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Originally Posted by Csihar
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Iron Maiden and Dio are not power metal. They're simply heavy metal, or traditional metal, whatever you'd like to call it. They were both influential on power metal but that subgenre didn't come into existence until the mid 80s.
The chart from 'Metal: A Headbanger's Journey' wasn't very good.
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The subject matter and song formats make it power metal. Traditional metal sounds nothing like what people consider heavy metal nowadays. Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath (though some would argue that as Doom Metal), Blue Oyster Cult are all true traditional metal. While Maiden and Dio may have been around since way before Power Metal was actually a mainstream thing, they're still considered Power Metal.