Favorite Euro-Metal-Bands?

[Michael@SacredMetal]

Hey Dustin (and the others of course)!

This one's for you...
So, what are your favorite Euro Metal-Bands and why?
Do you know Lanfear? If not - check them out - they rule!!

Michael

[DarkCherub]

Alright, that's a hard one. Gonna get back to you tomorrow as I'm too tired to compose a list that's anywhere near complete right now

[Maniac]

That's maybe even harder for me then to name some US bands, which kinda Euro Metal do you mean?

[Göran Herming]

Blasphème
220 Volt
Picture
Emerald NL
Mindless Sinner
Witchcross
Heavy Load
Sortilège
Hocculta
Black Widow (BEL)
Crossfire
Ostrogoth
Martyr


ain't that enough? :ph34r:

[Prof]

Blasphème
220 Volt
Picture
Emerald NL
Mindless Sinner
Witchcross
Heavy Load
Sortilège
Hocculta
Black Widow (BEL)
Crossfire
Ostrogoth
Martyr


ain't that enough? :ph34r:

Wellllllll..... Some additions are in order!

Jewel (NL - most underrated and unique sounding power-thrashers)
Mercyful Fate (DAN)
Wolverine (NL - too bad they only did one EP)
Tierra Santa (SP)
Anubis Gate (SWE)
High Power (FR)
Adramelch (IT)
Comma (TUR)
End Zone (RUS)
Accept - because of the first four albums, not to be excluded!

But... is it all 'Euro Metal'? That is indeed the question :blink:

[Göran Herming]

:huh: Hmm, tough question...of course I would have mentioned Adramelch...all bands you were talking about are strictly of european origin, Endzone shred supreme by the way but their musical direction often keeps them from being categorized as EUROMETAL. That was a certain style, straight heavymetal with good melodies, a strong character in the compositorial department, hmm, mostly straight compositions, the traditional heavy metal as it was known back in the early 80s. A band like The Rods would have been categorized as EUROMETAL if they would not be american but maybe dutch...that was the style, with slight variations in the language like those french bands or spanish bands. Tierra Santa could surely be added as the current leader band in that direction, I do not want to add Hammerfall for they are just plain flat to me while Tierra Santa have depth and magick in their songs. Adramelch, I would not put them into this direction as well, to me this is a crossover of this typical peculiar mystic metal like Brocas Helm or even early Fates Warning and the early progressive Metal, very playful, very powerful (even with that fragile sound).

[Exciter]

Evil (Danmark)
Warhead (Belgium)
Crossfire (Belgium)
Emerald (NL)
Hard`n Hard (Germany)
Solemnity (Germany)
Killers (France)

Ich könnte irgendwie hundert weitere aufzählen...

[Michael@SacredMetal]

Evil (Danmark)
Warhead (Belgium)
Crossfire (Belgium)
Emerald (NL)
Hard`n Hard (Germany)
Solemnity (Germany)
Killers (France)

Ich könnte irgendwie hundert weitere aufzählen...

Hell yes.. How could I forget the mighty Hard'n Hard... !! :rolleyes: B)

But seriously: did they release more than one demo-tape? And they are amongst your favorite Euro-Metal-Bands?

Dustin, I think the "European"-style that many music-fans from the US like so much is indeed the Stratovarius-, Nocturnal Rites-, HammerFall - kind of Metal - no matter if many of our board-users don't like that...

Michael

[Exciter]

Sorry, I mean "Hard`n Heart"!
They released in the eighties the 4-track-ep "Innocent and sinful"!
A silly bandname, but it`s great powermetal in the style of old Metal Church!
Great record!

[DarkCherub]

Alright here are my favorite metal bands from Europe. Since this list is going to get pretty damn long I won't go into detail like I did in the US Metal thread:

-Everon
-old Genesis
-Poverty's No Crime
-Blind Guardian
-Wuthering Heights
-Elvenking
-old In Flames
-Pendragon
-Hollow
-Opeth
-Pain Of Salvation
-Ayreon
-Arena
-Ensiferum
-Bal Sagoth
-Enchant
-Threshold
-Mostly Autumn
-Kerrs Pink
-Beyond Twilight
-Rage
-Haggard

Plus some others I possibly forgot

[Metallah]

Vengeance
Horizon
Bodine
Pretty Maids
Crusader
H-Bomb
Maltese Falcon
Witchhammer
usw.


MfG
M.

