In the pilot episode of PowerMetalPoint we discuss just what exactly power metal is. Bands from Edguy, Helloween, Riot, Rhapsody of Fire, Dream Evil and others are discussed, as well as power metal's history, fashion, and lyrical subject matter. This episode is meant primarily for outsiders of the genre. http://www.facebook.com/powermetalpoint
As you can hear on many albums from that time after Spectre Within by Fates Warning we got Crimson Glory, OMEN, Savatage, Liege Lord and many more who started to play metal with prog elements.
TheGoldenPS1 2 weeks ago
Interesting episode, you can really hear on Helloween's first two Keepers albums that they are heavily influenced by early Queensrÿche (EP~The Warning era). Queensrÿche put prog metal on the map in the mid of 80's and before that many bands sound like a faster heavy metal band so the sound wasn't there yet until prog elements without keyboards were added and we got bands in 1985 such as Fates Warning who tried to sound like Queensrÿche but ended up playing another style people are unfamiliar w.
TheGoldenPS1 2 weeks ago