Quote (bob(Cs2) @ 22 Jul 2013 16:55)
Oh I disagree - Maiden are pioneers of Power Metal, without them, there would not be power metal as a genre.
I can take Manowar outa the discussion, but Iced Earth are power metal as fuck lol
Iron maiden have the crazy melodic driven riffs that make power metal special, thats truth, but they're lacking other kind of things to be classified as power metal, hence why it's always been classified Heavy metal, on the other hand, I don't wanna argue about genres so much, it was just for the chat.