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I listen to Power Metal only because it is the closest genre to classical Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne,Motörhead, Judas Priest) and almost no band sings classical Heavy Metal anymore.

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I'll seed you Seven Sisters (UK), Riot city (Can), Traveler (Can), Toledo Steel (UK), Road Wolf (Austria), Bullet (Swe), Crazy Lixx (Swe).

Take those to BandCamp/Metal Archives and look for "bands like" these and you'll see there are hundreds of UK, Canadian and Swedish bands.

There is also the ever awesome Jorn (Swe) still putting out amazing Heavy Metal.

Hope that helps. No need to listen to power metal ;)

Jorn is (Nor), not (Swe)

- A Norwegian

I'll fetch the oars. These folks need a visit

I'll never accept Norway's separation! /s

A Brit here... sorry. Epic singer either way.

Traveler is amazing, I second that recommendation.

Also, a point of interest: Riot City and Traveler are both from Calgary.

Vancouver, Calgary and Quebec City are sort of the trio of metal in Canada; AFAICT.

There's been a huge revival of traditional heavy metal over the last 10 or so years. Look up NWOTHM for a list of some of the bands.

Oh man, you're so gonna love this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_wave_of_traditional_heavy_...

This should probably be your next stop:

https://www.youtube.com/@NWOTHMFullAlbums

And here's a small selection of some of my favourites from that new wave:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsmrGn_1E13fBQkyefFGu...

> almost no band sings classical Heavy Metal anymore.

That’s just not true, at all. Just look for the "trad[itional]" genre. I don’t enjoy it, but there are a lot of releases there.

edit: Or just combine heavy metal and either hard rock or thrash on something like RYM, that should also give you a lot of those. Here’s Hard Rock + Heavy Metal for the 2020s: https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2020s/g:all,hard%...

Try some of these out:

https://www.youtube.com/@NWOTHMFullAlbums

Trad revival is a big thing these days. But I think there is something subtle about even older power metal that sometimes makes it a bit different from something you'd class as "plain" speed metal. Its a bit hard to put in words precisely. But that is why I love the genre so much. I am not so much into pure speed metal or thrash metal.

This. Also, it more closely butts up against a couple of other metals I enjoy including symphonic.

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