[Storming the Gates]

France:

Blaspheme
Demon Eyes
H-Bomb
High Power
Malediction
Satan Jokers
Steel Angel
Sortilege
Trust
Warning

Germany:

Accept – Restless and Wild
Atlain – Guardian of Eternity
Grave Digger – Heavy Metal Breakdown
Gravestone – Creating a Monster
Helloween – Walls of Jericho
Running Wild – gates of Purgatory
Steeler – Steeler
Stormwarrior - Stormwarrior
Solemnity – King of Dreams
Warlock – Burning the Witches

Nederland / Belgium:

Acid
Allied Forces
Angus
Defender
Emerald
Martyr
Ostrogoth
Picture
Vortex

Skandinavia

Artch
Evil
Heavy Load
Mercyful Fate
Overdrive
OZ
Pretty Maids – Red, Hot and Heavy
Tarot – Spell of Iron
TNT
Torch
Wolf


NP: Double Bang, ja ihr wisst schon !!!

[Dustin]

Dustin, I think the "European"-style that many music-fans from the US like so much is indeed the Stratovarius-, Nocturnal Rites-, HammerFall - kind of Metal - no matter if many of our board-users don't like that... 

Michael

oh no.... now knowing this, I am a little embarassed in saying who some of my favortie European bands are! :blink: You guys have a much better knowlage of the metal underground over there than I do. B)

I'll see if I can list them in alphabetical order here... i'm going
through it fast, so I might be leaving a few out.

Adagio
Amorphis
Angel Dust
Artillery
Artch
Asperity
Astral Doors
Attack
Atrocity
At Vance
Avalon
Axel Rudi Pell
Ayreon

Balance of Power
Blind Guardian
Bonfire
Borknagar
Brainstorm

Candlemass
Carcass
Celtic Frost
Children of Bodom
Cryonic Temple
Conception
Coroner

Dead Soul Tribe (the band is in Germany, even though the singer is American)
Destruction
DGM
Dreamscape
Duke

Edguy (yes, yes... I like Edguy... :rolleyes: )
Edge of Sanity
Eldritch
Elegy
Elvenking
Empty Tremor
Epica
Evergrey
Extol

Falconer
Finntroll
The Flower Kings (not really metal... but I LOVE these guys!)

Gamma Ray
Grave Digger
Green Carnation
Grim Reaper

Hammerfall (..the last two albums were not as good though)
Helloween
Highland Glory
Hypocrisy

Iron Savior
Ivanhoe
Ivory Tower

Jaded Heart
Jorn

Katatonia
Karmakanic
Kingdom Come
Kreator

Labyrinth
Lanfear (yes, I know who this band is-and The Art Effect is brilliant and a favorite album of mine!)
Last Tribe
Letter X
Lionsheart
Lions Share
Lefay

Masterplan
Mayhem
Memory Garden
Memento Mori
Mercenary
Mercyful Fate
Meshuggah
Metalium
Midnight Sun
Mob Rules
Montany

Nightengale
Nightwish
Nocturnal Rites

Old Man's Child
Onslaught
Orphaned Land
Opeth

Pain of Salvation
Pagans Mind
Paradox
Pestilence
Pink Cream 69
Pretty Maids
Praying Mantis
Poverty's No Crime
Primal Fear

Rage
Rawwhead Rex
Rhapsody
Rotting Christ
Royal Hunt
Running Wild

Sabbat
Sanvoisen
Scanner
Shakra
Sinergy
Silent Force
Skyclad
Soilwork
Sonata Arctica
Stratovarius (...I should be ashamed!)
Spiral Architect
Squealer
Street Talk
Sun Caged

Tad Morose
Ten
Threshold
Tiamat
THerion
Thunderstone
TNT

UDO

Vanden Plas
Valley's Eve
Victory
Vicious Mary
Vision Divine
Vintersorge

Wolf
Wolverine

Xentrix

...okay... there we have it!

\m/
Dustin

[MonsterUnderground]

Nigro Mantia (whatever happened to these guys!! They ruled!!!)

[Holy Mighty Stormwitch]

King Diamond/Mercyful Fate (Denmark)
Candlemass (Sweden)
Tad Morose (Sweden)
Ram (Sweden)
Wolf (Norway)
Doomsword (Italy)
Dark Quarterer (Italy)
Adramelch (Italy)
Holy Martyr (Italy)
Battleroar (Greece)
Bloodstained (Greece)
Forsaken (Malta)
Malédiction (France)
Killers (France)
Vortex (Netherlands)
Tierra Santa (Spain)
Metal Inquisitor
Ritual Steel (now: Titan Steele)
Stormwarrior
Accept
Edguy (yeah, many ppl laugh about me because of them but I don´t care *g*)
Gamma Ray
Blind Guardian
Brainstorm
Running Wild

...and many, many more