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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Arcen dawn on 22 Sep 2005, 13:46
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Holy fuck they kick ass and shred like crazy. I <3 power metal.
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I think that's all that needs to be said.
FURY OF THE STORRRRM!
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agreed
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Finally they get recognition.
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mmm more ridiculous power metal.
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I feel like taking my flaming sword and slaying dragons and making love to large breasted women drawn by that Boris guy while drinking mead when I listen to Dragonforce.
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Dragonforce is pretty good silly power metal, but to be honest aside from Herman Li's crazy solos they aren't that great. Their song writing is mediocre at best.
If you want awesome fucking power metal check out Blind Guardian.
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Dragonforce is pretty good silly power metal, but to be honest aside from Herman Li's crazy solos they aren't that great. Their song writing is mediocre at best.
If you want awesome fucking power metal check out Blind Guardian.
...right. You do that.
From a friend of mine:
"I find that when I'm listening to this in the car I don't even feel the need to drive quickly, I'm already so much more victorious than everyone else."
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God yes.
From a friend of mine:
"I find that when I'm listening to this in the car I don't even feel the need to drive quickly, I'm already so much more victorious than everyone else."
You're friend is clearly superior to the rest of us.
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pfft, Manowar is the way forward!
Admittedly though, watching queues for Dragonforce, WASP, etc gigs is the best thing ever.
So many middle aged people with bad haircuts, leather jackets shouting stupid stuff.
Top ace fun.
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Dragonforce is pretty good silly power metal, but to be honest aside from Herman Li's crazy solos they aren't that great. Their song writing is mediocre at best.
If you want awesome fucking power metal check out Blind Guardian.
...right. You do that.
What's the problem here? The OP said he loves power metal, and I recommended him a good power metal band.
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3 Inches of Blood, Bal-Sagoth, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody, Therion, Nightwish. YAY power metal but deep down we all know that it is the lowest form of metal besides nu metal and metalcore.
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If you want awesome fucking power metal check out Blind Guardian.
Just for their cover of "Mr. Sandman", I'll give 'em that.
I've been digging a band called Powermad recently to fulfil my power metal needs. Also, for ridiculously great thrash, I have vowed to start listening to more Sabbat.
Dragonforce (I've only heard 2 songs, "Disciples of Babylon" and something about Apocalyptic Fire or something) are good fun. Kinda Helloween'ish. And who doesn't love Helloween?
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I forgot about Gamma ray.
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Helloween were the better project. But yes, Gamma Ray FTW as well.
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3 Inches of Blood, Bal-Sagoth, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody, Therion, Nightwish. YAY power metal but deep down we all know that it is the lowest form of metal besides nu metal and metalcore.
Come on, how can you utter such blasphemy? :) Power metal in the same sentence as nu metal?
I do actually appreciate the cheesiness of power metal, but it really doesn't mean I love it ironically or something. Dragonforce is ok, but from what I've can get sort of samey and repetitive. Blind Guardian on the other hand ...
Also Rhapsody is simply amazing, though not as cool as Blind Guardian.
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Dragonforce is awesome.. in small doses. Listening to the entirety of Sonic Firestorm without stopping is a bit tiring. The cheesiness of it doesn't bother me at all. There's something about that kind of unashamed cheesiness that I find appealing. :P
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IMPALED NORTHERN MOONFOREST 4 TEH WIN!
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What's the problem here? The OP said he loves power metal, and I recommended him a good power metal band.
Yeah... I don't agree. There's much better power metal out there; Three Inches of Blood, ManoWar, Rhapsody, Gravedigger, etc. I feel that there are better bands than Blind Guardian to recommend to people and for me atleast, DF's songs come in much higher than BG.
No offence meant, I should have put forward my own recommendations.
Also, Never forget Running Wild, PIRATE METAL FOREVER
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I remember listening to Dragonforce for the first time in my friend Tony's 1963 Ford Falcon (he put a CD player in it and put in a sweet sound system so nyah) when he drove me to school every morning. It was "Valley of the Damned" and the drummer's double bass was slamming the everliving shit out of my eardrums.
Best day ever.
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This is easily the best thread on the forum.
also:
IMPALED NORTHERN MOONFOREST 4 TEH WIN!
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What's the problem here? The OP said he loves power metal, and I recommended him a good power metal band.
Yeah... I don't agree. There's much better power metal out there; Three Inches of Blood, ManoWar, Rhapsody, Gravedigger, etc. I feel that there are better bands than Blind Guardian to recommend to people and for me atleast, DF's songs come in much higher than BG.
No offence meant, I should have put forward my own recommendations.
No worries.
I don't really consider Manowar to be power metal, personally. They're more traditional heavy metal. But still they rock. Other bands play, Manowar kills!!
3 Inches of Blood and Rhapsody are both good. 3IoB has those "core" screams in the background that I'm sort of iffy about though..
What is Gravedigger like?
