Controversial opinions on metal
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EffigyForgotten
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observing the sabbath
I agree, although I like the later stuff. Steve Tucker should've stayed in the band.
Spiderchrist
The Unjesus
Kinda. I love them for Altars of Madness alone. Blessed Are the Sick, Covenant, Formulas Fatal to the Flesh, and Ilud are the only ones that I can listen to at any time. Domination's production is horrible.
HamburgerBoy
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Limiting things to the earliest major traditional metal bands, there's still Accept, Anvil, and Saxon to contend with.
I thought you were cool, man.
Seriously, that's so fucking wrong...they never really released a perfect album, everything has some filler on it, but even if you don't personally care for them they are undeniably excellent on every level.
Spiderchrist
The Unjesus
I rarely listen to Traditional Heavy Metal and I don't like a lot of the bands. I respect the music and song writing, but I prefer Death/Black Metal.
Mort Divine
Shrine Maiden of the In-Crowd
Everything they did with Martin Walkyier is absolutely 'good band' quality.
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matt schrauben
Curse You All Men!
I agree that he's wrong, but you think they have filler on each album? I can't think of one that I own that I don't love all the way through. The Number of the Beast is pure awesome from start to finish, no filler there. Same goes for Piece of Mind, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, and even their newer albums.
You're 100 percent correct they are excellent on every level.
lol @ undeniably excellent on every level. Even though the debut may be my favorite NWOBHM album (well, it's up there with Court In The Act or Volume 1 or whatever at least), y'all fanboys need to get a room.
Starting with Number of the Beast:
Gangland
Quest for Fire
Back in the Village
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
I'll give you Seventh Son, that one's pretty tight
Most of No Prayer
Most of Fear of the Dark
Let's not even talk about the Blaze albums
Brave New World is my favorite Maiden album and overall quite wonderful, but The Nomad is undeniably filler, or at least unnecessarily bloated. They also ripped it off from another band (I forget who at the moment).
Most of the second half of Dance of Death
AMOLAD is a testament to solid core songs brought down by bloated, unwieldy songwriting. Everything was longer than it should have been, and at least 3 songs should have been cut.
matt schrauben
Curse You All Men!
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree because I think you couldn't be more wrong, with the exception of the Blaze albums. I think Gangland is one of my favorite maiden songs. Also, in my book AMOLAD is absolute perfection. Not only my favorite Maiden album, but one of the best albums I have ever heard.
I'm digressing a bit here, but if you stop and think about it, it's kind of crazy how people have such polar opposite opinions about the same thing. I mean, what ticks in each person's brain that says "Yup this is awesome!" or "Nope, this sucks!"? I've always wondered that when discussion such as this come up... this could be an interesting topic in and of itself.
matt schrauben
Curse You All Men!
It's cool when properly and sparingly done. However, when it's overused like in some of these new 'Deathcore' or 'Math Metal/Core" bullshit bands it often sounds like atonal garbage.
AllShallFall
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Hello there
Since we're talking about how boring Iron Maiden is I'll toss out this gem:
Priest > Maiden. Fucking fact.
Priest > Maiden. Fucking fact.
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Priest owns Maiden when it comes to quality control and intra-album consistency, but I'd still pick Iron Maiden overall. But just barely. Probably just because I like their pre-USPM style, and because it's five near-perfect albums (first five) versus four (the three S's and Painkiller).
I don't see how these are any more blatant filler than the weakest moments of many a Judas Priest album. Particularly Gangland and Back in the Village. All are great.
EDIT: While we're on the subject of labeling entire genres, I find myself enjoying death metal on a whole less and less with nearly every passing month. I often feel like I'm going to regress to not enjoying extreme metal at all. Clandestine has recently been stimulating by deathboner, though, and I considered that album to be merely good just months ago.
I don't see how these are any more blatant filler than the weakest moments of many a Judas Priest album. Particularly Gangland and Back in the Village. All are great.
EDIT: While we're on the subject of labeling entire genres, I find myself enjoying death metal on a whole less and less with nearly every passing month. I often feel like I'm going to regress to not enjoying extreme metal at all. Clandestine has recently been stimulating by deathboner, though, and I considered that album to be merely good just months ago.
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