Powerful the Power Metal Podcast's video: Into the Ashcraftverse Feat @ashcraftverse - Powerful Podcast Ep56

This time we have Jason Ashcraft to talk about the new Helion Prime and his other project's future, as well as exchange stories from the Blind Guardian World Tour and some quick album reviews. For the impatient: 00:00:00 Pre-roll 00:00:52 Sup Nerds 00:03:12 Into the Ashcraftverse 00:05:55 Jason's Top 4 Power Metal Bands 00:09:51 Helion Prime and Vocalists 00:14:49 Pandaemonium - The new HP Single 00:16:41 What Jason Ashcraft's Helion Prime brings to the table 00:23:11 Why not bring everyone together 00:24:43 International bands are hard 00:30:40 There's no bad blood or drama 00:32:59 The "I miss Heather" people 00:33:37 The frontperson effect is unavoidable 00:35:47 The Pain of checking Reddit threads 00:37:55 But the positives are there too 00:39:22 Rotating vocalists as the cast on a musical 00:45:15 A tease of what's to come 00:46:03 The Pandaemonium Video 00:49:30 The Sozos Tangent part 1 00:53:50 Helion Prime works with both male and female vocals 00:54:16 Don't force lyrical themes 00:55:50 Non Power Metal influences 00:58:22 The clunkiest segway in the podcast's history 00:59:09 The Blind Guardian World Tour 01:02:25 Blind Guardian still got it 01:03:47 Bard's Song is a magical moment 01:05:17 Kyle's and Jason's first metal shows 01:07:29 The "new guy" syndrome in bands 01:09:24 BG swapping out some songs night to night 01:10:20 Judicator getting a special opening slot 01:10:46 But kinda wasted the chance 01:12:07 Tobi the goodest boi (slightly doxxing Kyle) 01:13:06 Kyle and Jason keep being at the same shows 01:14:07 Night Demon, the opener for the US leg of the tour 01:15:16 The BA show had the best setlist 01:18:50 The songs Jason wants to see live 01:19:51 Kyle's dream BG setlist and requesting songs 01:21:39 The value of experience and continuous practice 01:22:43 Perspective on what a great performance is 01:24:57 The Sozos Tangent part 2 01:26:58 Changes to Planeswalker lineup and being the worst musician in the room 01:30:39 Songwriting dynamics 01:32:15 Album Reviews 01:32:48 Unleash the Archers 01:45:00 Kyle's Lore Dump 01:48:20 Kyle's Lore Dumps IRL 01:48:41 Keeping up with what everyone is doing is hard 01:51:09 Freedom Call 01:53:22 Listening to an album with friends is the best 01:58:40 Tyr 02:01:36 Nocturna (and Frozen Crown) 02:06:23 Bear McCreary 02:11:55 Wrapping up