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flyinfart

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« on: 28 Aug 2006, 13:29 »
hmm... Im not really sure if anyone else has posted anything about Fantasy Rock, as I am to lazy to actually read the forum. BUT there is at least one fantasy rock band that I have been a to find, Dragonforce.
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« Reply #1 on: 28 Aug 2006, 14:01 »
The genre is actually called Power Metal.  I haven't really listened to much of it personally, bar Dragonforce and 3 Inches Of Blood (I assume they count).  I've been pondering getting more into it, but haven't yet.
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« Reply #2 on: 28 Aug 2006, 14:20 »
Dragonforce are power metal. Kamelot is like, the best power metal band ever, but they don't do the whole dragons-and-wizards thing. If you want some more of that, I guess do Rhapsody or something.

But really, Kamelot and Angra, dude.
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« Reply #3 on: 28 Aug 2006, 14:36 »
3 Inches of Blood aren't power metal technically, but listen to them anyways. They are ace.
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #4 on: 28 Aug 2006, 14:41 »
Alright, I wasn't quite sure if there was anything needed in power metal other than singing about killing Orcs and things.  And now I know.  But yeah, they're still incredible.
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« Reply #5 on: 28 Aug 2006, 16:27 »
I cannot believe that no one has mentioned Blind Guardian!  Nightfall in Middle Earth is an amazing album about the Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkein (and sons) book about everything that happened pre-Hobbit in middle earth from the beginning of the Gods.
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« Reply #6 on: 28 Aug 2006, 19:12 »
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I got a 20 sider on call
dressed up and ready to roll
Get up and choose alignment
dressed up and ready to roll
Midnight, torchlight down in the haunted cave
Get some platinum the D.M. will turn the page

Check out my thief he's got the black shield
dressed up and ready to roll
Fan out to scope that fortress
dressed up and ready to roll
Lawful, evil a moral catastrophe
Half-orc, full-dork; the myth and reality

We may not know any girls
But we got graph paper guiding our way
We got confusion, delusion
And all of Friday night to kill

Pick up the phone the pizza's still late
dressed up and ready to roll
We'll try to hide from Cyclops
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That was by far the best time that we ever had

Get to the tavern have a few beers
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Pick up an Elven bar whore
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And all of Friday night to kill

That was by far the best time that we ever had

Canadian pop-punks Flashlight Brown, with "Ready To Roll," their ode to late-night D&D sessions.
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« Reply #7 on: 28 Aug 2006, 20:23 »
Fantasy rock suggests more to me than just mere power metal.

Here is a CD-length playlist I have just made, tailored towards accessibility and kicking arse.

1. Nightwish - Elvenpath
2. Running Wild - Mordor
3. Edge of Sanity - Blood Of My Enemies
4. 3 Inches of Blood - Axes of Evil
5. Korpiklaani - Wooden Pints
6. Hammerfall - Hearts On Fire
7. Blind Guardian - The Curse of Feanor
8. Rhapsody - Triumph For My Magic Steel
9. Domine - True Believer
10. Orkrist - Dreams Of Life Beyond My Shire Beloved
11. Demons And Wizards - Fiddler On The Green
12. Ensiferum - Lai Lai Hei
13. Bal-Sagoth - Behold, The Armies of War Descend Screaming From the Heavens
14. Elvenking - White Willow
15. Wuthering Heights - Land of Olden Glory

And, a looser and more challenging selection:

1. Edge Of Sanity - Twilight
2. Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder
3. Summoning - Long Lost Where No Pathman Goes
4. Darkthrone - Cromlech
5. Isengard - Vinterskugge
6. Wyrd - Huldrafolk
7. Electric Wizard - Weird Tales
8. Cryptic Wintermoon - Into Ashes
9. Aurora Borealis - War Of The Rings
10. Burzum - Ea, Lord of the Depths
11. Carpathian Forest - The Swordsmen
12. Dark Fortress - Warlord [Face the Angel of Pestilence]
13. Immortal - Damned In Black
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« Reply #8 on: 28 Aug 2006, 21:41 »
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for a brief few exciting seconds i thought this was going to be a version of fantasy football but with rock bands.

this is a great idea, could someone make it happen please?


We did have a supergroup thread a while back (I opened it, so I remember), but it didn't last too long.

And Khar's first list is for the win.
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« Reply #9 on: 28 Aug 2006, 22:46 »
Here's the bands I'd reccomend with fantasy or mythological themes and their respective genres. Just about all these are metal, don't really now of another genre that has embraced fantasy as strongly.

