How To: Make a Power Metal Song in 6 Min or Less (+ Full Song at the End) || Shady Cicada 

"Through the Heat and The Embers by Lizardstrength" XDDDDD

"Don't take these seriously", duuuuuuuude... these are what i use to actually write songs XD

Play at 1.25 speed for the true DragonForce experience.

This more like Japanese power metal....like it. Power metal is the best genre in metal, it's heavy, but still melodious and I like the themes...it's about fantasy, warriors, glory in battlefield and something similar. Not as depressing as some metal genres.

fuckin dragons n shit ayy lmao

*A few updates!* - The How-To Album and tabs are being worked on. Due to work and other emergencies, it will have to be delayed (just a little bit). An update video and Q&A will be coming soon to explain it all. - Because of schedule issues, it's hard to get my buddy in without it being last minute. I'll try my best to get him in the next one. He's eager and ready to come back. He's also been working on the album with me! - If you want to catch my live streams where I make music and play some games, be sure to follow me at twitch.tv/shadycicada or watch on my second channel ru-vid.com/show-UC-VW33EAfTTp8uS_j6hkuCw I will still consider streaming here, but I think it might be messing with the algorithm and dropping views. Doing an experiment to see. That's all! I hope you enjoyed the video!

On a cold winter morning In the time before the light In flames of death's eternal reign We ride towards the fight When the darkness has fallen down And the times are tough alright The sound of evil laughter falls Around the world tonight Fighting hard, fighting on for the steel Through the wastelands evermore The scattered souls will feel the hell Bodies wasted on the shores On the blackest plains in Hell's domain We watch them as they go Through the fire and pain and once again we know So now we fly ever free We're free before the thunderstorm On towards the wilderness Our quest carries on Far beyond the sundown Far beyond the moonlight Deep inside our hearts and all our souls So far away we wait for the day For the lives all so wasted and gone We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days Through the fire and the flames we carry on As the red day is dawning And the lightning cracks the sky They'll raise their hands to the heavens above With resentment in their eyes Running back through the mid morning light There's a burning in my heart We're banished from a time in a fallen land To a life beyond the stars In your darkest dreams see to believe Our destiny is time And endlessly we'll all be free tonight And on the wings of a dream So far beyond reality All alone in desperation Now the time has gone Lost inside you'll never find Lost within my own mind Day after day this misery must go on So far away we wait for the day For the lives all so wasted and gone We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days Through the fire and the flames we carry on Woah, woah, whoah Woah, woah, whoah Now here we stand with their blood on our hands We fought so hard, now can we understand I'll break the seal of this curse if I possibly can For freedom of every man So far away we wait for the day For the lives all so wasted and gone We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days Through the fire and the flames we carry on

That guitar tone is tight

They say *Pride* cometh before the fall, but Shady rises ever still. You could say this is *The Rise* .

CicadaForce - Through the Beetles and Bugs!! \m/ Good shit man! :D

No divebombs, 5/7

Hell yeah! This is why I like Power Metal \,,/ Personally, Power Metal is my most favorite metal sub-genre.

Need lyric for this song. (Borrow Stevie T's Power Metal lyric generator)

You make everything sound so emotional.. and I fucking love it! Just finished the video. 10/10, brother, it was fuckin amazing.

Through the heat and the embers by LizardStrength (Read in he voice of purple shep) On a frigid winter sunrise In the hour without illumination In the fires of hades' long time in charge We horse towards the quarrel When the not light is on you And things suck right now The noise of mean hahaha's Crowds your house

Dude you gotta make a southern rock / groove one i am waiting for those all the time. by the way man the neoclassical riffs were the shit i dig them

sounds like a very happy avenged sevenfold song

I gotta say, as rough as it is trying to make songs, this was probably the most informative guide I’ve found anywhere on RU-vid. Thanks Shady!

dude, this is some killer stuff right there, your melodic work is off the charts! Damn son, everytime I come around to watch one of your videos I can't help but feel like I have archieved nothing significant in my 10 years of playing music lol

Where's your other guitar buddy :/

I want to make power metal. I've been on this good green earth for 31 years and only recently had a name for the genre to find more, and I've been soaking it up. I don't really even know the basics, but this video has been really helpful. I'll probably never be in a band or have a traditional set up, but I hope I can capture the sound and the core empowering message all power metal shares. Thanks for making this!!!

I've gotta say, as a power metal junkie this definitely hit me in all the right places. Great job distilling the major elements of what makes power metal so great

Only watched a couple of these, but you've got a real talent my friend! I will be promoting this to my guitar students and their teacher.

Love it, sounds great. You really nailed that new classical tapping solo at the end. Keep it up :D

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS THANK YOU YES

I found your channel this week and I only watched a few videos. They were cool so I subbed. Really like what you're doing.

You Americans keep refering to Lizardstrenght as a some holy grail of power metal. I grew up with classic bands such as Stradicaster, Piano Piece North Polia, Symphony of Heat and All Hallows Eve to name a few, and have never seen Lizardstrenght as anything different than a gimmick and overglorified videogame boss.

