
Now before you venture on to read this there is a thing you should know; I listen to a lot of power metal and pretty much every kind of *cough*true*cough* good metal there is.Yes and I spend some time with www.metalstorm.ee; that’s where I found this list which is just delicious, provided you know what it is about.
Hope you enjoy it and find it at least as half as funny as I did; oh and beware for the epic sequel: the other 101 rules of power metal. Read these ones and you’ll see what that’s about.
1. You have one goal: be epic.
2. Let no sound be lonely. If there’s a guitar solo, harmonize it. If there’s singing, make it a choir.
3. Keyboards offer a way to add thousands of different textures to a song. Find two of those that you like and use them on every song you write.
4. In a power metal world, everything steel is good, and anything good must be compared to steel.
5. You are not bound to sing about Satan, evil, and/or darkness.
6. You are bound to sing about dragons, freedom, and/or power metal.
7. Remember how no sound should be alone? Same goes for albums. Everything can have a sequel!
8. You are allowed to be blonde.
9. Swords enhance your credibility and your performance. Be sure to carry one regardless of whether or not you know anything about using one.
10. Pick a theme and stick to it. Manowar are warriors of true metal, and they don’t get to sing about anything else. Rhapsody has their Algalord chronicles. Hammerfall has their steel, hammers, and templar. Running Wild has pirates. Blind Guardian has Tolkein. None of them are allowed to sing about anything else.
11. If you have to sing about something else, put together a side project to do it. Avantasia is the perfect model.
12. Ballads are permissible.
13. That doesn’t mean your ballads can suck.
14. The longer a song is, the more epic it is. See rule #1.
15. More solos means more epic.
16. If at all possible, be Michael Kiske.
17. If this is not possible, pretend to be Michael Kiske.
18. Your album cover should include at least one of the following: fire, steel, weird glowing magical items, irregularly muscular men, fists thrust into the air, weaponry, magic creatures (preferably dragons), or bright beams of light around somebody/something.
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First of all we hope you had a very good year and enjoyed Christmas (in case you are Christian) and may you have a happy new year. Kudos to those who still find the time to read us in these days; you made our year good. For us it was a very busy yet rewarding year with lots of good music to choose from. We tried to give props to those who deserved it and we spoke our mind when we believed something was bad. At this moment we are awaiting for the following year when undoubtedly more and more records and songs are going to be released and we shall do our best to give the best to you.
These questions say a lot about recent years, as well as this one, in music. We could not think about one to sum it up as it was an amazing year, musically speaking, from numerous points of view despite the fact that reunions are definitely in the center of attention; some gods of music got back together while other bands argued or even disbanded. Some released masterpieces while other disappointed. There is no doubt about the fact that reunions are the headline of this year so they are going to be the center of our attention here but other interesting things that happened.


















