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Masters Of Metal Part V, Stratovarius

This is the final post in “Masters Of Metal” series for now. And because I’m finnish guy the last band is finnish powermetal group Stratovarius:

Stratovarius is a Finnishpower metal band that formed in 1984. Since their formation (originally as Black Water), they have released 15 studio albums and one live album. Along with Helloween, Dark Moor, Blind Guardian, Gamma Ray, HammerFall, Angra and Rhapsody of Fire, Stratovarius are considered one of the leading groups of the power metal and symphonic metal genre.

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Let’s start this with their early video called “Future Shock” from 1989:

 

Next one is one of my favorites called “Speed Of Light”:

 

Then all time favorite called “Black Diamond”:

 

Today without founder member Timo Tolkki Stratovarius plays littlebit progressive metal and here is the “Halcyon Days”:

 

>> Official Stratovarius Website

This was the last part of the series, but there will be more I promise, but this is it for now. And remember these are not the best bands just my opinion.

Masters Of Metal Part IV, Blaze Bayley

I just have to make a post of this guy. Blaze Bayley’s life have been an inspiration to me because of his determination considering about music and life. He has lost his frontman place in Iron Maiden and he has lost his loved wife on the journey, but still he wrote’s so passionately about life’s struggles that it is just amazing. Here is a small story from wiki:

Blaze Bayley (born Bayley Alexander Cooke,29 May 1963) is an Englishsinger, lyricist, and songwriter. He was the lead singer of Wolfsbane from 1984 to 1994, and again during a more recent reunion. Blaze is best known for being the lead singer of British metal band Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999. Since 1999, he has embarked on a solo career.

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Here is the absolut killer track from Iron Maiden days “Man On The Edge”:

 

This next one is called “Clansman” also from Iron Maiden days:

 

What is awesome in Blaze is his ability to write songs about life… the life we all must face everyday and here are couple of examples. First one is about a doctor who says that Blaze, you don’t have brain 😀  and hilarious video too:

 

And then my absolut favorite song from Blaze’s Silicon Messiah album called “Stare At The Sun”:

 

And finally to you all Blaze Bayley bashers… FUCK YOU!!! Blaze you are a true Metal God.

>> Official Blaze Bayley Website

Masters Of Metal Part III, Gamma Ray

Next metal band in the series is Gamma Ray. This band has has dealt with different kind of topics for example New World Order and people’s freedom. Gamma Ray’s frontman Kai Hansen has influenced in Helloween and is very down to Earth guy who deals with real topics in his lyrics:

Gamma Ray is a metal band from Hamburg, northern Germany, founded and fronted by Kai Hansen after his departure from the German power metal band Helloween. Hansen is the current lead vocalist, guitarist as well as the chief songwriter of Gamma Ray. The band is known as one of the most prominent bands of the German heavy metal scene.

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This first video is from Helloween days and is called “Eagle Fly Free”. My personal favorite:

 

This next one is from Gamma Ray days and is called “Land Of The Free”:

 

Next video clip is anti NWO song called “No World Order”:

 

Last video is Gamma Ray’s latest official music video called “Master Of Confusion”:

 

So that was Gamma Ray with truthspeaker Kai Hansen.

>> Official Gamma Ray Website

Masters Of Metal Part II, Megadeth

Second band in the series is rightly Megadeth. This band and especially Dave Mustaine is heavily interested about NWO, history and World politics. And hey if you didn’t know Dave was Metallica’s guitar player in the 1980’s, but they kicked him out. And if you watch these bands today it’s not hard to see how much better Megadeth is nowadays. Firstly I post one of my all time favorite songs on their best album Rust In Peace… this one is called Holy Wars…The Punishment Due:

 

 

And because this site deals with odd topics and mainly UFO stuff the second song is on the same album called Hangar 18:

 

Next one continues the story above so this one is called Return To Hangar, actually this is Hangar 18 & Return To Hangar live:

 

This next one is never stuff and is called Endgame from the album called Endgame. It’s about NWO agenda and dystopia stuff:

 

And finally here is Dave Mustaine in Infowars talking about patriotism and NWO:

 

I appreciate Dave’s bravery to talk about true things in the World.

>> Official Megadeth Website