Like, I don't get it.

It made no sense in 2017, and it makes no sense now.

We have KAI AND KISKE BACK. THEY are Helloween, not Deris. THEY were the on the popular and good albums, not Deris.

Deris ruined Helloween. They lost LEGIONS of fans during the 20 years he was the singer. None of their albums sold well except maybe 7 Sinners which at least went Gold in Japan or something.

Nobody likes Deris. Nobody wants Deris around. Nobody wants to hear Deris songs.

They have Kai back. They have Kiske back. They are doing stuff off of Keepers and Walls of Jericho again. Between that and new material, there is simply NO NEED for Deris to be allowed to continue to drag Helloween down.

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This Week in Power Metal Releases (10/28 - 11/03)

Power Metal:

• Helltern: Echoes of Reality - Heavy/Power Metal - Oct 29th ("Back to Reality")

• Lay of the Autumn: Of Love and Sorrow - Symphonic Power Metal - Oct 30th ("Flowing Tears")

• Brothers of Metal: Fimbulvinter - Heavy/Power Metal - Nov 1st ("Fimbulvinter")

• InnerWish: Ash of Eternal Flame - Heavy/Power Metal - Nov 1st ("Soul Asunder")

Related Genres:

• Dragoncorpse: The Fall of House Abbarath - Symphonic Metalcore - Nov 1st ("A Quest For Truth")

• Mythbegotten: Tales from the Unseelie Court - Epic Folk Metal - Oct 31st ("The Heedless Horseman")

• Jester Majesty: Plains of Heaven - Prog Metal - Oct 31st ("Thanatos")

• Vipërwitch: Witch Hunt - Road to Vengeance - Heavy Metal - Oct 31st ("She Wolves of the Wasteland")

• Firemage: Ignis - Folk Metal - Nov 1st ("Dance With The Fire")

• Bombus: Your Blood - Heavy Metal/Hard Rock - Nov 1st ("Killer")

• Children of the Frost: Last Winter's Child - Symphonic Metal - Nov 1st ("End Of Eternity")

• Ignis: Inframundo - Heavy Metal - Nov 1st ("Arden en el Cielo")

• Viikate: Hiljainen - Melodic Heavy Metal with Schlager influences - Nov 1st ("Haluaako Piepponen turpaan?") [Can't find a single yet]

• Raptore: Renaissance - Heavy Metal - Date ("All Fires The Fire")

JacksonWarrior's Corgi and Unrelated Pitstop:

Scary!

• Black Denim Rage: Chaos of War - Speed/Thrash Metal - Oct 30th ("Chaos Of War")

• Spitfire: Trinity - Thrash/Speed Metal - Oct 30th ("Bending Reality")

• Skullovich: The Age of Steel - Thrash/Speed Metal - Nov 1st ("By This Axe I Rule")

What you may have missed last week...

• NeverAnother: Carnival of Chaos - Heavy Metal - Oct 25th ("Take This Pill")

• Devin Townsend: PowerNerd - Prog Metal/Ambient - Oct 25th ("Ruby Quaker")

Spotify Playlist here, remember if a band has a * next to their name it means it isn't on spotify (yet).

###Recommendations of the Week

###/u/Amat3ur_hour

Devin Townsend has a weird atmo thing going on in the mix for this album, but the songs are good, so whatever.

Bombus wins the "high concept music video" award for the week

###/u/Omegakingauldron

###/u/JacksonWarrior

Mythbegotten, Brothers of Metal, Vipërwitch and Raptore are all on my list to listen to in full.

###/u/Xileize

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I don't know why but whenever I think about power metal lyrics that I find beautiful, it leads me to think about some sonata's song, like "my Selene", "San Sebastian", "fly, navigate, communicate" or some dreamtale's songs, like "garden of eternity", "lady dragon", "wings of Icarus", and planty of other bands of course, but there's this song by Athena called Soul Sailor, and I don't know why, I find it extremely beautiful

(Bit of a vent topic)

So I am sure at this point they have crunched the numbers and figured for most of the acts its not practical to fly across the Atlantic or if they do so the East Coast and Southern states like Florida, Texas or California have much larger population densities to justify the concert venues.

...But its still saddening to be a power metal fan in PNW and month after month check the metal concerts lists to see what is coming up and its either something complete non power metal like Black Metal or its a artist you have never heard of.

Now there are exceptions, part of the reason Sabaton means a lot to me is that they every few years seem to play along the Coast....even if I occasionally have to drive 3 hours to see them alive, its a realistic drive distance.

And other bands have toured closeish in the past few years like Alestorm, Blind Guardian (although there new setlist has a lot to be desired in my opinion ) Beast in Black or Dragonforce (Couldn't attend those for a few reasons, mostly couldn't get off time for work or I was in between jobs, really kick myself for missing that Beast in Black concert though).

But I don't expect to ever see in Seattle, Oregon, Vancouver and Boise live the likes of Brothers of Metal, Freedom Call, Nightwish, Powerwolf , Avantasia any time soon.

Sorry for the bitch fest, this had been sitting on my head for ages and the film kind of made i rise to the top and i need to get it off my chest.