Bands By Genre: European Power Metal: Page 2
When bands like Helloween and Blind Guardian took Speed Metal and combined it with an Epic Metal sound, they were referred to as "Power Metal". Since American bands like Sanctuary already had that genre name, the American and European sub-genres emerged. There's a heavy focus on sounding big and epic, with extremely repetitive use of double bass drumming and fast riffing. Vocals are high-pitched melodic wailing. Many bands in this genre go totally overboard with the grandiosity and cheesiness (like Rhapsody).
- Eldritch
- Elvenking
- Elvenpath
- Emerald Sun
- Emir Hot
- Empyrean Sky
- Endoras
- Engage
- Ensiferum
- Eternal Reign
- Eternal Winter
- Exawatt
- Exhibition
- Eyefear
- Fairyland
- Falconer
- Falkirk
- Fantasia
- Firewind
- Fragment
- Freedom Call
- Freternia
- Full Strike
- Furia Animal
- Galloglass
- Gamma Ray
- Gastonia
- Glory Opera
- Godiva
- Gothic Knights
- Roland Grapow
- Hamka
- HammerFall
- Hangar
- Harmony
- Haterush
- Havayoth
- Heaven's Guardian
- Heavenly
- Heavens Gate
- Heavy Metal Perse
- Heed
- Helker
- Helloween
- Hibria
- Highland Glory
- Hollow
- Human Fortress
- Hyperion (AUS)
- Hyperion (ITA)
- Icycore
- Ilium
- Imperio
- InnerWish
- In Pena
- Insania
- Invictus
- Iron Fire
- Iron Fist
- Iron Savior
- Ironware
- Jason
- Jezabel (ARG)
- Kalmah
- Kamelot
- Kenziner
- Kiuas
- Kotipelto
- Labyrinth (ITA)
- Lanfear
- Last Prophecy
- Legend Maker
- Lightmare
- Lion's Share
- Lord Byron
- Lost Horizon
- Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
- Lucifer's Heritage
- Lujuria
- Machine Men
- Magica
- Magic Kingdom
- Magika
- Magnus
- Mago de Oz
- Majesty (GER)
- Manigance
- Manticora
- Masterplan
- Mean Streak
- Meduza
- Mercury Tide
- Merging Flare
- Messiah's Kiss
- Metal Inquisitor
- Metalium
- Midnight Sun
- Minas Tirith (DNK)
- Mob Rules