Who Really Invented Power Metal?
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- In Ep. 19 of #50YearsOfHeavyMetal, members of #Manowar, #BlindGuardian, #IcedEarth, #TheBlackDahliaMurder and more help Joe DiVita sort out who really invented #PowerMetal.
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“Supremely awesome or outrageously cheesy?” Yes
Yes.....replace "or" with "and".
I kept thinking of Gloryhammer throughout this entire video so I'm glad they did show some footage of them preforming on stage.
Awesome! I'm not a metalhead, but I love Manowar. Achilles the Agony and Ecstasy captures the spirit of Homer in a way most professors wish they could.
It should be "outrageously awesome n supremely cheesy"
MANOWAR, no other band can make you feel like your a Knight of the Roundtable just because you listen to METAL.
Love Manowar but how about Hammerfall
@@kevinunger433 so I don't really remember HAMMERFALL but since you mentioned them I started checking them out. What 3 songs do you think I should listen to. Thanks.
@@warface4881 all their songs are awesome but of their older stuff , try. Let the hammer fall. Keep the flame burning. The way of the warrior. Legion.
@@kevinunger433 nice thanks.
also Rhapsody (of Fire)
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow could also be a precursor to power metal. Blackmore's incredibly technical guitar playing, Dio's powerful voice and fantasy-themed lyrics, use of keyboard effects and orchestration, etc.
Cozy and his Bashing style!
Thats true, Stargazer, Gates Of Babylon, Kill the King, thats fucking power metal
@@arrolate Absolutely!
A R R O L A T E - Gates OF Babylon. Sorry, couldn’t let it pass.
@@crusheverything4449 truee, I'll change it immediately
US Power Metal: Manowar
Euro Power Metal: Helloween
Ridiculous Power Metal Pants: Bruce Dickinson
Brazilian PW: Angra
This is straight facts!
Rainbow: A light in the black and Kill the king.
And what about Ride the Sky by Lucifer's Friend?
And Riot - Warrior
Stargazer
And also Epic Metal (Rising album overall), Symphonic Metal and many others style to come, all derived from Rainbow. Also, from Rainbow still, the more "happy" and melodic style of power metal which would have been very popular many years later: off their 1981 album, "Spotlight Kid" is the prototype of Stratovarius style songs and all the alikes of that band.
Obviously there's never a single band/musician/album or song which "invent" a style, a genre etc., but there's always a single name that's more or far more important than others, even if often one can understand well only years later and not at the time. For styles like Power metal, Epic Metal and similar, the main name to quote is always Rainbow, especially the Dio-era. Then you can also quote, for Power, Speed and similar style, some songs of Judas Priest (Exciter, Rapid Fire...), Accept, Riot and others. But Rainbow stands on all.
It all started with Rainbow's Rising, especially Stargazer
True. Rainbow are a legendary Progressive Stoner Doom band that invented Power Metal
All of side 2
Totally agree. But what about Ride the Sky by Lucifer's Friend?
Stargazer is absolutely epic
@@fedesk99 I'd put that more in the classic Heavy Metal corner, but they certainly had some of that Power Metal sound going on.
One rarely mentioned band is Riot. While they could only be considered to be a power metal band after their reunion in the late 80's, their first album gave us Warrior, which might very well be one of the first power metal songs (along with Rainbow's Kill the King). They were the U.S. counterpart to the NWOBHM.
this
Yes ,, have always said this, and Lucifers Friend, Ride the Sky
@@andreasjakobsen1976 oh yeah that one is also killer.
1990's Riot is legendary. Inishmore and Sons of Society are SUPER underrated.
Oh my god finally. I’m a kind of big Riot fan and it’s such a shame hardly anyone ever mentions them. They even did the two minutes to midnight riff before two minutes to midnight. The first three albums are so good
Power metal is easily my favorite subgenre! Bands like Falconer, Blind Guardian, Gamma Ray, Gloryhammer, and Hammerfall... incredible.
Brother!
WOOO! MAH DUDE!!! lml
Exactly Christian!!
