GUITAR SHREDFEST VIDEO LINK THREAD

[brunoafh]

It's a shame because they were a decent power metal band before Inhuman Rampage.

Very much so. Valley of the Damned and Sonic Firestorm were pretty good albums with minimal ridiculousness present (guitar wise). After that, it's like someone told them that every one of their guitar leads were required to be composed entirely of 64th notes.

[Xeogred]

I only liked their debut, kind of. I don't even care about it anymore. I've grown out of Euro-power metal in general honestly. The only bands of that style I still care about thesedays are Running Wild (if you can even count them) and maybe some Gamma Ray for nostalgia.

Seriously, the beginning of these two songs on the same album... utterly hilarious.

[brunoafh]

Running Wild is definitely good stuff. I'm pretty spent on European power metal myself, as well as the whole shred fest thing. When I first started to learn to play the guitar like 6 or 7 years ago, I remember being very enamored with players that displayed high amounts of technical proficiency, and searching out every so-called virtuoso I could find. That burnt me out on the whole thing quite a bit. I pretty much just listen to whatever now a days, mostly melo-death metal. Been revisiting some of the 80s thrash I used to love recently too.

[Xeogred]

Running Wild is definitely good stuff. I'm pretty spent on European power metal myself, as well as the whole shred fest thing. When I first started to learn to play the guitar like 6 or 7 years ago, I remember being very enamored with players that displayed high amounts of technical proficiency, and searching out every so-called virtuoso I could find. That burnt me out on the whole thing quite a bit. I pretty much just listen to whatever now a days, mostly melo-death metal. Been revisiting some of the 80s thrash I used to love recently too.

Dude, nice. Look me up on Metal-Archives if you want (Xeogred), all my reviews are fairly dated (well just a few years old, but I look back at a lot of them and think many could be improved lol). I don't want to get into a label/genre war here or anything, but I like to say most of my tastes thesedays are for 80's USPM (power metal), stuff like Omen, Liege Lord, and just too much stuff to list. Typically though thesedays when people just throw out "power metal" I'll think of the European, extremely keyboard driven, chorus' galore stuff, that just does... nothing for me anymore. Not to bag on it, but I just look back at that stuff and kind of laugh at it being my high school days. Running Wild is a bit more traditional I'd say and they've just got so much character, so I think that's why they've stood the test of time for me.

My tastes have been set in stone for awhile now though, so it's all good. And I definitely love some thrash, though I get picky there because I've never been a big fan of the Bay Area stuff honestly... the only band of that type I can say I really love would be Heathen (and their newest kicked ass). But other than that I tend to go for more speed/thrash or just the faster crazier stuff in general. Artillery, Coroner, Deathrow, Destructor, Flots & Jets, Holy Terror, Onslaught, Toxik, Whiplash... and I'll just stop there to name a few, haha.

The shred thing, yeah it's a phase for me too, not stuff I listen to consistently. I think I just really got into Vinnie Moore recently because he was on Vicious Rumors' debut doing a lot of the leads, I posted one of my favorite songs from it elsewhere, not sure if you saw it: here. Huge fan of them and their newest sounds promising as hell, sample here. Really sounding like a throwback to their 1988 "Digital Dictator".

Real 80's metal is infinite. Glam what?...


Sorry to ramble!