Edguy (Prounouced "Ed-gai") is a German power metal band that was founded in 1992. Their music is heavily influenced by both Iron Maiden and Helloween, although they tend to have a more symphonic sound with greater use of keyboards.Tobias Sammet also has a Rock Opera side project, Avantasia.Members:
Audience Participation Song: "This is the boring part of the show, the part where you have to sing along to whatever comes to my mind, allright?" makes for midtros or intros for many songs.
Also, all of their choruses. Most notably, Tears of a Mandrake and Out of Control.
Creator Backlash: Tobi is not fond of their early material, and thus none of the songs from their albums Kingdom of Madness or The Savage Poetry ever gets performed live.
Epic Rocking: "Eyes of the Tyrant," "The Pharaoh," "Theater of Salvation,", "The Piper Never Dies", "Speedhoven" and "Robin Hood".
Faust: "The Devil and the Savant" is based on this.
Heavy Mithril: Several of their songs, though not as many as someother power metal bands.
Lighter and Softer: The latest couple of albums have moved from power metal towards a more hard rock sound. Also, their later albums usually have at least one joke song.
Loudness War: Tinnitus Sanctus, badly. Might be intentional given the name, the cover, and the fact that the band describes the album as "a penetrating wall of sound."
Power Ballad: "Scarlet Rose," "Holy Water," "Forever," "When A Hero Cries," "Save Me," and the incredibly awesome "The Spirit Will Remain."
Shout Out: Given that the structure of the songs are almost identical, "Vain Glory Opera" commonly gets its first verse replaced by the first verse from The Final Countdown when performed live.
"Vain Glory Opera" often gets introduced as the song the stole or ripped off.
"Judas At The Opera", while first appearing like a barrage of random lyrics, is actually an attack against the critics who accuse them of being too happy and upbeat with their music. Unsurprisingly, critics then attacked the song for being too cheerful and uptempo.
"Catch Of The Century" is a Take That to the record labels that refused to sign the band in their infancy and predicted that they would have no future.
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