Power Metal 2010s Albums

Moonglow revisits Avantasia’s metal-opera scale with deeper shading, polished melodies and a stronger sense of story.

BABYMETAL’s third album expands its universe through worldwide musical colors, major guests and a broad light-and-dark design.

Battle Beast's fifth album, from March 2019, the second written around Janne Bjorkroth after Anton Kabanen's departure.

From Hell with Love turns Beast in Black's heavy-metal riffs, eighties synthesizers and science-fiction drama into overwhelmingly catchy songs.

An orchestral album billed to Blind Guardian Twilight Orchestra, released in November 2019: no electric guitars, and a sequel to a Markus Heitz novel.

The major-label debut on avex, made by a line-up that had just gained guitarist AYUMI and drummer NATSUMI.

Hexed places Children of Bodom’s slicing guitar work, high-speed keyboard exchanges and rough-edged vocals back at the front of the mix.

DragonForce's eighth album, from September 2019: part of it was recorded live on Herman Li's Twitch stream, with Epica's Coen Janssen on keyboards.

Dynamind joins Sabine Edelsbacher’s clear, expressive voice to Lanvall’s symphonic writing with unusual precision.

M.E.T.A.L. is Freedom Call’s wholehearted celebration of melodic power metal and the joy of listening to it.

Frozen Crown’s second album joins sharp, melodic-death-inflected riffing to the lift of European power metal.

Into the Purgatory is Galneryus’s twelfth studio album and a strong restatement of the band’s core after its fifteenth anniversary.

Kill or Get Killed unites Iron Savior’s science-fiction imagery, steel-edged riffing and heroic choruses into a single forward drive.

After a long gap, Determinus brings Leverage back with the strength of Scandinavian melodic metal and the song-minded feeling of hard rock at the front.

The second Metalite album, their first for AFM Records and the first with Erica Ohlsson singing. Electronic texture and programmed rhythm move a step forward across its eleven songs, released on 25 October 2019. Marquee issued the Japanese edition on 20 November with "Riders of the Storm" added for twelve.

The Eighth Mountain reconnects Rhapsody of Fire’s fantasy scale with racing power metal through a strongly narrative design.

Talviyö finds Sonata Arctica exploring its present identity through melody, vocal expression and atmosphere rather than simply recreating early speed.

Helix sharpens Amaranthe’s meeting point of modern metal, electronic rock and pop.

Ømni gathers Angra’s fast metal, Brazilian rhythmic identity, classical harmony and progressive construction inside a science-fiction narrative.

Seven songs opening on an instrumental title track, made in the years when the band's reputation in Europe was hardening.

Origins moves Dark Moor away from the science-fiction focus of its predecessor toward Celtic lore and images of nature.

Firesign brings Dynazty’s neoclassical guitar work, speed and extremely catchy melody into a modern, high-impact production.

The Fallen King presents Frozen Crown’s speed, twin-guitar drive and fantasy atmosphere in vivid form from the start.

The sixth album and the last with Iuri Sanson — released weeks after the mass departure was announced, and so the closing chapter of the band's first era.

The Shadow Theory combines Kamelot’s symphonic scale with modern guitar hardness around themes of fear and inner duality.

A four-song, 21-minute mini-album built on the idea of fighting the fate one is handed, including a pair of songs drawn from Rachmaninoff.

Clockwork Immortality expands the speed-metal and power-metal strengths Lovebites showed on their debut into a larger scale.

Onmyo-za's twelfth album, from June 2018, the harder half of a pair released on the same day.

The seventh album, produced by Jens Bogren and a German No. 1 — the turning point that produced “Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend.”

Apocalypse pursues the pleasures of traditional power metal with complete commitment around Ralf Scheepers’ fierce high voice and Mat Sinner’s heavy bass.

An EP put into national distribution on 28 March 2018. The band's own release list describes it as the EP where reading the score of "CADAVER" backwards gives you "REVADAC" — the two title tracks are one piece of music read in both directions. The third track is a live recording from 14 September 2017.

The second full album, in national distribution from 19 September 2018. Thirteen tracks: the two songs of the March EP CADAVER / REVADAC, plus re-recordings of the 2015 single "Wings" and of "Kyobo no Koibito" from the 2014 debut affected. Music videos were made for "Knight of Sword" and "Kizasi", the latter released in both a flat and a VR version.

Berserker is Beast in Black’s explosive debut, fusing power-metal velocity, flashy synthesizer color and eighties-style pop melody in one sweep.

A four-track EP led by the advance single "IGNITE," cut during the band's touring years abroad.

A five-track mini-album that compresses Fuki’s commanding vocals and the Gacharic Spin players’ virtuosity into a heavier, sharper modern loud-rock attack.

DragonForce's seventh album, from May 2017, and their longest studio record, closing its run with the eleven-minute "The Edge of the World".

Six delivers the pleasures of traditional heavy metal in a direct burst of thick riffs and large choruses.

The Great Momentum layers Edenbridge’s symphonic grandeur over the forward force of firm guitar riffs.

Immortals shapes mythic storytelling into Firewind’s fast power metal and dramatic melody.

Ultimate Sacrifice concentrates Galneryus’ fast guitar, flowing keyboards and expansive vocals into high-tension power metal in which drama and melody, not technicality, stay at the centre.

Reforged – Riding on Fire revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording period.

Architecture of a God weaves progressive development and classically colored guitar into Labyrinth’s power-metal drive.

Awakening from Abyss introduces Lovebites with a remarkably complete union of speed, precise twin guitars, soaring vocals and large melodic payoff.

The 2017 debut mini-album, cut with a Finnish engineering team and pressed as a strictly limited 3,000-copy run.

PumpKings revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording period.

The debut album, released by Inner Wound Recordings on 27 October 2017. These are the first eleven songs of the band guitarist Edwin Premberg and vocalist Emma Bensing started, with Jacob Hansen producing. Rubicon Music released the Japanese edition on 20 December with a piano version added for twelve.

Phoenix refines Nocturnal Rites’ Scandinavian melodic-metal strengths through hard riffs, clear vocal lines and thick, uplifting choruses.

Maximalism lets Amaranthe stack multiple vocal styles, electronic texture, hard guitar riffs and immediate melody without restraint.

Ghostlights gathers guest vocalists, symphonic color, hard-rock accessibility and power-metal velocity into one broad narrative.

BABYMETAL’s second album turns global momentum into power metal, metalcore and progressive scale, confirming the group’s strength.

The first full album, four years in — and the source of four of the six songs re-cut for 2025's Reborn 2013-2016.

Urban Night naturally joins Cyntia’s urban pop instinct to the sharp guitar edge of heavy metal.