Easily one of the greatest subgenres.
Check out glaneryus as well...amazing band
I really got into Power Metal back in the early 90's because I could not get into the Grunge music scene at all. I was a young teenager at the time , and I was looking for Heavy Metal bands that I never listened to before old and new . Throughout all the 90's I got into bands like Helloween, Gamma Ray, Iron Savior, Hammerfall, Primal Fear, Iced Earth, Stratovarius, Blind Guardian, and many others. I had to special order from Heavy Metal magazines for most of these bands albums because they were not available here in the states at the time. I had to dig deeper than ever before for Heavy Metal bands back then, and I had a blast doing it. I still love listening to Power Metal to this day. In my opinion Helloween are the Godfather's of Power Metal, and Kai Hansen is the Godfather. He made both Helloween and Gamma Ray very special bands.
A direct line can be drawn between Deep Purple and so many bands of today.
▪︎ Bruce Dickinson specifically calls Ian Gillan a massive influence.
▪︎ Ritchie Blackmore got Dio off the ground with Rainbow.
▪︎ Gillan sang with Sabbath for a time.
▪︎ David Coverdale went on to form Whitesnake.
▪︎ etc...
Deep Purple has influenced just about every hard rock/heavy metal band of the last 50 years. It all traces back to them and Sabbath.
What about Led Zeppelin?
Tolkien, Robert Plant's Vocals, Vikings Raids, musical adventures, inclusion of music from foreign countries etc
@juliereminiec6332 for me Led Zeppelin were prog than power influenced
Manilla road’s crystal logic and manowar’s battle hymns come to mind for me when I think early power metal
I would also add Helloween's "Helloween" EP and Crimson Glory's "Crimson Glory". I'd even dare venture a notch further and add some of the first Virgin Steele albums although the lean more on the Heavy Metal side of things.
don't forget about the Swedish HEAVY LOAD, even before Mano
Helloween. From speed metal to power metal, term invented when speed turned more melodic.
Helloween is pretty much Kai hansen And kai Hansen was heavily influenced by rainbow dio judas priest and queen
Lester Fast Nope. Term invented for someone else in '84-85, but hey whatever rocks your boat.
"More concretely, in 1987 German band Helloween released their second album, Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I, cited by AllMusic as "a landmark recording that remains arguably the single most influential power metal album to date". WIKIPEDIA.
Every musician has a hero-influence. But that's not the point. Is to figure out which band recorded the first album labeled as power metal.
@@lesterfast9969 You're playing with words. AllMusic says and correctly so, influential. Therefore referring to the number of bands influenced by its sound, in subsequent decades. Fair enough and rightly so. 34 years later we can say with enough confidence, that the whole euro (South America too) power metal scene, with a few exceptions, is heavily influenced by Keeper I and II.
As opposed to the American scene that started 4-5 years earlier and was so diverse that in the end, no one could possibly have the whole pie. Helstar are different to Ryche to Manilla Road to Warlord to Manowar to Savatage to Jag Panzer and so on...The American power metal scene, was and still is, more diverse and not a one trick pony.
But we're not talking influential here. We're talking first. We're talking about whose music, the term was invented for and popularized by. Plus, all this didn't happen in order to put a moniker to some relatively unknown band, at the time. By '87, Manowar were already having worldwide distribution for years, were touring extensively, headlining, getting front covers in every magazine around the world, selling hundeds of thousands.
Definitely Helloween was the first band in mixing speed metal with all of this previous influence of Dio, Rainbow and Iron maiden, and they founded the stereotype of what we all now know as power metal.
This. I think you have to differentiate American Power Metal and Europe and so even if Manowar carried a lot of similarity and is absolutely power metal as well Helloween and in particular the Keepers part 1 album IS and will ALWAYS be the first Power Metal album in my book. I'll fight anyone on this and die on that hill gladly.
absolutly that is how i view it
@@Zabiru- My hot take on it is that Manowar were (Dio and Saxon were pioneers and almost get there, but not quite) truely the first power metal band, but Helloween galvanized it as a genre with a specifc sound and formula which future bands could emulate and carry further.
