The first decade of power metal written by people who had the finished genre as their model, and the records that survive it are the ones that put a clause down of the inheritance: the major chorus, the tenor, earnestness, a band that can play its own album.
By Julien Vasseur
17 October · 11 min read
Genre Histories
A riff about pirates on a Hamburg speed metal record in 1987, a Scottish studio project twenty years later, and a chorus built like a shanty: how pirate metal was made and why the joke holds...
By Julien Vasseur
Essential Albums
The nineties made two incompatible kinds of power metal record inside five years, and what separates them is not speed, country or subject. It is whether the sung line is fastened to the rif...
By Julien Vasseur
Essential Albums
Ten records, and one of them would pass an audition for the genre as it is now described. The 80s power metal albums fail a test that was written out of them afterwards, which is why the dec...
By Julien Vasseur
Eirik Solvang
Black Metal
The Black Metal Records Collectors Chase
Andrzej Sawicki
Blackened Death
Viking, Folk and Everything Else Death Metal Absorbed
Rafael Quintero
Death Metal
The Death Metal Records Collectors Chase
Gareth Llewellyn
Grindcore
The Underrated Sludge Metal Albums
Ilse Brandt
Doom Metal
The Doom Metal Fonts
Declan Rourke
Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal vs Rock
| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | Uhritulet | Ruumissavotta | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Absolute Darkness | Witness To A Dying World | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Turmion KÄtilÖt | Resodance | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Mental Cruelty | Echoes of a Forlorn Land | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Mental Cruelty | Echoes of a Forlorn Land (24-bit HD audio) | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Forbidden | Forbidden | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Entheos | Empty on the Inside | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | After Infinity | Beyond Eternity | Full-length |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Windwaker | smile, you're on camera. | Full-length |
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