYMEN

― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:14 (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

as per the key law of this thread you must now be unnecessarily hostile to yourself

no disrespect to anyone (aside from wimps, posuers, etc) but if Mercyful Fate is power metal, then the Ramones are 90's Lookout Records pop-punk

I never said Mercyful Fate were power metal AND I WILL GOUGE OUT YOUR EYES WITH MY RUSTY SPOON FOR READING IT AS SUCH

wait you eat with a spoon? my confidence is shaken in you. knives do everything spoons do, only sharper and more swordlike.

Nay I do not eat with my spoon, a plague on you for suggesting such...like the many weapons at my disposal I consider the rusty spoon yet another brush that I use to creat my art...part of the panopoly of instruments with which I draw the agonised screams of the vanquished

"bare grace misery" or gtfo

this is like my favorite fucking song ever and I want it played as they're launching my boat across the Styx

There's no Styx song called that wtf

yeah there is - the one that starts "Babe I'm leaving, I must be on my way/bare grace misery"

is it any wonder i've got
bare grace misery

Pantera's Power Metal is a pretty damn good album.

Sonata Arctica are Kings of the Keytar and FUIUD

wait a second

I just looked at that Wikipedia list and unless I'm mistaken, everyone hear is swearing fealty to Yngwie Malmsteen

er, here

my bafflement is ruining my spelling

Not everyone

yet you spelled ynbwie mlmslteen correctly

y'all can get as hostile as you want, all I have to say is "fuck you, you like Yngwie Malmsteen"

Yngwie J. Malmsteen

dan otm!

although I will admit that "Metal Gods" by Midnight Sun is awesome

yngwie pretty much sucks but I'm glad "I am a viking" exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8sVAY2TlYo

he is a viking of playing guitar

in guitar he is a viking

I was about to say, you can't knock Midnight Sun there, Dan.

such creativity,speed,iron will, discipline and technal prowess over the instrument,yngwie continues to show mortals how its done...

long live malmsteen,cause,just like bach,or beethoven-yngwie's music will be a divine inspiration a 100 years from now....
absoluteGODhatred 4 months ago 32

one time a friend mistakenly dialed my my number (name starts with an "a," it happens a lot) and left me a voice mail that was just a half hour of him driving around and listening to yngwie malmsteen.

"friend" admit it, it was your dad

you got me. it was my dad. and his name is "yngwie malmsteen".

listening to Yngwie Malmsteen is like listening to a precocious, lonely teenager masturbate

so that's what you did as a teen?

people were in awe of my flawless fingering technique

Yngwie answering machine story is amazing!
have any of you ever tried to play a guitar w/ a scalloped neck?
I almost namechecked Chris Impellitteri the other day. Shrapnel shred isn't really proper power metal, though, I guess.

btw dan you might like this thread

A link to this thread seems appropriate:

John Petrucci brings you...ROCK DISCIPLINE (a picture thread if the pictures can fit)

arby's/rabies and I got into a Vai img/video posting thing on facebook the other night. the "For the Love of God" video, goddamn!

don't really consider Malmsteen in the proper Viking-hard-charging style of heavy metal though I'm sure all the bands who are unambiguously power metal would rep for him all day

mainly I just wrote that sentence to distract power metal haters while I put sugar in their gas tanks or in the case of the inevitable crashing bore who's primed to type "I don't have a car!", to drop a deuce on the screen right where you last typed your name

computer looks and smells awesome now you dickheads

fuck you, you like Yngwie Malmsteen

you probably share a middle name with him ;)

You mean "Fucking"

Yngwie is my dad and he told me to tell you guys to eat a dick

that was exactly how he put it

"the 'J' stands for 'Fucking', as in 'the fucking fury you JUST unleashed'"

people who hate power metal share a fucking w/ yngwie malmsteen

Indeed.

"the 'J' stands for 'Fucking', as in 'the fucking fury you JUST unleashed'"

lol

you mess with the Wingie, you get the 20 minute shredding solo bridge in the 90 minute shredding power metal song

aerosmith is it cool if I call your Dad 'Wingie'?

only if we can call smithy wangie

you'd be wise to keep a civil tongue in your head when addressing the aerosmith, goalkeeper

never

I thought my dad was yngwie. oh well, must be a different yngwie. whaddayagunnado. ¯\(©¿©)/¯

I mean, whaddayagunnado, you asshole that hates power metal.

ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ

yngwies yngwies everywhere

(＃ﾟДﾟ) YYYYYYYNNGGGGGGGGGGWIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Algerian Goalkeeper don't you have some 5-man Brooklyn combo with a vintage synth to call metal someplace? this thread is for people who actually like heavy metal

well ok admittedly it's also for you if you're a power metal hater who wants to get hated on, if that's yr deal live yr bliss

power metal suxxx it isnt even real music

deal with it

your domain name betrays you

here is a list of metal bands i listened to in high school whose names i have not uttered since:

angra
iced earth
blind guardian
symphony x
eternity x
helloween
savatage
in flames
dark tranquility

more bands need an "x" at the end of their names

can we petition the other guys on your list to add x's after their names? just to make the list cooler

xpost

"iced earth x" just sounds better imo

lol xpost

you cant make "helloween" cooler because it is already the coolest name there is or ever will be.

hellaween

you cant make "helloween" cooler because it is already the coolest name there is or ever will be.

otm

i love that websites about these bands look exactly the same as they did in '95: http://www.truemetal.org/mastersofmetal/eternityx.htm

like putting an x after savatage would be like taking a bruch symphony and autotuning the violin parts or something

http://www.truemetal.org/mastersofmetal/eternityxpics/etxte.gif

hope this thread is still sfw

The Edge explores the journey on the edge of sanity. It is a very powerful album. It is filled with complex musical nuances.

can we bookend all future posts to this thread with a

http://www.truemetal.org/mastersofmetal/images/firewal.gif

xpost album description OTM

do you ever wonder what happened to Psychotic Waltz?

surely this is some kind of joke?

