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lemmy.world

Have a list of great songs for each category? I know a little, but not a lot.

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kbin.social

I can't speak to a lot of these subgenres but power metal? Hehehe.

Dragonforce - Through Fire and Flames. Not just a meme, actually a great song and very technical.

Powerwolf - Blessed & Possessed. Werewolves that work for the Catholic Church? I have no idea how that's supposed to work but I'd read the book.

Sabaton - To Hell and Back. Sabaton writes a lot of songs about historical battles.

Powermetal has rather a lot of narrative ballads in it.

Oh, I've got a good folk metal band too:

Eluveitie - The Call of the Mountain. I love all the different instruments they use.

Alestorm - Drink. How the hell did I forget Alestorm? Who wants pirate metal?

Bloodywood - Dana Dan. Indian folk metal rap/rock ... with a lot of English? I don't know what's going on here but it's such a unique blend.

Someone mentioned Nightwish and here's my favorite song of theirs:

Nightwish - Nemo

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Absolute killer list of bands. Call of the Mountain has to be in my top 5 best songs ever written.

And I've never heard a bad song from Sabaton.

I'll also add Nightwish to the list for symphonic metal. I tend to favor their older stuff, Dark Chest of Wonder would be a great entry point into them.

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You left out Pasadena 1994 by Nanowar of Steel

Also my favorites, fiddler on the green and old Nightwish, Stratovarious or Blind Guardian.

I've been also known to enjoy a Sonata Arctica concert or two.

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Haha funny you added The call of the mountain there. At some point I had an issue that shittube algorithm put that song constantly in 'play next'. The song is good except the chorus that for some reason annoys the hell out of me

Call of the mountain weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer call of the mountain weeeeeeeeeerreeeeeee call of the mountain

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kbin.social

If you like power metal try visigoth (I think their drummer does an amazing job at controlling the dynamics and pace of their songs) and Fellowship (I've never heard any other band come nearly as close at something uplifting and motivating); I really like Glint from fellowship as an example of that! It's the "response" to the "call" from Oak and Ash earlier in the album

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Plus, if you're into power metal, you probably also enjoy TTRPG's, and Visigoth designed a whole campaign/setting based around one of their albums with one of my favorite 3rd party content creators (The Revenant King)

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Glint

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lemmy.ca

On the Doom (or Stoner/Doom) metal genre, I would recommend Electric Wizard or Dopethrone.

Electric Wizard's Supercoven and Funeralopolis. Special mention to "I am nothing", but I don't want to spam their whole discography.
Dopethrone's Chameleon Witch and Vagabond

Those are pretty much the only two bands I know in that genre. Would like to hear more if anyone have suggestions.

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Funeral doom all the way imo. Check out Ahab and Bereft.

For black metal - Der Weg Einer Freiheit can’t be beat

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King gizzard and the lizzard wizzards album infest the rats nest got me into thrash metal since I read someone call it thrash, but idk if that's the actual genre.

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It's thrash, yeah.

Thing to keep in mind with the though, the band has been dabbling in AI stuff for album art and songwriting, so make of that what you will. Been a fan of theirs since their first 5 album year, but lately my hype has been deadened from the AI stuff.

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Can anyone remember a text comparing metal genres to dragon fighting knights trying to rescue a damsel in distress?

Some were hilarious, like the new metal guy arriving at the lair in a beat up Civic.

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lemmy.world

power metal and folk metal are kinda similar demographics-wise in my experience as an alestorm fan

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There are also other genre with a lot of overlap. I also do feel like the same people are also dressing differently when going to a mainly power or folk gig for example.

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I don't listen to much pure grindcore but deathgrind is my all time favorite! My heart beats in blast beats lmao. I highly recommend bands like Cattle Decapitation, Dying Fetus, Misery Index, Aborted, etc. if you can handle it.

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Every once in a while I find myself listening to Agronomicon by Beaten To Death. It’s the only grind album I’ve found that I liked though.

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I listen to Emit, so people definitely listen to anything.

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