Help me discover some new bands!!

Lion's Share comes to mind too, the vocals are more Dio to me but they might fit the bill

I think we have somewhat similar tastes in music. Here's ten easy (and essential!) albums to get into in the classic / power metal genre, if you haven't already:

Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Stratovarius - Visions
Rage - Soundchaser
Accept - Balls to the Wall
Savatage - Edge of Thorns
Blaze - Silicon Messiah
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
Dio - Holy Diver
Dokken - Under Lock and Key
Saxon - Lionheart

And if you got those covered, ten slightly more marginal:

Pink Cream 69 - Sonic Dynamite
Angel Dust - Enlighten the Darkness
Impellitteri - Screaming Symphony
Jorn - The Duke
Rob Rock - Garden of Chaos
Machine Men - Circus of Fools
Mystic Prophecy - Savage Souls
Valley's Eve - Deception of Pain
Axxis - Paradise in Flames
Jag Panzer - The Fourth Judgement

Keldian

more of power/prog band but they are great:

http://www.myspace.com/keldian

I really need to acquire me some Keldian soon!

Ben Grimm wrote:

Lion's Share comes to mind too, the vocals are more Dio to me but they might fit the bill

I loved the last Lion's Share CD, Dark Hours. Emotional Coma is good too.

Wow! Thanks for all the suggestions, guys! Out of the bands that have been listed (that I haven't already heard of), I'm really liking: Faith Factor, Winter's Bane, Jag Panzer, Seven Witches and Helstar.

Oxenkiller-Monsters of Steel. An obscure band from France who put out only one EP in 1987. But, it's quite Priest-ish.

If you like classic metal a-la JUDAS PRIEST (1982-1984 circa) you may want to check our next release, which hopefully should be out within a month:

MEGATRON wrote:

Could you guys please suggest to me some bands that sound similar to Maiden & Priest (especially the vocals)?

No.

*Joke*

Metallic Blaze wrote:

I really need to acquire me some Keldian soon!

do it now!!!

That Steel Horse sounds pretty bitchin' Storm!!!


Alex, will do bro!