Warthur
Domine's second album tightens up and refines their Iron Maiden-influenced power metal format as featured on their debut. This time around the band lean a little more towards an epic and slightly cheesy power metal atmosphere than on their somewhat darker debut, but they still seem to have a bit of an edge on the rest of the power metal crowd, and the closing epic The Battle For the Great Silver Sword is perhaps the best song of their first two albums. Slipping in carefully chosen samples - a snippet from John Boorman's version of Excalibur here, a few words from David Lynch's Dune adaptation there - the band wear their fantasy fandom on their sleeves, but if you're down with that they present one of the best power metal albums I've ever heard.