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It depends on the band for sure.

I love NWOBHM but I never got into Saxon. I was listening to Wheels of Steel on youtube while waiting for something stupid at work and I instantly fell in love with this band.
They remind me of the Rods and Bon Scott somehow. Saxon is like the 70's band that out heavied and out grooved everyone (except Sabbath of course) but came out in the 80s. Their music has that late 70s biker feel to it.This album just hits the spot when I'm relaxing with friends.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR61QlZKcM0&list=PLQW91GaylGw9iqMsqWSZx39w3JYLuhX4y&index=7
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjAFa77yHwM&list=PLQW91GaylGw9iqMsqWSZx39w3JYLuhX4y&index=9
I'm new to this band. What is the best Saxon album?
 
 
 
 
 

I hated Metal hammer, I remember seeing their issues full of emo and pop punk to the point it made me want to puke. Maybe you get Iron Maiden for a few pages then crap. Couldn't even use it for toilet paper with the slick paper they used.
They should've renamed it Emo Dousche there was nothing metal about it.
 
Just checked out Cult Never Dies- its right up my alley for sure. I'm thinking of ordering the Damage Inc Anthology 1985-2017.
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Dude there was a lot of bands from Sweden at the time playing NWOBHM just they weren't from England, like Mindless Sinner, Rising and Randy from Denmark. I wonder if you ever heard of them. There is a site called Vibrations of Doom that has a  classic albums section, everything goes by alphabetical order, at least half of this guys collection is NWOBHM and you can listen to it all streaming for free. I found out about a lot of classic NWOBHM on there. Really rare stuff on there, bands that only had 1 7 inch release etc. Here's a few lesser known bands I like that I think you might too. Just in case you are looking for more.
http://www.vibrationsofdoom.com/test/
I'm sure this music is considered tame by today's standards but I still love it. It's still got the heavy in with the melody. Everyone forgets there was metal before the extreme stuff came out.
Randy (Denmark), if you like Tokyo Blade, you'll dig this.
Hels (Sweden)
Witch Cross (UK)
Charger (UK)
Slander (UK)
Persian Risk (UK)
Rising (Sweden)
 
Gotham City (Sweden)
 
Inner Sanctum (US)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzHwtnvhdag
Iron Cross from Pensacola, Florida. They play metal on the dark side of NWOBHM/speed metal only rawer. They had their classic self titled album in 1986 which I absolutely worship. They have several distinct singers in the band which lead to a lot of variation from clean singing to screams and rasps. Good catchy guitar work throughout. All those classic reissue labels have dropped the ball on this one.
Doomed to obscurity for coming out too late, being 1 out of 6 bands named Iron Cross and being from Florida. A damned shame, this is top tier cult metal.
I highly recommend this forgotten classic. You'll either love it or hate it.

Anyone into retro horror movies? New horror shot on film with no CGI, usually in the 70s or 80s vein. It usually fits some of that criteria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtXtSGRV0xc&app=desktop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEl4OEXTMzM&app=desktop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTUBkIHBRb4&app=desktop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkmSNt4moNg&app=desktop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H21V4vaBjvA&app=desktop
I can't get enough of this stuff.

So a lot of my favorites like Ozzy, Sabbath, Slayer etc have been retiring in recent years and who knows whos going to be next. It looks like only Slipknot has stepped up to the plate as far as NU bands to head new tour/fests. I'm not their biggest fan but Slipknot did have knotfest which seems like an obvious replacement for ozzfest. SoaD and Korn have headlined ozzfests but when they put together their own packages they always have rap and emo acts on their tours, they've never headlined and put together their own metal tours/fests. I really don't see them changing that either.
What I want to know is who will be the big headliners from that wave of bands that came out with videos on the new headbangers ball and uranium in the early-mid 2000s? There were a lot of emerging genres like core, bm, nwoahm, mathmetal, melodeath, deathcore etc. Tons of bands that had videos. I mean the new bands of that time that had videos or that had been around a few years prior but were unheard of until blowing up after hbb/uranium promotion. that wave of new bands we got immediately after numetal, the core wave (don't have to be core, just that time period)..
 
My picks are Mastodon, High on Fire (I don't care if its Sleep right now I see HoF coming back) and Meshuggah as I think they will be around a long time, get even bigger, are consistent quality wise (in my opinion). I don't see them putting any emo or rap bands on their tour packages. I think they'll fly the flag. All of them are already fairly popular. But what do you guys think? Who will be the next big headliners from that 2000s wave of bands? By the way, I think we'll see tours come back next year, this corona crap can't last forever.

Just google 'Cult Never Dies' and you're good. 

What metal and horror movies are for me is entertainment, fun and an escape from reality. Something I enjoy and takes my mind off my everyday worries/problems.
 
I know that may not sound like much but our tastes are a big factor in what defines a person. I have very specific tastes that are unpopular. None of my friends are into metal or horror movies. I'm also one of those people who hates almost everything new. I can't talk about entertainment with anyone I know and I'm really nerdy about it.
 
Also I'd say that metal is masculine, not because of lyrics, or growled vocals etc but the distortion itself. Just think, something like Mariah Carey is obviously very feminine. Not that there aren't women into metal, of course there are but I've always seen it as kind of a guy thing like an 80s action movie. You know how men always have their own guy thing they are into be it sports, videogames etc Mine has always been metal.
As weird as this is, I find it really hard to bond with other guys if they're not into metal or horror. Not much to talk about with them. And all of my friends are into rap which I do not like at all. Most of them I met through drinking and drugs even though I am sober now.

Cape of Bats
I just found this completely on accident on youtube last night. Lots of lead guitar all over the place.
 
