Mike was one of the under the radar players. There was a lot of interplay with the Scorps and Uli and people in that circle that pushed each other. It spit out some great stuff for a guitar nerd like me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHNfsQzO9KI

I think I see where I went wrong. This is the classic style of Power Metal. Searching modern Power Metal never gave me results, though searching for Heavy Metal was how I found those 7 (though Grave Digger I found from a similar artists search of Vhaldemar).

Edit: To clarify, modern Power Metal seems to be dominated by Neoclassical/ Symphonic/ Melodic/ etc subgenres.

My bad, just didn't want to read every rule indepth and rather not risk it.

Though I gotta say I really like the growling vocal style. It seems so rare to find it in non-extreme Metal (extreme as in Death, Doom, Black, etc).

Thanks for the recs, I'll be going through these for a while!

I don't know how up to date it is, but there was a music documentary called Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. The movie had a "metal family tree". If there is an updated one out on the interwebs, you may find more bands to check out.