Power Metal

[Christian Jackson]

Does Sup Forums like ironic, corny power metal? What's your favorite album? It's one of my guilty pleasures, personally.

[Nathan Torres]

Galneryus - Beyond the End of Despair

[Ethan Price]

Compositionally power metal can be spectacular unironically. One of the only genres of metal that will take major scales to the extreme.

[Hudson Martinez]

If anyone asks what power metal you like you say "Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Parts 1 and 2 (2 is better than 1)". Secretly you listen to Stratovarius and Avantasia though.

And if anyone gets into a decade debate and starts talking about their 70s/80s music just spam about Judas Priest and Iron Maiden and motherfucking DIO

[Gabriel Miller]

The logical conclusion of power metal:
youtube.com/watch?v=OffF0e2h4TU

[Jayden Kelly]

I don't like ironic power metal.

I liked when it was serious. The genre past the year 2004-2005ish has gotten so bad that I can't even deal with it.

That said, I still love:

Angra
Stratovarius
Helloween
Gamma Ray
Blind Guardian (duh, but only until Nightfall in Middle Earth. After that they became simultaneously the best power metal band to exist (for the early stuff) and the band that caused it to be terrible.
Dark Moor
Avantasia

Dragonforce is also highly to blame. Fuck them. Fuck them hard.

[Josiah Cooper]

The corniest, most unapologetic of all.
youtube.com/watch?v=mf2fCD1hrow

[Lucas Wood]

Dark Moor - Silver Lake

youtube.com/watch?v=tbol84KDqb8

[Hunter Moore]

Angra - Speed

youtube.com/watch?v=6wY9H6nh5pA

This kinda shit got me through high school in the early 00's.

[Adrian Hall]

Oh, this is a good one.

Freedom Call - Rise Up

youtube.com/watch?v=1f3s2uFQFMk