 
Just found this 2 minutes ago. Black metal + Discharge= Vermibdreb
Nyredolk good original sounding stuff from Denmark
 

Sororicide- the Entity
Slayer- South of Heaven
 

Kreator - Coma of Souls
Overkill - Horrorscope
Death - Symbolic

Necrovore - unreleased evil

Angel Witch 0 Screamin' n' Bleedin'

Sodom - Persecution Mania

Off the top of my head:
Try Autograph's debut - 'Sign in Please'.  Hold Back the Night might be up your alley.
Robert Tepper: No Easy Way Out (Classic stuff !!)
Night Ranger: (You Can Still) Rock in America (off Midnight Madness, 1983)
Europe - Rock the Night (album: The Final Countdown).
King Kobra - Raise Your hands to Rock (album: Thrill of a Lifetime) and Piece of the Rock (off Ready to Strike).
Keel - The Right to Rock 
Vinnie Vincent Invasion: Boyz are Gonna Rock.
 

Aldo Nova- just random songs on youtube, some of it is great cheesy 80s hard rock, other songs are ballads, so I ignore them
I found this completely on accident on youtube, the cheesiest 80s videos ever. This is pure 80s guido rock. Think in between the Eye of the Tiger song and Scorpions. They must have spent a fortune on the music videos. 1 has a helicopter, another has a panther and an eye patch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4PNN8KNfgE
this 1 has a real panther and an eye patch, 1 of the guitarists kind of looks like Eddie Van Halen in the face and another guy in the video kind of looks like Udo
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPQgfaB3S1c
so cheesy, a helicopter and a lazer beam shooting out of a guitar
 

Necrovore - unreleased evil

Welcome! Just wondering how do you fix people? I probably need to be fixed on many different levels.
 
Morbid Visions is the titties with a cherry on top.

A wonderful band from America's India, Florida.  Say hello to 1987...
 

43. Watchtower - Control and Resistance
Easily one of the most underappreciated bands in the metal canon, Texas' prog/thrash metal pioneers debut on the scene with the Meltdown demo in 1984 was a technical genesis on thrash along with the likes of Megadeth's early material and was a part of a movement that would lay the seeds of progressive metal from '85 onward. 
Their sophomore LP, Control and Resistance, had both solidified their importance to this and showed how far they were willing to go even in the face of budding new members that were cropping up in the nascent prog metal and tech thrash scenes at that time. With the inclusion of guitar virtuoso, Ron Jarzombek, and new vocalist, Alan Tecchio, these guys embarked on writing a work that remains a mind-bending, ambitious and brilliantly deranged pillar of the genre it helped spawn. Whether it is on the epics like the title track and The Fall of Reason or the absolute barn-burning shredders like The Eldritch and Dangerous Toy, the composition and performance would still seem relentlessly modern today. 
 
 

44. Monstrosity - Imperial Doom

I just happened to be listening to this album while reading through the thread and see no reason why I shouldn't go ahead and give it praise now.
Most Metal audiences know about Corpsegrinder and his many years fronting Cannibal Corpse, but before that, dwelling in the infamous Florida Death Metal Hell, he was raging in Monstrosity and their debut album, 'Imperial Doom' is one of the best to come from that legendary early 90s era.
I first heard the tune 'Ceremonial Void' via the life-changing (for me) Nuclear Blast compilation, 'Death is Just the Beginning 2', and shortly after I tracked down the VHS comp of the same name, sans the 2 (not an easy task in those days, folks), and that had a short interview with Corpsegrinder and Mark Van Erp before launching into the video for 'Final Cremation'. The rest, as they say, is history. Such fine stuff. As time has flowed, this has grown into one of those important Metal albums I simply couldn't imagine not having.
The songs are all total ragers and each member's performance is pure aggression! You can't fake the real thing. John Rubin's guitar work is the best Thrash and the best Death blending together. Just listen to those riffs, the attack. The solos sound like moments out of Horror or Sci-Fi cinema. Van Erp's bass guitar sounds like it's being punched repeatedly and asking for more. The insane drumming from Lee Harrison that is both loose and tight, and has better blast-beats than most Black Metal records. And of course, Mr. Fisher's vocals are that which actually sound like a psychotic demon - something lacking from oh so many "Metal" vocal performances.
Of course, a great album benefits from a great cover and Dan Seagrave's offering here is #3 of my top three Seagrave covers. (I shall save what numbers one and two are for when I comment on those albums. Whether I post about them or someone else does, both will certainly be on this list.)
As far as I have seen over time, this album remains sadly underrated. I cannot recommend it enough! Mandatory Death Metal!

Yeah, I used to collect a lot of this stuff. I still try to track down more from time to time. Here's another one for you:
Panic - Rotten Church (1987)
 

Aldo Nova was the next big thing for a while. 
Nothing cheesy about leopard skin jump suits and lasers in guitars. That’s what rock should be!
NP: Rotting Christ select tracks.

Aldo Nova- just random songs on youtube, some of it is great cheesy 80s hard rock, other songs are ballads, so I ignore them
I found this completely on accident on youtube, the cheesiest 80s videos ever. This is pure 80s guido rock. Think in between the Eye of the Tiger song and Scorpions. They must have spent a fortune on the music videos. 1 has a helicopter, another has a panther and an eye patch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4PNN8KNfgE
this 1 has a real panther and an eye patch, 1 of the guitarists kind of looks like Eddie Van Halen in the face and another guy in the video kind of looks like Udo
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPQgfaB3S1c
so cheesy, a helicopter and a lazer beam shooting out of a guitar