if you want some really heavy metal, check out Children of Bodom , At the Gates and Dillinger Escape Plan. a few of my favs.
How about: Y&T: Dangerous Striper: We are Crappy and WE ROCK! Winger: We Are As Good As The Other Bands, Damnit! Def Leppard: We Still Have A Drummer With An Arm! On a serious note: Quiet Riot Night Ranger Ratt Cinderella Soooo many memories! My favorite still has to be Night Ranger. (but that's just me.)
unless you live on the East Side or have a damn powerful antennae, you aint gettin it. Someimtes I have trouble picking it up in Channelview..but out here in Baytown..it comes in good most of the time. and it ROCKS! It is what KLOL dreams about being.. kinda reminiscient of ZRock..but with more variety. Manny....I almost missed this thread...been damn busy lately... Eddie was Snubbed......WHAT??? Metallica invented METAL!??...OMF-inG...how old are you?.. 15? Metal was around long before Sellouttica... anyway.....I'll stick to just Metal and Progressive Metal or we would be here all nite... Iron Maiden....anything really..but Phantom of the Opera, Running Wild, Charlotte the Harlot, To Tame a Land, Sun and Steel, Hallowed Be Thy Name,Blood Brothers, Invaders,Transylvania, The Trooper, The Number of the Beast, Powerslave, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Evil that Men Do, Tailgunner,Prisoner, Holy Smoke......ok, enuff... Judas Priest Hellbent for Leather, Green Manalishi, Painkiller, Hot Rockin, Metal Gods, Solar Angels, Johnny B Goode, Victim of Changes, Bloodstone, Ridin on the Wind, Screaming for Vengeance, Tyrant, Fever, Beyond the Realms of Death, Diamonds and Rust, The Ripper. Megadeath Peace Sells, Anarchy in the UK, Hangar 18, Holy Wars, Dawn Patrol, Rattlehead, Killing is my Business, Wake Up Dead, Foreclosure of A Dream, Sweating Bullets, Youthanasia... Sellouttica.... anything off the first 3 albums...Kill Em All, Master of Puppets and Ride the Lightning...and a couple of songs off of and Justice for All. everything after that is crap.. ACDC Love at First Feel, Big Balls, For Those About to Rock, BAck in Black (the entire album), Given the Dog a Bone, The Jack, Livewire, If You Want Blood....lots more...ACDC Rocks!.. I love just about all Sabbath, and since it has been roundly covered, I'll just mention a couple of standouts(in my eyes)... I really enjoyed the Born Again album(w Ian Gillian) especially Zero the Hero and Digital b****... the RJD-era rocked for me....Neon Knights, Mob Rules, Turn up the Night and Children of the Sea were standouts of that era... and of course the classics, if Ozzy sang on it and Geezer played bass with Iommi on guitar...I loved it.. Standouts for me of this era....War Pigs, NIB, SAbbath Bloody Sabbath, Children of the Grave and all of Paranoid.. Diamond Head haad a few songs I realy liked..notable for them is the original Am I Evil... Ozzyie Blizzard of Ozz... one phrase.... Randy Ruled! No Bone Movies, Goodbye to Romance, You Cant Kill Rock and Roll are longtime favorites..but both of the RR-era Blizzard albums are classsics. Queensryche...the Masters of Progressive Metal... I can safely say that everythng they did up till just a couple of years ago I will probably listen to until Im old,grey and deaf.. Queen of the Ryche, LAdy Wore Black, The entire Empire and Mindcrime albums from beginning to end I will listen to over and over... Knightrider, Chemical Youth, Screaming in Digital, En Force, ake Hold of the Flame, and Roads to Madness are also excellent early stuff from the Ryche.. Anthrax Metal Thrashing Mad, Madhouse, Armed and Dangerous, Medusa, Caught in a Mosh, N.F.L, Among the Living, Be All End All, Antisocial. Scorpions Make It Real, The Zoo, Blackout, No One Like You, Animal Magnetism, Dynamite, Loving You Sunday Morning, Lovedrive, Holiday, Coming Home, Bad Boys Running Wild. Armored Saint March of the Saint, Madhouse, Can You Deliver, Mutiny on the World, Seducer. Dream Theater Pull Me Under, Take the Time, Erotomania, Metropolis Pt 1,..ah hell, who am I fooling? Like QR, I love damn near anything from Dream Theater... Fates Warning Disconnected(pt 1 and 2), No Exit, Silent Cries, Kyrie Eleison, The Eleveth Hour, Something From Nothing. Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt 1 and Pt2, from front to back..great albums..oh yeah...and for a laugh, check out Heavy Metal Hamsters.. Dokken yea, I know some would say Dokken isnt real metal...but Lynch deserves to be mentioned. Mr Scary, Kiss of Death, Tooth and Nail, Breakin the Chains, Lightning Strikes Again, Till the Living End.. Dio almost forgot to mention RJD-solo.. Holy Diver...all the way thru...and a couple more from the next album...but not that great afterwards.. Motorhead Ace of Spades and Overkill are my favorite albums from Lemmy and the boyz..cant believe I almost forgot them.. Savatage Sirens/Dungeons are Calling albums both ROCK!..Hall of the Mountain King also...their other stuff is equally good, but different..more of a Progressive bent after HOTMK...but still good...especially Streets(A Rock Opera) and Gutter Ballet.. Raven gets mentioned because of one of my all time favorite songs.....Stay Hard and Keel for Right To Rock and Femme Fatale because Lorraine Lewis is a bona-fide HOTTIE! and they were actually pretty good..