Thanks for mentioning Warlord and Fates Warning. They don't get enough appreciation.
The Spectre Within has some damn cool vocal melodies
I’d say Awaken the Guardian exemplifies power metal in some aspects, but Fates Warning was on a higher musical plane than any of the other bands mentioned. While the subject matter was similar, I’m still to this day blown away by the musicianship on that album. I still listen to it at least once a week.
@@jasonbennett60 I thoroughly enjoy it while playing drums as well. Probably one of my favorite bands.
I have been a metalhead for a pretty long time now but never really got into power metal until this month.. thanks Loudwire
Uriah Heep definitely was an influence. Listen to something like Bird of Prey and you can hear it.
Poet's Justice, Traveller In Time, July Morning etc
Why is it that every time power metal is mentioned in the US, they have to talk about how much it's disliked here or how weird it can be. Not all the bands are like that!
Yep, I have the same feeling too. It seems like Power Metal isn't so popular in the US. Maybe the only two exceptions could be Manowar and Sabaton.
Ivan Villalobos You’re forgetting Iced Earth. We fuckin love them.
So true, power metal isn’t disliked here. There just happens to be a more selective fanbase
@@RyderLComics And DragonForce too.
@@ivanvillalobos1953 check out galneryus as well
Thank you for giving so much screen time to Hansi and John. The more people that learn to know and love Demons & Wizards (and by extension Blind Guardian and Iced Earth), the better off we'll all be. 🤘
I still feel like they're far better in their original bands...
@@magdachlebicka3895 Demons and wizards to me is better than Iced Earth. At least Iced Earth post- Burnt Offerings.
1976 - Rainbow Rising
1974 - Ogre Battle
@@TheBlackQueen Ha ha ha ha. No. 1970 - Flight of the Rat
Though I like some other subgenres of metal, Power Metal is my most favorite sub-genre of metal (alongside Traditional/Heavy Metal). I like their themes, musicianship, power, energy, majesty and the things that transport me to a different. Yeah, I'm a geek and I like anime too. I like Europe and Japan; fantasy, sci-fi, history, mythology, just various themes that interest me.
that is what makes it so great the musianship perfect lyrics powerful be it mythology fantasy ancient times even sc-fi
Crimson Glory is a US power metal band a lot of people haven’t heard of. Check out their debut, it’s one of the best metal albums of the 80s
don't forget Queensryche
Crimson Glory mops the floor with Queensryche, wrings the mop out and makes Geoff Tate drink it.
@@Dehumanizer3000 Queensryche is a Prog metal band
@@KatyReminiec9399 EP and The Warning are USPM, Rage for Order and Mindcrime is prog metal. alot of USPM and Prog have the same roots like Fates Warning and Crimson Glory. USPM after all is a movement or wave of metal bands, an umbrella term like the NWOBHM.
The codpiece to end all codpieces: Blackie Lawless, WASP, the codpiece with a circular saw blade mounted on to fit the contour. None better.
Bruce Dickinson tells a great story about Blackies codpiece and some misfiring fireworks attached to it, at a mid 80s UK festival. I believe Blackie had to go to hospital afterward.
I think of Stratovarius, blind guardian and Gamma Ray when I hear power metal.
Kamelot, Primal Fear, DragonForce, Angra, Dream Theater, Nocturnal Rites, Edguy, Avantasia, Dark Moor, Hammerfall, Rhapsody and that’s all I known 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
@@joshbarreras7255 To me, Power Metal is Helloween... but all those bands you mentioned are pretty good too... Except Dream Theatre which is prog metal, not power...
@@cheeseandonions9558 oh ok
And Nightwish is also Power Metal but it’s Symphonic
@@joshbarreras7255 Power Metal was created by Man o War!
No mention of savatage HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING one of the best power metal albums out there
They are criminally underrated.
