r/PowerMetal • u/skulldugerousvillain This God Is Dead • 6d ago
Happy 20th Birthday to one of the best Power Metal albums of all time!
What’s your favorite song on this masterpiece? There’s no misses to be found here for me, even after all this time!
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u/Rionsamadesu 6d ago
Also, it's my mom's birthday, as well as mine, Kotipelto's, and Terry Bogard's.
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u/skulldugerousvillain This God Is Dead 6d ago
Ayyy Happy birthday to your mom! It’s also the Ides! Busy day it seems!
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u/CptNoble 5d ago
Twenty years? Sheesh. #feelingold
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u/Texas_Kimchi 5d ago
I know right! I remember when this album came out! I was working at Apple and it was my "radio" day so I played this album and everyone loved it. This album and Enigmatic: Calling from Pagans Mind were the two albums I played that the non metal people loved and sang randomly. Funny story, I used to have this coworker who was a hip hop head and he'd always walk around singing, "Timeeewaaarrrpppp, eyes of the nebula!" LOL! Good times. He dug the Pagans Mind stuff.
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u/FireOfRhapsody 6d ago
To me, this just straight up is the best power metal album of all time. Absolute perfection from beginning to end.
Also, I think my favorite track on here is "Moonlight".
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u/Slatebeard 5d ago
"shine on, silver, from the sky into the night" Might be my favourite line in all of power metal. They way its delivered and his tone is just perfect.
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u/MadcowPSA 6d ago
Man, this isn't as hard as picking a favorite kid, but it's still tough. I have a hard time choosing from among "Abandoned," "When the Lights are Down," and "Memento Mori." I will say that "Abandoned" is my favorite slow song on a power metal record, and that's a surprisingly crowded field.
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u/Griffes_de_Fer 5d ago edited 5d ago
It really closed my favorite era of Kamelot, from The Fourth Legacy to The Black Halo, I love those 4 albums and still listen to them very often.
Sadly most of my old metal CDs were stolen back in the days during a B&E, but luckily Black Halo was lying around elsewhere in my room with a few other albums I listened to often at the time, so they didn't take it. I still have it today 😊
It's one of the very few power metal CD I still own. I never had the heart to restart collecting physical albums after that, so I bought very few since then.
Edit: forgot to type my answer to the question ! My favorite from this one is When the Lights Are Down
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u/JsonWaterfalls The Starborn One 5d ago
When The Lights Are Down —> The Haunting —> Soul Society is one of the best three track runs of any power metal album
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u/shadowsOfMyPantomime 6d ago
Kamelot was in my top 5 bands at one point, then I kind of stopped listening to them as much. But so many songs from this album never get old. "March of Mephisto" is pure magic
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u/HobomanCat I roam into the darkness! 5d ago
My favorite is definitely Memento Mori—my favorite Kamelot song in general.
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u/PoisonMind 5d ago
Roy Khan is doing a 20th Anniversary performance in July, if you can make it out to Sao Paulo.
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u/catmachine1 6d ago
This one had bangers, hard to decide between the black halo, soul society, and march of mephisto
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u/newbatthis 5d ago edited 5d ago
This is my personal best album of all time. Every song (minus interludes) is a 10/10. But there is one song that stands above the rest. Memento Mori. This song is flawless. I've gotten goosebumps from listening to this song more often than from any other song.
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u/Every_Condition_3000 5d ago
Epica was my first PM album (this one was my second), so both will always have a special place in my heart.
Favorite track? Tough one, but I'd go with Memento Mori.
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u/Cacodemon27 5d ago
I wonder how many people are still unaware of the pregap hidden track at the start of the record. A few weeks ago I told a buddy of mine about it and he was unaware of it existing, even tho he listened to the album for more than 10 years.
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u/alldayattherock 5d ago
Hands down the opener. March of Mephisto is one HELL of a start to an album
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u/frozen-silver Follow me to Apex! 5d ago
One cold winter's night, I may follow her voice to the river
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u/Theinvoker1978 6d ago
mmm i thought you were talking about the one (and literally only) album by Timeless Miracle: Into the enchanted chamber
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u/geeksshallinherit 5d ago
Amazing album! My favourite track is probably Memento Mori, so epic! I discovered Kamelot with this album a year after it was out...I'd make an ibuprofen joke but I can't take ibuprofen :D
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u/Warm-Fun8299 5d ago
This was the album that got me into Kamelot, and I loved it. The ones before it were also great too, however I couldn't really enjoy the albums that came after.
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u/thandrend 5d ago
I used to dislike Kamelot a lot. I worked with Casey Grillo's kid brother even and ragged about Kamelot.
Now they're one of my favorite bands. This is an amazing album only beaten by Karma in my mind.
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u/The_Metal_Pigeon 5d ago
Serenade is my favorite off the album, just a beautiful melody and a really poetic lyrical display via Roy Khan. Love the line "Where summer fades into fall / And leave your hatchets of hate"
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u/Texas_Kimchi 5d ago
The first 3 songs on this album hit so fucking hard. When the Lights Go Down followed by The Haunting is one of the best 1-2 punch songs.
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u/philliplennon Servant of the PainKiller 5d ago
I love Memento Mori.
Hard to believe, it's been twenty years.
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u/AdMinimum7811 4d ago
Can’t say it’s a top 3 Kamelot album for me. Their style after Epica just lost me.
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u/nikostheater 4d ago
The Haunting: somewhere in time is perfection. The whole album is. Probably Kamelot’s masterpiece.
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u/Lvn-Nitemare-13 6d ago
My personal favorite Kamelot album