Summoning (Black metal / Ambient) - Tolkein
Blind Gaurdian (Power metal) - Tolkein/Illiad/Mythology
Bal Sagoth ('Dark' power metal) - Original Fantasy
Kamelot (power metal)   Fanatasy
Uriah Heep (Prog Rock) Fantasy
Morrigan (Black/Thrash metal) Celtic mythology
Melechesh  (Black metal) Mesopotamian Mythology
Nile  (Death Metal) Egyptian Mythology
Absu  (Black Death) Celtic Mythology
Finntroll (Polka / Black metal / Folk) Finnish Mythology
Stormlord (Power / black metal) Fantasy
Moonspell(Goth/ folk) Folklore
Fireaxe (Power metal) H.P Lovecraft
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« Reply #10 on: 29 Aug 2006, 03:52 »
Quote from: KharBevNor
Fantasy rock suggests more to me than just mere power metal.

Here is a CD-length playlist I have just made, tailored towards accessibility and kicking arse.

1. Nightwish - Elvenpath
2. Running Wild - Mordor
3. Edge of Sanity - Blood Of My Enemies
4. 3 Inches of Blood - Axes of Evil
5. Korpiklaani - Wooden Pints
6. Hammerfall - Hearts On Fire
7. Blind Guardian - The Curse of Feanor
8. Rhapsody - Triumph For My Magic Steel
9. Domine - True Believer
10. Orkrist - Dreams Of Life Beyond My Shire Beloved
11. Demons And Wizards - Fiddler On The Green
12. Ensiferum - Lai Lai Hei
13. Bal-Sagoth - Behold, The Armies of War Descend Screaming From the Heavens
14. Elvenking - White Willow
15. Wuthering Heights - Land of Olden Glory

And, a looser and more challenging selection:

1. Edge Of Sanity - Twilight
2. Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder
3. Summoning - Long Lost Where No Pathman Goes
4. Darkthrone - Cromlech
5. Isengard - Vinterskugge
6. Wyrd - Huldrafolk
7. Electric Wizard - Weird Tales
8. Cryptic Wintermoon - Into Ashes
9. Aurora Borealis - War Of The Rings
10. Burzum - Ea, Lord of the Depths
11. Carpathian Forest - The Swordsmen
12. Dark Fortress - Warlord [Face the Angel of Pestilence]
13. Immortal - Damned In Black


Where is the Dragonforce? Come on you know they rock harder than...something that rocks hard...like...like a ROCK!
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« Reply #11 on: 29 Aug 2006, 04:43 »
But Dragonforce was the only band he mentioned, so presumably he already knows 'em...
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« Reply #12 on: 29 Aug 2006, 12:17 »
Power metal is for nerds :P.

Blind Guardian's live album is epic!!!
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« Reply #13 on: 29 Aug 2006, 12:48 »
Quote from: KharBevNor
Fantasy rock suggests more to me than just mere power metal.

Here is a CD-length playlist I have just made, tailored towards accessibility and kicking arse.

1. Nightwish - Elvenpath
2. Running Wild - Mordor
3. Edge of Sanity - Blood Of My Enemies
4. 3 Inches of Blood - Axes of Evil
5. Korpiklaani - Wooden Pints
6. Hammerfall - Hearts On Fire
7. Blind Guardian - The Curse of Feanor
8. Rhapsody - Triumph For My Magic Steel
9. Domine - True Believer
10. Orkrist - Dreams Of Life Beyond My Shire Beloved
11. Demons And Wizards - Fiddler On The Green
12. Ensiferum - Lai Lai Hei
13. Bal-Sagoth - Behold, The Armies of War Descend Screaming From the Heavens
14. Elvenking - White Willow
15. Wuthering Heights - Land of Olden Glory

And, a looser and more challenging selection:

1. Edge Of Sanity - Twilight
2. Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder
3. Summoning - Long Lost Where No Pathman Goes
4. Darkthrone - Cromlech
5. Isengard - Vinterskugge
6. Wyrd - Huldrafolk
7. Electric Wizard - Weird Tales
8. Cryptic Wintermoon - Into Ashes
9. Aurora Borealis - War Of The Rings
10. Burzum - Ea, Lord of the Depths
11. Carpathian Forest - The Swordsmen
12. Dark Fortress - Warlord [Face the Angel of Pestilence]
13. Immortal - Damned In Black


You are my fucking emperor, man.

(Although it could use some Kamelot.)
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« Reply #14 on: 29 Aug 2006, 18:06 »
And guys. Dragonforce isn't that great.

Seriously, they play fast and whatever, but get over it.
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« Reply #15 on: 29 Aug 2006, 19:32 »
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for a brief few exciting seconds i thought this was going to be a version of fantasy football but with rock bands.

this is a great idea, could someone make it happen please?


So everyone picks a drummer, a bassist, a guitarist, a vocalist and a producer. After say 5 years we formulate statistics based on album review ratings. Maybe throw in college radio play and album sales as other factors. The person with the best band (the combination of all their musician's statistics) wins. The only problem is we actually would have to wait 5 years for everyone's picks to produce new music.
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« Reply #16 on: 30 Aug 2006, 15:16 »
Rhapsody. Clearly that's the only Fantasy Metal anyone ever needs.
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