I need more of this subgenre
 

..that I cant identify. My best guess is has to be a subgenre of Heavy Metal (too vague to find more with). By searching many are associated with Power Metal but to my ears the sound is very very different. Not to mention, Power Metal rarely deviates from crisp vocals let alone growling.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgPyC3WHhts


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


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKCzKb_jQU8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGfoh7lMPa8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh8UlmwktwQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4grH3mTksiU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Zq3Fg8XLM[

Edit: Replaced with song links. Links seem to be bugging out on my end so I'll leave urls as I cannot confirm if they're working.

I hope you guys enjoy the songs.

Hmm. Our resident metal head, Batlord, will be able to set you straighter than I could, but I know both Grave Digger and Gamma Ray are considered Power Metal. I don't think it's a different sub-genre just because there are growled vocals. Let me listen to the others in the meantime and I'll get back to you.

Nah that's power metal. Try summa dese:

Yeah. Having listened to them I concur. Power Metal. Nothing special about it. Bit of what you might call NWOBHM or standard metal in there with some of them, but no new sub-genre. Metal, pure and simple.

Bow down to the axeman

Incorrect. New members are not allowed post links until they have 15 posts made, however this refers to personal links, not YouTube so far as I know. At any rate, YouTube is definitely not discouraged here.

Watch the attack of the mad axeman:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8G3W_d4vHY

More PM for the OP:


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

Spotify on the other hand....:laughing:

Been listening to their first album a lot recently. Not revolutionary but super ****ing solid.

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.