@@bart_ender6116 WHO REALLY INVENTED GOREGRIND? on RUclips
Bro idk what goregrind is I just like Savatage
as far as I know Helloween is the pioneer of Power Metal in the mid 80's and at the name still not "power metal" but Speed Metal genre, I don't know when the term "power metal" introduced but I am a big fan of Helloween since early 90's
They were the key for Power Metal haha
Dio's era Rainbow started it all. End of discussion.
Couldn't agree more. And they did it the best. There's nothing cheesy about Rainbow, not even when they're singing about wizards.
@@FadirDungeon At one point in our teenage years we were convinced Symphony X had solely been inspired by Rainbow's "Gates of Babylon" lol
Freaking "Kill the King" and "A light in the black" man!! \m/
Pictures from home “Deep purple”,...children of the grave “Black Sabbath”,..immigrants song “Led Zeppelin”,...but yes!!,..everything Dio did was awesome and fueled the genre,..PS, at least they gave a shout out to fates warning “awaken the guardian”,...an amazing (and underrated) disc!!!!,..good luck and God bless.
Swedish Pagan stargazer!!
Don't let Steve Harris hear you say that Iron Maiden had an element of punk.
steve himself says that he s influenced by punk :P
Are you sure you don't mean Bruce Dickinson? I don't know about Steve Harris hating on punk, but I know Bruce said he hated punk about five years ago.
Steve Harris still hates punk. Just watch the Early Days doc they did.
@@snaggletooth1500 " I hate everything about with Punk " " Nothing to do with this Assholes " Steve Harris in own words in the documentary Metal Evolution in the Chapter dedicaded to NWOBHM.
I think when people talk about early Maiden having tinges of punk I think they’re referring more to the attitude.
It was Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin that birthed it and Rainbow, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Malmsteen, and Manowar who further forged it.
Erm, you're talking about straight-up _heavy metal_ here...?
@@shawarmageddonit Yea, the birth of heavy metal - leading to the refinement into power metal. Helloween seems to be picked as the band to "create" the sub-genre of 'power metal' but really, they just expanded on the sound, style, and lyric content those bands that I just listed.
Jay, Could we go back in to the 60s ?
The Dave Clark Five ,The Moody Blues & The Animals may have been inspirations for Power Metal ?
@@shawarmageddonit Led Zeppelin never was a Metal Band
@@KatyReminiec9399 Did they write medieval fantasy influenced lyrics? Sing with powerful belting style and push the ranges of their voices to hit virtuostic highs? Complicated yet still melodic guitar solos? Some keyboard and orchestral parts? Those are some of the main features of the power metal genre.
Don’t let Steve Harris hear you use the word “punk” in the same sentence as Iron Maiden. Hehe.
Tell me more! Theu definitely have SOME punk like influence on their first two albums. But nah they are not punk 😂 but what did he say
Paul DiAnno was the only one in Maiden who was into punk (that's the scene he came from).
I'd say Rainbow is the Progenitor of Power Metal, then I'd argue that Manowar was responsible for modernizing that sound.
Except they didn't sound a lot like Rainbow, so...
@@shawarmageddonitAgree that Rainbow w/ Dio was proto power metal: Stargazer, Gates of Babylon, Kill the King, this stuff was heavy for the 70's, melodic, virtuosic soloing, dragons, knights, medieval themes. Dio was magical!!!
Great video Loudwire, More stuff like this please.
The earliest song I can think of that can be labeled as power metal is Queen's Ogre Battle from 1974.
Hunter Fitzsimmons Sweet-Sweet FA also 1974..
@@oldschool6425 As I think about this topic some more, the absolute earliest song I can think of that some people may label power metal is Black Sabbath's War Pigs from 1970. While I've seen people refer to this song as power metal in the past, I can't understand why they may think that, cause to me, it doesn't sound like power metal in the slightest.
@@snaggletooth1500 It's not. It's Heavy Metal with some elements of Doom Metal and even Groove Metal, but it's basically Heavy Metal's signature sound.
this may sound weird but Hansi actually speaks as he sings... his voice seems the same
he sings naturally. Incredibly gifted man
Deep purple, Highway star. End of the conversation.
