#uspm

[queenofthemasquerade]

Queensrÿche - Walk in the Shadows

[thethroneislost]

Manilla Road - "Crystal Logic" - 1983 Kansas, US Heavy Metal, USPM

Great!

[azraelwept]

Elric of Melniboné

[ragingsteel666-blog]

"Ballistic"BALLISTIC

思えば1990年代～2000年代のMetal Bladeはオールドスクールメタルの守護者だったんだよな。NEW EDENとかもデビューさせてるし、こんなアイ���ムもリリースしている。アリゾナのバ���ドの2003年唯一のフルアルバム。さすがにここから20年経ってるとバンドは現存しないのかな。OVERKILLのキャッチーさとANNIHILATORのタイトさと技巧性を掛け合わせたような、当時観点でも懐かしいスラッシュ/パワーメタルを聴かせる。中にはAC/DC彷彿曲もあり、わりとファニーな雰囲気も漂っているのでシリアス一直線が好きな人の口には合わないかもだが、でもバンドの代表曲であろう"Gone Ballistic"あたりはUSPM好きにはカッコいいと思うぜと。決して突出したバンド、作品ではないんだけど、たまーに思い出して引っ張り出したくなってくる。そんなアルバム。

[sendmyresignation]

🎸 :)

omg hi sorry i almost missed this ahh!! thank you for the ask ❤️

Say It Isn't So- The Outfield

Fredless- Heavens Gate

Rising Scum- Midnight

Finale- Bikini Kill

I is for Incomplete- Wimp Factor 14

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[imsobadatnicknames2]

The problem with me is that I had a massive power metal phase from like 12 to 18 and I'm mostly over it now but sometimes I still get the urge to explain to people that US Power Metal and European Power Metal ARE two distinct genres but a band doesn't have go be from the US to be USPM nor does it have to be from Europe to be EUPM.

[the-warriors-oath]

The Sword Woman from Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring by Smoulder

A personal favorite of mine from one of the best bands of the USPM revival

[mysteriis-moon666]

IRONFLAME - Kingdom Torn Asunder

Formé en 2016 par le chanteur et multi-instrumentiste Andrew D’CAGNA (ICARUS WITCH, NECHOCHWEN, COLDFELLS, BRIMSTONE COVEN, ancien de DOKFA et de DETHRONED), le cinquième album d'IRONFLAME intitulé « Kingdom Torn Asunder » via High Roller Records est le summum de l'USPM moderne.

Abrégé en USPM le Heavy Metal Américain est plus véloce que le heavy de la NWOBHM puisqu’il intègre du power metal et parfois du speed, avec une approche plus axée sur les riffs et un manque relatif d'utilisation du clavier par rapport à son homologue européen.

Les guerriers du Heavy Metal basé à Martins Ferry, Ohio, USA alternent le heavy de la Vierge de Fer avec celui de Judas, Malice et du teutonique Accept avec du Speed de Riot et le Power Metal mélo d’Helloween (1ère époque).

Des refrains épiques, un liant accrocheur, un mid tempo pour ajourer une lourdeur et accentuer les montées en puissance, un chant étincelant de théâtralité de conteur (Mélange du chasseur de Dragon Ronnie James Dio et de Michael Kiske), l’impact est notable, la flamme Heavy couronner, l’ensemble est hyper fédérateur.

Le riffing est superbe il s’enfouit dans les entrailles de l'album, affiche sa solidité mélodique requise pour répondre aux besoins percussifs de la puissante rythmique, et favorise les lignes vocales. Cette combinaison incarnée par chaque section entre les musiciens donne à l'œuvre une disposition épique et une correspondance avec les puissances ténébreuses. Ce Heavy mélodique de grande saveur dispose en 8 titres évocateurs d’une valeur d’écoutes bien meilleures à chaque fois.

