Top 10 Best Things About Power Metal

I agree. Power metal isn't a very heavy subgenre, but it's among the most demanding. It's very fast yet melodic, so all instruments have to maintain speed and melody. And yes, it requires great singers with clean melodic vocals.

By the way, I fell in love with your username. The same thing happened when I heard Valhalla by Blind Guardian for the first time.

To make good power metal, you need perfect vocals, perfect guitars, bass, drums, and, most of the time, keyboards. Otherwise, it's not good power metal!

Of course, there are bands that lack all of these, but if you listen to power metal's best bands, like Blind Guardian, Helloween, Stratovarius, Avantasia, and so many more, you will hear that these guys know what to do with their instruments!

No need to say anything else, but power metal is probably the most energetic music in the metal genre, if not in music in general.

Just go and watch some. I mean, how can it get better? When the musicians and the crowd become one, we all participate, we sing, or we clap our hands to the sound, we headbang, and that feeling that we are all a big family is so great!

Yes, the most amazing metal live performance I've ever seen (that involves the crowd) is Blind Guardian's Valhalla. The crowd was singing the chorus for 4 minutes and wanted to continue.

Ok, a lot of bands, mostly underground, may be repeating the same over and over again (catchy rhythm, melodic tune, the same theme in all their songs). But guess what? It happens to all genres of music! All of them!

There are a lot of really great bands in the power metal genre that are unique and, of course, awesome! What I'm saying is that it's one of a kind! Melodic and fast, with multiple solos, fantasy or history themes, and a great way of playing the instruments (see number 1).

The most unique and least repetitive metal band is Blind Guardian. Basically a power metal band, but they played several other subgenres which helped them sound less repetitive.

Well, many of you haters will say it lacks emotion, but I guess you have only listened to DragonForce. The emotions are so many you can cry over the songs, especially the ballads (perfection).

You can actually hear emotion in every artist who plays for the music, and that's what power metal is all about! They play for the music, and you can hear that clearly.

For me, Hansi Kürsch of Blind Guardian is the most emotional metal singer. Dio is also very emotional. By emotional, I don't mean cheesy singing clichés from pop music or emo-type emotional.

Good examples from Hansi Kürsch are My Last Sunrise (Demons & Wizards) and Thorn (Blind Guardian).

This metal style requires great singers with clean melodic vocals, and some of the best metal singers are from this subgenre: Dio, Hansi Kürsch, Michael Kiske, Tobias Sammet, to name a few.

Dio is the father of the power metal genre, and no one can resist Dio! Now raise the horns up!

Agree, it's one of the oldest genres (70s) and one of the purest forms of metal music. Well, DragonForce's pop-ish wankery is something new, but it's not good power metal.

If you are a ballad lover, you will surely love power metal ballads. Some recommendations are:

The Bard's Song - Blind Guardian
Coming Home - Stratovarius
Hold Me in Your Arms - Helloween
The Land of Eternity - Firewind
Glory to the Brave - Hammerfall
A While in Dreamland - Gamma Ray

And, of course, many, many more.

You've got to be a really crazy, whimsical genius to write good lyrics, and that's awesome.