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Post by Victor on May 20, 2019 9:42:56 GMT
Helloween is a power metal band...only had some trash influences on the first two albums...but that aside, it's a pretty good cover I think. There was a band who recorded a few of their tracks some time ago in a trashy version, Godslave, and although not sounding bad they were less faithful to the originals then this one from Helloween.. That's a very close cover apart from the Muppetts vocals, and i can take that in small doses for its sincerity. What a good song that is!
Here is another one they covered, Little Lady...vocals of course are nothing like Quo...but it's pretty faithful to the original and worked out pretty good I think... they made an ep called Whatever we want which has covers of Too Far Gone, Little Lady, Down Down, Is there a better way and Caroline Godslave - Cover of Little Lady |
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Post by MrWaistcoat on May 20, 2019 10:15:05 GMT
VictorThanks , didn't know about the Godslave tribute. Like the artwork - whatever we want! I'm not sure I really understand "power metal" as a term. I think it started to develop in the 90's, not much new (Nu ?) metal has appealed to me since then. Feels like there's more categories of metal now than there are decent new bands! Now I just sound old lol Don't remember Gamma Ray having a following in the UK so they passed me by. I'll download an album and give em a go - which one would you suggest?
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Post by Victor on May 20, 2019 10:26:02 GMT
MrWaistcoat From Gamma Ray I'd suggest No World Order, Somewhere out in space and Majesty...but I like all their albums, those three are my favorites though, especially No world order Yea, I know the problem of the many many metal categories and quite often they overlap...for instance Melodic death metal who put in power metal influences or the other way around, folk- and powermetal combined, trash and power combined... it can be quite overwhelming if you're not really into metal
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Post by Victor on May 20, 2019 10:27:36 GMT
Oh and powermetal got a lot of stuff from Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and bands like that and just added melody, speed and more things, some become even epic/symphonic
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on May 20, 2019 15:29:50 GMT
"... the first couple of albums were a bit hard to take but the ones after that I do enjoy quite a bit. ...."
That reminds me of Marvin in the car park ... "The first million years were the worst. The second million years, they were the worst too. After that I went into a bit of a decline!" Some of those covers look really interesting, must have a listen. |
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on May 20, 2019 15:33:39 GMT
Oh and powermetal got a lot of stuff from Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and bands like that and just added melody, speed and more things, some become even epic/symphonic
Not sure how you add melody and speed to Maiden ...  and they've got 3 guitarists and a secret keyboardist already
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on May 20, 2019 15:35:36 GMT
Victor Thanks , didn't know about the Godslave tribute. Like the artwork - whatever we want! I'm not sure I really understand "power metal" as a term. I think it started to develop in the 90's, not much new (Nu ?) metal has appealed to me since then. Feels like there's more categories of metal now than there are decent new bands! Now I just sound old lol Don't remember Gamma Ray having a following in the UK so they passed me by. I'll download an album and give em a go - which one would you suggest?
I have a bit of trouble with categories too ... I would have thought "thrash metal" meant "Ace of Spades" but apparently it's Cookie Monster metal. <puzzled>
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Post by ant on May 20, 2019 15:37:47 GMT
I prefer this version
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Post by Victor on May 20, 2019 18:09:45 GMT
Oh and powermetal got a lot of stuff from Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and bands like that and just added melody, speed and more things, some become even epic/symphonic
Not sure how you add melody and speed to Maiden ... and they've got 3 guitarists and a secret keyboardist already
Have a listen to Some of Blind Guardian's work or gamma ray's work...and there are bands that add a lot more speed to that, believe me ! |
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Post by Victor on May 20, 2019 18:12:51 GMT
Victor Thanks , didn't know about the Godslave tribute. Like the artwork - whatever we want! I'm not sure I really understand "power metal" as a term. I think it started to develop in the 90's, not much new (Nu ?) metal has appealed to me since then. Feels like there's more categories of metal now than there are decent new bands! Now I just sound old lol Don't remember Gamma Ray having a following in the UK so they passed me by. I'll download an album and give em a go - which one would you suggest?
I have a bit of trouble with categories too ... I would have thought "thrash metal" meant "Ace of Spades" but apparently it's Cookie Monster metal. <puzzled>
Well...Lemmy himself has often called his own music rock and roll... a loud form of it.... I think one of the problems with categories is that everyone has their own definition of what belongs in which category whoever came up with... |
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Post by viza on May 20, 2019 20:57:27 GMT
Yes, this is better but it can't compete to the original. Maybe some of you won't agree, but I think Quo's version is the heaviest, don't bee fooled of the rawness and overgained guitars on these covers. Also this makes me realise how good instrumentalists FF really were. It's hard to keep it simple but still interesting. |
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Post by gav on May 20, 2019 22:23:27 GMT
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Post by Victor on May 20, 2019 23:25:22 GMT
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jun 8, 2019 11:08:12 GMT
MrWaistcoat From Gamma Ray I'd suggest No World Order, Somewhere out in space and Majesty...but I like all their albums, those three are my favorites though, especially No world order Yea, I know the problem of the many many metal categories and quite often they overlap...for instance Melodic death metal who put in power metal influences or the other way around, folk- and powermetal combined, trash and power combined... it can be quite overwhelming if you're not really into metal Tried but couldn't get into Gamma Ray. It sounds like I'd have really liked it when I was 20. Still like the metal I always liked, but find I have less patience now for getting into the unfamiliar |
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Post by Victor on Jun 8, 2019 15:02:08 GMT
MrWaistcoat From Gamma Ray I'd suggest No World Order, Somewhere out in space and Majesty...but I like all their albums, those three are my favorites though, especially No world order Yea, I know the problem of the many many metal categories and quite often they overlap...for instance Melodic death metal who put in power metal influences or the other way around, folk- and powermetal combined, trash and power combined... it can be quite overwhelming if you're not really into metal Tried but couldn't get into Gamma Ray. It sounds like I'd have really liked it when I was 20. Still like the metal I always liked, but find I have less patience now for getting into the unfamiliar At least you tried and that's a good thing  Strange how things can develop though, I find I got more open to new and unfamiliar music as I get older. |
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and they've got 3 guitarists and a secret keyboardist already 
Strange how things can develop though, I find I got more open to new and unfamiliar music as I get older.