Heavy Metal Historian
Episode 32:
After studying the origins and rise of Power Metal, we now turn our focus to the final chapter of our journey into the subgenre: its future. We explore the emergence of a new generation carrying the torch forward into the 21st century, and take a guess at what’s in store for the Future of Power Metal.
Hosted by Greg Davies from Blendover, the Heavy Metal Historian Podcast delivers to you snippets of tales from years gone by in the world of Metal, one episode at a time.
Metal News Links
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GWAR Announces ’30 Years of Total World Domination Tour’
JOURNEY Guitarist NEAL SCHON To Release ‘Vortex’ Album In June
KAMELOT And DRAGONFORCE Caught Up In Baltimore Civil Unrest; Show Rescheduled
MEGADETH Superfan Pays $5,000 For Two-Hour Songwriting Session With DAVE MUSTAINE
New RONNIE JAMES DIO Tribute Album ‘A Light In The Black’ Due In May
SATYRICON’s Covers Album May Include DEAD KENNEDYS’ ‘Holiday In Cambodia’
SCOTT WEILAND attempts to sing STONE TEMPLE PILOTS’ “Vasoline”, and it doesn’t go well…
Recommended Listening:
- “You’re The Voice” by Blind Guardian from At the Edge of Time
- “Pleasure Drone” by Helloween from Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy
- “Elan” by Nightwish from Endless Forms Most Beautiful
- “The Game” by DragonForce from Maximum Overload
- “The Black One” by Masterplan from Time to be King
- “Killing the Dragon” by Dio from Killing the Dragon
- “Kill the King” by Jorn from Dio
- “Cemetery Gates” by Power Quest from Master of Illusion
- “Keelhauled” by Alestorm from Black Sails at Midnight
- “Leave Everything Behind” by Amaranthe from Amaranthe
- “Never Enough” by Epica from The Divine Conspiracy
- “River of Tuoni” by Amberian Dawn from River of Tuoni
- “Angel of Salvation” by Galneryus from Angel of Salvation
- “My Screams” by Mastercastle from The Phoenix
- “Trollhammaren” by Finntroll from Nattfodd
- “Hold the Heathen Hammer High” by TYR from By the Light of the Northern Star
- “Inis Mona” by Eluveitie from Slania
- “Death and the Healing” by Wintersun from Wintersun
- “Blood of the Pure” by ShadowQuest from Armoured IV Pain
- “Mirrorborn” by Terracide from Primordium
- “The Drake Equation” by Helion Prime from The Drake Equation
- “At the End of it All” by Ascendia from The Lion and the Jester
- “Wishing Well” by Black Sabbath from Heaven and Hell
- “L.R.R.H.” by Hollowshell from Imperfect Design