Some bands are/was really good. No filler ! I like all songs ! Breaker. Inspector : "You're all the same, the lot of you, with your long hair and fagg*t clothes. Drugs, sex, every sort of filth. And you hate the police, don't you ?" George : "You make it easy." From the great italian horror movie "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" (1974) From Electric Wizard too...
2013. Jim Breuer's family car. " Hey, can you turn on my station, please ? " " Don't turn on his station, mom. His station sounds like they're sacrificing animals. " Breuer : Priest, Metallica, Maiden, Dio, Sabbath, Crüe fan.
I saw them live in February 2020 just before the lockdown happened. Seeing the band playing all of Burn My Eyes right up the very front is something that I will not forget.
Glad you like it, it pushes all of my retro buttons. The second retro styled album that made the 2020 list was Eternal Champion "Ravening Iron". Not sure if you'll like that one.
So now metal is dead too? No it hasnt died. It just evolved and is different now. Whether that is good is subjective
I think metal is one rock sub-genre that is always going to exist and be supported as long as this world exists. I think there are always going to be new generations of kids coming up for whom metal will appeal to them. Some of the best musicians technically speaking are in the metal world. Some of the drummers I hear in metal in particular just blow my mind with their technique, precision, and speed. While I grew up with the more classic metal bands that came up in the 70s and 80s, and that is the golden era for me, there are plenty of newer metal bands out there who have developed their own identity and are expanding the boundaries of metal.
It's not even close to being dead, there were over 7,000 new releases last year split into a very wide variety of sub-genres. There's something for everybody.
Just given it a run through. Definitely plenty to like to enjoy here. My main beef with a lot of metal bands it that they have an abundance if riffs but far less in the way of strong melodies but this one had melodies in spades. It's all well played & sung too.
It was my first real thread, so I was pretty much tolerant. But now that's enough miserable 21st century: I want to see my money back! Where are the new masterpieces above Paranoid, Ride The Lightning, Symbolic, Rust In Peace, first RATM, The Number Of The Beast, Reign In Blood, None So Vile, In The Nightside Eclipse, Altar Of Madness, Sad Wings Of Destiny, Chaos A.D. etc (I can add 100-200 more)? Lateralus, Jane Doe, Blackwater Park ... all from 2001, that's all?!! (And the best Opeth and Tool albums are in the 20th century...) White Pony in 2000? OK, there is Mastodon... Is it a bad joke?!! And STOP the clones!!!
It's always hard to top the albums that create and come to define a genre. I'm pretty sure there are still great metal records being made though - not that I get the time to listen to 'em
More precisely, in what year did music die? I could introduce the question on a full page, but I keep it simple. The internet age?
Symphonic Metal was still to bloom: Within Temptation, Nightwish, Epica.... and Goth Metal: Evanescence and Technical Metal: Cynic, Agoura, Spiral Architect Plenty of gas left in the Alt Metal tank: Lacuna Coil, Tool, Machine Head Progressive Metal would enjoy a resurgence with new masterpieces from Dream Theater, Fstes Warning, and great new groups still to rise: Anglagard, Haken....