[queenofthemasquerade]

Meanstreak - The Congregation

[thethroneislost]

Iced Earth - "Night of the Stormrider" - 1991 US Thrash Metal, USPM

[norteenlinea]

Helms Deep – Treacherous Ways – (USPM) – (Nameless Grave Records)

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[ragingsteel666-blog]

"Condition Black"SKYLINER

うちにはプログメタルがない。おどろくほどない。ざっと漁ってみたけどイタリアもメロパワの範疇のものばかりでプログレッシ��と呼べるものは、あっても超有名所ばかりである。LABYRINTHとか。

勿論これはDREAM THEATERへの興味の薄さが第一にあるのだが、そもそもの音楽志向がコア寄りなのも大きいのかもしれない。コアなバンドってプログレへの興味もジャズ寄りになるから。逆に言えば、そういう奴ならうちにも色々あります。SHININGとかFATAL OPERAとか日本のZOAとか。でもまあこれらをプログメタルとすると、せんせーでなくとも異議が飛んでくるよなぁそりゃ、とw

そんな事を考えながら棚を漁っていたところ、なんとかありました。ジャズよりではなくプログメタルと呼べそうなものが。そうだ、うちにはSKYLINERがありましたわ。しかもこれ、僕大好き！

基本はパワーメタル寄りのスタイルながら、それまで聴いた事がない感覚に驚かされる。この音楽のメインを担っているギターの表現力が、とにかく多彩で広いのだ。かきむしるようなトーンも特有。それでいて独りよがりさも、ありがちなネオクラシカル性も皆無。突飛なことやってるわけでもないのに、比較対象がない。こういうのを真の個性というのではないか。デビュー作からそんな斬新さがあり凄かったが、この2作目ではさらに磨きをかけている。エクストリームミュージック要素も交えながら、自らの哲学の深淵へと真っ逆さまに降りていく。

このバンドを知ったのは確か10年くらい前、Stormspellのセールの際だったと記憶している。何せレーベルがLimb Music（RHAPSODYやANGRAを輩出したメロスピ最大手）だからね。これは聞かねばと。そして大当たりでした。決して全部が全部当たりというわけではないのだけど、Limb氏の眼のつけどころはやはり他所と違う。

…と、エキサイトしながら聴きながら本文書いたんですけど、冷静に振り返ると、やっぱこれもｺﾚｼﾞｬﾅｲな感じですかね、せんせー…

[makoto-lmk-love]

You said you were from Poland. Name your top 12 favorite Polish songs.🛐🛐🛐🛐

Hey ! hmm tough choice…. but i think it would be top 12 !!!

Macaque: Luna, Makoto why? This is in Polish!! Luna & Makoto : POZMA CIĘ Z MIŁOŚCIĄ NATURALNĄ NIEDOTYKALNĄ I NIEPRZEWIDYWALNĄ !!!(Enej - Symetryczno-Liryczna )

@lunawasntthere @lunawasntthere @lunawasntthere :DDD

1Szara piechta ,

2Skrzydlate ręce,

3adaś. - dessous,

4Poparzeni Kawą - Byłaś dla mnie wszystkim

5Jamal ft. Jambojet, USPM – Policeman

6Kuki - Kolonia Specjalna

7kokaina nie pomaga ci w depresji

8Enej - Kamień z napisem LOVE 

9Enej - Symetryczno-Liryczna 

10Enej - Lili 

11Kuba Wolski - Gdyby był

12Michał Szczygieł - Nic Tu Po Mnie

(I was too lazy to keep looking)

[sendmyresignation]

what do you consider to be the best metal albums of all time? or your favs!

this ask has terrorized me all morning. thank you, and i mean this from the bottom of my heart, for sending it to me so i can talk about metal.

I am going to separate this into best, as in the classics i think hold up the best/are the most complete, and then my favorites (obv there is overlap but i'll ignore it).

