Welcome all!!! This is the group on MySpace dedicated to great American Power Metal.

"American Power Metal'' I think you just invented a new genre. Sounds good, though!!!

STRANGE FLESHWrote:
"American Power Metal'' I think you just invented a new genre. Sounds good, though!!!

I better get it trademarked and start cashin' in on anyone else usin it!!!


Just kiddin.

There is no doubt about it- American bands have a definite heaviness that Euro-metal bands severely lack. No happy sing-along band from Finland has the rhythm guitar skills of Iced Earth. The guitarist in Sonata Arctica, for example, can solo up and down the fretboard like any good Yngwie clone. He could NEVER, however, play a rhythm guitar part that any 14-year old "Metallica kid" could not play. Euro bands, in comparison, tend to have much better vocalists and a much more advanced melodic sense. The Demons & Wizards project is a good example of the best aspects of the American/Euro power-metal "variants."

TimeLordWrote:
There is no doubt about it- American bands have a definite heaviness that Euro-metal bands severely lack. No happy sing-along band from Finland has the rhythm guitar skills of Iced Earth. The guitarist in Sonata Arctica, for example, can solo up and down the fretboard like any good Yngwie clone. He could NEVER, however, play a rhythm guitar part that any 14-year old "Metallica kid" could not play. Euro bands, in comparison, tend to have much better vocalists and a much more advanced melodic sense. The Demons & Wizards project is a good example of the best aspects of the American/Euro power-metal "variants."

I definately agree Matt. When I lived in Germany, most local bands (just like in the states I suppose) were top 40 American music cover bands. Great technical musicians with no feeling and seriously lacking rhythm guitar skills.