A Top 100 Power Metal Albums List by Rexorcist
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Genre: Power Metal
This list is based on my personal genre tree
* Power Metal
** Melodic Power Metal
** Prog Power Metal
** Symphonic Power Metal
NOT COUNTED BUT POSSIBLY FEATURED: US Power Metal
100 / Germany
PM, Melodic PM
100 / USA
PM, USPM, Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal
100 / Japan
Melodic PM, Prog PM, Neoclassical Metal
100 / Italy
Symphonic PM, Melodic PM, Metal Opera
100 / Finland
Melodic PM
100 / Germany
Melodic PM
100 / Germany (Live)
PM, Speed Metal
100 / Denmark
Prog PM, Melodic PM, Folk Metal
100 / USA
Melodic PM, Metal Opera
100 / Sweden
Melodic PM
100 / Germany
PM
99 / USA
USPM, PM, Speed Metal
99 / USA
Melodic PM, Metal Opera
99 / Germany
PM
100 / Germany
Melodic PM, Metal Opera
98 / Germany
PM, Melodic PM
98 / Italy
Symphonic PM, Melodic PM, Metal Opera
It's true that as far as theme goes, this album doesn't really offer anything new. Instead, it focuses on what Rhapsody had already set up and let the focus shift to making this the perfect ending to a five-album series of a fantasy opera. The bombast never gets in the way of the musical technicality, which allows the classical / neoclassical aspects to blow out at full force.
98 / Sweden
PM
The second and final album of one of the best power metal bands ever, this one just slightly tops the debut with a heavier focus on everything that made the debut so good: the badassery and the melody. These guys gave it their all and it showed. It might be a little samey near the end, but it certainly isn't frontloaded. This album is a STANDARD set for the rest of the power metal world.
98 / Finland
Symphonic PM
Some of the most beautiful power metal melodies are boasted on Oceanborn. Nightwish are like Symphony X in the sense that they needed a couple of albums to perfect their craft. Once they did, they were no longer just notable for having a female vocalist who sounded like an opera singer. Many of these riffs and melodies are dense, beautiful and outrageous to the point where you're practically sucked into the album's mythos; perfect for the cheese fan and purely magical in essence.
98 / Germany
PM
97.5 / Germany
PM
97.5
Metal Opera, Melodic PM
97
PM, Speed Metal
97 / Germany
PM
97 / Italy
Symphonic PM, Melodic PM, Metal Opera
97 / Germany
PM, Heavy Metal
97 / Hungary
Symphonic PM, Melodic PM, Folk Metal
98 / Germany
Melodic PM
98 / GermanyControversial among diehard Blind Guardian fans for being overproduced, this doesn't change the fact that this album has some of the best tunes Blind Guardian ever made. Though a little frontloaded, this is their most operatic and unpredictable release without steering too far into pretentious territory like Rhapsody-knockoffs around the world do.
97 / Italy
Prog PM
96 / Germany
PM, Heavy Metal
96 / USA
PM, Heavy Metal, USPM
96 / Germany
PM, Speed Metal
97 / Japan
Melodic PM
96 / Finland (Live)
Symphonic PM, Symphonic Metal
96 / Denmark
Prog PM, Melodic PM
96 / Germany
Speed Metal, PM
96 / Hungary
Melodic PM, Folk Metal
96 / USA
Melodic PM
96 / Japan
PM
96 / Germany
PM
96 / Finland
Melodic PM
96 / USA
Christian Metal, Prog PM
96 / Germany
PM, Heavy Metal
97 / Sweden
PM
95 / Germany
PM
95 / Germany
PM, Heavy Metal
95 / Germany
Melodic PM
95 / Finland (Live)
Melodic PM
96 / Germany
Speed Metal, PM
96 / Japan
Prog PM, Melodic PM
95 / Sweden
Melodic PM
95 / USA
PM, Heavy Metal, US Power Metal
95 / Germany
Melodic PM
95 / Italy
Melodic PM, Prog PM
95 / USA
PM, US Power Metal, Heavy Metal
95 / Italy
Folk Metal, Melodic PM
95 / Germany
Speed Metal, PM
95 / Germany
Power Metal, HM
97
USPM, PM, Heavy Metal
95 / USA
PM, Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, US Power Metal
95 / Italy
Prog PM
94 / USA
PM, US Power Metal, Heavy Metal
94 / Germany
Melodic PM
94 / Germany (Live)
PM
94 / Italy
Symphonic PM, Melodic PM, Metal Opera
93.5 / Finland
Melodic PMM
93 / Sweden
Melodic PM
93 / USA (Live)
US Power Metal, PM, Heavy Metal
93 / USA
PM, Heavy Metal
93 / Italy
Folk Metal, Melodic PM
93 / USA (Live)
PM, Heavy Metal, US Power Metal
93 / Germany
PM, Speed Metal
93 / Finland
Symphonic PM
93 / Denmark
Prog PM, Melodic PM
92.5 / Italy
Symphonic PM
92.5 / USA
PM, US Power Metal, Neoclassical Metal
92.5 / Brazil
Symphonic PM, PM
92.5 / Germany
Speed Metal, PM
92.5 / USA
PM, Heavy Metal, US Power Metal
92 / Germany
PM
92 / Japan
Melodic PM
92 / Finland
Symphonic PM, Symphonic Metal
92 / Sweden
Melodic PM
92
Symphonic PM
92 / USA
Heavy Metal, PM, US Power Metal, Metal Opera
92 / Germany
Melodic PM
92 / Germany
PM, Heavy Metal
92 / Germany
PM, Heavy Metal
92 / Germany
PM
92 / USA
PM, Heavy Metal
92 / Finland
Symphonic PM, Symphonic Metal
93 / USA
Prog PM
92 / Germany
PM, Heavy Metal
92 / USA
PM, Heavy Metal, US Power Metal