They reunited in 2010 with Steve Cox on guitar. Devon Graves and Dan Rock, replacing Steve Cox, would join the band later on to complete the original lineup.

http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=881

go play an acoustic guitar guys

btw i have this thread to thank for inspiring me to start my metal videos of youth thread on idiot thread repository so thank you thread you have brightened my week

lol is this actually catholic power metal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yUKolUisz0

acoustic guitars are acceptable if used during a brief interlude during a suite that musically explores the life of king james iii

zxpost

http://www.truemetal.org/mastersofmetal/images/firewal.gif

xpost to Alan- and two of them were a band called Teabag. How bout that.

really in some sense all power metal is Catholic

xpost Alan N so totally otm, illuminating the dark path of the nonbeliever

Here's some acoustic guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utCLHdqACi0&feature=related

ok still kinda dope:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBmtkNv4t-Y

solo in the edenbridge track has caused me to shed a single (powerful) tear

Power metal is probably the only kind of extreme metal (defined by me as metal with growling vocals) that I don't actively hate. Well, that and doom metal. Not that I am a fan either (just cannot stand growling vocals regardless of style), but the prog elements tend to be quite interesting.

Yngwie Geir Malmsteen

(pours cup of mead for Geir)

Ingwee's Momstinks

I'm confused... Did we decide if Yngwie is power metal or not... lol

I say NOT... just because of Joe Lynn Turner singing

i think he's just yngwie

This is amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMRsR8MQFqw

Anyone who disagrees is a shit-stainjed scotum sucker who should leave the hall (he says, with unnecessary hostility).

So, like, are Savatage done?

Their website's still up, but all of the news from like the last ten years has to do with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, or any of the bandmates side projects. Jon has his "Oliva" project now - are they packing it in?

Think it would be sad for them to end things on "Poets and Madmen", which was a weirdly assembled release given Zak Stevens' sudden departure. and that 'new' vocalist Damond Jiniya was in the band for all of five minutes!

also I saw Manilla Road at Death Fest and they rocked and anybody who doesn't like Manilla Road will be impaled upon my studded codpiece

dont you dare compare the mighty manilla road with the shite on this thread!

I'm still not convinced Manilla Road isn't an ironic performance art piece.

bill magill was really upset they made the top metal albums of alltime poll

Every piss I take that's not on the severed head of a Power Metal Hater is a piss wasted.

if you don't like Labyrinth's "Return to Heaven Denied" Ima stick your nuts in a blender

lol i love this thread, and fuck you if you don't like power metal

otm

I used to outright loathe power metal. But since I've started to listen to more and more metal in the past few years/started valuing escapism above pretty much anything else (in music), my stance has softened (er... hardened?) towards it as I probably listen to stuff that wobbles dangerously close power metal territory. Can't help but hate myself for that, just a little.

is hammers of misfortune power metal? new album is good

or is power metal one of those things like goth where no good band who is goth actually calls themselves goth and any band who cops to it probably sucks?

There's a pretty trustworthy regional divide in quality. US power metal is mostly pretty cool, because it's basically just plain old heavy metal. European power metal is the kind with giggly crackhead elf vocals, synth and a general sense that all the metal got sucked out of the equation.

No. Power metal is not fucking like fucking goth. Power metal is about well-justfied high self-esteem.

xpost: European power metal is awesome. Synthesizers in metal are awesome. Elves will kick your ass if they have to make a giant elf-pyramid to reach it.

Got the new Hammerfall album this week - they've switched labels, from Nuclear Blast to Napalm. First song on the record is called "Bring It!" and totally lives up to that title - chorus is a gang shout.

Oh, and to keep to the thread's purpose, anyone who doesn't like Hammerfall can catch a hammer in the teeth.

Gang shouting is the original and proper meaning of "chorus".

finally getting around to hearing Hammerfall (Glory to the Brave). this is my wheelhouse. I'm not into the proggier or the more ridiculous power metal, but the Maiden-y heavy metal stuff with soaring choruses and cheese-factor = my love.

what other stuff is worth checkin' out from this here genre

I guess I like Grave Digger now? I was sour on them at first cos I saw them open for Blind Guardian, and nobody was going to measure up to BG that night, but this is pretty fun stuff and it's not weenie-like.

oh wait I forgot the thread conceit.

lol if u don't like Grave Digger I'll dig urs u fukin pussy

u don't like Eternal Champion because ur a transient loser

if u don't like Burning Witches there's a stick up ur ass

if you listen to symphony x and you are like, "no, fuck this," maybe you should reconsider all of your terrible life decisions up to this point

― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:57 PM bookmarkflaglink

should have known Brad was a scholar almost 11 years ago with this post.

if you don't like Divine Wings of Tragedy, i will vivisect you!

If you didn't like Warlord in 1983 you were a shitlord who probably listened to Pyromania and .38 Special instead.

Iced Earth? You seem like the type who will participate in an insurrection!

haha bewm

if you hate Gamma Ray, I hope an antelope shits in your mouth while you are slowly killed by jackals and your girlfriend has sex with someone else in front of you

I unapologetically love Symphony X

oh I forgot the thread theme, uh, if you don't, then suck my dick

If the unbridled positivity of Fellowship doesn't thaw your frozen heart, then you probably just hate hobbits tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p75OnvNL-HY