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yea, it's the arrogance what pisses me off the most

oh ya, also this week I got two big chances to paint big smiles on my face... when I was driving my uncle - a totally soft music guy who listens mostly to spanish rock(mana, eros ramazotti) - to buy some stuff we needed for my grannie's b-day party, and I had Avantasia's Metal Opera pt. I playing in my stereo and he asked me who was that band, because he LIKED IT. Also today earlier my friend - a grunge anti-metal b*****d - was at my house and I had some Helloween being played on my computer, and my friend was really headbanging to the sound of it... I felt really good seeing people accept metal! whee

try buying the black halo by Kamelot, the case is made of cardboard xp

My luck is that it will catch fire as soon as I get home

I hear no joke there, it is an awesome song from a talented band. i like what I heard. I think a band is entitled to some comedy or some wierdness, as long as they have the talent. Kiss, Twisted Sister and Maiden can put on an outrageous stage show, but they have the talent. SOAD tries to be so political, so cool, but they need the talent first. I think that was great.

As for Maiden, Priest, Dio etc.
Iron Maiden is probably cited in the influences of of every power metal band. They really jump started it, as they did with most every genre, almost all our bands today can trace their influences to Maiden, ESPECIALLY Power metal. The others also have a strong influence on all our bands, I think Halford's high pitched singing as in Screaming For Vengeance is a heavy influence on Power Metal.

And finally, for my rant:
DragonForce
Great band, yes, great guitars, yes, awesome sound, yes, but the best power metal band, no. Everyone loves DragonForce, but has never even heard of Gamma Ray, or sometimes even Helloween. It is sort of upsetting that Power Metal is virtually underground in America, and still not huge in Europe. There are only a handfull of Full-on Power Metal, and not that many more strongly influenced by it, and they are all virtually unknown, especially in my generation. I asked my friend, who proudly displays his DragonForce shirt, what he thought about Helloween, and he had barely heard of them, and when I asked if he knew who Gamma Ray was, he said no. I am so lucky to have my Uncle, a virtual athority on metal. If he hasn't heard of it, it isn't worth listening to. He is the reason I am into Metal, and the only reason I know so much about it. I give DragonForce a lot of credit for familiarizing everyone with Power Metal, but I have my complaints about them. ZP has awesome emotion and power to his voice, but doesn't have the greatest voice. Herman uses too many effects, plain and simple. Pac Man? come on, what serious guitaristuses it? But I guess when you are that talented, you can do whatever you want. But, Power metal doesn't recieve enough credit.

Sorry that this post is so long, but I had a lot to say.

A friend of mine recently said that DragonForce are better than Blind Guardian. I tried to point out to him how false this was but he refuses to believe me. The vocals of ZP Theart in no way match those of Hansi Kürsch. And even without taking vocals into account, Blind Guardian are still so much better. I was insulted that he thought otherwise.
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Keeping in mind that he's my friend, I don't think that's particularly the right course of action sweatdrop
But yeah, I'll make him see how wrong he was somehow-Hansi Kürsch's vocals really own like biggrin
And yeah, Blind Guardian are well better than DragonForce.

I got someone wicked into Angra over the course of this week.