i love fantasy. and i guess thats why i love fantay metal like rhapsody and blind Guardian. But not all of those bands are centered around medieval or ancient fantasy. Virgin Steele is more like the ancient greek type of thing, ayreon does those space-opera stuff, running wild is into piracy, savatage focusses on rather realistic stories - and they all do a pretty good job transporting that feeling.
iron maiden never realy made me think of things like that. maiden, to me, is more like the straightforward metal band, who makes metal for the pure sake of it.
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