In reply to PMRacing :
I wish I had found them back then. How was the show? The album's just brutal.
In reply to PMRacing :
I wish I had found them back then. How was the show? The album's just brutal.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
I was a cheap fresh out of college kid living in CA and racing. They were good enough for me to buy their CD so I must have loved the show.
Can't stop listening to these guys, I believe they are from Florida.
It's not dusty in here, you're dusty in here
Played "live style" not album style.
Also: wah pedal on cello??
Best day evar
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
berkeley yeah wah pedal on cello. that was metal.
In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
Metal AF.
Ironmaiden is in town tomarrow. (Detroit) Tickets are $80. Should I?
In reply to Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) :
I hate big arena shows, but if Maiden was here I'd pay $80 to go see them from the nosebleed seats.
Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) said:Ironmaiden is in town tomarrow. (Detroit) Tickets are $80. Should I?
Totally yes.
Scream for me, Detroit!!
Alright I'm goin!
Wish you could get real tickets instead of the electronic system so you can have a stub to collect.
In reply to Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) :
I do hear you there. (We're seeing Maiden later this month.)
When the "print at home" tickets were becoming the usual, we saw Devo/Blondie in St. Pete as a co-heading lining show. The people at the gate didn't even scan the printed the tickets. I felt a little gypped.
Picked this up the other day. Because King Diamond's Fatal Portrait is to Halloween as Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas is to the holiday season. This, King Diamond's Abigail, and Mercyful Fate's Don't Break The Oath will be in constant rotation for the next few weeks!
I just scored a copy of Black Sabbath's debut album from 1970 on CD from the local record store! It's good, and I've been enjoying it. Does not seem very metal these days since there is harder stuff all over the FM pop stations, but then I think about how weird it would have been to hear this stuff in the era of brand-new LS6 Chevelle SSs, 'Nam and Nixon, with live hippies still roaming the streets.
In reply to Nockenwelle :
Yup. Led Zeppelin 1 came out before Abbey Road. Black Sabbath debuted before 'Let It Be' and 'Paranoid' dropped later that year. Deep Purple released 'Machine Head' the year after.
Before all that, the heaviest stuff people were listening to was probably Cream and Hendrix.
Was going to remark about how soft music was in '71, but that was a wild year for music with a bunch of stuff going on in every direction.
Black Sabbath's debut is still heavy as hell 50+ years later. I mean, the track Sleeping Village by itself pretty much invented Stoner Doom as a genre right there in 1969.
Ozzy-era Sabbath is funny sometimes. Since the term Heavy Metal wasn't really applied to them yet, and they admittedly didn't consider themselves as such, they would have a really nice lighthearted track on the same album as something with planet-crushing riffs. For example: Vol. 4 has the song Changes, which is a great, emotional song, and then you have Cornucopia, which has a downtuned Iommi absolutely crushing your soul from the jump. And sometimes, you'll get it in the same song, like Symptom of the Universe, which goes from heavy-as-BERK to Ozzy blabbing about the "child of love's creation" or some other nonsense. 
Patient Number 9 from Ozzy (and the old stuff), a LOT of Deep Purple, Spiritbox, Dream Theater, Ghost with a little Stryper for good (or bad) measure.
Aborted is playing here soon, and my wife and I are taking their drummer out to dinner before the show since we're friends. If you hear his drumming, that dude has machine guns for fingers, I swear.
No time to go to the actual show itself, since it's during the week and we have a toddler. Such is life. Cannibal Corpse is playing here soon as well, and they put on one hell of a show, but it's the same situation. It's on a Wednesday (iirc) so that's a no-go. Also, I'm an old man these days so I'm usually in bed by 9:30.
Currently listening to Archspire. They've got to be some of the most technically gifted musicians I've ever heard, and write pretty catchy music to boot. If you've never heard a song at 350 beats per minute, check out track one. If you'd like to see their drummer play it, give this a watch. It's quite impressive:
Maiden in Tampa was awesome–the usual A+ performance.
But some of the show seemed familiar. Hadn't we seen that Eddie before? And again with the same Spitfire for Aces High?
Oh yeah, we saw this very same tour back in South Florida in 2019. (We've seen the same tour more than once, but usually there's not quite the gap.)
Picked up a couple 80's Metal classics over the weekend:
Aside from Ozzy and Ronnie James Dio, Sabbath had a few other vocalists over the years, including Tony Martin in the 80's and 90's. The Tony Martin albums are hit and miss, but this one stands out as of the best Sabbath albums, period. Iommi is shred-tastic on here, and the riffs are heavy as ever. There's even a cameo by his buddy Brian May (yes, THAT Brian May) on this album!
You probably know who Trans-Siberian Orchestra is. What you may not know is that their origins started with this band, Savatage. Before they pulled that money train into the station, they were making Prog/Power Metal albums like Hall of the Mountain King. I discovered this one in the early 00's, up late at night and watching VH1 Classic's Metal Mania show. I saw this video:
After laughing at the pure cheese this video offers up, I couldn't get the song out of my head, so I went down the Savatage rabbit hole. Turns out, this album properly RIPS! No mention of Christmas anywhere on this one.
In reply to Tony Sestito :
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
I just searched out that album last weekend. Was looking for a good metal cover of Peer Gynt (and I found one, forgot to link) and thought eh, let's get some Savatage in there too.
Did not know that about TSO. They do a show every Christmas in Cleveland and half my family goes.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
It's always time for that one.\m/
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