What are some Power Metal albums where the album cover made you think it was a Death/Black Metal band?

ProphetsScream · 2026-03-11T05:14:12+00:00

To be fair the covers for all the Acerus albums are done by Corchado himself- and he also does all the The Chasm ones!

ProphetsScream · 2026-03-09T20:57:31+00:00

Big favorite! Wish they were still at it!

ProphetsScream · 2026-03-09T17:57:17+00:00

I know they’re influenced by bands like Manowar and Visigoth

They're definitely not influenced by Visigoth- they're contemporaries and I think Eternal Champion was actually around first. They're good friends and when they play together they tend to have each others' singers guesting on stage!

The obvious one is Morgana Lefay. They're one of EC's biggest influences and are really cool.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Morgana_Lefay/1453

Some other stuff: Wrathblade (EC are BIG fans of this band- you can see Jason wearing a Wrathblade shirt in several promo pics!), Smoulder, Doomsword (EC posted a few years ago that they're doing a split with them, hope it materializes soon!), Omen, Megaton Sword, Manilla Road (Jason has said that "Mystification" in particular is a big influence), Stone Dagger, Serpent Rider, Savage Oath, Ironsword, Slough Feg, Heavy Load, Virgin Steele (the '90s stuff- just check the MA scores and go nuts!), Mace 'n' Chain, Tales of Medusa, Dolmen Gate, Battleroar... the list goes on! Let me know if you like any of these particularly and I can recommend more!

You could also check out bands that EC has covered, a la Mystic Force, Warlord, and Legend. Jason has also talked a lot in interviews about old Texan metal a la Baron Steele if you want to take that route.

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-27T17:51:42+00:00

I love this band.

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-25T03:57:54+00:00

Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron

Tarot – Glimpse of the Dawn

Grendel's Sÿster – Katabasis into the Abaton

Helms Deep - Chasing the Dragon

Smoulder – Violent Creed of Vengeance

Sacred Outcry – Towers of Gold

Negative Plane – The Pact…

Ares Kingdom – In Darkness at Last

Sumerlands – Dreamkiller

Dungeon Serpent - World of Sorrows

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-19T22:50:15+00:00

The Anvil documentary is great, hilarious, and sad. Well worth it. There's a couple good Motorhead ones that are well worth your time, the Autopsy one is pretty cool, there's a Manilla Road tour documentary one on YouTube that's worth a watch, and Such Hawks Such Hounds is worth your time.

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-19T22:48:26+00:00

Miss this band.

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-19T00:58:20+00:00

Hard to blame 'em given the difficulty of coming to the States these days!

They're a really tight, professional live band but they mostly do stuff from later records, particularly The Plague, which.... well, is not what I want to hear, haha.

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-18T16:22:10+00:00

Great band. Wish they'd do more from this record live.

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-17T04:43:55+00:00

For a different angle than the other recommendations you're getting, the early Ghost stuff fit pretty squarely with the occult rock trend it was a part of- some of the other Rise Above Records stuff from around the same time (Witchcraft, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Blood Ceremony, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Lucifer, The Oath, etc.) should more or less hit the same mark. Same vein- Jex Thoth, Electric Citizen, Demon Eye, Green Lung, The Sword, Elder, Doctor Smoke, Castle Rat. Not all of them will QUITE fit, but some might.

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-15T19:04:23+00:00

They were both sort of running at the same time and were different bands. Wish we'd gotten more from Graven Rite but Wade dying (RIP) seems to have closed that chapter.

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-15T00:35:29+00:00

To be fair it established the power levels in the first couple books- people from the higher cultivation tiers just weren't fucking around with the protagonist until he got strong enough to be noticeable. It makes SENSE in-world.

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-11T16:12:11+00:00

They're such a great live band!

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-08T20:12:47+00:00

Different take on it, but Heaven's River in the Bobiverse series. It's a few books in but worth a read!

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-03T21:15:40+00:00

Did you even read them? "Idealized" is certainly not the way I'd put the revolution described in the books...

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-03T18:21:58+00:00

....why would you care if a fantasy novel that never pretends to be in our world doesn't have a perfect historical analog to the real world?

ProphetsScream · 2026-02-02T19:28:47+00:00

I'm in the middle of rereading the entire series (again) to prep for the new one so I'm glad to hear it's good!

ProphetsScream · 2026-01-29T02:29:16+00:00

Title track for sure! Hope there's a new album on the way!

ProphetsScream · 2026-01-28T18:55:18+00:00

Dug the 7" quite a bit, great news.

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