Power Metal, that most maligned and ridiculed of Metal many sub-genres. Tonight, is a heavyweight tussle between two of its premiere league exponents. In the red corner, Helloween who conceived the whole bloody genre back in the eighties and in the blue corner, HammerFall who have kept the flame burning (and held the hammer aloft) since the mid-nineties. If you like your metal bloated, bombastic and free of irony then this is a marriage made in Valhalla, if not I would bugger off and watch the football.

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