Power Metal Albums - Page 2

The tenth studio album and Powerwolf's fourth German No. 1 — choir and organ intact, every song routed to its chorus by the shortest path.

Challenge the Wind brings RHAPSODY OF FIRE’s grand orchestration, racing rhythm, and heroic-story melody to the front without hesitation.

Clear Cold Beyond sees SONATA ARCTICA steering firmly back toward the rush of Nordic melodic power metal.

Cycles of Pain turns ANGRA’s Brazilian color, progressive construction and power-metal lift into one extended drama.

A concept album announcing BABYMETAL’s return through ten parallel worlds of reflection, loss and renewal.

A live album from the band's London show — and the record whose release moved their Japanese home to IYT RECORDS.

Call of the North puts FROZEN CROWN’s bright twin-guitar harmonies and relentless speed at the front of an epic power-metal charge.

Between Dread and Valor compresses new songs, instrumentals and a re-recording into a special GALNERYUS release with the density of a short, sharp statement.

Firestar reignites IRON SAVIOR’s blend of cosmic narrative and straight-ahead German power metal.

The Awakening is KAMELOT’s first studio record in five years and brings its symphonic shadows, progressive construction and dramatic melodies into especially clear focus.

Judgement Day introduces LOVEBITES with Fami in the lineup and drives forward with speed, precise ensemble playing and big melodic payoff.

Hellriot connects MYSTIC PROPHECY’s heavy rhythmic chug directly to fist-raising choruses.

A ninth album that gathers new songs and unreleased material as a bridge to the next chapter, with a covers disc by befriended bands on the deluxe editions.

Code Red lines up PRIMAL FEAR’s tank-like riffs with Ralf Scheepers’ soaring high voice and refuses to compromise either element.

A one-track digital single issued on 1 April 2023. The song had been written for the singer Tokoyami Towa under sponsorship by Nissin's Yakisoba U.F.O.; this is Unlucky Morpheus playing it themselves, the band whose Shiren composed it and whose Fuki wrote the words.

After a long absence, Altaria return with Wisdom, a record that presents bright Scandinavian melodic-metal lines alongside approachable hard-rock warmth.

Tobias Sammet assembles a varied cast of singers and builds theatrical storytelling and oversized melody as a sequence of connected scenes.

Blind Guardian's eleventh studio album, released in September 2022: their first under the band's own name in about seven years, after an orchestral album.

The third and last of the avex albums, carried into a SUMMER SONIC 2022 appearance; guitarist MOE joined after it.

DRAGONLAND's sixth album, released in 2022, a comeback after eleven years since Under the Grey Banner. A sci-fi concept album set in space and separate from The Dragonland Chronicles saga, it was released by AFM Records; the Japanese edition is on Marquee/Avalon (MICP-11706).

Final Advent finds Sweden’s Dynazty linking heavy riffs, polished electronic textures and arena-sized choruses with impressive density.

Shangri-La finds Edenbridge building a fantasy world around Sabine Edelsbacher’s clear voice and Lanvall’s grand arrangements.

HAGANE’s first full-length album, expanding the band’s twin-guitar sparkle, speed, heavy riffs and dramatic storytelling.

A seventh album four years on, rebuilt around new singer Victor Emeka — with three former members guesting on "Tribal Mark".

Rescue sees Shaman restating the heat and symphonic splendor of Brazilian power metal.

Acoustic Adventures – Volume One revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording period.

Acoustic Adventures – Volume Two revisits familiar material through the voice, production weight and arrangement sense of its recording period.

After a long gap, Stratovarius return with the fast drums, shining keyboards and skyward choruses that define their identity.

The fourth album, distributed by Disk Union on 27 April 2022. It carries an album version of "“M” Revolution", the digital single from 2021, and four of its songs — "Amaryllis", "Welcome to Valhalla", "The Black Death Mansion Murders" and "“M” Anthem" — were given music videos. Ten tracks.

Dark Connection pushes Beast in Black’s power-metal drive into a neon-lit, cyberpunk world shaped by eighties synth-pop.

The second avex album — twelve songs, followed three weeks later by a European edition on Setsuzoku Records.

Winterbane develops Frozen Crown’s strengths—speed, twin-guitar melody and clear vocals—into a more three-dimensional third album.

Union Gives Strength gathers Galneryus's dramatic melody, complex development and virtuosic playing into one record with a strong sense of unity.

Recorded in the Pumpkins United lineup with Kai Hansen and Michael Kiske alongside Andi Deris, this self-titled album is a major meeting point in Helloween’s history.

Labyrinth’s ninth album places its trademark melancholy melody and bright Italian power-metal guitar work inside more varied arrangements.

Above the Beyond carefully balances Leverage’s transparent Scandinavian melodic-metal character with thick hard-rock riffing.

A four-song mini-album finished under the pandemic, and the most openly positive record the band has made.

A fan-voted best-of spanning 2017 to 2021, closing on "Nameless Warrior" — the last song the original line-up recorded.

The third Metalite album, released by AFM Records on 26 March 2021 and the second with Erica Ohlsson singing. Its eleven songs push the science-fiction themes further out. Marquee put the Japanese edition on sale two days earlier, on 24 March, with "Aftermath" added as a Japan-only bonus track for twelve.

An eighth album that digs into werewolf legend country by country, with Jens Bogren and Joost van den Broek widening the band's sound another step.

Glory for Salvation expands the central pleasures of symphonic power metal on Rhapsody of Fire’s thirteenth album.