I notice a lot of hate on Power Metal from guys who are into the more hardcore, dark metal. What's the reasoning? My guess is either the keyboards and/or high vocals. Anything else?
Post here if you like Power Metal too my favorite Power Metal band is DragonForce, but besides that, it would have to be Blind Guardian.
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Lol, it's just kinda cheesy. I used to like some of it, but then the majority of it just started to sound like the same thing in a loop. Plus, everyone at my school is like "zomgz, DragonForce's guitarist is soooo good!!!111one11!!11!!". When lets be realistic, any technical or avant-garde guitarist could wipe the floor.
Lol, it's just kinda cheesy. I used to like some of it, but then the majority of it just started to sound like the same thing in a loop. Plus, everyone at my school is like "zomgz, DragonForce's guitarist is soooo good!!!111one11!!11!!". When lets be realistic, any technical or avant-garde guitarist could wipe the floor.
Odd. I find Power Metal to be the most unique genre.
Cheesy? Yes and no. Rhapsody of Fire is cheesy, DragonForce is not, although they use to be. Their lyrics are now not really fantasy but life related, surprisingly.
As for Herman Li, he's amazing, although I wish he could do his solos live the same as studio. With enough practice, he could do it, but it's most likely quite hard when he says it's stuff he creates on the spot that he can't exactly recreate on stage (while, again, he probably could with lots of practice). As for a better guitarist then him? I'm not one to judge, although by the looks of it, I haven't seen one better skill wise. As for all those kids at your school, yes it's annoying, but it doesn't help shape my opinion of the guitarist/band/genre.
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"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
Didn't like the music style (although that's more less irrelevant), nor did it look or sound like anything Herman Li couldn't do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xjUQw2yQnQ - Herman Li solo in studio.
The only one I know of which that you listed is Buckethead. He's quite amazing, but again, I'm not one to say if he's better than Herman Li or not.
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"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
I don't like it since it doesn't fit my musical taste
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First off, Dragonforce aren't Power Metal, they're Nintendocore. I'm not even joking.
Power Metal, if done correctly, is completely fine, but isn't for all tastes. Blind Guardian do it perfectly, and so do few other bands (the stress being on "Few"). It's just because it's associated with being "girlish" because of all the high pitches and general faggotry of a lot of Power Metal band members. There was a picture of this Finnish Power Metal singer who looked completely like a girl, but I can't seem to find it.
How is that "insulting" it? Break down? They're Nintendocore because now they basically embody video game music. Have you seen the cover of their last album? Look them up.
Nintendocore, is sub group of electronicore. Electronicore is pretty much metal core with techno and Nintendocore is essentially the same thing as electronicore but the keyboardist uses an 8-bit soundboard. DragonForce is not metalcore and there keyboardist does not use an 8-bit soundboard (as gay as they may sound, lol).
If DragonForce was nintendcore, most likely people would be labelling them as nintendocore including themselves DragonForce are Power Metal, or Epic Power Metal as they like to call themselves
As for DragonForce having breakdowns, their latest album features them in pretty much every song I believe. Before this album, I don't think they even had one
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"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
It's usually were the tempo is dramatically slowed down and everything but the percussion is taken out of the segment. It came from hardcore/punk and made it's way into metalcore.
Post here if you like Power Metal too my favorite Power Metal band is DragonForce, but besides that, it would have to be Blind Guardian.
"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
Cheesy? Yes and no. Rhapsody of Fire is cheesy, DragonForce is not, although they use to be. Their lyrics are now not really fantasy but life related, surprisingly.
As for Herman Li, he's amazing, although I wish he could do his solos live the same as studio. With enough practice, he could do it, but it's most likely quite hard when he says it's stuff he creates on the spot that he can't exactly recreate on stage (while, again, he probably could with lots of practice). As for a better guitarist then him? I'm not one to judge, although by the looks of it, I haven't seen one better skill wise. As for all those kids at your school, yes it's annoying, but it doesn't help shape my opinion of the guitarist/band/genre.
"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
Anywho, give me this litany of better guitarists. I'll YouTube them.
Also, I edited my second post about the kids at your school saying how awesome Herman Li is. Make sure you read that.
P.S. - Corrected myself on my second post... it's not Rhapsody, yet it's Rhapsody of Fire.
"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
Colin Marston of Behold... The Arctopus.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta.
Christopher Arp of Psyopus. (Although, that might be to insane.)
Buckethead.
Cristopher Bradly of Beneath the Massacre.
I gotta go to school, so I'll give more later if you want, lol.
Didn't like the music style (although that's more less irrelevant), nor did it look or sound like anything Herman Li couldn't do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xjUQw2yQnQ - Herman Li solo in studio.
The only one I know of which that you listed is Buckethead. He's quite amazing, but again, I'm not one to say if he's better than Herman Li or not.
"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
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Power Metal, if done correctly, is completely fine, but isn't for all tastes. Blind Guardian do it perfectly, and so do few other bands (the stress being on "Few"). It's just because it's associated with being "girlish" because of all the high pitches and general faggotry of a lot of Power Metal band members. There was a picture of this Finnish Power Metal singer who looked completely like a girl, but I can't seem to find it.
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Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions
Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions
This is nintendocore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZEIozl5Dks (don't mind the weird ass music video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am-B71jww9o&annotation_id=annotation_98647&feature=iv
Come to think of it both of those videos are really weird..
But yeah, that's nintendocore, not DragonForce.
As for DragonForce having breakdowns, their latest album features them in pretty much every song I believe. Before this album, I don't think they even had one
"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."