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Essential Albums

The Best Power Metal Albums of the 90s

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 riff underneath it or riding clear above a surface laid down to carry it. Eight albums, and the 1999 credit that settled which method the genre kept.

By Julien Vasseur 15 October · 9 min read

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Date Band Album Type
15 Oct 2026 Carnal Desecration Ancient Malediction Full-length
15 Oct 2026 Sundowner Cesspool Full-length
16 Oct 2026 Gloryhammer Space 1993: Wrath of Kor-Virliath Full-length
16 Oct 2026 Insomnium Netherworlds Full-length
16 Oct 2026 Insomnium Netherworlds (24-bit HD audio) Full-length
16 Oct 2026 Carnation Symphony in Flesh Full-length
16 Oct 2026 Shores Of Null Homesick Full-length
16 Oct 2026 Temperance Arcani Full-length
16 Oct 2026 The Keening Devotion Full-length