Skull_Kollektor

C'mon... "THE LEGACY" is a masterpiece! One of the best thrash albums ever. Definitely in my top 10. Unfortunately, they never matched it... ...yet I am incredibly satisfied with their latest album!

So, last saturday I finally got my hands on "The Grinding Wheel". I only listened to it once. I really liked what I heard and only have one minor complaint so far: WHAT THE FUCK IS BOBBY SINGING ABOUT? The lyrics are fucking retarded. I saw interviews in which he said he likes to combine catch-up phrases that stick to the listener's head or whatever, some fucked up shit like that. Well, I must be too stupid, but I don't fucking get it. Shit like "Coma" or "Elimination" was straightforward! Now the lyrics seem like random badass talk and some more non-sense that's not even badass.. just BAD! Only track with cool lyrics is... the cover of Thin Lizzy! I saw them play live that song last November and it went down a storm! Great cover! Better than the one that Ace Frehley put out last year featuring none other than Slash! Dave Linsk fucking nailed the solos.

The concept behind "Virgin Killer" (the song) is actually cool, but I agree that the original cover is too over the top. The original cover can be paired with that of Blind Faith's only LP... BTW, just in case someone reading this doesn't know it yet, the "Virgin Killer" Uli wrote about is...TIME! "Taken By Force" is also controversial, but at least it is not disturbing. The Scorpions had an amazin run of sick covers. My favorite is that of "Animal Magnetism". It's so damn sexist. "What's wrong with being sexy?" "SEX-IST". Get the quote?

You are right. Taken By Force is their best, BUT it has to be the one with the tombstones sleeve, not the one with the band pic That pic was taken in Normandie at the US World War II memorial. I purposedly went there last year for both reasons (i.e. to remember the fallen and to see where the Scorps got their inspiration for the cover). "Virgin Killer" and "In Trance" are plain awesome too. I happen to love Uli Roth's Hendrix impersonations ("Hell Cat" and "Polar Nights"). The best Hendrix impersonators (guitar wise), for me, were Uli Roth (Hendrix and waaaay beyond... he is the missing link between Hendrix/Blackmore and Yngwie Malmsteen), Robin Trower and Frank Marino! Jesus Christ was I happy when I found Frank Marino's name in the "inspiration" list of Trey Azagtoth in "Blessed Are The Sick"'s booklet!!! And Stevie Ray Vaughan was mentioned in one of Obituary's records... it's all one big musical family!

Totally agree with what you said about Battle Hymn! As for the Scorps, "Taken By Force" is awesome. I have an incredibly hard time choosing my favorite, but I do know that my favorite era is the ROTH one! At the same time, I liked every Scoprions album up until "Crazy World". That's the first one that felt like a letdown to my ears. Sure, "Savage Amusement" was a plain attempt at a Def Leppard kind of high tech commercial hard rock type of record, but I featured great tracks such as "Media Overkill", "Don't Stop at the Top" and even the ballad at the end of it!

AHAH love your consistency!

Cool! Thank you very much about all this detailed explanation! Thing is, I don't know shit about music! I know trivia and gossip, but music shouldn't be about that! Once I got a MacBook it opened a world to me, cuz I'm entirely self thaught (more like self period, because I haven't learnt much by myself)! I'll try to do my best to fix it all. Also... the main problem is.... that I've played everything with a fuckin' keyboard ahahah Everything! Even the goddamn double bass pattern (which cannot really be heard) was not programmed! It was two fingers of mine It's gonna be tough, but I will try to fix the mix and change stuff. Check this out! This was on an acoustic piano.. Once again, nothing serious, just for fun, but this was me some 9 years ago! It got to 28k views, which is unreal...

I put that shitawful "Dead Shaker" track on iTunes, Amazon and, most of all, SPOTIFY! It's all in the name of fun. Please, do throw some negative feedback on the track! I'd love to be bashed eheh

If you like the genre, I am sure you would like these bands. There are some truly inferior albums among those 600, BUT I am talking about almost exclusively albums that were released by majors in the golden era of glam metal (about 1982-1992), so you can always rest assured about the production values! Record labels were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on studio time, producers, etc. One major obstacle some listener might find with some of those bands are the vocals... For instance, I totally LOVE a band called VAIN (from San Francisco, the singer eventually produced stuff for Death Angel, the all filipino thrash band we all love). They excellent songs, but the dude used to sing in a way not too unlike T-Rex's Tom Bolan... so for a lot of people that was a big turn-off compared to the usual raspy high pitched vocals of glamorous hard rock. Same goes for ROXX GANG. If you wanna play it safe, try out BABYLON AD (Guinnes World Record of putting a chorus on top of another chorus) and HERICAN ALICE (stellar songs, typical blonde singer with high pitched vocals). The thing is that, just exactly like what happened with thrash metal, record companies were literally dumping the market with copycat bands in terms of style and sound, but that does not mean that the musicianship and songs were not there!

I must give "Youthanasia" a try then. I'll try to pick a used copy of the original release (remixes do not make sense). I have the same feeling about "Countdown". That records fucking sucks cocks in hell.

Great! I also love that shit. I have about 600 of glam metal cd's. At some point I will have the whole American glam metal major discography, I am only missing a few rarities at the moment. Here is a quick list of 10 amazing albums by minor league (but still released on major label with at least one proper MTV friendly videoclip) hair metal bands: Roxx Gang - "Things You've Never Done Before" Babylon A.D. - "ST" Royal Court of China - "Geared and Primed" Bang Tango - "Psycho Café" Bang Gang - "Love Sells" Hericane Alice - "Tear the House Down" Shark Island - "Law of the Order" Junkyard - "ST" Asphalt Ballet - "ST" Baton Rouge - "Shake Your Soul"

Yeah it makes sense! I like anthems!