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3 Inches of Blood and Rhapsody are both good. 3IoB has those "core" screams in the background that I'm sort of iffy about though..
What is Gravedigger like?
I listen to a lot of metalcore so I kind of dig the screams...
Gravedigger is pretty grym. Good fun and a bit more serious than most power metal.
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IMPALED NORTHERN MOONFOREST 4 TEH WIN!
Have you seem my fucking t-sjhirt?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/KharBevNor/100_2238.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/KharBevNor/100_2239.jpg)
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That is pretty fucking hardcore. I wish that I had that shirt.
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it's too bad seth putnam fried his brain real good with that huge drug overdose.
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I hear he can walk with canes now.
Rumours are he's going to do some Anal Cunt concerts in his wheelchair. I'd expect him to do a whole set of songs slagging off disabled people.
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KharBevNor: Your avatar. "Cat is war"? Please explain, I find myself lost in a dark, black abyss of confusion. Or maybe that's the emo kid in me.
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Nein! Cat is not war! KATZE IST KRIEG!
HEIL KATZEN!
If you don't get it, you don't get it.
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I took 3 years of German, I live 30km away from Trier, Germany, the birthplace of Karl Marx (his house is fuckin' swank, yo) and I don't get it. I need to get out more.
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Clearly you don't live 30km away from the farm house in which dead shot himself. (that house is a shithole if it's still standing)
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Dead was emo
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Emo. Meh. Any male who wears eyeliner (yes, Keith Richards and Billy Joe Armstrong, that DOES mean you) has none of my respect.
And unless Dead lived in Trier, Germany, you're right.
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My friend burned me Sonic Firestorm.
I like.
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Getting off-topic here: Trier is a fucking shithole full of right-wing assholes. The only good things about Trier are Karl Marx and the Ex-Haus.
And as for the Krieg thing: I didn't get it at first either, but you just have to watch the usage of Krieg in here and ignore the actual meaning of the word. After a while, it starts to make sense. For example, Avril is totally not Krieg.
Although ... I'll make myself an avatar. Avril ist über-krieg. (krieg in this case is an adjective so there is no capitalization, damnit)
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Basically, if you want a guide, all usage of the word Krieg by black metal fans stems from, essentially, a mockery of the seriousness of the Nargaroth album 'Black Metal Ist Krieg', and anyone who has ever seriously used the statement 'Black Metal Ist Krieg' and meant it. Many things are Krieg, more things are not. The cat is Krieg because he's wearing a Morbid Angel hat and looks mean as fuck.
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I dig all cheesy power metal to some degree but Blind Guardian is a band I love with absolutely no irony. I saw them in St Paul and they brought the place down like true metal warriors.
If Blind Guardian is Tolkien then Dragonforce is the DragonLance saga. Still fun, but it doesn't quite resonate the same way.
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If Blind Guardian is Tolkien then Dragonforce is the DragonLance saga. Still fun, but it doesn't quite resonate the same way.
Haha, best comparison ever.
@Khar.. Black metal IST krieg, just like Kanwulf says.
Black metal ist krieg!
Black.. fucking.. metal!
Black metal ist krieg!
Black metal ist.. .. krieg!!
he's a lyrical genius if I say so myself.
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Most power metal nowadays seems to suffer from a serious lack of power...I therefore support Satan Stole My Teddybears suggestion to rename the genre "pitifull metal", with the possible exception of Rhapsody for being so cheesy they actually got Christopher Lee to narrate. That's so cheesy it shoots right through cheesy and ends up in awesome \m/
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Most power metal nowadays seems to suffer from a serious lack of power...
No kidding, I totally agree. Hammerfall, for example.. yeah their songs are catchy and stuff but it's just all sort of bland and mediocre.
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I just realized why I like Dragonforce more than some of these other bands that are grouped with them, like Dragons & Wizards and Twinlightning. Dragonforce is ridiculously upbeat. They're just happy about the cheeziness.
On that note, what can you recommend, oh ye gods of metal?
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I recommend DorEterna. 'Cept they're more along the lines of death metal, but it isn't overwhelming.
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i saw dragonforce a few months ago.
great fun.
but they confiscated my plastic sword.
*sad*
the crazy keyboard solo version of one of their songs was literal genius.
\o/ (for powermetal)
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Many things are Krieg, more things are not. The cat is Krieg because he's wearing a Morbid Angel hat and looks mean as fuck.
Morbid Angel isn't Krieg unless you're looking for a good laugh! Unless they've stopped being kinda mediocre.
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Getting off-topic here: Trier is a fucking shithole full of right-wing assholes. The only good things about Trier are Karl Marx and the Ex-Haus.
are you from trier?
sorry for off-topicness...
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Many things are Krieg, more things are not. The cat is Krieg because he's wearing a Morbid Angel hat and looks mean as fuck.
Morbid Angel isn't Krieg unless you're looking for a good laugh! Unless they've stopped being kinda mediocre.