Child in Time
stormbringer
I thought of Deep Purple as well, but for the song, I'd pick Fireball. Came before Highway Star and has double bass drumming characteristic for power metal, though Highway Star does come close too, and it has keyboards and guitar solos aplenty.
Even the song Burn from Deep Purple 👍
I think Rainbow (one of the post-Deep Purple bands) was the first official power metal band, or at least set the prototype for it.
Metal in general is corny and cheesy...that's why I love it so much...from power metal to extreme death metal. It is just about having fun, blow up some ears and enjoy with friends.
yeah, some people ain't self aware.
It’s just about rocking as hard as you can and having fun while doing it. It’s meant to be fun
This kinda rubs me the wrong way . Metal has saved my life with their lyrics and such . A fan since 86 be it Glam , Thrash , Punk , Power , Spped , Death or Black and many in between . So to me , its a bit more serious fella . BUT ... I do agree its about having fun and a love of all us misfits ! The metal community is all about brotherhood . And i love the smile i get no matter what part of the world im in, when i see a fella long hair in band shirt , its an automatic grin and nod like yep he knows whats up lol ! mostly lol
@@Brando-Lee3725 I know what you mean...I think most of us can agree that Metal has saved our lives in one way or another.
What I don't like is the other kind of "seriousness", like those who said if you like Death Metal you have to be aggressive, satanic and drink blood of a goat and despise every other kind of music. Or if you listen to progressive Metal you have to act like a music snob minimising or talk trash about other genres.
LOL
@@kbzonmarko I agree totally brother . I hate the elitist mentality SOME have in the community. Thanks for being cool . I meant zero disrespect my way bro . You get it
Pretty Maids Future World was a GREAT Power Metal song!
Deep Purple - In Rock album
Truly that awful.
Great driving song but long after others
Yes!
Heavy metal. Not power metal.
Rainbow - Rising
Would you make an episode about norwegian metal ?That would be interesting .
Im afraid of what would come
" Let each note I know play Act as a Black Arrow thru the hearts of those who play false metal."...
If you’re going to use quotation marks, you should probably get the actual quote correct, there, Sparky. How’s that black arrow feeling about now?
I love the evil scream that he does afterward (which almost sounds serious - by the way)
"Look sharp when duty calls. Where we march cities fall, and the strong survive and take our side."
@@crusheverything4449 Damn memory. The older I get the better I was
horace pinker - Yeah, I can relate...
Helloween pioneered it, but Manowar definitely plays a huge role. Thanks for making this vid, power metal is my favorite! Rock on!
Manowar pre-dates Helloween, man.
When I bought my two Keeper albums back in 1988, no one spoke about power metal. This term was invented years later. Let's speak about when and who invented this term.
@@MetalisForever666
Power Metal was coined around 1983, when Megaforce Records used it to describe the release of Manowar's "Into Glory Ride".
Other bands played Heavy Metal, while Manowar played Power Metal. It was a new Genre created just for them.
In the mid 80s , all heavy fast bands were considered power metal. I remember buying a magazine called Power Metal that featured bands like Megadeth, Metallica and Mercyful Fate.
I still consider Warrior by Riot (1977) to be the first proper power metal song.
Love the baby seal
And what about Ride the Sky by Lucifer's Friend?
Kill the King by Rainbow. Even though the album came out in 1978, the song was practically finsihed and performed live in 1976.
@@ilhamakbar5482 Interesting, I didn't know that. Light in the Black from the same year is also debatable.
@Fede Sk Not even close.
Rainbow had the idea, but Helloween really formed the sound of power metal.
Loved this episode!
