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12-10-2011, 11:20 AM | #102 (permalink) | |
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12-10-2011, 11:28 AM | #103 (permalink) |
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Another German band who are worth a mention are Rage, not strictly power metal, but imo have enough power metal influences to qualify on the thread. After several previous albums of which 1988`s Perfect Man was the best, they put out this hugely Metallica inspired power metal album in 1995.
Rage Black in Mind 1995
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12-10-2011, 11:54 AM | #105 (permalink) |
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Out of interest, could anyone educate me as to why metal album art tends to be much more elaborate and intricate than other genres? Is it something intrinsic to metal artists, to be more imaginative when it comes to the art side of production, or do they have much more time on their hands?
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12-10-2011, 01:58 PM | #107 (permalink) |
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This is very interesting. I am indeed referring to the tendency started by Iron Maiden, particularly what impressed me was their cover for the album "Powerslave" (from which the only song I can remember is "Aces High...")
That started off my general interest in this subject. It looked so elaborate and interesting. Sadly, I regret to say I enjoyed the art far more than the actual album! And with reference to Tolkein, a power metal band I know called Battledore are a good example of a band very heavily influenced by the imagery in his books. All their songs have direct references to his stories. Here's the album cover from their fourth or fifth album Evernight: Look familiar? Falls of Rauros I think, I'm not an expert on the subject.... |
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Tolkien has always been a heavy subject matter especially with Rush and a huge amount of metal bands have used Tolkien style imagery and references in both artwork and lyrics, I`d actually say Blind Guardian were the biggest Tolkien fanatics. I`m also a Tolkien fanatic |
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12-10-2011, 03:06 PM | #110 (permalink) |
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After the excellent Night of the Stormrider, Iced Earth departed with John Greely and in stepped Matt Barlow (without doubt one of my fav metal vocalists) and gave a great vocal performance on the album, even though some of his later vocal performances would be even better. The fiery cover suggests some hellish fighting fantasy type concept, but in reality the subject matter of the album was about the band being in dispute with their record label, hardly a great power metal subject. Like most North American power metal bands Iced Earth continued the harder hitting style, but this album displayed a lot of European power influences, showing the growing influence of the European bands.
Iced Earth Burnt Offerings 1995
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