Nicked: That's the fifth worst album art of all time.

Imaginations from the Other Side is pretty much the greatest power metal album ever made, also immediately check out Nightfall In Middle Earth and Somewhere Far Beyond for great Blind Guardian. I'm not as up on Angra, but Angels Cry and Rebirth are pretty ****in' epic!



God, this song gives me chills it rules so much!

I need to give that album another listen, as I pretty much agree with most of your picks.

Yeah, I've got a power metal battle in the works. I'm still researching though.

Make sure you avoid Dragonforce at all costs

I would never try to trick anyone into listening to Dragonforce. How they got a record deal, I do not know. How they are now somehow the most well known power metal band on the planet baffles me.


Ah. Not Dragonforce.

Refreshingly.... different. None of that running fingers randomly up and down the fretboard that characterises Dragonforce, and impresses their fans to no end. The are one of those bands I have an unhealthy obsession with loathing. I own their entire bleeding discography, from "Valley of the Damned" to "Ultra Beatdown" and hate every second of it. They haven't had a single new idea from day one.

That's because they stole it all from Stratovarius, but forgot to learn how to write a song. I like that you own all their albums even though you hate them. Masochist much? :rofl:

More mana from the power metal gods.

The intro to that was very good! I liked the guitar work too. I've really got to catch up with metal soon. And no, I'm not really a masochist, but can't stop myself from listening to everything by artists that I loathe. I've got Coldplay's entire discography too, including crap little B-sides collections such as "Prospect's March", which I would really recommend avoiding. I don't know who I hate more. One's incredibly stupid, the other's incredibly lame. In fact, they are both incredibly stupid and incredibly lame.

:rofl:

I like you. You're delightfully eccentric. I don't think I've ever met anybody who collects the music of bands he hates.


Holy **** on a cracker! I've been sleeping on this band for years cuase I figured they just sounded like Rhapsody with a name like Symphony X, but these guys are almost like progressive thrash, but with that power metal melodicism. Ace.