Uli Jon Roth contributed with his Electric Sun and more
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"They did all that, but all on speed basically"
So happy that Fates Warning got a mention, always the forgotten Masters of Prog
I thought it was cool to hear Hansi talk about the element of cheesiness and that it’s all good as long as it’s done with sincerity. Sums up my feeling exactly
I think this covers most satirical power metal bands, too, though, because they’re playing off bands and a genre that they all love. There’s still a degree of respect and homage they’re displaying even in their satire. As long as it’s not coming from a place of disdain, I think it qualifies as being sincere
one of the first power metal bands I got into besides Manowar and Helloween, was Omen. It was like Iron Maiden meets speedmetal. The vocals takes some getting used to but the music make you want to pick up a sword and join the battle. lol
J.D Kimball was a great singer1
I think the Scorpions and UFO should be included with the likes of Deep Purple and Uriah Heep.
how are Scorpions power metal???
@@magdachlebicka3895 Maybe he means as inspiration and power... Not power metal but ....
@@venomagent76 ik, but they never played anything close to power metal roots. Maybe this one fantasy-themed song, Sails Of Charon, but that's for it
@@magdachlebicka3895 please take a look at this documentary ruclips.net/video/KwJR2odYecc/видео.html
Magda Chlebicka - Sails OF Charon. Geezus Fuk.
Thanks for making
Stargazer and A light in the black were the first two power metal songs. Case closed
Ogre Battle - 1974
@@TheBlackQueen No. That song didn't even come close to the impact that Stargazer & A Light in the Black made on pioneering Power Metal bands.
And Rainbow’s Kill The King, 1977, truly power metal
Agree. And then Battle Hymn by Manowar is 100% power metal. Also there are some Europe songs like Scream of anger, seven doors hotel, in the future to come and wings of tomorrow that sound very similar to early power metal
@@incarnate6779 Blind Guardian were massive Queen fans and even named their seventh studio album after A Night At The Opera. I'm sure they heard Queen's music as an influencer of their music.
If you like power metal, check out the Canadian Power Metal band UNLEASH THE ARCHERS. They're awesome!
When I think about the origin of American Power metal, the first bands that come to mind are Armored Saint and Vicious Rumors. Probably more than (early) Manowar.
I’ll say classic rock albums like Queen II, Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards, Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell, Deep Purple - In Rock & ofc. Rainbow’s Dio albums were defining the power metal genre before it was really a thing. Kudos, great video!
WHO REALLY INVENTED GOREGRIND? Zona RUclips
Styx Equinox ,Grand Illusion...
Savatage didn't even get an honorable mention
I'd say Deep Purple/Rainbow and then Priest and Maiden.
Rainbow "Rising" was a massive influence on so many musicians indeed!
queensryche
@@Dehumanizer3000 : Queensryche was awesome , but they came on the scene long after power metal was established. I feel that they did help usher in a new wave of highly technical and theatrical metal and Operation Mindcrime is , in my opinion, one of the greatest albums of all time.
I’ve always felt Rainbow Rising was the first power metal album. Another band that should be mentioned as an early example of power metal, although nearly a decade down the road, is Savatage.
Power Metal was created by Man o War!
Who's idea was it to include Tom Morello and Halestorm in a history of power metal video? 😅
I was wondering what does Corey Taylor think of it ? ;-)
Thats exactly what i was thinking.I dont know Halestorm at all,but Tom Morello has nothing to do with Heavy metal music in general..He plays a totally different kind of music,Anyone who knows even the basics about playing guitar knows that he suck balls..just saying...
Tom Morello and Halestorm are also music fans. If fans are not allowed to comment then lets just close the whole RUclips comment section for good, seems to me, if we want to be consistent.
I think Loudwire just used some stock interview footage.
@@taowaycamino4891 I get what you are saying..I just think they should interview people who are closely related with the power metal genre,like Hansi Kursch for example.They should have made a far more better choice than Tom Morello or some other weird bands that are far from power or Heavy Metal music.Come on now ,do you really think that Morello is a fan of Helloween or Blind Guardian so that he can have an opinion about their music? I could be wrong but i really, really doubt it.They interview people who belong in bands , not just random fans all over the world , thats the difference.It is just my opinion about this matter.
