AOTY Thread

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>shitty power metal

>>68953220
>shitty power metal
That's redundant

damn that's cheezy op, holy shit

>>68953201
this makes helloween look p bad ass

>>68953201
holy shit this gonna be my guilty pleasure for the next 7 days
thanks op

>>68953701
Guilty?

>>68953728
not him but i'm guessing power metal is a really cringe and cheesy genre with few redeems qualities

>>68953800
>i'm guessing power metal is a really cringe and cheesy genre with few redeems qualities
Just european power metal.

>>68953814
helloween is great anon

>>68953869
No, Helloween is god-awful save for their first album.

>>68953800
if you consider japanese bands like x japan as power metal then it's a pretty great genre.

>>68953906
>>68953906
>if you consider japanese bands like x japan as power metal then it's a pretty great genre.
Why wouldn't you consider them power metal?

The American scene and the Japanese scene are the only redeemable power metal scenes.

>>68953918
Apart from X Japan and Galneryus, most of Japanese PM bands are weeb cancer.

>>68953918
what distinct american/japanese power metal from the rest of world? it's not like european power is that bad, is it?

>>68953960
what about versailles?

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>>68953960
Wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd8PYj9QQXo

>>68953969
europower is full of melodic leads, keyboard wankery, and pop choruses

ameripower is a heavier, louder continuation of traditional 80s metal, unlike europower it doesn't really make use of keyboards or poppy choruses and doesn't have to be fast

jap power's an amalgamation of speed metal, glam metal, thrash metal and neo-classical metal based on technical prowess

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Europower is great. It's too sincere for most faggots though, so people hate it and only listen to shit like Twilight Force and Gloryhammer.

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/power metal/ general?
diggin' pic related

how does power metal go from this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw2C4JDL_X4

to this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhKXPWtGJ38

>>68954558
neckbeards and weebs flocked to it.

>>68954558
Yuropoors shat it up with Helloween and Stratovarius clones.

>we will never go back to bands that sounded like these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZUysqemMmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6wgQWVBiU

>>68954765
keepers and the dark ride are great helloween albums

most of gamma rays discography is great too.

>>68953201
I got tricked into listening to their album last year. It was you, wasn't it?