Powermetal Essentials

Gamma Ray
(old) Helloween
Rage
Savatage (maybe they're trad.)
Hammerfall
Jacob's Dream
Sacred Warrior
Tad Morose
Brainstorm
Falconer
Barren Cross (maybe they're trad.)
Riot (just for the Thundersteel album)

I can't do 10 because of my personal definition of Power Metal...

Kamelot
Lost Horizon
Gamma Ray
Masterplan
Rhapsody
Blind Guardian

I can never take part in these types of discussions because I have no idea what bands would make up a power metal genre, and unit I joined this board I never even heard of 'flower metal'

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Dave the Boss wrote:

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Fates Warning
Manilla Road
Virgin Steele
Early Helloween
Cloven Hoof
Savage Grace
Blind Fury
Warlord

This list fascinates me. The 80's had great metal, but because of this list of yours I spent a couple hours checking these bands out on youtube (throwing in Caldron Born from ToB's list) and...I just can't get into them. Not one of them. I want to like them, but there's something about them that throws me off. It's funny how subtle differences in taste can create such different looking "essentials" lists. You'd think at least early Helloween would appeal to me, but it doesn't. I've tried over and over to like those early ones. It never happens. Go figure.

Anyhow, still a cool list, just not my thing.

Haha, well, to each their own right? I for one just plain don't like most European power (err I mean flower... sorry ToB ) metal. But then again, it'd be pretty boring if everyone would like the same bands right?

SAHB Healer wrote:

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1. Sortilege
2. Trance
3. Tyson Dog
4. Overdrive
5. Oz

Awesome bands! The first Sortilege EP is my favorite French metal recording.