Best power metal bassist?!

[ROON]

Power metal bassists are very underrated IMO, just because sometimes you can't hear them, doesn't mean they aren't good. So, what say you TB, who is the greatest power metal bassist of all time?

My vote goes to Luís Mariutti (Angra/Shaaman)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XpZt8K90sU

Love that tone, and the clankiness of his playing. It's different, but I like it.

Very close in 2nd place, Nobby Noberg (Dionysus)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpgPTESbmRk

HUGE beefy tone, and technical playing. The only reason he doesn't take 1st place is because I haven't heard much Dionysus.

Honorable mentions also to;

James MacDonough (Iced Earth)
Anyone who can play that fast and precise gets my upmost respect.

Tobias Sammet (Edguy)
Played bass as well as singing for Edguy from their formation up until '98 when he decided the instrument deserved someone who could concentrate on it 100%. He has some wicked solos on the older albums, and I also admire him for respecting the roll of a bass player in power metal music.

Tobias Exxel (Edguy)
Replacement for the other Tobias (singer), got some good lines. I like the fretless at the start of the song "The Pharaoh".

Steve Harris - Iron Maiden

Roberto Potenti - Skylark

Joey DeMaio - Manowar

Adrian Lambert - formerly of Dragonfarce

Steve Digiorgio - Control Denied

[Willy2911]

1 Cliff Burton - 2 Steve Harris - 3 Fieldy

[ROON]

Originally Posted by Tired_Thumb

Steve Harris - Iron Maiden

Roberto Potenti - Skylark

Joey DeMaio - Manowar

Adrian Lambert - formerly of Dragonfarce

Steve Digiorgio - Control Denied

Wow I can't believe I forgot Harris!

Originally Posted by Willy2911

1 Cliff Burton - 2 Steve Harris - 3 Fieldy

Neither Metallica or KoRn are power metal.

[Rano Bass]

Rex Brown!!!

And the guy that played fretless with Death, Steve "something"

[Darkstrike]

Harris. /thread.





Plenty of great powermetal bassists, but the originator is still king.

[ysand]

Iron Maiden's music isn't considered "power metal" though.

[Montsegour]

Maiden is not Power Metal
Death is not Power Metal
Pantera is not Power Metal
Iced Earth is not Power Metal
It's Steve Digorgio, and yes, he is not Power Metal.

[j-raj]

oh great, this looks like its gonna turn into a pissing competition.

[StanFan]

I don't listen to alot of power metal, but I dig Joe Dibiase and Joey Vera's work with Fates Warning. They're more prog metal but at least their 80s work has much in common with power metal.

[Darkstrike]

Originally Posted by ysand

Iron Maiden's music isn't considered "power metal" though.

Originally Posted by Montsegour

Maiden is not Power Metal

Maiden are widley considerd to be the originators of Powermetal, its not exactly what modern powermetal is now, but its where it came from.

[StanFan]

Originally Posted by Montsegour

Maiden is not Power Metal
Death is not Power Metal
Pantera is not Power Metal
Iced Earth is not Power Metal
It's Steve Digorgio, and yes, he is not Power Metal.

Metallica isn't considered power metal but in their early days they were hyped as playing "power metal". Just like how bands like DRI and Pantera were once labelled as metalcore. Metal genre arguments (any music genre for that matter) are quite ridiculous.

[Darkstrike]

Originally Posted by Montsegour

Pantera is not Power Metal
Iced Earth is not Power Metal

Pre Cowboys/Phil Anselmo Pantera were powermetal.
A lot of Iced Earth is indeed powermetal.

Steve DiGoridio has been in lots of bands, I dunno, but mabye he was in a powermetal band at one time.

Pantera, pre 90's, and Iced Earth indeed fall under power metal. Steve Digiorgio did play in Control Denied, not a typical power metal band, but nonetheless a power metal band.

Metallica, KoRn, and Death definitely do not fall under the power metal banner. Please folks, use something like this as a general list of defining power metal bands, as it saves us all a big headache: http://www.metal-archives.com/browseG.php?g=power. It's not neccessarily 100% accurate, but it's more accurate than having a flame match here.

[mfgl]

power metal seems to be a confused genre...i ran into this on a metal survey on myspace this week. Ive been involved in the metal scene since the early 80s....and yet i dont know any power metal bands evidently.....doesnt say much for the genre.

[Nikoubis]

Jari Kainulainen's work with Stratovarius was awesome. He's now in Evergrey. And no love for Markus Grosskopf?

[Darkstrike]

Originally Posted by Nikoubis

And no love for Markus Grosskopf?

He rocks hard, I love his Bassinvaders CD.

[alexei]

Jacoooooooooo!!!

j/K

Too bad this is "power metal only", anyway, if ever considered so, early Sypmhony X albums where Thomas Miller was driving the bass has awesome basslines.

besides, powermetal-wise, Rhapsody of Fire (aka 'Rhapsody') has some really powerfull basslines. Just a big earphone and your head will blow away with those lines on low end. I'm referring to one of the old bassist, Alessandro Lotta.

[flipper_gv]

Oliver Holzwarth of Blind Guardian is pretty amazing
The dude in Pagan's Mind (power prog, still power :O)
The dude in Dragonland

[flipper_gv]

Originally Posted by Tired_Thumb

Pantera, pre 90's, and Iced Earth indeed fall under power metal. Steve Digiorgio did play in Control Denied, not a typical power metal band, but nonetheless a power metal band.

Metallica, KoRn, and Death definitely do not fall under the power metal banner. Please folks, use something like this as a general list of defining power metal bands, as it saves us all a big headache: http://www.metal-archives.com/browseG.php?g=power. It's not neccessarily 100% accurate, but it's more accurate than having a flame match here.

sorry but metal-archives is 100% correct and is the ultimate reference (as being the only one that is complete enough) to discuss about metal genres.