Got some power metal today, Scelerata, straight from Brazil. The first time I heard Rising Sun, it almost sounded like a collaboration between Hibria and Hammerfall. With some crazy noodly guitars, fantastic singing, and those breakdowns that give you a rest from constant headbanging, Scelerata are a great listen.
3 Inches of Blood, those Canadian masters of power metal, have another video out, this time for Leather Lord. It totally reminds me of older metal videos, with the band shredding over a trippy background. Then Pipes’ eyes go white on a high note and it’s even more amazing.
I’ve posted some Powerglove before, they do metal covers of cartoon theme music & other great stuff. Their album, Saturday Morning Apocalypse, has some great covers, including the Johnny Quest reboot theme, X-Men, and Batman: The Animated Series. There’s even a video for Batman: The Animated series. Behold!
Dream Evil are some pretty kickass Swedish power metallers. And Fire! Battle! Metal! is a great song. I just wish they did a video for Heavy Metal Jesus.
Also you know a band is rad when the drummer has a name like Pat Power.
3 Inches of Blood have a new music video to go with their kickass Metal Woman. And there’s actual metal-lookin women in the video. It’s pretty rad.
Pretty sure I could listen to the intro to this song nonstop for a week and not get tired of it. Guitarmonies, kickin bass groove intro, everything about it is heavy metal.
Demons & Wizards features guys from Blind Guardian (Rad) and Iced Earth (Rad), making a band that is pretty epic. Their cover of Immigrant Song is fantastic, I definitely prefer it over the Led Zeppelin version. And since I haven’t been smote by lightning or a giant guitar falling from the sky, I feel comfortable in my claim. Here’s one of their songs, Crimson King, it’s totally rad.
DragonForce, the fastest metal band in the universe, has a new album and a new singer. The guy sounds pretty close to the old guy, and really I come for the double kick and the crazy guitar riffs. Anyway, I couldn’t find a kickass “official” video of their new tracks, so here’s one off Ultra Beatdown, Heroes of our Time.
btw, Herman Li is a guitar monster.
Here’s a brandy new video from those Scottish Masters of Pirate Metal, Alestorm. Who knew you could write a 7 minute epic about killing a giant squid.
Revenge is dish best served deep fried.
Here’s a live cut of Wolf performing Venom. More bands like this need to come from the US, so I can actually see them tour.
Powerwolf is a great theme power metal band. The theme being Romanian werewolves & vampires. Fantastic stuff. I was really hoping they did a video for Vampires Don’t Die or Resurrection by Erection, but We Drink Your Blood is a pretty rad song on its own.