A power metal ballad is a position before it is a song. Where it sits decides what the two tracks touching it can do, whether it was written for the album or for a radio station, and what a band loses the moment it writes a second one.
By Julien Vasseur
23 October · 10 min read
Essential Albums
A power metal song tells a listener how it ends while it is still in its opening bars, so the only craft left to it is subtraction: what comes out of the arrangement between one chorus and t...
By Julien Vasseur
Essential Albums
A decade with more than three years still to run cannot be ranked, because the test a finished decade gets, what later bands stole off these records, is not available yet. So this is a bet w...
By Julien Vasseur
Explainers
The high voice, the dragons, the happy chords, the armour, the speed, the American nineties and the extreme underground: every charge against power metal, what is true in it and where it mis...
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Wolves in the Throne Room | Estuary | Full-length |
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