Top 5 "Best" Metal Albums- the records you find on retrospectives and blog lists:

Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath. Not only a historic achievement of an album (the definitive point in which metal, for sure, existed) but also, i truly belive the best Sabbath record. The opening track itself is good enough everything else could be joke covers of the beach boys and I'd still put it here (they're also very good though. GOD. the wizard slaps)

Master of Puppets- Metallica. I know. I know. It's just solid all the way through, not a bad track, incredible opener and fantastic instrumental, everyone's said it all.

South of Heaven- Slayer. Again, undeniable. The Slayer record with the most literal heft and, well the closest thing to maturity the asshats of Slayer can achieve. The speed and ferocity of Reigh In Blood is still very good but over in a blink of an eye, while Heaven gives you more to be pummeled by. different kinds of anger.

Don't Break the Oath- Mercyful Fate. One of those true, blue perfect records, while also being beautifully cheesy. Like if a campy 80s movie about naked sacrifices to Satan was... really good with gorgeous cinematography. edges out Melissa by the narrowest margins (production is more suited for their style, giving the guitars an edge and putting the vocals front and center)

Live After Death- Iron Maiden. I love Maiden so much but their albums always have one or two duds. even if they didn't, though, live after death would probably smoke them anyway- it's that good. getting to hear phantom of the opera in dickenson's voice... i like di'anno but that song deserved Theatre

I love all of these records, many of them are what got me into metal so if you are looking for a high-qualiy place to start...

But I'll put my favorites under a read more lmao

These I would consider my top ten favorite albums at this given moment:

Stained Class- Judas Priest (the best priest. to me. i got my pentagram stomach tat on her 45th anniversary <3)

Thundersteel- Riot (rock city might edge this one out but that records barely metal at all. THIS is the pinnacle if power metal- in the old school uspm speedy way. incredible vocals, ripping speed, and its good from start to end)

Rock Goddess- Rock Goddess (something about this record....standard nwobhm fair but there's a surprising variety in the songs emotional center- it's all love and sex but it encapsulates a lot more humanity than most- different kinds of passion, heartbreak, desperation. and it ROCKS)

Operation: Mindcrime- Queensryche (greatest of all time. thee concept album. nothing else to say)

Black Metal- Venom (venom, if you catch me on the right day, is probably my favorite band. i love first wave black metal- it sounds like shit, it's lost all the edge in the intervening years, and yet. and fucking yet. they threw together something special.)

Behind the Realms of Madness- Sacrilege (crusty thrashy goodness. i love everything sacrilege has done, including their doomier late career, but the energy on this is wild. beat out detente on this list so if you like them, youll like sacrilege)

Feel the Fire- Overkill (overkill, by the band overkill, is the best thrash song of all time. well. maybe not but it's fucking undeniable. this overkill has the best energy of any of their albums, even if the others are more well-known)

Darkness Decends- Dark Angel (metal that sounds like shit eats punk that sounds like shit for breakfast)

The Blueprints for Madness- Deceased... (one of my favorite old school death metal records, mostly for the strange grind touches. it could be shorter but damn.)

All Creatures Great and Eaten- Nuclear Death (stands toe-to-toe with mindcrime at the top of my list. strange and depraved in the best possible way. lori bravo is the best to ever do it)

Dommedagsnatt- Thorr's Hammer (im just so enamored with this one- def the record here I've spent the most time on. death/doom done so right)

Sagrada Tierra Del Jaguar- Yaotl Mictlan (the black metal/folk thing usually sucks bc the people making it are white pagan nazis and shit. but, globally, there's been some very cool indigenous bands who have incorporated precolonial music traditions in their black metal as a result. yaotl mictlan, a band with prehispanic themes and instrumentation, is prob my favorite of these bands, easily.)

Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!- Vile Creature (idk why this made me cry but any doom/sludge capable of that deserves a spot on my favorites)

Some new bands that could grow onto this list: Smoulder, Messa, Blood Star, SONJA, Negative Plane, Dilly Dally (rip to the queens), and Melissa!

Anyway! Hopefully this ask gives you, anon, (or anyone for that matter) something new to enjoy :))