DragonForce + Holy Grail + Huntress

If you prefer your metal cartoonishly over-the-top, you really can't do any better than DragonForce, a British power-thrash outfit that never met a baroque synth flourish, daredevil guitar lead or operatic vocal shout it didn't embrace with valorous gusto. Setting the stage is California's campy but raging Huntress, which revolves around trained opera vocalist Jill Janus.