powerful. a power metal podcast

02/07/2024

New powerful episode is up digging into the Twilight Force news, reviewing the new Seven Spires album, and going off on a Eurobeat tangent thanks to Beast In Black

22/05/2024

On the newest episode of Powerful we chat with Jason Ashcraft about what's new in his Ashcraftverse. Also we gush about Blind Guardian's live shows and review the Unleash The Archers album!

10/04/2024

New episode out! , , , AI... are we so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong. Join us in our rants, and some cool reviews of recent releases! Find it on youtube, spotify, anywhere where podcasts are.

21/03/2024

New episode out! Join us in a deep dive into Glyph! The band, the people, the lore, and a song by song exploration of their album Honor Power Glory

Find it on Youtube, Spotify, and wherever podcasts are!

27/02/2024

Powerful is back! Power Metal News and Reviews are back! This time we talk about the new Unleash The Archers and the whole discourse around their release, Alestorm with their new single featuring Patty Gurdy , and go over past months releases from In Victory, Nekonomicon, Mega Colossus, Caligula's Horse, Albion UK, and Elettra Storm

27/01/2024

Powerful is back with the tale of our harrowing journey to Epic Fest! Did seeing Fellowship live change our lives?

Kyle and Fernando braved the frozen north to attend Epic Fest in Roskilde, Denmark. Join them on this perilous journey full of friends, fellows, and festivit...

28/08/2023

Check out the new episode of powerful where we dive into Mad With Power Fest 2023 along with our friend Rav from Ravenous E.H!

Kyle and Fernando are joined by special guest Rav of Ravenous as they discuss the 2023 edition of Mad With Power.Timestamps:00:00:00 Intro00:00:12 Sup Nerds0...

06/07/2022

Arriving totally on time is our episode about ProgPower USA 2022 featuring our friend and special guest Alice of Rage Badger Gaming! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqoGaBhE24A

17/05/2022

A new episode is out! Join Kyle in reliving his little big metal adventure to 6 days of festivals through lands far and skies high to Hyperspace Metal Festival and Hell's Heroes, with a bit of Seven Spires and Dragonforce in between

16/01/2022

Our 2021 Wrap Up is here! Check out our pick of highlight Albums and Songs for the year (just a taste in the image), some cool late year news, and what we are looking forward to for 2022. Get it anywhere you can find podcasts, including Spotify and Youtube.

25/10/2021

Sup Nerds! Get you earholes ready for this long boi of an episode, a deep dive track by track of 's new album Hubris, with the lovely .a.voltaire and dropping all the details on songwriting, lyrics, themes, and much more! Get it right now wherever podcasts are (even youtube!)

30/09/2021

Live metal shows are back and so is the most powerful podcast around! Join Kyle and Fernando as they discuss the recent Mad With Power Fest and Unleash The Archers tour as well as recent releases from Seven Spires and Ravenous E.H!

https://youtu.be/3aeBZrzesJw

Sup Nerds! We are back at it again! In this episode Kyle and Fer bask in the glorious light that is having live shows again and review some recent and also u...

31/07/2021

Our friends in Eon's Enthroned (including Fer!) finally released their debut full length and it fu**in SLAPS! Short, sweet, punchy, riffy, to the point, with very little fluff.

https://open.spotify.com/album/74cPJ9DdJNJzNob6ZJlH5i?si=hF0wvqQSRweRlz9OOMSBwg&dl_branch=1
https://eonsenthroned.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-arcane-2

Eons Enthroned · Album · 2021 · 8 songs.

23/07/2021

Sup nerds, powerful is back and going hard on all the power metal released in the first half of 2021. We already have a couple really strong aoty contenders, and there's even more great stuff to come. Check out the episode on Youtube or all your favorite podcast spots.

https://youtu.be/_-19cHV_2xU

Sup nerds! After a brief hiatus, Kyle and our friend Alice from Rage Badger Gaming are here to dive into the best power metal released in the first half of 2...

01/02/2021

The lads over at Fellowship have dropped another banger of a track!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOSW95OsiaY

FOLLOW US on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/fellowshipmetal/LISTEN to us on Spotify! We have more songs there! https://open.spotify.com/artist/3WDqn7WBcRoR...

22/12/2020

2020 is coming to an end, and we are making a final push to make the usual yearly roundup of cool releases we've enjoyed in the Power Metal sphere! This time we are talking about releases by Darktribe, Seven Spires, Nightwish, Dark Forest, Boisson Divine, From The Depth, Falconer, Fellowship, LOVEBITES, Unlucky Morpheus, Unleash The Archers, Helion Prime, Perennial Quest, Blind Guardian, and also a bit of self indulgence with Eons Enthroned, Afterpain, and Polish-Tank-Metal sensation Sabadu.

