Power metal

Power Metal is a generally up-beat metal genre consisting of fast guitar hooks and catchy tunes, often associated with neo-classical metal and progressive metal, and occasionally glam metal. The earliest influences of power metal are traced back to 1976 when the musical group Rainbow(led by Ronnie James Dio) released the track, “Stargazer”. The track is widely considered the first power metal song. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Primal Fear

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Saturday 2 June 2012
Iced Earth
Hellyeah
Shrine Auditorium
Billings, MT, United States
45.778091 -108.544767

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Sunday 3 June 2012
Rhapsody of Fire
Voyager
Peabody's Downunder
Cleveland OH, United States
41.50094 -81.675504

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Monday 4 June 2012
Rhapsody Of Fire: World Tour 2012
Rhapsody of Fire
Altar Bar
Pittsburgh, United States
40.448993 -79.987203

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Wednesday 6 June 2012
RHAPSODY OF FIRE with Voyager & Hollowstone
Rhapsody of Fire, Voyager, Hollowstone
Station 4
Saint Paul, Minneapolis MN, United States
44.948279 -93.087339

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Tuesday 12 June 2012
Rhapsody of Fire
Voyager
Slim's
San Francisco CA, United States
37.771491 -122.413241

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Thursday 14 June 2012
From Chaos To Eternity World Tour 2012
Rhapsody of Fire, Voyager
House of Blues
San Diego CA, United States
32.716489 -117.159995

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  • BeIieve

    I think you seem to be forgetting that obfuscation is epic

    2 hours ago
  • Ritual_Suicide

    Lambent is too literate and abstract a word for a metal genre name.

    yesterday evening
  • WasNotWhyNot

    upboats for lambent metal.

    yesterday evening
  • BeIieve

    Or, as Power Quest is one of the most flower metal bands out there, we could name the new term after them and call it Power Metal

    yesterday morning
  • BeIieve

    I think the term flower metal is fine, but if you want a new term, my vote is for Lambent Metal. It's like calling it Sunshine Metal but with more sophistication.

    yesterday morning
  • veyita_88

    I don´t know,Angra for example are very melodic and i never have seen them as "flowery" i think they are very talented.

    yesterday morning
  • WasNotWhyNot

    think of a better term then that's not insulting, then. I personally will not use the melodic power metal tag, but as this shows, mainstream power metal is beginning to split and fans of the sound won't accept flower metal. on an aside, new sonata arctica is really, really awful.

    Sunday evening
  • Raptorg

    Still doesn't mean it makes sense. Also, Pathfinder's new album out in a few days. Probably gonna have to wait for a week or something to get it in the mail. But when it comes, I will probably just listen to it and my life will be exactly the same as it is right now. But excited and stuff because good symphonic power metal is hard to find.

    last week
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