I found Walls of Jericho on cassette in 1988 (right when I was really diving into thrash/speed metal from earlier AC/DC rock) and I can say it utterly blew my mind. Nothing else sounded like it before or after. And of course, a couple months later I found Keeper II and the more refined power metal sound (still mostly referred to as speed metal back then). To me, Keeper I & II are the defining moment of crystalizing all the earlier influences into what is commonly known as power metal now.
I'd say that first Rainbow album started it. Manowar perfected it.
Totally agree. And what about Ride the Sky by Lucifer's Friend? Also there are some Europe songs that sound very similar to early power metal (scream of anger, in the future to come, seven doors hotel, wings of tomorrow)
Manowar are not or have never been power metal
@@jim7174
Wrong.
The term "Power Metal" was coined by John Zazula, Founder of Megaforce records, to describe Manowar when he released their second release, "Into Glory Ride".
@@timbrown6629if you listen to into glory ride its not power metal, try walls of jericho by helloween more speed than power but it had the melodic sound then keeper part 1 the first true power metal album.
@@timbrown6629 ... And James Hetfield called Metallica power metal before the thrash term got widespread. And Pantera's first release with Phil Anselmo was called "Power Metal". So, y'know...
If power metal music has the characteristics described in the video, then Manowar is not power metal. And they're not in either case, because they were way too hard and heavy. Influential, yes. Awesome, epic, and cheesy, yes. Power metal, no.
don't forget Queensryche, Tate's singing influenced Kiske, 1980s Queensryche set the example for US power metal
The Queensryche E.P was awesome! I love Queen of the Ryche. AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Power Metal was created by Man o War!
@@dsvet kinda the same era, 1982/83, the Queensryche EP was more popular in Europe then the USA and early on Queensryche toured Europe alot with Dio, its never one band that makes a genre, its a handful.
I loved to hear Uriah Heep mentioned!
This is an awesome video.
The fact the first Hammerfall album came out at the height of the NuMetal scene has to give them a special place of honor for carrying the torch through the dark times LOL.
Stargazer, Gates of Babylon and Kill the King - First Power Metal Songs. Rainbow - Grandfather of Power Metal. Manowar - Battle Hymns finished what Rainbow started and after that Helloween put AOR melodies on that creating Melodic Power Metal during Keeper I & II era. Back in the day, Overkill was called Power/Speed before turn into Thrash and Groove in the 90s, Grave Digger was called Power/Speed before turn into Epic Heavy Metal in the 90s.
RAINBOW!🌈
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I invented power metal! 🗡😎🤘
Pure Epicness !
Actually a great video thanks!
dude i love your energy, puts a smile on my face and makes me laugh
WHO REALLY INVENTED GOREGRIND? on RUclips
I've seen Uriah Heep live, it was a great experience!
Rainbow, especially Rising!
Battle Hymns. Right up there with Ace of Spades and Permanent Waves. Love it!
I'd never heard the term "power metal" before, but I love all these bands you're talking about, so I guess I love power metal.
I think Dio with rainbow invented power metal (song: kill the king straight up power metal)
How can you talk about "European Power Metal" and don't mention Scorpions and Accept.
Fast as a Shark, Metal Heart, Virgin Killer and Sails of Charon are all classics.
Running Wild broke out alongside Helloween also.
There were some others bands along with running wild like Bad Lizard, Rage, Warlock's Hellbound (which I think is the most melodic early PM album of that year along with Avenger (Rage) and other German band I can't remember the name, I think they have just one album or so
Accept is more of NWOBHM (i know they are no Brits, but still..)
Those are heavy metal bans like Judas, Mercyful, and Maiden, power is different, power is Helloween, Stratovarius, Angra, etc.. Well, at least Accept, Scorpions is definitely Arena Rock aka Hard Rock like Led Zeppelin.
Scorpions are hard rock band...
I dont see Accept as power metal Accept help start speed and thrash metal . Accept & Canada's Anvil predate Metallica, Overkill, Anthrax & Exodus with the double kick drum & speed & heavy hitting drums
Love that shout-out to Brothers of Metal by a Manowar founder! I just wish Manowar's album Gods of War was on Spotify.
