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Happy Birthday Draconis! You're gettin' to be an old man, it looks like! LOL! J/K. Heck, I'm going to be turning 23 this Febrauary and already I feel like I'm as old as Yoda! LOL!
Anyway, I just recently purchased "The Triumph of Steel" by Manowar, and I must say it's a truly awesome album. I love all the songs so much I can't pick just one as my favorite. It's a lot better than the earlier Manowar album I have, "Fighting the World", imo.
Yet, there's something I don't quite get: why in the heck does "Fighting the World" and "Triumph of Steel" and all the other Manowar albums have parental advisory: explicit content stickers on them?!! There's nothing explicit in there at all, unless you consider all the warfare lyrics, i.e., splitting skulls, breaking bones, spilling blood, etc. That's kind of wierd.

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't talked to ya for a bit, I've been really busy over the holidays. Wow!! 2005 went by faster than a bullet, didn't it?!!! Anywho, I had anabsolutely awesome Christmas and got three kickass power metal albums from my parents:

-Stratovarius: "Self-Titled": WOWWOWOWOWOWOW!! That's all I can say about this album! I've always absolutely loved Stratovarius and viewed them as the "High Priests of Power Metal", and I've got two of their songs on a power metal sampler cd called "Symphonies of Steel"; "Kiss of Judas"-a solid tune, and "Father Time"- the classic Strato-tune by which all power metal must be judged! But, the only album I've ever had by them up till now was "Elements Part I", which I sold because I felt that the band had lost their touch, and I got to admit, despite the positive reviews, I had a bit of trepidation before I listened to this album, but once I started this baby up, I was in PM heaven!! All the songs are awesome, and a couple of them I almost cried over because they reflected on Timo Tollki's mental illness and I know exactly what it's like to have a mental illness. As I said, all the tunes on this album are awesome, but the one I thought was the best was "United". That song is a true power metal anthem!! It was so awesome it made my jaw drop and almost brought tears to my eyes!

Primal Fear-"Seven Seals"; Wow! These guys are awesome! If Primal Fear doesn't come the closest in sound and style to Judas Priest, tell me what power metal band does!! Ralf Scheepers sounds virtually exactly like Rob Halford! You know, I bought my first Primal Fear album, "Black Sun", about three years ago, and I sold it because I hadn't got into the "Priest"-type power metal yet, and boy I regret doing that, because looking back, that was a solid album! But they're latest one is even better! I absolutely love the apocalyptic backstory they gave it. As with the newest Stratovarius album, all the tracks rocked, but my favorite one had to be "All For One". Damn! That song is catchy! Reminds me alot of one of my favorite Priest tunes, "Jawbreaker". It just has that dark, leather, spikes,and chains bombastic sound to it that just goes for your throat! Great album!!!

-Edguy: "Hall of Flames"- This is my first Edguy album, and what better way to start out than with a "best of" collection, eh? I must say I LOVE these guys! There music is very melodic, heavy, epic, and uplifting. And Tobias Sammet's voice kicks total ass! He's like Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, Hammerfall's Joakim Cans, Queensryche's Geoff Tate, Europe's Joey Tempest, and Lizzy Borden all rolled into one!! My favorite tracks on this one include;

Tears of a Mandrake

To Jerusalem -I loved the Celtic sound on this one!

Out of Control- Very great, dark-sounding track that reminded me a lot of the story of the Black Wizard Joseph Whattley from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. And it had guest vocals by Blind Guardian's Hansi Kursch! That's certainly a plus!

Headless Game

Scarlet Rose-Very touching, beautiful power ballad. Almost made me cry.

Vainglory Opera- OH MAN!! This is the BEST song on this album imo! The keyboard solo and the overall groove of it reminds me very much of Europe's "The Final Countadown"! AWESOME, AWESOME TUNE!!

Theater of Salvation-Very epic, uplifting, operatic, and awe-inspiring tune

Land of the Miracle- Another great ballad. Very neoclassical feel to it.

The Unbeliever

I didn't like the bonus cd so well, but the main collection was great!

Yeah, Falconer: The Scepter of Deception is great! I just love the medieval sound of the songs and the concept of the warring Norse kingdoms that it's based on. I love Whitesnake too, they remind me of the Joe Lynn Turner Era of Rainbow in their sound. Of course , they're kind of connected to Rainbow since Coverdale was once the lead singer of another awesome band, Ritchie Blackmorre's Deep Purple, and Ritchie Blackmore later formed Rainbow in the mid-70s. I think Bobby Rondinelli, the drummer for the JLT era of Rainbow also drummed for Whitesnake for a while, so, because of these reasons, maybe Whitesnake was inspired by Rainbow's sound.
I gotta admit I never could bring myself to get into Nevermore though.
As for me, I recently got my hands on the new Hammerfall CD: "Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken" and MSG's (The McAuley-Schenker Group) self-titled cd. The cds are both awesome and I can't pick out a favorite song from either one of them because I love them all!