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I don't like Talisman either. TMWWBK was one of my favorites last year, but I don't really like it anymore. But it's not because they are long, if they were short I wouldn't really like them either. I don't like them because there just isn't anything about them that makes me go Wow! Awesome! And to be honest, I'm not a big fan of Janick's songwriting.
 
Mosh said:
I don't like Talisman either. TMWWBK was one of my favorites last year, but I don't really like it anymore. But it's not because they are long, if they were short I wouldn't really like them either. I don't like them because there just isn't anything about them that makes me go Wow! Awesome! And to be honest, I'm not a big fan of Janick's songwriting.
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Yeah I'm not hating them just for being long (it is a factor though), nothing special sticks out in them. One song I loved from the TFF was Mother of Mercy.
 
Dityn DJ James said:
I classify Maiden as Melodic Power Metal.

Wait I'll just take this to the Maiden Blasphemy thread
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You are probably the only one to do so. There are Maiden songs that veer in that direction, but there are also songs that have inspired thrash bands, and there are straight-forward classic heavy metal songs that just rock. Maiden, as one of the first really big heavy metal bands, have inspired subgenres of metal, but to put Maiden themselves into a narrow subgenre doesn't work - I'd say it is plain wrong.

A vast number of Maiden songs have nothing in common with archetypical power metal bands like e.g. Helloween (except for the usage of guitar, drums, bass guitar and vocals  :P)
 
That's why I don't classify them as power metal. I used to call material like that of Seventh Son power metal. But then I listened to bands like Helloween and Blind Guardian, and they are so much different.
 
Dityn DJ James said:
I classify Maiden as Melodic Power Metal.

Wait I'll just take this to the Maiden Blasphemy thread
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Which doesn't make sense to me at all. Power Metal is an after-constructed term by the press, which was introduced in the second half of the 90's to cover bands that were heavily influenced by Iron Maiden and its likes (read: Hammerfall, Startovarius etc). It was then applied to bands like Helloween and Gamma Ray - Bands that existed well before the genre. Helloween is heavily influenced by Iron Maiden, and commonly referred to as the founders of "Power Metal". This makes it, to me, mind boggling to categorize Iron Maiden as Power Metal.

So yeah. The Blasphemy thread is a good place.  :ninja:
 
There is still no firm decision made on whether I go to the O2 on August 8th. I've got a lot of juggling about to see if I can make it.
 
Albie said:
There is still no firm decision made on whether I go to the O2 on August 8th. I've got a lot of juggling about to see if I can make it.
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You mean the 6th, right? I finally, finally booked my flight today, so please don't tell me I went for the wrong date...  :S  Right now, I only have a ticket for the 6th, but I'll try my luck on the black market the night before that, too.
 
Haha sorry, but it's my least favorite of that album, and of the Janick epics of the past 4 albums. (Plus X Factor.)
 
So, The Legacy, Dance Of Death, and Dream Of Mirrors would be your other 3 least favorites? Interesting, because those are my favorites from each of those album.
 
No I meant that out of those epics, that one is my least favorite. For a while Legacy was my favorite on AMOLAD. Dance of Death is great too. I'm on and off with Dream of Mirrors. And the X Factor song I meant was The Unbeliever.

I'd rank them like this:

1: The Legacy
2: Dance of Death
3: Unbeliever
4: Dream of Mirrors
5: Talisman
 
On a local forum for subtitles for TV series you get a 30-day ban if you ASK when will the subtitles for an episode appear or if you ask if someone could make subtitles for an episode :o Nazism should be banned :D
 
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