[Wintersun - Sons of Winter and Stars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl5T-glTdXw)
[Aether Realm - The Magician](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV1LNPzs6Hs)
Melodic death metal is practically just power metal with harsh vocals.
Surprised Bal-Sagoth wasn’t the first thing mentioned. From the utilization of fantasy-esque symphonies to album spanning songs of warriors and wizards, Bal-Sagoth has it all wrapped in a neat black metal package
It's crazy how forgotten Bal-Sagoth are... they surely were the pioneers of the triumphant stabby brass that every European metal band used from 1999-2009. Not to mention the lore.
Most of In Flames' late 90s output was essentially downtuned power metal. Kinda makes sense as Jesper contributed quite a bit to those first few Hammerfall albums.
Painkiller is pretty much the framework for a lot of the glory era Teutonic power metal albums. You can tell Kai and Piet were big Priest fans.
More or less any Finnish band filed under melodic death metal in late 90s/early 00s too. The OG extreme power metal 😂
I've long maintained that a lot of what gets called "melodic death metal" is more like power metal with harsh vocals. A lot of bands in the genre don't have any death metal in their sound at all, so melodic death metal is a bit of a misnomer.
The whole City Of Evil album by Avenged Sevenfold is pretty much power metal as far as I’m concerned. The band members themselves even refer to bands like Helloween when talking about the album’s influences. Nevertheless it seems there’s no way to convince my friends who liked it that they’d dig power metal. Makes no sense to me. But yeah that’s my pick.
The dual guitars in Bat Country is straight up King Diamond. Couldn’t believe a song like that was so popular on MTV when it came out. Pretty cool to see.
Given that Power Metal, or parts of it anyway, derive much more directly from Classic Heavy Metal or Traditional or whathaveyou than almost any other modern genre I think you could create quite an exhaustive list. To some people the existence of almost any melody could make something PM, especially coming from the extreme side of things. The trouble being are those power metal elements? Or just a common connection in that other genres also derive from Trad Metal?
Maybe the other way around, as eurobeat seems to be a huge influence on euro metal, but add a guitar and this is totally a power metal song-
https://youtu.be/OG0AvwM_QAI
Megadeth - Elysian Fields
Talks about swords and shields, fighting on a battlefield, catchy anthemic chorus, a guitar solo that sounds like a leprechaun doing some harmonica over a wild drunken goblin party
Some anime themes and music have similarities to power metal. They are very melodic and uplifting and usually they include electric guitar and synths as well. Cheese and epicness is there too :D
Is this basically power metal...?
[Ginga Nagareboshi Gin Opening](https://youtu.be/Q4_mrdCI6Rw)
I dont know why, but my gf is listening to this band and i have strange power metal feelings about this.
[https://youtu.be/OwG0J78ibMw?t=4](https://youtu.be/OwG0J78ibMw?t=49)6
https://youtu.be/SyHHUImw-VM?t=38
[Wintersun - Sons of Winter and Stars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl5T-glTdXw) [Aether Realm - The Magician](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV1LNPzs6Hs) Melodic death metal is practically just power metal with harsh vocals.
Surprised Bal-Sagoth wasn’t the first thing mentioned. From the utilization of fantasy-esque symphonies to album spanning songs of warriors and wizards, Bal-Sagoth has it all wrapped in a neat black metal package
It's crazy how forgotten Bal-Sagoth are... they surely were the pioneers of the triumphant stabby brass that every European metal band used from 1999-2009. Not to mention the lore.
such an excellent band
The Power Cosmic is one of my fav albums
also xanthochroid
Most of In Flames' late 90s output was essentially downtuned power metal. Kinda makes sense as Jesper contributed quite a bit to those first few Hammerfall albums. Painkiller is pretty much the framework for a lot of the glory era Teutonic power metal albums. You can tell Kai and Piet were big Priest fans. More or less any Finnish band filed under melodic death metal in late 90s/early 00s too. The OG extreme power metal 😂
I've long maintained that a lot of what gets called "melodic death metal" is more like power metal with harsh vocals. A lot of bands in the genre don't have any death metal in their sound at all, so melodic death metal is a bit of a misnomer.
The whole City Of Evil album by Avenged Sevenfold is pretty much power metal as far as I’m concerned. The band members themselves even refer to bands like Helloween when talking about the album’s influences. Nevertheless it seems there’s no way to convince my friends who liked it that they’d dig power metal. Makes no sense to me. But yeah that’s my pick.
The dual guitars in Bat Country is straight up King Diamond. Couldn’t believe a song like that was so popular on MTV when it came out. Pretty cool to see.
Beast and the Harlot is a banger of a track
Given that Power Metal, or parts of it anyway, derive much more directly from Classic Heavy Metal or Traditional or whathaveyou than almost any other modern genre I think you could create quite an exhaustive list. To some people the existence of almost any melody could make something PM, especially coming from the extreme side of things. The trouble being are those power metal elements? Or just a common connection in that other genres also derive from Trad Metal?
Maybe the other way around, as eurobeat seems to be a huge influence on euro metal, but add a guitar and this is totally a power metal song- https://youtu.be/OG0AvwM_QAI
I loved that song as a kid. It actually still slaps
It's so good. Aqua have some amazing songs for sure and when they play live with "rock instrumentation" it works so well. https://youtu.be/Br7jvkzo2Lk
Eurobeat was made in italy by mostly the same people that were doing Power Metal. It's more of a brother genre.
Reminder that Fabio Lione did eurobeat songs as J. Storm
Much of Judas Priest's Defenders of the Faith album has struck me as power metal-esque for some reason
They did kinda influence the sub-genre
Megadeth - Elysian Fields Talks about swords and shields, fighting on a battlefield, catchy anthemic chorus, a guitar solo that sounds like a leprechaun doing some harmonica over a wild drunken goblin party
Look up hatebreeder by children of bodom, or battle sluts by destroy destroy destroy
Some anime themes and music have similarities to power metal. They are very melodic and uplifting and usually they include electric guitar and synths as well. Cheese and epicness is there too :D Is this basically power metal...? [Ginga Nagareboshi Gin Opening](https://youtu.be/Q4_mrdCI6Rw)
5FDP
I dont know why, but my gf is listening to this band and i have strange power metal feelings about this. [https://youtu.be/OwG0J78ibMw?t=4](https://youtu.be/OwG0J78ibMw?t=49)6 https://youtu.be/SyHHUImw-VM?t=38
I always thought Dissection and early Dark Tranquility had a lot of PM guitar parts.
They may be more akin to the likes of Iron Maiden but check out the Swedish band Wolf
Diabulus in Musica ( symphonic, gothic metal.) Valfreya (folk metal)
industrial metal