Available on your favourite podcast app including Spotify, Youtube, and the link below!

https://powerfulpodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/e39-2020-sucked-but-these-albums-don-t

Stella, Fernando, and Kyle reflect on the albums that helped them survive 2020 and carry on into 2021. Contains an *exclusive* *one-of-a-kind* interview with multi-instrumentalist audio engineer wizard extraordinaire of Latin America and Possibly the World in General, Fernando Rey.

30/08/2020

Did you guys know Fernando is in a band :O? You might like this Afterpain song with just a hint of power metal influence, out of the sympho metal debut album The Endless Cycle, give it a listen!

Listen the full album here! https://tinyurl.com/y2arqy2c Contact us! [email protected] Facebook: http://facebook.com/afterpainofficial Instagram: ...

25/08/2020

Check out Fellowship's latest video! These newcomers from the United Kingdom are one of the most exciting things to happen to power metal this year, make sure to give their EP a listen!

And also check out our QuarantineCast episode with them, if you somehow haven't already!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j0oE6RiWng

FOLLOW US on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/fellowshipmetal/ LISTEN to us on Spotify! We have more songs there! https://open.spotify.com/artist/3WDqn7WBcRo...

12/08/2020

Is it a stretch to guess the people that follow a Power Metal podcast might like boardgames? I think not! Check out our good friends at Rage Badger Gaming, who go even more niche than us focusing on one game, Gloomhaven.

Maybe even sub ;D

And of course sub to us as well while you are at it, we have a lil new video up as well (it involves tanks).

Check out our Frosthaven Content! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5O_gwp7Uq2tbquug4bmOfG1N5Ost5uSm Unlock special perks on our Patreon! https://www.p...

02/08/2020

Did you catch Blind Guardian's amazing set at Wacken World Wide?? Go check the archive out on magenta-musik-360.de, specially if you love old school BG.

And they even played a NEW SONG!! Somehow Hansi pulled off a virtual concert just as if thousands were there, and the sound was delicious, do not miss this!!

https://www.magenta-musik-360.de/festivals/wacken-world-wide-2020-long-www-festival-tag-freitag-part-3

Show starts at 4:22 (interview in German first)

25/06/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvVKbwO89Bk

This is probably the greatest song released in 2020

SABADU
Joakislaw Brodek - Vocals
Krzysztof Roguski - Guitars
Tomasz "Rynszcyd" Jachimek - Guitars
Paweł Strumień - Bass
Henryk Wandal - Drums

The first single from the Polish Tankmetal sensations "Sabadu"!

13/06/2020

We are going LIVE with the talented Baptiste of folk metal band .divine from Gascony, France. Let's chat about folk metal, power metal, wine! Stream starts on twitch.tv/powerfulpodcast at 11:00 PDT, 15:00 ART, 20:00 CEST. Woot, time zones!

10/06/2020

Thanks to your generosity, our coalition of 61 bands collectively donated $18,026.51 USD to the National Bail Fund Network courtesy of Bandcamp sales made on Friday, June 5. We can’t thank you enough for getting involved, sharing, caring and buying.

04/06/2020

Fellow hobbits, dwarves, and elves: we have invited Fellowship to our quarantine cast series which will be on Saturday June 6, 1pm Pacific, 5pm Argentina, 9pm British time. What do lions and hobbits have in common? We have no idea. Find out on our livestream!

31/05/2020

Audio version of livestream is out on Spotify, apple Podcasts, Google play, all of the things. Yarrrr!!!!

30/05/2020

In 1 hour, that's 12:00 pacific time, we will be live on twitch with Chris Bowes of Alestorm. Come hang out with us! Twitch.tv/powerfulpodcast

28/05/2020

Oh wow! We're on a streak of not-power metal in our quarantine cast series. Join powerful and special guest Chris Bowes of Alestorm as we discuss power metal, memes, and goats. 12 pm PST Saturday 5/30 on the powerfulpodcast Twitch!

25/05/2020

🤔 if you are symphonic metal and you are going through an existential crisis, this is the episode for you 🤔 Stella, Fer, and special guest Daniel of UK symphonic metal act CELESTIVL geek out about Nightwish, cults, "classical" music, and more. Recorded from our recent Twitch stream, up now on your usual podcast places (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google play, etc etc).

23/05/2020

We are live right now!

Come have fun!

Powerful.live with Bill Hudson from Northtale

23/05/2020

Going live in 40 minutes on https://www.twitch.tv/powerfulpodcast with Dan from CELESTIVL

Come hear us RANT about NVGHTVVSH, symphonic metal, center-panned cellos, orchestral MVTVL and all things musical!!

Powerful.live with Bill Hudson from Northtale