Your way in
Power metal 1984
Galloping tempos, choral hooks and lyrics about dragons and battles. Optimistic by definition.
- Heaviness
- 6
- Speed
- 8
- Melody
- 10
- Where from
- Germany
- Tempo
- 160-200 bpm
- Song length
- 4-7 min
- Written about
- Fantasy and myth, Battle, Friendship, sincerely, Hope, which nothing else in metal will admit to
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Power metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 6 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1984 | 100% | ×1 |
| Somewhere else entirely What should the words be about? | Fantasy and myth, Battle, Friendship, sincerely, Hope, which nothing else in metal will admit to | 100% | ×1 |
| Yes. A proper melody. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 10 out of 10 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 98% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 8. Power metal leads the next by 4 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1The one to put on first
Helloween, Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II 1988
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II. The closing track runs thirteen minutes and deserves them.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5One step further in
Rhapsody, Symphony of Enchanted Lands 1998
Rhapsody - Emerald Sword. Knowing kitsch, flawlessly executed.
The pick names a track. This is the record the encyclopedia holds by them.
The first is Power metal's own entry point. After it come Power metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Hard rock 94%
Louder volume, thicker riffs, vocals pushed to the edge. Heavy metal splits off from it, but hard rock stays closer to the blues and to the chorus.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Power metal.
The way into Hard rock -
Symphonic prog 93%
Orchestral arrangements transposed onto Hammond organ and Moog. Roger Dean cover art included.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Power metal.
The way into Symphonic prog
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 8.
- The seventies and eighties put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Kawaii metal, New nu metal, Progressive metalcore. Worth 1 of 8.
- Somewhere else entirely put 106 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 8.
- Yes. A proper melody. put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Grindcore, Brutal death metal, Cybergrind. Worth 1 of 8.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.