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Im not sure I know who Dragonforce is, but back in the day, great speed metal consisted mostly of bands in Germany: Destruction, Kreator, Sodom, Tyrant, Warrant, Helloween (early), Grave Digger, Running Wild, etc. Canada had contributed as well with Sacrifice and Exciter...............

 

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Hmmm, I guess the term speed metal means something very different now than back in the 80s............

 

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Mad Butcher by Destruction. Speed metal used to be punk and metal mixed together. Singing in key was irrelevant............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuOblSyWInk&search=destruction mad butcher

 

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Check out these 2 very different definitions of speed metal. As for the first, there is no way in hell that glam and speed are in the same league...........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_metal

http://www.silver-dragon-records.com/speed_metal.htm

 

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The kings of powermetal, at least in Europe, are Manowar. Other power metal bands to check out are: Helloween, Accept, Hammerfall, and Judas Priest. For Canadian content, check out some Anvil. I dont know why they have all these classifications. Back in the 80s, there was only Heavy metal, and pop metal, now metal has 3000 varieties.............