The Metal Project: 2003 (pt 1)

The Metal Project: My ongoing quest to track down every song on Youtube with Metal in the title and gather them in one place.  It seemed like a good idea at the time.

2003 seems to have been one of those years where a lot happened.  Iron Maiden and Limp Bizkit headlined the first ever Download Festival.  An unknown Gothic Metal band from Arkansas called Evanesence  had a monster worldwide hit with "Bring Me To Life" while over the Atlantic a tongue-in-cheek hard rock outfit called The Darkness somehow found themselves the darlings of the NME/Glastonbury crowd.
  Also in 2003: Yours truly trekked up to Derby to witness the first ever UK show from Nightwish, who were headlining the Bloodstock Festival. And a bloody good time I had too.
 Among the other bands I saw that weekend were a young, multinational  Power Metal outfit called Dragonforce...
 Anyway, time for us to worship once more at the altar of Metal. Enjoy.

 This first track is Power Metal. Hands up anybody who's surprised? 

Cryonic Temple - Mercenaries Of Metal (Sweden)

Honour to: eosyt1000

Next, a band that cheerfully pay tribute to the 80s.

Facon - Alma De Metal (Argentina)

Honour to: zetdainus

This next lot have that relentless 80s Priest/Accept sorta sound.

Godiva -Heavy Metal Thunder (Switzerland)

 Honour to: RenJivv

And now a short, sharp burst of Thrashcore  but with a few well chosen samples

Holier than Thou? - Metal Wounds (USA)

Honour to: AssChickenMetal

And now for something completely different - Industrial Death Metal

The Sixth Incubator - We're Death Metal Power (Germany)

Honour to: Skelletona

The intro for this next song leads you to expect a gentle ballad
but then it launches into uptempo singalong Power Metal.
Sneaky.

Red Wine - Rosa De Metal (Spain)

Honour to: 0zero

Still more rapid-fire Power Metal - from Kazakhstan this time.

Holy Dragons - Heavy Metal Maniac (Kazakhstan)

Honour to; xxmetallwolfxx

Something a wee bit more NWOBHM now.

Krusher - Heavy Metal Krusher (Poland)

Honour to: verkaim23
Band homepage: http://www.myspace.com/krusherpl

And finally : A band who were doing Power Metal before anybody called it Power Metal
(I rather like this one. Mid-paced with a definite groove and a chorus that's catchy as all hell)

 Rage - Human Metal (Germany) 

Honour to: VikdeRock


You know, I think I have enough songs from this year to sneak in a second post.

Watch this space.