any power metal bands with good bassists?

[UPTHE1RON5]

i can fink of two:

markus grosskopf (helloween)
lars ratz (metalium)

are there any others?

[ROON]

Marko Paasikoski of Sonata Arctica. Though he is burried in the mix most of the time, there are some songs where his bass sounds really great. He's got lots of skill. SA's new album Unia has to be the bassiest power metal album I have ever heard, it's VERY in your face.

Iced Earth has very good bass, if you wanna call them power metal. They have had so many bassists and other musicians in that band, I dunno who the current bassist is.

And the dude from Edguy.

[UPTHE1RON5]

[quote=ROON;5022897]Iced Earth has very good bass, if you wanna call them power metal. They have had so many bassists and other musicians in that band, I dunno who the current bassist is.[quote]

they change line up every couple of weeks nowadays :P

[roflol]

hammerfall lols i'm sure power metal bass is either just shred or root note

[metalbass777]

Patrice Guers (Rhapsody Of Fire)
Mat Sinner (Primal Fear)
Jens Becker (Grave Digger)
Marco Hietala (Nightwish)

[Thunder_Fingers]

Jari Kaiulainen (ex-Stratovarius, now: MESS, E.vil, Evergrey) Great player IMO! One of my favourites (I listen way to little to Stratovarius now adays..)

[The Lurker]

Edguy

For the longest time, I thought I was the only person in the world who knew about them.......

[James Banner]

Adrian Lambert who used to play in Dragonforce before Frédéric Leclercq (who kind of sucked when I saw them live, because he is actually a g**t**ist). Adrian is amazing. If you have Inhuman Rampage, check out his bass solo on "Body Breakdown" (around 4:10 mark). Plus the playing on the whole album is pretty solid and quite melodic too. I believe he also played on Sonic Firestorm.

James

[permadave]

I guess Steve Harris goes without saying...

Marco Hietala from Nightwish!
Frédéric Leclercq from Dragonforce (formerly Heavenly)

[James Banner]

Originally Posted by permadave

I guess Steve Harris goes without saying...

Marco Hietala from Nightwish!
Frédéric Leclercq from Dragonforce (formerly Heavenly)

Once again, Frédéric Leclercq sucked when I saw Dragonforce live. But that must be because I'm starting to get used to Jazz Fusion bass

James

Roberto Potenti - Skylark

Felipe Andreoli - Angra

Steve Digiorgio - Control Denied

Adrian Lambert - formerly Dragonforce (oops, mentioned above)

Michael Lepond - Symphony X

[PrimusNut]

Joey DeMaio - Manowar

[catoblepas]

mika horiuchi, the new bassist for cellador, was beastly when i saw him live.

[Anti-Product]

Originally Posted by James Banner

Adrian Lambert who used to play in Dragonforce before Frédéric Leclercq (who kind of sucked when I saw them live, because he is actually a g**t**ist). Adrian is amazing. If you have Inhuman Rampage, check out his bass solo on "Body Breakdown" (around 4:10 mark). Plus the playing on the whole album is pretty solid and quite melodic too. I believe he also played on Sonic Firestorm.

James

He's in Biomechanical now..I don't think he recorded the new album, but he is certainly touring for it. Not really power metal, but they are great and I'm looking forward to seeing him live when they tour for it.

[Trauts]

There's a Swedish kinda proggy power metal band called Seventh Wonder who's bassist, Andreas Blomqvist, is one of the best I've heard. Check out this link to see him doing sweeps in one of the songs (Walking Tall) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TAvrgkNRkqE. Off the same album, 'Waiting in the Wings' check out the fusion influenced solo on 'Taint the Sky' and you will be impressed.

[dragoon419]

Glenn Barry of Kamelot
Gorlan of Elvenking (though they're really more Folk Metal)
Mat Sinner of Primal Fear

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[musicmansf]

Opeth's bassist, while not exactly sticking out, he and the drummer work like Justin and Danny of Tool work together. All I know is they are like what Dream Theater would be like if James LaBrie wasn't so gay.

[dragoon419]

Originally Posted by musicmansf

Opeth's bassist, while not exactly sticking out, he and the drummer work like Justin and Danny of Tool work together. All I know is they are like what Dream Theater would be like if James LaBrie wasn't so gay.

Opeth is not power metal, though they are metal. That, and James laBrie is a good singer. He's not great, just good.

Anyway, without him they would not sound anything like Opeth (Progressive Death Metal!), but I doubt it would damage their sound much.

[matala]

I say Lauri Porra(In Stratovarius nowdays). Although he plays lots of other styles too, but he is great in metal, too.