[EPIC!] BRAZILIAN POWER METAL BAND OF THE DAY: HIBRIA
Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 2:45pm by Vince Neilstein
“There’s enough Brazilian power metal bands to go around for more than one day?” I hear you asking. But of course there are, and we’ve got an entire wing of our talented MetalSucks Mansion Monkeys who dedicate their lives solely to weeding out the best of the best. But today our special primate friends can take the rest of the day off to go home and enjoy bananas of the highest caliber, for MS Maniac Anthony has sent us a message on MySpace to let us know about Hibria, a fine Brazilian power metal export indeed. No Dragonforce-style wankery here (like ‘em or not), just 100% unadulterated kick-assery. Their latest album is called The Skull Collectors and features gems with names like “Tiger Punch,” “Steel Lord of Wheels,” and “Millennium Quest,” all of which are streaming on their MySpace page. Because power metal bands can always be judged by a) the quality of their song titles, b) the cheese-factor of their band photo, that’s really all you should need to know to go give them a listen. Plus, the singer is wearing his own band t-shirt so you know they HAVE to be good. Raise those fists high in the air and grab the invisible oranges if ya got ‘em!
-VN
I guess their power comes from the sunglasses.
There are lots of power metal bands here in Brazil. And they suck most of the times.
I think this is no exception… but hey, it’s pretty sunny in here, we need sunglasses all the time
I think they like leather.
Hibria fucking rules. Best power/heavy metal since Iron Maiden.
You must listen to them first to give any type of critique.
Metal DOES suck.
Underground Death metal/ Brutal Death metal and some Folk/Black metal are so terrible it makes me want to punch a smurf in the face.
There is also no comparison to the dark/ disturbed/emo bullshit that the mainstream audience call ‘metal’.
This is TRUE metal. Power and Progressive metal. I actually HATE to label them as a sub-genre of metal because metal gets negative press because of black/death metal. Thus people bypass anything to do with the metal genre.
Power Metal
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Hibria [Brazil] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlhvYuFS-XE
Gamma Ray[Germany] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcAucl5f4cg
NightMare [France] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KhfIqGkKl8
Blind Guardian [Germany] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqis14Y0tUc
Progressive Metal
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Dream Theater [USA] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxkmPMSzHlE
Pagans Mind [Norway] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tmIi2fnsM
Communic [Norway] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx8rPCxieQs
Symphony X [USA] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcz8Ufit2ic
The real tragedy of it all is that mainstream audiences will never hear good metal because of all the ‘metalcore’ (think pop metal) and the ‘hardcore’ (think trying to be scary metal but failing) that gets pushed to the forefront of the scene and scares away people looking for GOOD music, such as above.