If you want good metal, try Metallica, Judas Priest, etc. They pioneered '80s metal and are still making music today. If you don't mind some screaming, Shadows Fall and All That Remains is decent. All of them have respectable solos, not up to the speed of Dragonforce, but the technical work on the guitar for these bands is phenomonal. Many of these band's songs have heavy riffs, something you mentioned that you liked.Dragonforce is meh.
I listen to them sparsely for several reasons: recycled drum beats, corny lyrics (just shut up dude), and... it's not heavy enough
pretty good speed metal though, there's not a lot of it out there.
In fact, what other good speed metal bands do you recommend?
Yeah, Judas Priest is great.If you want good metal, try Metallica, Judas Priest, etc. They pioneered '80s metal and are still making music today. If you don't mind some screaming, Shadows Fall and All That Remains is decent. All of them have respectable solos, not up to the speed of Dragonforce, but the technical work on the guitar for these bands is phenomonal. Many of these band's songs have heavy riffs, something you mentioned that you liked.
I could go on for a few lines about how stupid that comment is, and it looks as if I will. The band was immediately noticed over Valley of the Damned, and it gained popularity, but then it exploded in popularity for such things as, gee, I do not know, touring aggressively as fuck and with big bands like Iron Maiden and at Ozzfest. They built up a ridiculously huge fanbase in the eastern asian countries on their own, Iron Maiden got them Europe, and they have toured plenty over here in North America. Since power metal is most popular of all in South America, I am sure they must have immense popularity there too, but I am ignorant as to that. My point is that this all came before Guitar Hero fucking existed.Holy shit could I go on for hours about how awful Dragonforce is.
When a band is only popular because of a videogame you know something's wrong.
Speed metal shit ain't art, man. It ain't fucking art.
Speed metal is just a term that throws together early power/thrash.uhh "speed metal" goes much farther back than dragonforce. if your only impression of "speed metal" is from shitty modern power metal bands, you probably shouldn't be dismissing the genre so easily.
Wow. I completely agree. You just named off practically all of my favorite bands in one paragraph (except for GnR and Ozzy).If you want good metal, try Metallica, Judas Priest, etc. They pioneered '80s metal and are still making music today. If you don't mind some screaming, Shadows Fall and All That Remains is decent. All of them have respectable solos, not up to the speed of Dragonforce, but the technical work on the guitar for these bands is phenomonal. Many of these band's songs have heavy riffs, something you mentioned that you liked.
I'd just call Manilla Road traditional heavy metal or power metal. :/@ altmer: probably the early power metal bands that have very little connection to the modern scene, like manilla road.