Gotta respectfully disagree here Finn... I love Tesla to Death, but they aint HeavyMetal.. same with Mr Big(but I dont love them that much) Billy Sheehan rules... White Lion...also not HM... but agree wholeheartedly with the QR, Dio and Scorps... btw Fatty....Night Ranger was an excellent band...I got to see em 5 times in their heyday...but they aint Metal either...
I sold nearly all of my heavy metal CDs when I went to college. Pantera, Biohazard, Prong, Anthrax, Sepultura...all gone. Only one's I kept were all my Metallica CD's, Helmet CD's, and Countdown to Extinction.
You're probably right, but you have to admit Tesla'a first album rocks!!! I will replace them with Krokus, Blue Oyster Cult and Thin Lizzy.
Everything has pretty much already been covered in here, except for the best heavy band in the world, TYPE O NEGATIVE. I don't see how any heavy metal fan couldn't love Bloody Kisses. I celebrate their entire catalogue (early stuff is a little sketchy though). I tried to listen to 'Roots' by Sepultura the other day, but I just can't get into it. The singer is just too death metal for me. He sounds like he's trying to take a huge dump. Or like he's trying to scare somebody. Also, "Dopes to Infinity" by Monster Magnet is highly recommended for any Sabbath-lover looking for newer stuff to get into.
LOL! I have to admit that Sepultura is an acquired taste, and I have a hard time listening to an whole album by them, sometimes. Here is an interesting question for you, Freak: would you consider Andrew W.K. heavy metal?
I was just listening to some WK earlier, and I thought of this thread...he is as much heavy metal as some mentioned here...but I wouldn't call him that.. Gotta love his stuff tho... Finn... without a doubt, Mechanical Resonance is one ass-kicking album... Krokus is a good substitute...even though they dont have that much really great stuff...Marc Storace(sp?) is about the goofiest metal lead singer this side of Udo... Freak, I gotta agree with ya about the death metal stuff like Sepultura..I just cant get into music that i cant understand.. also feel really bad that I forgot Pantera (Far Beyond Driven, Vulgar Display of Power and Cowboys From Hell) and also Crimson Glory--Transcendence
How can one not like the black album? That is chock full of classics like Enter Sandman(my personal fav), nothing else matters, of wolf and man, sad but true, the unforgiven, etc. Now reload/load definitely arent as good as their previous work but people underrate those albums severely. It's still good regardless of a change in style. Aint my b****, until it sleeps, hero of the day, fuel, devils dance, unforgiven 2, and the memory remains are all good songs. And S&M is one of the best live albums/greatest hits albums ever assembled. The orchestra intensifies so many of Metallica's songs to make them even more powerful it isn't even funny. Try listening to for whom the bell tolls and until it sleeps if you don't believe me. No leaf clover, the added song, is also really good. I just know plenty of people who feel this way about metallica and it baffles me. Yes I will be 20 years old in june, so I am young, but still Metallica belongs on a top bands list of all time. They have put out so many good slow songs, fast songs, ballads, you name it, they have done it. And black sabbath invented metal, Metallica perfected it and got it mainstream. I hope to go to their houston show in August but we shall see. All I have to say is Metallica kicks a**, period! Btw, St Anger seems to go back to their Kill em' all and Master days, so you should like it. This from what I have dl'd so far.
Man, how old are you? Seriously, metal begins and ends with Sabbath. No one ever credited Metallica as the "inventors of metal."
Is it wrong to feel sorry for someone whose favorite Metallica song is Enter-friggin'-Sandman? Okay, seriously, I like the Black album, and I love Justice. But Load and Reload are crap. I like S&M, and I LOVE all that old sh*t on Garage, Inc. but with one or two exceptions, Load and Reload are pure and complete crap. I went to Summer Sanitarium about 3 years ago and the only thing they played from that era was "I Disappear" from the Mission Impossible movie. They didn't touch Load or Reload, much to my delight. And yes, Sabbath invented metal, and Metallica made it mainstream. While no one can deny Metallica's impact, whether or not they "perfected" metal is certainly debatable.
Lynus, Enter Sandman was the first song of theirs I ever heard, and thus it remains my favorite song today. And it is an excellent song. Plus it was perfect for pumping me up before my high s chool baseball games. I also love One, Fade to Black, Master, Sanitarium, Hit the Lights, Battery, the thing that should not be, for whom the bell tolls, etc. Ride the Lightning is also good. If I had to pick my favorite album it would barely be the black album, then master, the ride the lightning, then kill em all and justice. But I like all of Metallica's work. No need to feel sorry for me, I can more than hold my own in my musical taste. I just beg to differ that those two albums are pure crap. Now if you want me to say they are metal, no they aren't. And I did notice a distinct dropoff when I heard them, but I still liked them, just the style/sound was different. We are just going to have to agree to disagree here because I'm sure neither of us will change our minds, which isn't a bad thing. And yes, St Anger reminds of the Ride/Master days with the sound, from what I have got off Kazaa so far. I will buy the album when it comes out in june. Finally, I went to the santarium tour show in dallas a few years ago, but james couldn't play, so I haven't seen them "really" perform live yet. And with them coming to houston, I hope I can.
I'm just messing with you man. Still though, I don't think Sandman is a bad song, I've just heard it so many damn times that I changed the station the moment I hear the opening. I can't be the only one who has been sick to death of that song for well-over 5-6 years.... Summer Sanitarium in Dallas: I was at that same show. I really liked seeing Metallica fronted by other singers, but of course it was a bummer not to see Hetfield. I did go to the return show they did for free just 'cause of that. They rocked. Both times.
For all the metal fans -- the new ANTHRAX album "We've Come for You All" is out now. I should have it any day now. I've heard nothing but good things.
That's fun that you mention Krokus. They are a band from Switzerland which just a relaesed a quite good comeback album. But I would mention it Hard Rock instead of Heavy Metal.
