At 12/16/09 09:10 PM, mothballs wrote:
Don't really care about the cheesiness,
Well that's all metal really.
I just never saw any emotion or energy in it.
You've apparently only listened to Dragonforce, Manowar, Iced Earth and Hammerfall.
Most power metal has a LOT of emotion and energy in it.
Sonata Arctica is a prime example, every single song they wrote you can tell the singer(Tony) put his heart and soul into writing the lyrics and singing them.
IMO Power Metal is the only genre of metal where MOST of the bands put emotion into, all other genres of metal only some bands do. (Whose going to tell me that thrash metal bands that write about murder are putting emotions other than angst into their song writing?)
And also, basically ALL power metal bands do a ton of moving around, solos, hair flippage and the works at shows if you ever went to one with a power metal band.
It's just not brutal enough at all.
Brutal = / = Good.
You could argue that Slipknot are brutal.