Encyclopedia > Power ballad

Article Content

Power ballad

Power ballad is a name given to love songs that were predictably included on heavy metal albums in the 1980s.

The power ballad was frequently slower in tempo and much less aggressive in lyrics than the remaining music on the album. The songs were often crafted in a hope of scoring a Top Forty[?] hit, and were particularly associated with bands in the hair metal genre.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

U.S. presidential election, 1804

... Jefferson (W) 162 Democratic-Republican George Clinton (162) Charles C. Pinckney[?] 14 Federalist Rufus King (14) Other elections: 1792, 1796, 1800, 1804 ...