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Abyss wrote:

nightsblood wrote:FA wrote:
It's impossible not to like the Helloween Keepers and not to like the first 3 albums of Chroming Rose(masterpieces).

Agreed on helloween, but the 1st 2 CR albums were too weak for me; needed better and heavier songwriting. I remember reading rave reviews of 'louis XIV' and 'garden of eden' in Sentinel Steel.... of course, Denis also raved about Stratovarius, and I never got into them either

I've gave the first who chroming rose albums numerous listens and nothing stands out here as for Stratovarius a lot of people worshiping their album Visions brings to mind people worshiping blind guardian's Nightfall in Middle-Earth, I don't quite understand it the albums are good in some ways but fall short and they certainly don't deserve the praise they get ,the only stratovarius album I found myself liking is their first album fright night.

Sinner's 3 best albums of the 90's are as follows Bottom Line,Judgement Day and The nature of evil, they are summed up quite nicely on the second decade compilation.

Running Wild's - Black Hand Inn is usually the more highly praised of their 90's efforts.

I like that BG album but I understand it doesn't 'work' for everyone.
Never liked Stratovarius; way too weak. Terrible guitar tone and thin production always hurt. I also hated Timo Tolkki whiing about people ripping off their music by d/ling online when Strat- made a career out of stealing old metal songs (Helloween, Savatage, Rainbow, and Queensryche were all practically plagarized on early Strato- albums).
Any RW is good, but Death or Glory through masquerade 9~1989-1996) is their best stuff IMO
Agree on the Sinner records except I haven't heard Bottom Line.

Re: Ion- yeah, Secrecy were fairly unique.

Conception was also pretty good during that early 90s period, though it's pushing things a bit to call them power metal.

When I was 16-17 years old Gamma Ray - "Somewhere out in Space" was without a doubt my favorite album. And I still think it's good, although it has lost some of it's magic. And to be honest it's the only Gamma ray album I like...
Of the bands people label power metal today I think this is maybe the only album i like, or at least one of the few.

we all should listen to Paragon

I would like to know what kind of sound had Divine Victim .Never hear about this band earlier.

Recently checked out Seventh Avenue's Southgate and I must say I'm enjoying it. Gets kinda repetitive though.

PsychoDad wrote:When I was 16-17 years old Gamma Ray - "Somewhere out in Space" was without a doubt my favorite album. And I still think it's good, although it has lost some of it's magic. And to be honest it's the only Gamma ray album I like...
Of the bands people label power metal today I think this is maybe the only album i like, or at least one of the few.

Damn! I still like this album as well. Always a good option when when I want a dose of feel good sing-a-long metal. I've seen Gamma Ray live twice as well and they were very good & certainly knew how to put on a show.

Anyhow it was good to check out this thread again as there are some good recommendations in it.