We're coming back at ya for part 2 of our huge 2010s decade retrospective. This part covers 2015-2019, more of our wonderful personal lives, reflection on the trends of the decade, and baseless speculation about the future!
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2015
The big bands release some hotly contested new material
Gloryhammer blows up in popularity
Resurgence of traditional heavy metal
Judicator releases a polished album, the beginning of a new style of North American power metal
- Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror
- Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
- Kamelot - Haven
- Stratovarius - Eternal
- Gloryhammer - Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards
- Enforcer - From Beyond
- Judicator - At the Expense of Humanity
- Visigoth - The Revenant King
- Unleash the Archers - Time Stands Still
- Cain’s Offering - Stormcrow
- Rata Blanca - Tormenta Electrica
- RIP Christopher Lee
2016
Sabaton starts getting weird and derivative
The beginning of discord.
Youtube channels: NWOTHM full albums
Shit has hit the fan for Sonata Arctica
Avantasia becomes a touring band
Lots and lots of NWOTHM
Twilight force becomes more twinkle orchestra than power metal
- Sabaton - The Last Stand
- Sonata Arctica - The Ninth Hour
- Avantasia - Ghostlights
- Serenity - Codex Atlanticus
- Freedom Call - Masters of Light lol
- Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire
- Ancient empire - other world
- Helion Prime - Helion Prime
- Twilight Force - Heroes of Mighty Magic
- Theocracy - Ghost Ship
- Dark Forest - Beyond the Veil
- Thornbridge - What Will Prevail
- Sunburst - Fragments of Creation
- Also the /r/powermetal discord
2017
Dragonforce Lifestyle(™) gets weird
Unleash the archers gets good
Wintersun crowdfunding campaign
More NWOTHM
Alestorm goes meme
Battle Beast thinks we’re in the 80s
Beast in Black is lit
The birth of powerful.
- Dragonforce - Reaching Into Infinity
- Lovebites - Awakening From the Abyss
- Unleash The Archers - Apex
- Keldian - Darkness and Light
- Galderia - Return of the Cosmic Men
- Seven Kingdoms - Decennium
- Wintersun - The Forest Seasons lol
- Satan's hallow self titled
- Yet another ancient empire album
- Don't drop the sword
- Striker
- Speed queen EP
- Any other nwothm? I feel like this shit got real popular 2016+
- Lots of “gimmick” or pop/arena type stuff such as:
- Orden Ogan - Gunmen
- Bloodbound - War of Dragons
- Battle Beast - Bringer of Pain
- Alestorm - No Grave But The Sea For Dogs
- Brothers of Metal - Prophecy of Ragnarok
- Wind Rose - Stonehymn
- Beast in Black - Berserker
- And of course, powerful. a power metal podcast
2018
Riot V goes EUPM
Kamelot is dead to us
Dark moor gets real fucking weird
- Lione / Conti s/t
- Frozen Crown - The Fallen King debut
- Visigoth - Conqueror’s Oath
- Angra - OMNI
- NovaReign - Legends
- Kamelot - The Shadow Theory
- Riot V - Armor of Light
- Grailknights - Knightfall
- Powerwolf - The Sacrament of Sin
- Derdian - DNA
- Helion Prime - Terror of the Cybernetic Space Monster
- Dynazty - Firesign
- Dragony - Masters of the Multiverse
- Orion’s Reign - Scores of War
- Boys of Battle - Battle Boys* - didn’t this actually come out in 2012?
- Witherfall - A Prelude to Sorrow
- Nanowar of Steel - Stairway to Valhalla
- Warkings - Reborn
- Dark Moor - Origins
- Eternity’s End - Unyielding
- RIP Mark Shelton
- Reminder to link Eons Enthroned
2019
- Whatever we talked about last time
- RIP Andre Matos
G l o b a l i z a t i o n
Pathfinder does not strike back
Streaming/internet
Fusion subgenres e.g. power/black metal
Patreon and crowdfunding
80s revival is getting old
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