Nerdiest Metal Album
 

Metal is nerdy as **** so what's the nerdiest? Off the top of my head:

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Not only is it a concept album about The Silmarillion but only the truest nerds could craft such a serious prog symphonic power metal masterpiece.

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This album is so nerdy, even Dream Theater fans wanted to give Petrucci a wedgie when it came out.

There's something more pure about Blind Guardian's nerdiness to me. I guess Ayreon probably beats them but I'll be damned if I listen to enough Ayreon to find out.

I've listened enough to say they're pretty damn nerdy.

At least Blind Guardian never had their vocalist sing his lines in binary code.

dude ****in' wut

Rush reference?

Dragonforce are just a power metal stereotype. They're no nerdier than any other band in the genre.

Ayreon did it in the song ""The Day That the World Breaks Down", which I know to because Zhantemi made me listen to the whole album.

I don't know if they stole the idea from Rush, because I'm very unfamiliar with Rush in general.

Bruh have you listened to Blind Guardian? They're the kind of band I think you might get something out of with your idiosyncratic way of getting the core of what specific music is about.

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Anything by Manowar.

No.

Thank you.

I’ll check it out.

I'd say A Night at the Opera, Nightfall in Middle-Earth, and Imaginations from the Other Side would be great albums to start with probably in that order.

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sigh

wut?

Latin jokes, breh.

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Before even reading this post I checked out Dream Theater - The Gift Of Music, which I had never heard of before, and the first thing I thought of was "Rush."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEnE...j5LR-aN-WrDl2d

Listened to Opera today at work. The whole thing feels like a grand finale.

Is it something that you really have to focus on the lyrics to appreciate?

Liked the proggy side of it. Kind of meh of the Maiden side.

Does that make sense?

You definitely don't have to focus on the lyrics. They're just throwaway power metal fodder. I think by that point Blind Guardian weren't so about the silly but charming lyrics of yore (past albums were absolutely about corny lyrics) and were more about the music. And do you mean proggy as in the long song at the end? "And Then There Was Silence" is fire, but I guess they can be proggy kinda throughout. The album has incredible pop sensibilities though so if you didn't appreciate that then I say you missed out and need to give it another listen. I'd take this over any Maiden album these days. It's legit one of the few power metal albums I'll still rep unreservedly after becoming bored with the genre as a whole.

I mean I don't know if you thought this was proggy or Maiden but it's one of the catchiest and prettiest metal songs every written so if you weren't about it then you need to hear it again.

There might be several Blind Guardian songs I'd come back to once in a while, but this is the only one I need to come back to every once in a while.

Bright Eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP6qMKW8jHo

To me, this one track just encapsulates everything I like about their sound and avoids everything I dislike about their style.

Being reminded that this song exists pretty much forces me to play it 3 times in a row on head rattling volume right now. It's pure bliss.

That song has one of the ultimate choruses ever made by anybody in any genre. Blind Guardian have pop instincts to die for. If you spurn all power metal but that song then I'll at least shake your hand.

The verses and bridges are honestly just as catchy as the choruses. I've had this song stuck in my head countless times.

Proggy. Big Yes influence. Good song.

Definitely. It's not a one-note song by any means but I've had that chorus stuck in my head for like a decade.

Besides the honestly kinda meh opener (the first minute or so is gold though) I'd say the entire album is one of the catchiest albums in all of metal. Listen to it again just like I listened to Lil Yachty again and loved him after hating him. If you can't appreciate it then I'll think less of you. It's one of those albums where you don't need to give a **** about the genre it comes from to dicksuck it. I even love how the album pushes the guitar back so it doesn't overpower all of the other instruments like basically all other metal albums do since it creates a much more democratic sound pallet that suits the album.

It's been a long time since I've listened to Blind Guardian, but all the talk of them reminded me of how much I love this song:


Though as far as cheesy German power metal goes, I've always preferred Grave Digger:

And just to dicksuck A Night at the Opera even more: I think it's the album power metal was always threatening to make but could never even realize that it was trying to be (much like several of Blind Guardian's albums were). The flamboyant instrumentation, vocals, and song structures were everything that power metal was always trying to do but could never capture with just guitars and keyboards. It's just such a full and complete album that feels like a never ending climax that the entire genre feels smaller simply by not measuring up. I mean "Battlefield" is the ultimate power metal barnstormer that could never be made by any band but Blind Guardian and will never be made by any band but Blind Guardian.

It does pull all the stops in really being a power metal album that does exactly what power metal is all about.

To me, Helloween also often has made albums that are pretty unashamed about the inherent cheesiness and silliness of the genre. I mean, I'm not gonna pretend they're as far out as Blind Guardian in terms of flamboyance, but they've got so many songs that sound like outright choral hymns with fast drumming underneath.

Better Than Raw is my favorite power metal album. The cover artwork kindly lets you know whether or not you're about to experience a load of cheese.


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Now listen to all of the entries and vote on which one makes you want to kill yourself the most.

I think that's what he meant.

I second Ayreon as nerdiest metal band. I'm a fan, but it's literally a metal opera not sure how that can be topped.

...if we're speaking of band kid kind of nerdy. If we're talking who'd get the most swirlys at metalhead academy it's all the core bands buying guitars with daddy's money.

As much as I love all the previously mentioned songs and albums, nerdy power metal doesn't get any better for me than the last two Pagan's Mind albums. They blend the prog and power elements really well and have the amazing Nils K. Rue as frontman to boot. And that guitar work that starts around 3:25 is pure orgasm.

I've got that album and the orange one they made.

Not my favorite band, but they've got some high points.