Love these videos! Do one for symphonic metal like Nightwish!

Hi Shady, fantastic job. My favorite one yet.

I knew you were talented but this is a whole new level of AWESOME!

Thank u for this instrumental power metal song! Really like it

Yyyyaaaaaaaasssss I've been asking for this for like six months!!!!!

I love power metal and you nailed it dude haha!!

You and Vow of Volition are my favourite guitar channels right now

Damn dude This channel deserves a lot more subscribers definitely By the way, your tutorial videos will certainly help me in some way since I'll have to write a couple of songs I myself have to write in different genres as a part of exam for music sound engineering university in Saint Petersburg. You should definitely make more of these videos They are really awesome and helpful

Great work as always!!

I was waiting for this.

Sounds like A7X to me! Great Job again Cicada

Watched it for the nth time! Awesome!

boot camp booty camp on drum, if that helps.

Sounds great.

I find all your how to videos to be entertaining and useful

Contagiously catchy!

"Through The Fire And Embers by LizardStrength" LMAOLMAO This guy is a fucking riffmeister and a dad-joke meister. Edit: after hearing the solo from this song I must admit - he is also a leadmeister. He is overall a guitarmeister.

Not gonna lie, this song made me so moist. I think the only thing to make it better would be some powerful vocals. Totally using this guide, by the way.

You, sir, are a hero

I know these videos are just for fun but they actually are very helpful in writing for a certain style.

you r a bad ass in the questions of learning some styles . really like it , but i notest at minute 0:52 your 4th finger make a face and at 0:58/59 the middle finger make another face to really awesome ahaha . nice work dude

Excellent !

love that little classical lick at 4:06

2:00 "Through the Heat and Embers by LizardStrength" You earned a sub

Just awesome! :D You are cool :D

Love this how-to video's, it's so much fund to watch them. Would groove metal à la Pantera be an idea for another video? Thanks and cheers man!

Power Metal has so many guitar harmony parts. Nice old school sounding tone man.

This actually sounds damn good!

Why are these all so good?

very nice!!

Love it

still tied with symphonic metal for the best genre imo

id love to see an updated version. A more serious very as well, but regardless still very well done

Dude this sounds awesome, better than many stuff I have heard on youtube/radio. Do you have full songs that I can listen to?

Anyone think of Galneryus?

all this song need is some soaring vocals and then it fits right in with the classic power metal songs of the late 2000's

OMFG dat solo makes me melting

"Palm mutes that are fast enough to put Sonic the Hedgehog out of business and working at a Denny's" dead XD

Oh my goodness, this is incredible! Makes me wanna sing something now @_@

Wow I love Power Metal!

You're a genius!

1 dislike..is that you Stevie T?

so far away

amazing

Dang that was good dude

great video dude , like dragon force

This is Stratovarius / Galneryus af. Love it

Um 1:30 to 1:42.. "left the childhood left the memories left the good times in the past, moving on your time has run out" I know it's not the same chords but it's the same rhythm as that song XD. Cool. Second heartbeat

Shady you should do a video where you show us start to finish of you making song. You know the Tracking/Editing/Mastering process of it all.

2:00 i lol'd, I'm glad I caught the reference (it's like Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce but just a little different)

Now this is something that I feel can befit RPGs, including the Tales series.

You actually pretty much nailed it ! But maybe the solo should have been a bit longer... Something like 5 minutes more xD

Incredible song!!! Bro, which tone do you use?

Oh shit that was fantastic

oh man, this one is really cool! Can you do how-to symphonic metal plz? :)

Stevie T's gonna love this

REALLY FUCKING AWESOME MAN

(wrist secretly on fire) hahaha! I feel ya man! but that chug is nice. Ohhh and I recently bought a capo to experiment with, and I've actually made some pretty fucking sick metal riffs, and other stuff. I know I could've just changed my tuning, but then I gotta mess with string gauges, action, tension, truss rod, intonation. but I didn't wanna deal that. that's why I need more guitars! 😁

just missed some highh vocal screams but awesome still

Bad ass!

My dude, your music is amazing. Bro, Fire Emblem echoes is finally out. Can I request that you do a remix of Alm's Map 1 or Celica's Map 2. Please man, and thank you! NEVER STOP PLAYING!

Awesome video Shady! What kind of guitar do you use?

been waiting for this lol loved it but not enough power (the solo was dope but short >.

The quality is awesome! How did you record this?

this kinde of Videos are really good for inspiration, would be cool if you could do one for industrial like rammstein

That's was fucking sick dude you make good music

through the heat and the embers by lizard streangth= through the fire and the flames by dragonforce but without copyright claims. just incase any one was wondering

I bet you and Stevie would make a great collaboration.

*God damn it*

2:18 My favourite Power Metal song

what settings/EQ do you use to get such a great tone? :o

:43 reminds me of marching of Versailles by ad Infinitum. I guess I know where they learned power metal.

@ 1:37 Hey that riff is from Second Heartbeat (a7x)