This is a list of my favorite albums with less than 150 votes. The ordering is done by approximate preference. Bands may only have one entry on the list and no entries will come from the current calendar year. All of these albums are terrific and deserve to be listened to so do yourself a favor and check out these albums if the description intrigues you. **Last Update 08/16/11**

1.Ghost Brigade - Guided By Fire

2.Slumber - Fallout

3.Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome

4.Persefone - Core

5.Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion

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Since many of you felt annoyed by my previous list title I changed it and hopefully you will be ok with it.Power up everybody!!!

1.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

4.Riot - ThunderSteel

5.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

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A list for power metal bands and albums, which are sadly overlooked by the majority, but are highly deserving much more attention. That means obviously that this is no place for the genres biggest and most well known acts, like Blind Guardian, Helloween, Sabaton or the likes.
This list is ever progressing, so feel free to suggest as many bands as they come up in your mind. I will check them out and then decide if they need to be included or not.
The only requirements: They should be quite well hidden in the metal world and not only be extraordinary good but also really something else (I obviously don't want to fill this list with a bunch of unknown, but average, generic and thousand times copied plastic power metal bands).
This list is ordered by my personal impressions.

1.Crom - Vengeance

2.Wuthering Heights - The Shadow Cabinet

3.Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning

4.Dol Ammad - Ocean Dynamics

5.Eldritch - El Niño

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The most beautiful and awesome vocal duets (within bands or guest appearances) I ever heard in my life...
Any Suggestions are welcomed!

1.Kamelot - The Black Halo

2.Anathema - A Natural Disaster

3.Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

4.Within Temptation - Black Symphony

5.Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer

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AWesomest power metal albums I've heard in my life and Enjoy the most (and some which are extreme power which didnt feel right not to put them here..!), probably not ordered in the most right way...!!

1.Kamelot - The Black Halo

2.Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica

3.Dark Moor - Autumnal

4.Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes

5.Stratovarius - Visions

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A collection of metal albums that heavily use the likes of classical instrumentation, orchestral, opera or/and symphonic keyboard synths. Suggestions/Recommendations are welcome.

1.Adagio - Underworld

2.Aesma Daeva - Dawn Of The New Athens

3.After Forever - Decipher

4.Almôra - Kalihora's Song

5.Ancient Bards - The Alliance Of The Kings

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sometimes we need to calm down, lost in the strains of the lyrics, and feel how wonderful metal music it is. (I only wrote one song for one band)

1.Dark Moor - The Gates Of Oblivion

2.DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage

3.Helloween - Master Of The Rings

4.Gamma Ray - To The Metal

5.Rhapsody Of Fire - Triumph Or Agony

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This is a list of all the power metal albums I have listened to that are worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is not meant to be a definitive guide to power metal or a binding judgment on what power metal is or is not. The list exists purely for my own organizational purposes and may contain bands or albums that are not strictly True Knights of the Eternal Thundersword.

The first cluster includes my favorite albums in the genre (and a significant number of my all-time favorites); beyond that, they are listed by rating from 9/10 down to 6/10 and alphabetically within each bracket.

Last updated November 27, 2021.

1.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

4.Jag Panzer - Thane To The Throne

5.X Japan - Art Of Life

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This is how I saw the past year. Of course I haven't heard everything, but out of albums I encountered, these are the winners. Created at 4 January 2010, no further changes adjusted.

1.Kalisia - Cybion

2.Ensiferum - From Afar

3.Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel

4.Umbrtka - Úplná Demontá? Lidstva

5.Wardruna - Runaljod-Gap Var Ginnunga

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Mostly power metal and progressive metal

1.Blind Guardian - And Then There Was Silence

2.Kamelot - Memento Mori

3.Turisas - Miklagard Overture

4.Angra - Morning Star

5.Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning

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1.Cain's Offering - Gather The Faithful

2.Skywings - The Advent Melody

3.Heavenly - Carpe Diem

4.Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning

5.Axxis - Utopia

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1.Epica - Design Your Universe

2.Celesty - Vendetta

3.Heavenly - Carpe Diem

4.Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning

5.Saint Deamon - Pandeamonium

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working on the final review

1.Cain's Offering - Gather The Faithful

2.Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays

3.Amorphis - Skyforger

4.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

5.Shakra - Everest

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1.Celesty - Vendetta

2.Heavenly - Carpe Diem

3.Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning

4.Dark Moor - Autumnal

5.HammerFall - No Sacrifice, No Victory

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1.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

2.Epica - Design Your Universe

3.While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose

4.Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

5.Týr - By The Light Of The Northern Star

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