I agree, but I'd squeeze it to three! Save for "Blackened", "One", "Dyiers Eve" and some spare moments here and there, Justice bores me. Besides, it's the third album in a row that i) features a quiet intro followed by a fast thrasher, ii) whose title track is placed as track number two, iii) features a lenghty instrumental, iv) features one more fast thrasher, v) feaetures one more thrash ballad. To me Justice offers no QUALITATIVE innovation. Just QUANTITATIVE (as in more riffs, more minutes per track, stuff like that). As for Megadeth... well, I love "Killing is my business", but it certainly a flawed record... "Peace Sells" is almost perfect (leave Willie Dixon to Led Zeppelin, or, even better, to Chess recording artists) and so is "Rust in Peace". "So Far" offers the worst album sleeve ever paired with an entirely useless cover ("Anarchy in the UK" with Jones himself), some great rehashed songs ("In My Darkest Hour" is a variation on "For Whom The Bell Tolls", a legitimate one, though, as that riff was Mustaine's), some great new songs ("Set the World Afire" and "Mary Jane" above all, IMHO) and some merely ok songs ("502", "Liar" and "Hook in Mouth"). Not entirely a misfire, but definitely inferior to its predecessor and successor. "Rust in Peace" is amazing. Every single time I listen to it I get excited by something different! It's such a RICH album! Tracks like "Poison Was The Cure" or "Take No Prisoners" say so much in so little time that they leave me speechless everytime.

I bet De Maio would call Motley "false metal" and Nikki Sixx would call Manowar irrelevant... yet they are very similar bands. They both started around the same time, they both emphasized beer and chicks, they both dressed like idiots for most of the 80's, they both played awesome tunes. The one thing that truly sets them apart, for me, is that Vince can't sing for his life, whereas Eric Adams used to have THE golden voice. Jeezebel, do you guys remember when ManOwaR used to play with cheekless trousers around the "Fighting the World" days? Just like Randy O and Axl Rose in L.A. And while doing so ManOwaR were actually singing stuff like "wrote a letter to the MTV, what's going on? don't you care about me?". Oh, and I forgot to say that both bands were lead by the bass player, who wrote almost every single song... Both bands were four pieces (I have to say "were" because Motley Crue is no more). Both bands stole some riffs with no remorse (but Motley stole definitely so much more). ...and both bands covered Elvis! Motley did "Jailhouse Rock", Manowar did "An American Trilogy"

I'm very attached to the first as well. I already had Wake me as an Lp, but I wanted the cd too to complete the collection

I ordered this: Grinder "Dawn of the living" Grinder "Dead End" Faster Pussycat "Wake me When it's Over" Nasty Savage "Penetration Point" Virgin Steele "The House of Atreus Act I and II"

Dave Mustaine is the one character that I like the most of the whole Metallica genealogy... but I could never choose between good Metallica and good Megadeth. I used to say "early" Metallica and "early" Megadeth, but then they put out "Dystopia" and "Hardwired... to Selfdestruct" and I was blown away!

My favorite are undoubtedly "The Number of the Beast" and "Piece of Mind". If I had to pick one... it'd be "Piece Of Mind". I love every track! Even "Still Life", "Quest For Fire", "Sun and Steel" and "To Tame a Land"! I don't understand why people complain about the second half of "Piece Of Mind"... "TNOTB" is the fundamental one, being the first with Bruce, but "Gangland" slightly sucks eheheh. The one I like most with Di Anno on vocals is... the first one! As for the Blaze albums: I think "The X Factor" is a pretty decent album, whereas more than half of "Virtual XI" belongs to fuckin' Mars. There should be a law about how many consecutive times you can repeat a refrain.

Ciao! Either you are quoting Manowar or Motley Crue, I bid you welcome tonight inside the electric circus!

Your post was alright, I was just waiting for an excuse to put some badass cd's on my bed. One of my favorite leisure activities

Today, on the way to work, I listened to "Dante's Inferno" again... I am deeply sorry, but I didn't like it the first time around and I still don't like it now. Luckily I found a used copy of the "Slave To The Dark" boxset for something like 40 euros a few years ago, so it's not like it cost me much to get the first 10 albums by a band I don't even like! Iced Earth bores the hell out of me... Triplets, more triplets, and more triplets. Solid rhythm guitar, that's it. I hope to change my mind some day, there has to be something that I am missing about them (something wicked, probably... pun intended). May I recommend one HELL of a concept album concerning Dante's Inferno? It's called... "INFERNO", it's a progressive rock masterpiece by Italian progressive rock act METAMORFOSI. It's sung in Italian, so I reckon it might not appeal to most, but the music is exceptional IMHO. They twisted the storyline a tidy bit... This record came out in the early 70's, so they also threw drug dealers in the pits of hell...

Thank you, I am having a great time here! Got the point on the instrumental side of death metal!

Ahahah I'm sorry for that... I hope that grindcore stuff purified your heart and soul! But Night Ranger have some heavy metal credibility! Hell, Brad Gillis filled in for Randy Rhoads between Bernie Torme and Jake E Lee! I love his playing on "Speak of the Devil" ("Talk of the Devil" depending on which side of the Atlantic you live in).

Ahahah fun how you have zero tolerance for glam metal! I really liked "Book of Souls", but I see your points... I also have to say that I enjoyed opener "If Eternity Should Fail" so much that all the other tunes on the album almost became redundant ahah I was initially let down by "Empire of the Clouds"... It made me think of the worst Savatage episodes... you know, those child-like piano parts... kinda boring... But it did grow on me over time!

Stone deaf forever... and ever!