Power Metal Songs with the Best Guitar Riffs
Its hard to chose between power metal riffs, cause a lot of them sound same. But these seemed very good to me.
I somewhat agree many power metal riffs sound similar but this has 2 different aspects:
1) riffs from one subgenre always sound more or less similar - there are similarities in thrash riffs, hard rock riffs, blues riffs, etc.
2) similarities that are plagiarism or close to plagiarism - yes, some power metal riffs sound similar to riffs by other modern power metal bands and even to riffs by Judas Priest, Rainbow, Deep Purple, and other bands.
I haven't noticed this only in Blind Guardian riffs - they don't sound similar to any other band. This is one of the reasons I have the most respect for them.
Umm... You probably didn't notice that this riff is a version of Breaking the Law by Judas Priest... Just play the song sample. And yes, I also like the riff to Breaking the Law.
I am not sure, but I never noticed the similarities. Don't know if they used capos, but Dawn of Victory riff starts from few frets behind than Breaking the Law.
Yes, this song may sound like a neoclassical metal or could be even neoclassical metal. Because its instrumental. But like I once said, its very confusing between power metal and neoclassical metal. Neoclassical and power metal have same scales. Sometimes they have same descending scales, same pentatonic scales.
But I have originally added it because of the opening riff. And these types of riffs are more common in power metal than neoclassical metal.
Majesty and some other Blind Guardian songs have very good riffs but I didn't add Majesty because it's technically speed metal. Speed metal is a version of power metal but it's still different. But the author zxm added Stratosphere by Stratovarius, which is technically neo-classical metal, so probably the author accepts a broader definition of power metal.
Besides The Curse of Feanor, I would say: Majesty, Banish From Sanctuary, Valhalla, Ride Into Obsession, Into The Storm, Tanelorn (Into The Void), Fly.
Most of these songs have more than one riff and I usually like one of them better.
Blind Guardian also have great "symphonized" riffs I didn't mention.