Holy shit! Sean Peck! Always cool to see him
Can you do the same video, but do it for DOOM metal?? Electric wizard, witch, Windhand???
The thing is it would all end up just being influenced by Black Sabbath
Which is totally not a bad thing
Ofek Zilbershtein yes, but these videos introduce people to new music, like for me today, I never heard these bands until now.
Ofek Zilbershtein and maybe dive into the “scene “ if there ever was one
This as been done so many time. Just not by this guy.
Melvins and eyehategod
Anyone fans of Dark Moor?
They are really underrated
YES!
Miss them❤️
I wish Elisa Martin was still in the band. She had such an amazing voice!!!!
Oh yeah
Amazing work, guys. Like q heavy metal mini doc.
I am happy that Warlord were mentioned from the American scene and the fact that an accent was put specifically on Helloween’s “Walls of Jericho”
Funny to see Jon Schaffer in this video, I think it is going to be a very long time, until anyone will be interested in his opinion towards metal again!
Everyone knows deep purple did it in 1972 with highway star
And Blackmore took it a step further in '76 with Stargazer.
I think more in Burn with the fast riffs, the neoclassical sound of the keyboard and the guitar of course. But obviusly then Blackmore would do it with Stargazer which i think is the true first power metal song
And what about Ride the Sky by Lucifer's Friend?
Yeah, it fully arrived with Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1. I bought that in 1988., It blew me away.
Bands I miss in the video: Exciter and Rage. You can't talk about power metal origins without them
Rainbow were the first power metal band. When Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio got together, a genre was born.
Nope. But thanks for playing.
@@shawarmageddonit I’ve just had a word with our adjudicator and I’m sorry to say that your answer is total horse dung.
Blackmore and Gillan were first
Can you make an episode dedicated to doom metal?
This is my favorite Heavy Metal genre.
Also, pretty happy that they mentioned Liege Lord. Fates Warning too.
4:00 damn bro settle down...
I've never seen Manowar as a Power Metal band. Pure Heavy Metal for me. Helloween can be deemed to be the first Power Metal band.
This should be so obvious and clear.
The term came later - as a need to label the energy and feel of the music, not to describe various images and themes previously existing.
You kids.
I'm in my 50's. Power metal was first used to describe Manowar by Johnny Z. from Megaforce Records when they released Manowar's second record.
Manowars' first albums up to Triumph of steel are simply amazing. And I still can't believe that Eric Adams at 67 sings like that....
codpiece I didn't even now that it was called like that. Thank you very much:)
Like it or not Helloween with Walls of Jericho are the first real Power Metal band. RIP Ingo...
RAINBOW. Period
Nice that Manowar gets some credd! Extremly underrated band concidering their legacy.
1. Major part in the creation of Power Metal
2. Eric Adams, easily one of the best singers in metal.
3. First 6 Albums are a all very very strong, most metal bands rarely make more then 3 strong albums.
Ronnie James DIO with Rainbow and Sabbath. Then Priest with Maiden. Then Manowar and Helloween.
Savatage and Vicious Rumors!
Every big fan of power metal knows HELLOWEEN invented Power Metal. Nothing to argue about.
Totally agree!!!!!
Hell yeahh
Mention any other name and you’re wrong!
Agreed
It was Helloween with Walls of Jericho. That was their first , not keeper.
I'd actually say the "Helloween" EP which was also their debut.
Never said Keeper was their first! "The first installment in the Keeper of the Seven Keys album series"
It was Helloween, but that album was pure Speed Metal...
@@catnoir-a-saurus What could possibly an American know about Power Metal?
There's an even American anthropologist who did a documentary about Heavy Metal and he said that he never heard of Power Metal before... LOL
@@catnoir-a-saurus LOL, I listened to Helloween in 1988 when you weren't even born, you little shit
Micheal Kiske man, what a divine voice.
you should do a video about clothing and fashion and its history in the metal scene