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European metal neo-traditionalists like Blind Guardian and Stratovarius who missed the drama of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest revived hyper-virtuosity as the basis for metal in power metal. Slightly later, another European wave, beginning with The Gathering and Tristiania, cracked the patriarchal masculinity of metal by developing a melodic version centered on operatic feminine vocals. This was perfected as gothic symphonic metal by Nightwish, later popularized by the American band Evanescence, and still later exploded into the berzerk Japanese variation kawaii (Japanese for ‘cute’) metal in which teams of young female stardom-groomed J-pop idols are assigned metal backing bands instead of pop ones, an idea that still seemed novel when the early stars BABYMETAL were named, but quickly became just another vast subgenre.