Power Metal 2000s Albums - Page 2

Rocket Ride keeps Edguy rooted in fast power metal while bringing glam and hard-rock color, humor, and big hooks much further forward.

Allegiance brings together Gus G’s cutting guitar, forward-driving rhythm, and Apollo Papathanasio’s powerful vocal.

Beyond the End of Despair... combines Galneryus’s fast rhythm section, Syu’s fluid guitar, and YAMA-B’s high-reaching vocal.

Tides is Leverage’s debut, combining thick guitar riffs, low-centered rhythm, and expansive vocals.

Savage Souls puts Mystic Prophecy’s low, cutting riffs, hard rhythms, and forceful vocal delivery in the foreground.

Triumph or Agony combines orchestra, choir, symphonic keyboards, and fast guitar to build Rhapsody of Fire’s fantasy world.

The Battle centers the record on the contrasting vocal personalities of Russell Allen and Jorn Lande.

Are You Dead Yet? puts sharp guitar, flashy keys and Alexi Laiho’s rough vocal delivery at the front.

Beyond the Sea combines shimmering keyboards, neoclassical guitar and storybook melody into a fantasy-minded record.

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The Circle of Life layers lively twin guitar, bright keys and massed chorus hooks into celebratory power metal.

Advance to the Fall stacks fast twin guitar, bright keyboard work and soaring high vocals into a vivid power-metal record.

Majestic runs on fast guitar, bright melody and Kai Hansen’s forceful vocal drive.

Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy uses fast twin guitar, dramatic keys and Andi Deris’s voice to frame an expansive double-album statement.

The Black Halo layers dark riffs and symphonic arrangement around Roy Khan’s expressive voice.

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Aeronautics builds its dramatic melodic metal around heavy guitars, organ-like keys and Jorn Lande’s commanding voice.

Grand Illusion sets tightly chugging guitar and steady rhythm beneath soaring vocals.

Church organ, an operatic voice and straight-driving riffs: the debut on which Powerwolf's style is already assembled.

Seven Seals puts tightly chugging guitar, driving drums and Ralf Scheepers’s high vocal power at the front.

Reason builds a dramatic sound around Andre Matos’s soaring voice, thick keys and classically colored guitar.

Stratovarius uses hard guitar, restrained keys and Timo Kotipelto’s voice to create a darker power-metal profile.

Divinity brings together thick guitars, bright keyboards and soaring vocals in a focused Altaria record.

Temple of Shadows combines fast guitar, classical arrangement, Brazilian rhythmic color and soaring vocals to tell a story on a large scale.

The Book of Heavy Metal uses thick riffs, racing beat and proud choruses to state Dream Evil’s love of heavy metal without hesitation.

Shine layers clear vocals, bright keyboards and heavy guitar to create Edenbridge’s fantastical soundscape.

Hellfire Club combines racing rhythm, thick guitars and theatrical choruses on a grand Edguy scale.

A debut eight years in the making, home to "Steel Lord on Wheels" — the record that carried Brazilian power metal abroad.

Battering Ram joins metallic guitar riffs, machine-precise rhythm and powerful vocals in classic Iron Savior fashion.

Never-Ending connects low, heavy riffs, powerful vocals and commanding choruses in a direct Mystic Prophecy statement.

Once unites heavy guitar, large-scale orchestra and operatic vocal power into a cinematic Nightwish statement.

New World Messiah gathers fast twin-guitar lines, steady rhythm and commanding vocals into a focused Nocturnal Rites statement.

Devil’s Ground connects heavy guitar, a solid rhythmic foundation and piercing high-register vocals in the most direct Primal Fear manner.

Symphony of Enchanted Lands II layers fast guitar, grand orchestra, choir and narration to build a vast fantasy world in sound.

Reckoning Night brings fast keyboard work, sharp guitars and soaring vocals together in dramatic Sonata Arctica power metal.

Plague-House Puppet Show uses hard guitar, bright keyboards and light-footed vocals to create colorful Twilightning melodic metal.

Invitation uses fast guitar, glittering keyboards and powerful vocals to make bright, dramatic Finnish power metal.

Hate Crew Deathroll throws sharp guitar, urgent keyboards and harsh vocals together at high speed.

Dark Moor uses fast guitar, classical-flavored keyboards and thick chorus work to draw the color of symphonic power metal.

Evilized puts thick riffs, forceful vocals and crowd-ready choruses at the front of a pure heavy-metal statement.

Aphelion layers clear vocals, glittering keyboards and heavy guitar to balance elegance with strength.

Burning Earth joins thick riffs, fast rhythm and neoclassical lead guitar in heavy, aggressive power metal.

The Flag of Punishment combines neoclassical guitar, fast rhythm and soaring high vocals into vivid power metal.

Rabbit Don’t Come Easy returns Helloween to the pleasure of fast riffs, bright melody and choruses made to be sung.