How do you tell rock from metal?
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from mp3.com:
[!--QuoteBegin--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Over the years, the term power metal has been used to describe everything from NWOBHM bands to hardcore-tinged thrashers like Pantera. As a movement, though, power metal crystallized during the mid-'90s, mostly as a reaction against the harshness and lack of melody in death and black metal. Though it sometimes incorporated the complexity of progressive metal, or the menace and growling vocals of death metal, power metal was essentially a classicist style, paying unabashed tribute to its influences. Its tight sense of groove was rooted in the NWOBHM and early-'80s Teutonic outfits like Accept; it also drew from the flashy technical chops and pseudo-operatic vocals of NWOBHM mainstays Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. Power metal was primarily (though not exclusively) a continental-European phenomenon, with a handful of '80s veterans reviving their careers, plus a number of newer bands who'd started out playing death metal but wanted to sound more like the music they'd grown up with.[/quote]
I recommend you listen to:
Hammerfall
Helloween
Stratovarius
Dream Evil
Lost Horizon (although they claim to play True metal, it's clearly power!)
Blind Guardian
Sonata Arctica
Rhapsody
Luca Turilli
Persuader
Dragonforce
amongst others. Power metal is mostly made from a double bass beat, complimented by lightning fast guitar riff, keyboarding and high-pitched, clean vocals. The Lyrics can be from corny 'king-dragon-hero' themes (rhapsody) to 'love' themes or anything in between.
It's really a love-hate thing with power metal. I personally enjoy it, but the corny themes can get boring quickly, as can the ever-blasting double bass and the non-stop fret-wanking guitars. I find that once one finds a gem, though, power metal can be both beatiful and impressive
[!--QuoteBegin--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Over the years, the term power metal has been used to describe everything from NWOBHM bands to hardcore-tinged thrashers like Pantera. As a movement, though, power metal crystallized during the mid-'90s, mostly as a reaction against the harshness and lack of melody in death and black metal. Though it sometimes incorporated the complexity of progressive metal, or the menace and growling vocals of death metal, power metal was essentially a classicist style, paying unabashed tribute to its influences. Its tight sense of groove was rooted in the NWOBHM and early-'80s Teutonic outfits like Accept; it also drew from the flashy technical chops and pseudo-operatic vocals of NWOBHM mainstays Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. Power metal was primarily (though not exclusively) a continental-European phenomenon, with a handful of '80s veterans reviving their careers, plus a number of newer bands who'd started out playing death metal but wanted to sound more like the music they'd grown up with.[/quote]
I recommend you listen to:
Hammerfall
Helloween
Stratovarius
Dream Evil
Lost Horizon (although they claim to play True metal, it's clearly power!)
Blind Guardian
Sonata Arctica
Rhapsody
Luca Turilli
Persuader
Dragonforce
amongst others. Power metal is mostly made from a double bass beat, complimented by lightning fast guitar riff, keyboarding and high-pitched, clean vocals. The Lyrics can be from corny 'king-dragon-hero' themes (rhapsody) to 'love' themes or anything in between.
It's really a love-hate thing with power metal. I personally enjoy it, but the corny themes can get boring quickly, as can the ever-blasting double bass and the non-stop fret-wanking guitars. I find that once one finds a gem, though, power metal can be both beatiful and impressive
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yeah well, those two are kinda vague as they helped define the genre, so they kinda 'come from' other categories. It's their old stuff I'm talking about here. Helloween's 'The Dark Ride', for example, has nothing to do with power metal, while the 'keeper' albums clearly do.
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Manowar would definitely go under True Metal, which isn't far from power metal, but still a completely different thing. If you ask me (which you did [!--emo&
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Anonymous
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Sorry, haven't heard of them.
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Anonymous
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When you hear a song and your head starts to move violantly and uncontroleably in an up and downward fashion you'll know it's metal. [!--emo&:rock:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/headbang.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'headbang.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
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Not always... I sometimes managed to do that while listening to "Jungle Boogie" from Kool & the Gang...
Hell, I've banged my head listening to Mozart!
Ride of the Valkryies (god, I KNOW I spelled that wrong, but I just woke up) always managed to make me headbang.