Soulfire77

Why do people like Dragonforce so much? I saw them at Ozzfest and they were so LAME. I had never even heard of them before that... With the leather pants and the keytar, I thought they were some sort of joke band like Spinal Tap. It seems like every thread on this board mentions them at some point.

Am I missing something here?

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Urban Hat€monger ?

Well if you hate Dragonforce it obviously isn't taste you're missing.

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gpackin

Speaking of Bruce, his solo albums are pretty good. His last album Tyranny of Souls is great.

Cghost

lol @ Iron Maiden and Judas Priest being power metal

Blind Guardian. Maybe Slough Feg if you consider them Power Metal.

jackhammer

We were discussing their merits as influencing the power metal genre, not actually being power metal. Read the thread properly.

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riseagainstrocks

Slough Feg is great.

and I stand by my statement on Iron Maiden being Power Metal. Vocal style/lyrics as well as the classically influenced guitars (in terms of overlapping melodies and octave leads, basically ripped straight from classical counterpoint) define their sound.

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Seltzer

Nope... it's just ultra-generic annoyingly over-happy power metal with gimmicky leads, obnoxious vocals, and boring bass/drums.


Powerslave is my probably my fav Maiden.

Followed by Killers and NOTB.


I enjoy Tyranny of Souls, especially Navigate the Seas of the Sun.


Slough Feg is a great band... and hard to classify too. I just chuck them in my heavy metal folder and be done with it.

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Cghost

They don't really have a Power Metal sound though. They're missing some key components that are vital to Power Metal, like the over the top keyboard work, songs that are altogether too fast, and ridiculous amounts of double bass. While Maiden's guitar work did obviously influence power Metal, I can't say it resembles Power Metal. Power Metal is usually incredibly polished and played mindnumbingly fast (with a mindnumbing amount of cheese). Maiden was polished, but it still had something of a raw feeling to it; it was still something you could sit down and go "That was one badass riff." Power Metal is more about being as epic as effing possible whereas Maiden as all about playing balls to the wall heavy metal. I can see the influence, but I really don't see how the tag can be applied to Maiden at all.

funkanator

maiden did inspire it but i wouldn't go so far as to call it power metal

gpackin

Exactly!