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• Post new topic • Reply to topic Home -> Power/Speed Metal View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Empyreal Moderator User is Offline Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 95 Karma: 1 applaud / smite 203.90 Gil Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:07 am    Post subject: Power Metal Rec Thread · Quote Okay, this is the rec thread for this forum in which I've been offered to moderate. Ask for recs of this great genre here, and be specific or else the admins will eat you. Happy trails! Last edited by Empyreal on Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:19 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top serious buisness Junior Member User is Offline Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 98 Karma: 2 applaud / smite Location: Portland, Oregon 705.00 Gil Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:33 am    Post subject: · Quote I recommend Eidolon to all of you, very heavy riff oriented power metal. Check out any of their albums from 2000 onwards. My favroite is Nightmare World. _________________ The ravening black worms of madness are devouring the shredded remnants of sanity as I return to my slumbering steel-clad body...but as the dream-veil lifts, I feel my limbs transform, flesh becoming cold stone... enshrouded by a dark mantle of obsidian… Back to top Empyreal Moderator User is Offline Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 95 Karma: 1 applaud / smite 203.90 Gil Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:40 am    Post subject: · Quote I have one album by Eidolon, and it's okay, but the vocals are kind of lame and the riffs are sort of stale. I think I should try the one with Nils K. Rue on vocals, as I hear their other vocalists are even worse than this one. A better band of the style would be Angel Dust who I recommend a lot. Or Tad Morose's Undead, Matters of the Dark and Modus Vivendi. Astounding Power/Traditional Metal. Back to top Inferno Necrosis Administrator User is Offline Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 295 Karma: 5 applaud / smite Location: Ontario, Canada 706.34 Gil Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:44 pm    Post subject: · Quote Maybe you should change the thread title so that people will know it's a rec thread just by the title. _________________ I just want to eat your brains. Back to top rottingjebus Moderator User is Offline Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 166 Karma: 2 applaud / smite Location: (I wish I lived in) Finland 129.24 Gil Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:37 pm    Post subject: · Quote Mystic Prophecy and Firewind's first two if anyone wants some heavy kickass power metal. RD Liapakissss! I love this man, such a god. EVIL EMPIRES! Hey hey hey! EVIL EMPIRES! _________________ NU-MOD Back to top Empyreal Moderator User is Offline Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 95 Karma: 1 applaud / smite 203.90 Gil Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:31 pm    Post subject: · Quote Satanic Curses is a real beast of an album. Very catchy and heavy. And the lyrical themes are more or less exactly what I love hearing in Metal. Back to top MegaHassan Moderator User is Offline Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 201 Karma: 3 applaud / smite Location: Lahore, Pakistan 344.70 Gil Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:45 pm    Post subject: · Quote Dream Evil's first album is fucking amazing. Not a second of filler in that album. None of the albums they released after it were even half as good. _________________ My Facebook, My Youtube, My Last.FM, My Blog Back to top Inferno Necrosis Administrator User is Offline Joined: 24 Aug 2008 Posts: 295 Karma: 5 applaud / smite Location: Ontario, Canada 706.34 Gil Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:33 pm    Post subject: · Quote Thanks for that, Hassan. I like that band, and now I want to hear their first album. _________________ I just want to eat your brains. Back to top MegaHassan Moderator User is Offline Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 201 Karma: 3 applaud / smite Location: Lahore, Pakistan 344.70 Gil Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:05 am    Post subject: · Quote Best tracks: Chasing The Dragon, Prophecy, and Heavy Metal In The Night! _________________ My Facebook, My Youtube, My Last.FM, My Blog Back to top rottingjebus Moderator User is Offline Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 166 Karma: 2 applaud / smite Location: (I wish I lived in) Finland 129.24 Gil Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:41 pm    Post subject: · Quote Empyreal wrote: Satanic Curses is a real beast of an album. Very catchy and heavy. And the lyrical themes are more or less exactly what I love hearing in Metal. Great to see another 'Prophecy fan. I had just recently gotten Savage Souls and there's some great stuff. The only problem is teh 'Prophecy tends to be very repetetive and doesn't really shake things up. Maybe since the two Martin's left there'll be more change in their sound (not for the bad!) _________________ NU-MOD Back to top Empyreal Moderator User is Offline Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 95 Karma: 1 applaud / smite 203.90 Gil Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:56 pm    Post subject: · Quote rottingjebus wrote: Empyreal wrote: Satanic Curses is a real beast of an album. Very catchy and heavy. And the lyrical themes are more or less exactly what I love hearing in Metal. Great to see another 'Prophecy fan. I had just recently gotten Savage Souls and there's some great stuff. The only problem is teh 'Prophecy tends to be very repetetive and doesn't really shake things up. Maybe since the two Martin's left there'll be more change in their sound (not for the bad!) I hear Satanic Curses is the darkest and heaviest they've done, which is why I don't think I need to bother with anything they did before it. Should I? Back to top rottingjebus Moderator User is Offline Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 166 Karma: 2 applaud / smite Location: (I wish I lived in) Finland 129.24 Gil Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:25 pm    Post subject: · Quote Empyreal wrote: rottingjebus wrote: Empyreal wrote: Satanic Curses is a real beast of an album. Very catchy and heavy. And the lyrical themes are more or less exactly what I love hearing in Metal. Great to see another 'Prophecy fan. I had just recently gotten Savage Souls and there's some great stuff. The only problem is teh 'Prophecy tends to be very repetetive and doesn't really shake things up. Maybe since the two Martin's left there'll be more change in their sound (not for the bad!) I hear Satanic Curses is the darkest and heaviest they've done, which is why I don't think I need to bother with anything they did before it. Should I? So, Empyreal, you're the power metal guy 'round these parts I see? Anyway, for everything Mystic Prophecy and RD related, you've come to the right place! Yeah, Satanic Curses is nice, but like I said, they have a big tendancy to be repetitive. I guess if you pick up two different Mystic Prophecy albums, it'd be a little difficult to notice a change in the music as far as a bands natural progression goes. In short, they all sound the same. However, Savage Souls does have some difference from Satanic Curses, that being there's less repetition, 'cause in songs like Into the Fire and Savage Souls, they use accoustics and RD is more emotional than usual. Still... _________________ NU-MOD Back to top Empyreal Moderator User is Offline Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 95 Karma: 1 applaud / smite 203.90 Gil Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:06 pm    Post subject: · Quote You know, acoustics with this band just doesn't sound like something I'd want to hear. I listen to them for the same reasons I listen to PARAGON - for stomping, riff-and-chorus Heavy Metal. I might pick up Regressus, which seems to be pretty lauded in other circles, though. And yes, I'm the power metal guy everywhere.   Back to top rottingjebus Moderator User is Offline Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 166 Karma: 2 applaud / smite Location: (I wish I lived in) Finland 129.24 Gil Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:28 pm    Post subject: · Quote Honestly, it's pretty enjoyable. I only have Satanic Curses and Savage Souls so I can't really comment on their other works, but from what I've heard, I've fetished over. RD is just a beast. He makes my lungs shake. *dreamy teenypopper sigh* _________________ NU-MOD Back to top Empyreal Moderator User is Offline Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 95 Karma: 1 applaud / smite 203.90 Gil Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:34 pm    Post subject: · Quote Yeah, I like him better than the Dream Evil or Firewind singers right now; maybe not as much as Stephen Frederick, and definitely not as much as Andreas Babuschkin, though. 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