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I dunno about skipping BATM. Fucking Jake E. Lee is awesome on that album. Black metal classics day: Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse Immortal - Pure Holocaust Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Inquisition - Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult Bathory - Bathory Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky Judas Iscariot - Distant in Solitary Night

That's exactly it. This hit right when I was getting into metal and Ozzy was the embodiment of Satan himself. All I knew was my mother hated Ozzy like the devil so he was my man. Lee's riffs may be an acquired taste these days, but back then it was the tits. The Ultimate Sin was pretty good in 86 too. These days, I'd agree you could combine the high points of those 2 albums and have a good EP. Back then, Jake E. was the man. He had/Has a distinctive style of riff that hits me just right. And I can't be the only one because I hear his influence a lot in newer bands. Aurthir Rizik for instance (Eternal Champion/Sumerlands) has Lee's fingerprints all over his playing. Anyway, I lost interest in Ozzy around Nor Rest for the Wicked and never looked back. NP: Bathory - Blood Fire Death

Scorpions - Animal Magnetism, Germany 1980 Accept - Restless and Wild, Germany 1982

My problem isn't with Jake E Lee, it was with the overly commercial songwriting and Ozzy himself who had already become somewhat of a drug & booze addled buffoon by this point. That title track was all over the radio back then and to me it was so bad that it put me off buying the album. By '83 we were going to a lot of metal shows in the city like 4 or 5 nights a week (we were spoiled for choice with live metal in NYC and LI back in the 80's, we'd often just hop in the car head west and then sort out which club we were headed to on the way there) and I had started discovering heavier stuff like Slayer, Metallica, Mercyful Fate, hardcore punk and all those albums I just posted 3 hours ago. So the more commercial sounding stuff I'd been into just a couple of years earlier like Ozzy started sounding too sweet to me, like trying to drink coffee with too much sugar. By the end of '84 I had phased almost all of that more mainstream commercial metal stuff out of my listening rotation and had become obsessed with thrash and speed metal and Celtic Frost. But alright brother, since this is you giving this thing your good ole southern boy seal of approval I'm gonna dial up this Bark at the Poon record here on the Tube 40 years after its release and see what all the fuss is about. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon, 1983 I already knew that I can't stand the title track but I didn't skip it, I sat here and took it like a man. The 2nd track You're No Different is a boring keyboard laced ballad or something. Track 3 Now You See It isn't terrible but it's nothing special. Track 4 R&R Rebel has that cool isolated opening guitar riff, but then it all goes to shit once Ozzman starts singing. The ghey chorus absolutely kills it for me. Do I dare continue to side 2? Track 5 Center of Eternity is a zippy little upbeat number, but the riffs are quite generic and unimpressive. Track 6 So Tired is a sappy insufferable ballad completely void of guitars - SKIP! Track 7 Slow Down ok we seem to be rocking again, but the chorus is retarded. Slow down your haste is making waste?!? Get the fuck outta here Bob Daisley! (said in my best Tony Soprano accent) Track 8 Waiting for Darkness, again it's not absolutely terrible but it's certainly not good. I'm not against bands using keyboards but they were not used well here on this album. And that's it, seems we've run out of songs while I was waiting for the record to get good. I think this is the type of thing I would only be able to enjoy if there was some nostalgia attached to it. But being my very first time through it just sounds really dated to the period and overly commercial. This doesn't strike me as a real guitar hero type of record at all, where are all the memorable solos I was expecting like on the first 2 albums? I'm not disparaging Mr Lee's playing ability or anything, I'm sure he's quite proficient. But I mean it's just so 80's sounding, they've got this thing all tarted up like a farmer's daughter going out with her single friends on Saturday night. You'd have to strip away all this slick 80's production and frilly keyboards like stripping away layers of caked-on makeup just to see what she even looks like in the light of day. Now I guess I'll have to go listen to Diary of a Madman for the first time in 30 years just to get the taste of this turd out of my mouth. Jeez, I think this Bark at the Poon experience was even worse than that time I finally got around to listening to Priest's Painkiller 2 or 3 years ago and discovered it sucked. Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again

Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands (1998) Thanx Basile Pouledoris for inspiration !

You know I'm almost tempted to dial it up and give it a go since I've never heard it. But then I figure I've made it through life just fine for the last 40 years without ever hearing it (except for the two radio songs: the title track and R&R Rebel, neither of which I particularly care for - apologies to Mr. Daisley) so why break my streak now? I did have the first two Ozzy/Randy records back in the day, but I don't think I've had occasion to listen to them since the 80's. If you're ever in the market for some good albums from 1983 Jon, forget Ozzy, stop barking at the moon, and track down some of these: Burn - Burn, Sweden Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac, Canadia Oz - Fire in the Brain, Finland Savage – Loose 'N Lethal, UK Chateaux – Chained and Desperate, UK Crossfire- See You In Hell, Belgium

Leper Colony - Leper Colony (2023) Ulthar - Anthonomicon (2023) Ulthar - Helionomicon (2023) Viking - Do or Die (EP) (1986) I will never understand the difference in production quality between Viking's 3-track Do or Die demo and the album of the same name released a year later. On the 1987 album, the sound is almost not stereo at all and it breaks all the energy that the musicians put into their music. What a mess. Terra Odium - Ne Plus Ultra (2021) Testament - First Strike Still Deadly (2001) Tankard - Chemical Invasion (1987) Slayer - Christ Illusion (2006) Le Chant Noir - La Société Satanique des Poètes Morts (2021) Vektor - Black Future (2009)

Saxon - Wheels of Steel

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Holy crap dude you have got some serious talent! Absolutely love your work!

Then he needs to keep practising. The music doesn't suit the background video, the music actually has zero relation to the background video. All he's really done is overlay a new sound on a video, and the sound grab isn't in time. He needs to work on what he's mashing together and get things a better fit.

Xentrix - Seven Words Great album! Artillery - By Inheritance One of my all time favourites! Massacre - From Beyond