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Topic: Heavy Metal Days... Posted: June 26 2012 at 11:00
Those are just some bands I listened to before my prog days, and I still think they are pretty good. I thought about making this poll not just to see who wins but also to talk about these bands.
As much as I love all of them, if I'll have to choose one I'll go with Pantera. Dimebag Darrell IMO is the best metal guitarist ever, he is very creative and just plays like the devil, his solos are not for show, they are accurate and so awsome, not to mention his powerful hard rockin' riffs. Every member in the band is powerful which makes this band a nuclear bomb. I can go on and on but I'll stop here.
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Posted: June 26 2012 at 15:52
I can't really vote. Megadeth is the only one of these bands that I am extremely familiar with and they would probably get my vote. I have a few Pantera albums, but really only like a handful of songs. I just downloaded the free compiliation CD from Paradise Lost, but haven't listened to it yet, and I am not familiar with them. I've only heard a sample of Sepultura and I didn't care for what I heard.
Joined: November 29 2006
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Posted: June 26 2012 at 16:10
I stoped listening to Megadeth after Youthanasia, but I can listen to Peace Sells...about any day. Paradise Lost have a lot of great stuff but you really need to know where to look, I've lost track of them in the second part of the 90's, I think their best is Draconian Times. Sepultura by the mid 90's began to include some brazilian folk stuff to their music, and it turned out to be very interesting, almost progy, although they are heavier than the others.
Smurph, I'll post a video later maybe you'll like it.
EDIT: Although Fox On The Rocks did post a good one.
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Posted: June 27 2012 at 06:25
Lone vote for Paradise Lost it would appear.
Not surprising really - they could have been huge following Draconian Times, but they chose to go the Gothic Rock/Synth Rock route with the next three albums which essentially killed any chance of Heavy Metal stardom ... what they did was still very good IMO (One Second especially), but it was just not Metal. Their last three albums have got them back in their Gothic/Doom Metal stride.
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Posted: June 27 2012 at 10:43
sagichim wrote:
Hey Ian and Alan, which is your favorite album?
It's actually hard for me to say because each of Sepultura's album sound different, but Arise I think is their most interesting thrash album, and everything following that album is much simpler and fall more under a nu-metal/hardcore hybrid where my favorite album of that period would be A-lex, which is a concept album based on A Clockwork Orange.
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Posted: June 27 2012 at 10:53
I never heard A-lex, I believe it's without Max Cavalera right?
I really like Roots, and don't find it simple at all, I find it very mature, the fusion of their native music with the metal, it's really working well. Arise was the first one I heard so I have special feelings for it.
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Posted: June 27 2012 at 10:59
sagichim wrote:
I never heard A-lex, I believe it's without Max Cavalera right?
I really like Roots, and don't find it simple at all, I find it very mature, the fusion of their native music with the metal, it's really working well. Arise was the first one I heard so I have special feelings for it.
^ On a visit to Austin, TX some years back I hired a Ford Mustang from Avis at the airport. Someone had kindly left a copy of Arise in the CD player - a most welcome discovery
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