Power Metal 2010s Albums - Page 2

Titancraft delivers Iron Savior’s science-fiction world and thick-riffed German power metal with complete confidence.

War Brigade puts Mystic Prophecy’s thick guitar riffs and forceful beat at the front of a combative power-metal record.

Rulebreaker assembles Primal Fear’s hard-edged riffs, piercing high vocals and heavy rhythm with great precision.

Into the Legend unites Rhapsody of Fire’s fantasy storytelling, orchestral grandeur and racing power metal.

The Ninth Hour presents Sonata Arctica’s lyrical melody and storytelling in more measured structures.

Stormcrow combines Cain’s Offering’s clear vocals, shining keyboards and guitar lines that sing alongside the melody.

I Worship Chaos preserves Children of Bodom’s fast riffs, neoclassical keyboard flair and sharp vocals while presenting a darker, tighter character.

Woman gathers Cyntia’s bright, extended vocals, technical guitar work and sparkling keyboards into accessible melody.

Project X uses Dark Moor’s symphonic keyboards, classical-leaning melody and refined vocals to create power metal rich in narrative feeling.

Under the Force of Courage builds Galneryus’s fast twin guitars, precise rhythm and soaring high vocals into a large-scale drama.

My God-Given Right fills Helloween’s power metal with racing riffs, bright melody and a touch of playful humor.

A self-titled fifth album that cuts its song titles down to single words and strips the arrangements to match.

Haven connects Kamelot’s dark symphonic-metal atmosphere, detailed guitar work, melancholy melody and dramatic vocal expression.

Endless Forms Most Beautiful overlays Nightwish’s symphonic-metal grandeur with a gaze toward nature, life and science.

The sixth album, home to “Army of the Night” and “Armata Strigoi” — blessing and possession set against each other in the most direct terms yet.

Eternal presents Stratovarius’s power-metal tradition through charging beats, shining keyboards, soaring vocals and thick choruses.

Underworld connects Symphony X’s progressive-metal rhythm complexity and traditional heavy-metal weight to dramatic vocal melody.

The Great Divide centers on two distinctive vocal personalities, supported by grand keyboards, thick guitars and the drama of melodic metal.

Massive Addictive sends Amaranthe’s multiple vocal voices, electronic textures and heavy guitars racing across one another.

Secret Garden joins Angra’s progressive construction, Brazilian rhythmic sense and classically shaped melody.

The debut album that collided idol pop with extreme metal language and introduced kawaii metal as a worldwide surprise.

Limit Break combines Cyntia’s sparkling keyboards, soaring vocals and sharp twin guitars into melodic metal with real speed.

Renatus keeps Dynazty’s melodic hard-rock foundation but moves decisively toward sharper riffs and power-metal momentum.

Space Police: Defenders of the Crown mixes Edguy’s oversized melodies, hard-rock swing and playful humor.

Beyond fills Freedom Call’s world with light-catching melodies, fast rhythms and choruses made for collective singing.

Vetelgyus mobilizes Galneryus’s virtuosic guitar and keyboards, soaring high vocals and precise rhythm work.

Empire of the Undead delivers Gamma Ray’s power metal with fast riffs, clear melodies and a cosmic sense of scale.

Rise of the Hero is power metal built from hard-edged riffs, mechanical momentum and large, heroic choruses.

Delivering the Black unites Primal Fear’s cutting twin guitars, forceful high vocals and heavy rhythm section.

Ecliptica Revisited: 15th Anniversary Edition revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording

Pariah’s Child brings Sonata Arctica’s fast rhythms, keyboard color and bittersweet melodies to the front.

Light of Dawn carefully joins Unisonic’s rich vocal melodies to hard-edged guitar work.

The Nexus sends clean vocals, harsh vocals, electronic texture and heavy guitars across one another at high speed.

The Mystery of Time uses multiple vocalists, thick choirs and symphonic arrangement to tell a large-scale rock-opera story.

The first mini album, out the year after the band formed; "Pray" and "Wing Of Hope" were still worth re-cutting twelve years later.

Halo of Blood puts Children of Bodom’s slicing riffs, high-speed keyboard exchanges and rough vocals in the foreground.

Lady Made combines sparkling keyboards, fluent twin guitars and soaring vocals to put melodic metal’s brightness in full view.

Ars Musica builds a fantasy-metal world through classically shaped melody, symphonic keyboards and elegant guitar work.

The Bonding combines weighty orchestration, transparent vocals and lyrical guitar to create grand symphonic metal.

Straight Out of Hell delivers power metal’s exhilaration through fast rhythm, bright sharp guitars and soaring choruses.

A fourth album with new guitarist Renato Osorio and a move to AFM Records — and once again the Japanese edition came out first.

Novum Initium combines thick guitar riffs, classically colored keyboards and dramatic choruses to deliver traditional melodic metal with force.

Killhammer stacks sharp guitar riffs, heavy rhythm and forceful vocals to deliver Mystic Prophecy’s hard-edged power metal.