Top 10 Reasons Why Power Metal is an Excellent Subgenre to Start with If You are New to Metal

There are many metal subgenres to choose from but power metal is one of the best for beginners, if not the best.

Additional materials: There's a funny YouTube video 'How To Be POWER METAL!' by SteveTerreberry.
I made a list Top 10 Songs To Get You Into Power Metal.

The Top Ten

1 It's not extreme

2 It's melodic

3 It's not very heavy or aggressive

4 Vocals aren't screamed

... but you can hear some of the best single screams ever. Example: Mysteria by Edguy (long intro scream).

5 It's with "clean" vocals and singers usually have great voices and vocal skills

Power metal is focused on the vocalist and as a result, the best metal singers are in power metal.

6 It has strong choruses

7 It's characterized by a more uplifting sound compared to the other subgenres

8 Lyrics aren't usually very dark or violent

9 Guitars are very fast yet melodic

10 It's epic but not progressive

The Contenders

11 It's cheesy fun

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