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[NightDragon83]

Runa216 said:

NightDragon83 said:

Yeah, when I first heard about the group I was expecting more of a throwback to early Helloween and Gamma Ray, but so far I like the more rock-oriented direction they've chosen to go.  I really like this song too... it's from their forthcoming full debut album later this month.  Hopefully the rest of the album sounds as good as this.

yeah that was pretty awesome as well.  I'm curious, what's the definition of power metal?  Most metal I know is pretty powerful. 

"Power metal" is the term generally used to describe speedy and melodic styles of metal, usually with a splash of keyboards and sometimes cheesy uplifting lyrics, i.e. Helloween, Blind Guardian, Stratovarius, to name some of the bigger ones.  Of course back in the day it was more straight-forward, now you have bands that try to work in operatic and symphonic vocals and melodies into their music (Nightwish, Rhapsody, Avantasia).  There's so many different sub-genres of metal these days it's mind boggling.