where's the epic metal?

people here seem to like all music except for epic and folk metal which are the best, what's up with that?

I think a question more of us are asking is what is epic and folk metal? Never heard those terms before myself.

ill list a few bands

epic metal-manowar, hammerfall, blind guardian, and iced earth (to a lesser extent)

folk metal-falkenbach, finntroll, and svartsot

and many others

Iced earth is cool, but prefer the older stuff. I don't know what Jon Schaffer is tring to do with his new music but I'm not liking it at all. Horror Show was not a good album so I didn't even want to check out The Glorious Burden.
The funniest part is in an interview he said Burnt Offerings was the worst album they ever did....its my favorite,Go figure.

Do Skyclad count as Folk metal?
Their first album was okish....

What about Hammers of Misfortune?

well those are my 3 favorite metal bands so i guess i love epic metal BUT i was always told they were speed metal

Yeah I am feeling you on burnt offerings. It was so raw and intense. But I loved "something wicked" a lot. "Horror show" was okay. It had some memorable songs but not as strong as the other too (I know I am forgetting dark saga but the quality of that is a given. I also won't give my opinion or self titled and "night of the storm rider" because Adam the vocalist ruined self titled and the other guy that they had for NOTSR was even worse so I don't really consider them a band until Matthew Barlow joined) I know I am going to catch hell for this by saying I think the guy that came from Judas priest doesn't work well with iced earth. "Glorious burden" bar the second Gettysburg disc was un listenable. Jon Schaffer isn't to blame (well except with me it clashes pretty hard with my politics) his riffs were just a great if not better then ever on GB. It’s that striker or what ever he calls himself he just doesn’t fit with that hard constant force of iced earth.

well, I just grabbed a copy of "Kings of Metal" last week... granted, that was more so I could blast the title track and teach my kids how to fist-pump and headbang, but still...

What category does Nightwish and Within Temptation fall under.... Ive been racking my brain trying to figure that out.....

Hip/hop metal or post modern metal emo. just kidding

*bangs head against wall* IM NOT EMO!!!!! IM NOT IM NOT IM NOT!!!!!

I love Manowar, and I really enjoy Blind Guardian as well.

I've never heard the terms 'epic metal' or 'folk metal' before, either.

anyone ever heard of dragonforce??
they're amazing

Personally, I'd put those four bands you listed as 'epic metal' under the power metal category. It's a better fit, because there's a way more epic kind of metal out there - viking metal!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

You want epic?

This is fuckin' epic!

However, I agree that there's not much folk metal being represented on SG.

Amazing indeed. I think they're even going to be at Ozzfest.

Edit for spelling

[Edited on May 31, 2006 by Moya]

well I haven't heard Within Temptation, but if you're mentioning them in the same sentence as Nightwish I probably don't want to...

in my opinion, the category Nightwish falls under is CRAP

Blind Guardian don't do much for me... but then I do like stuff like Iced Earth, Skyclad, some Fates Warning, Death S.S. etc... I guess I'm just picky when it comes to power/folk/epic/whatever metal...

SKYCLAD!!! i must hear them that is the best name for a band ever!

Tut tut no-one's mentioned Turisas yet

herman li is a fucking guitar god
check this out
herman li blender interview

I choosing to overlook this particular fault of yours