The first band who introduced the term Power Metal in the industry was Pantera in 1988 with the release of their album (ejem) "Power Metal". Whatever the bands you mentioned did was just play heavy metal a bit louder and faster, none of them actually innovated in any way to create an actual new style of metal. It's just heavy metal. Tell me what really differentiates these bands you talk about from other heavy metal bands? If you listen to Pantera and the other bands I mentioned, you can clearly perceive a different style on their music. That's when a new genre is born.
Welcome to the foro Stealth. Actually i was never big on Power metal, but i did like a couple of Pantera songs back in the day. And Rata Blanca is not bad either. But i can only listen to a couple of songs and that's it.
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The first band who introduced the term Power Metal in the industry was Pantera in 1988 with the release of their album (ejem) "Power Metal".
Whatever the bands you mentioned did was just play heavy metal a bit louder and faster, none of them actually innovated in any way to create an actual new style of metal. It's just heavy metal.
Tell me what really differentiates these bands you talk about from other heavy metal bands?
If you listen to Pantera and the other bands I mentioned, you can clearly perceive a different style on their music. That's when a new genre is born.
@Stealth: Welcome to El Foro… I’m not into either heavy nor power metal… de todos modos Bienvenido al Foro… parece que ya creaste al menos un thread de discussion – de el cual no entiendo ni pelo, so major me quedo no ‘mas mirando del lado… Enjoy!
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Disculpa Stealth, pero esta completamente equivocado. Las bandas que acabas de nombrar no son power metal, sino que heavy metal. Power metal son bandas como Pantera, Machine head, Neurosis, etc. Gibson Marshall escucha todas esas cosas que tu escuchas.
Hola Daeveed. Hace quince años que escucho metal y no sé a qué le llaman power metal en Norte América, pero te aseguro que las bandas que nombré son power metal. De hecho, bandas como Stratovarius son estandartes del power metal, y el power tiene elementos como teclados e instrumentos clásicos de cuerdas que las otras bandas que nombraste no tienen. Pantera no tiene absolutamente nada que ver con power metal, y las bandas que nombré no son heavy metal tradicional; esas serían Judas Priest, etc.
Fijate acá donde dice "bands by genre" y después "power metal" y vas a ver las bandas que nombré, mientras que Pantera y Neurosis no están: http://www.metal-archives.com/
Power Metal: Evolving from Heavy Metal, Power Metal took that sound and made it faster and more powerful (hence the name), while still retaining the melody both in guitars and vocals. There are two "schools" of Power Metal, the American one, which puts more emphasis on riffing and a relatively "dry" vocal style, without big choirs or bombastic choruses, as well as the European school, which is more epic and bombastic in its approach, often with big choirs and a lot of orchestration. Often Power Metal uses Fantasy lyrics or lyrics about battles and mighty warriors. Examples: (Europe) HELLOWEEN, STRATOVARIUS, GAMMA RAY, (USA) HELSTAR, ICED EARTH, MANOWAR.
De todas formas, la escuela americana no existe, salió de la europea.
Bueno, se nota que soy nuevo porque con este van dos temas seguidos... Hay alguien acá que escuche power metal? Probablemente no, pero con preguntar no pierdo nada, ja. Con power metal me refiero a bandas como Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, Rhapsody, Nightwish, etc. También escucho bandas como Rata Blanca.
I don't listen to heavy metal nor power metal but I just wanted to welcome you to foroland.
Bueno, se nota que soy nuevo porque con este van dos temas seguidos...
Hay alguien acá que escuche power metal? Probablemente no, pero con preguntar no pierdo nada, ja. Con power metal me refiero a bandas como Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, Rhapsody, Nightwish, etc. También escucho bandas como Rata Blanca.