Once again, headbangers could hear the classic metal they had not heard in a while, like Megadeth or Saxon.

This disc mixed elements of classic metal, thrash metal and added a punk feel to some of the songs.

The band went in a slightly more heavy direction with a good dose of thrash and classic metal.

Brian Leisure - 2 years 3 months ago I to am excited to see the reemergence of classic metal.

The band's style has been observed as classic heavy metal with influences of thrash and doom metal.

The band's musical sound was also heavier, closer to classic metal.

The band features Abbath's raw black metal vocals accompanied with a classic metal influenced sound.

All of our influences are classic metal and hard rock bands, but we channel them into our own sound.

At the beginning it was a classic heavy metal music / power metal band.

Hence the term "traditional heavy metal" or "classic heavy metal" may be employed to avoid confusion with the larger sense.