Before power metal, what music did they play if they want to sing about fantasy themes about slaying dragons or being seduced by mermaids? Did they only play hippie prog rock? What if they didn’t want to play that sort of music?
>>130502497Space rock, progrssive rock and psychedelic rock mostly.
>>130502497Uriah Heep which was esrly 70s hard rock
>>130502497Krautrock
>>130502497Duh
>>130502497Yes there is a lot of fantasy themed prog. Pic related has a pre-Mötorhead Lemmy Kilmister on bass and a big booby exotic dancer I would get banned for posting named Stacia on tits. The album itself is pretty ok, I guess.
>>130502497rush and led zeppelin sang about middle earth
>>130503114>Stacia on titsKek
>>130502497>What if they didn’t want to play that sort of music?I don't think those people existed, if you were a LOTR dork you liked prog and hippie music and vice versa
I love power metal but don't care about Helloween at all, is that sacrilege? of the supposed big four, Blind Guardian, and Stratovarius are incredible and are still thriving, Gamma Ray is decent early on.
>>130502533>>130502548>>130502841>>130503114>>130503261back in the 70s weren’t all hippie hard and prog rock intertwined with one another?
>>130502548Are they good? Is any of this stuff in the thread good? I am intrigued by the idea
Black Sabbath has song from their first album released in 1970 called The Wizard based on The Lord of the Rings.
>>130502497psychedelic (hard) rock
Wagner was literally that but in the 19th century
>>130502497>band called Helloween >not spooky or about Halloween at allI never understood this
>>130506830yes, kind of
>>130507086Is it really based off that? I heard it was about their drug dealer. or just a generic wizard
>>130506247Not that weird, Blind Guardian and Helloween are pretty different actually, I could have predicted you'd like BG if you're a power metal fan who doesn't like Helloween
>>130506830Mostly. Some prog was very soft and more jazzy (Canterbury scene comes to mind) and some hard rock was more bluesy and would kick nerds' asses
>>130507908King Diamond might be more your speed>>130506847Honestly I feel like they're a bit bloated albumswise, but there are some good cuts here and there.
>>130507908I do like king diamond much more. Best Halloween metal song is Samhain by pagan altar
>>130507908Huh?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6fLKRp7M2c
>>130502497Hard rock like Rainbow and some tracks from early Riot did that and the reason metal evolved a fairy tale/fantasy element pretty much stems from hard rock/early metal bands like themSome prog kinda explored it too but prog wants to be "different" so they obviously didn't stick to it too often.
>>130509690Also Sabbath made a song about Gandalf in their debut album
>>130503114Assault and battery is one of the best songs ever
>>130502497psychfolk-era T Rex would conjure up Tolkien worlds with simple 3 chord folk songs and some bongos, absolute kino