What's with the morbid angel hate? This is the second thread I've seen you bash them in.
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I downloaded Prepare to War after seeing it in some YTMND. I was pretty impressed. :)
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Morbid Angel was actually the first death metal band I listened to, and I thought they were great, but as I started to go more and more into them I just felt they were kinda generic. I don't know what they've been doing lately though, so. Maybe I'll check them out again.
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They're coming out with a new album, or so claims their myspace. www.myspace.com/dragonforceofficial is the address. It comes out on January 9 '06, which just so happens to be Jimmy Page's birthday.
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I find it mildly ridiculous that a power metal band has a myspace page.
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Hell, a medium for displaying 4 songs for free? Sounds good to me.
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All my projects have myspace pages. And soundclicks.
Maximum promotion, yo!
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RESURECTION OF AN OLD THREAD
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/artists/DragonForce/video.aspx
cool video form the band, they're playing in montreal this saturday night, for anyone near :)
BE THERE FOOLS
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Power metal is awesome. It's probably one of my favorite subgenres of metal (right behind prog metal, I'd say). However, it has to be along that thin line of being all classically influenced, but not hilariously cheesy. Dragonforce crossed the line, as did Rhapsody and Manowar. Blind Guardian is really toeing the line on a lot of their songs, but I like them. Nightwish is the same way (I wonder who they're going to get to replace Tarja. I personally hope it's someone who completely doesn't try to imitate her). Iced Earth is well back from the line, more towards straight metal, but I like them, too. I could go on, but this seems to have already been gone over in the thread's first life.
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I'll drink to that, BB.
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I cant stand Dragonforce. Actually, I cant stand listening to any Power Metal band (accept Therion, if you want to call them Power) for more then 5 consecutive minutes.
But whenever I hear a Dragonforce song, I just want to run away in the other direction before my ears implode from the sheer stupidity.
Morbid Angel isn't Krieg unless you're looking for a good laugh! Unless they've stopped being kinda mediocre.
WHOA! You take that back!
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Yeah, power metal... Don't get me wrong, I pretty much love it all, but sometimes it is just cheesy. Dragonforce is the worst offender I can think of.
Manowar seriously makes me believe they're about to go pour oil on themselves and charge into battle naked with braids afire, so I guess if you're not convinced it would be super-cheesy. (their album art is HILARIOUS, though.)
Wow, I totally didn't know tarja had left, shows how little I follow bands I like. I like where their sound has gone in more recent albums, it's gotten away from overly synthy ballads and into a more conventional metalish sound (with the notable exception of tarja's vocals, of course.)
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Actually, she didn't leave. She was kicked out.
Read the open letter here (http://www.nightwish.com/en/article/6).
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Hmm, thanks. After the last post I started pawing through the nightwish site looking for something like that, but didn't find anything other than that they had fired her for taking actions against what the band stood for, or something.
*edit* Just read it... that really is sad. I knew that she stayed a little bit seperate from them sometimes, but just showing up to hit the studio then dissapearing again? :(
I hope they get an awesome high male vocalist or another good female to counterbalance marco and make more good noise.
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Going to see them in a few weeks. Shit, I don't even listen to a lot of power metal, but there is nothing like an epic shred-fest for whimsy and mirth.
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Herman Li is a god.
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so i was at seven eleven the other night...and on the door is an advertisment for Kool cigarettes...and all it shows is an asian dude goin crazy on this electric guitar. and he looks just like herman li........except his hair was only down to his shoulders (wimp). i still thought it was pretty badass though. i walked by then stopped and did a double take "hey! that looks like herman li!" the only person who knew what i was talking about was my buddy knuckles (he is obsessed with power metal).
p.s. anyone ever hear of, or listen to Norther? (not sure how its spelled). i keep getting told to listen to them but have yet to do so
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Norther should just rename themselves Children of Bodom, and the current holders of that title should just be called The Artist Formerly Known as Children of Bodom But Now Known as Suck.
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Norther should just rename themselves Children of Bodom, and the current holders of that title should just be called The Artist Formerly Known as Children of Bodom But Now Known as Suck.
so.......is norther good or bad? and was that a reference to how much bodoms last album sucked (which it did with gusto)? i'm confused
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Norther are like a complete clone of old Children of Bodom.
So, yeah, a pretty good band.
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Dragonforce makes me want to cream myself. Seriously. Dragons, fast guitars and vocals that sound mega 80s. I don't think it gets much better than that.
Dragonforce are also touring here next month. Sadly I don't think I have the money for a ticket. Woe is me.
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Morbid Angel isn't Krieg unless you're looking for a good laugh! Unless they've stopped being kinda mediocre.
WHOA! You take that back!
To be fair, I have kinda gotten a bit more into the Angel. And they were totally one of the first death metal bands I ever listened to.
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I remember when I fist heard "Where The Slim Lives", I actually felt my mind blowing out.