Drummers keep up a steady double-bass gallop while guitars and keyboards play bright, tuneful lines. The mood is uplifting where most metal is dark. The European form took shape in Germany in the mid-1980s, with Helloween as its main early band, and spread across Scandinavia and beyond. A harder, less keyboard-led American style also uses the name.
Artists it is known for: Helloween, Blind Guardian, Stratovarius, DragonForce.
About 1,800 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have power metal among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Power Metal artists
Sabaton
Judas Priest
Nightwish
Children Of Bodom
Dio
Powerwolf
Amon Amarth
Within Temptation
Beast In Black
Arch Enemy
The power metal artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.