List american power metal bands.

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Vies with thrash for my favorite style, I want to see if i've missed some.

Metal Church
Omen
Vicious Rumors
Liege Lord
Sword
Faith Factor
Iced Earth
Jacob's Dream
TOB
Marshall Law
Nevermore
Jag Panzer
Warrior

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Savatage!

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Oh yeah, how could I forget one of my faves?

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I'm ashamed of you.

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Queensryche
Manilla Road
Brocas Helm
Warlord
(early) Fates Warning
Virgin Steele
Titan Force
Helstar
Lethal

And the list goes on and on.

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FAITH FACTOR!!!

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Screamer hasn't been mentioned yet.

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I always thought that American power metal was that style of metal that borders on thrash but isn't quite thrash, and leans on the traditional metal side.

Meliah Rage
Metal Church
early Laaz Rockit
Vicious Rumors
Haven

Some great examples. Bands like Savatage early one were just straight forward heavy metal in my opinion.

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Naz, you must have forgot Winter's Bane, too, since you just got Heart of a Killer. They are american aren't they? surprised

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Sacred Oath
Vanlade
Widow
Twisted Tower Dire
Hades
Beyond Fallen
Cage

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Order Of Nine

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Armored Saint!!!!!!

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Armored Saint? Omen? Queensryche? Warlord? Fates Warning?

This is more a list of American traditional heavy metal than it is power metal.

How about Saint, Obsession, Malice, Helstar, New Eden, Steel Prophet, Destiny's End, Seven Witches, Distant Thunder, TT Quick, Hades, Watchtower...

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Subject: Re: List american power metal bands. Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:08 am

Helstar
Obsession
Faith Factor
Cage
Warrior
Widow
Vicious Rumors

are some of my faves

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Manowar
Theocracy

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ultmetal wrote:: Armored Saint? Omen? Queensryche? Warlord? Fates Warning?

This is more a list of American traditional heavy metal than it is power metal.

How about Saint, Obsession, Malice, Helstar, New Eden, Steel Prophet, Destiny's End, Seven Witches, Distant Thunder, TT Quick, Hades, Watchtower...

People always get's confused with this term. I've even read someone listing DIO in a power metal thread. Barren Cross too. Rolling Eyes

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What makes Saint "Power Metal" and Armored Saint not?

I love semantics...

In this day and age, anything with clean vocals that's not "Hair Metal" gets called Power Metal by someone, somewhere. I've seen people include Iced Earth and Nevermore in Power Metal discussions when I myself do not consider them to be.

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Shawn Of Fire wrote:: What makes Saint "Power Metal" and Armored Saint not?

Exactly my point. Saint isn't. Armored Saint isn't.

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Shawn Of Fire wrote:: What makes Saint "Power Metal" and Armored Saint not?

I love semantics...

In this day and age, anything with clean vocals that's not "Hair Metal" gets called Power Metal by someone, somewhere. I've seen people include Iced Earth and Nevermore in Power Metal discussions when I myself do not consider them to be.

While I also disagree that Iced Earth and Nevermore are power metal, they at least fit the original context of the term. They can best be desrcribed as heavier than classic metal but not as heavy as thrash. Both bands use thrash metal elements (mostly riffs), but is clearly not thrash bands.

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I also had the problem with labeling Nevermore and Iced Earth power metal. But, if you don't call them that, what do you call them? What do they consider themselves?

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kmorg wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:: What makes Saint "Power Metal" and Armored Saint not?

I love semantics...

In this day and age, anything with clean vocals that's not "Hair Metal" gets called Power Metal by someone, somewhere. I've seen people include Iced Earth and Nevermore in Power Metal discussions when I myself do not consider them to be.

While I also disagree that Iced Earth and Nevermore are power metal, they at least fit the original context of the term. They can best be desrcribed as heavier than classic metal but not as heavy as thrash. Both bands use thrash metal elements (mostly riffs), but is clearly not thrash bands.

Nevermore is heavier than most Thrash bands...Iced Earth sounds more like Puppets era Metallica (before Schaffer added all those epic symphonies) than anything close to Power Metal...If Iced Earth had put out Something Wicked in 1987, it would have been labelled Thrash...

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