Controversial opinions on metal

[CiG]

The Number of the Beast is masterful, title track is a great song but constant overplaying has fucked it up for me for the most part.

Favourite song would have to be Hallowed Be Thy Name.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

I don't think I'll ever get sick of "Hallowed Be Thy Name". Now that's how you end an album.

I meant to say this before but I really love Somewhere In Time. The leads in "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" are friggin majestic.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The first five are all excellent. Of the three with Bruce I'd probably put NOTB at the bottom, but just barely.

Somewhere in Time was their first noticeable step down. Still a great album, but that's when the choruses started to get repetitive, and the vocals sound a bit worn out/flat compared to the earlier ones. The leads are actually the highlight of the album on the whole, only a few excellent songs.

 

[Satanstoenail]

What's everyone's opinion on Number of The Beast?

I really like that album. Not my favorite, but definitely in my personal top three. Along with Powerslave and Seventh Son.

Never really got into any other albums of theirs outside of those three, actually...Somewhere In Time I thought was fucking awful.

Piece of Mind should be your next stop. It's a better album than Number of the Beast imo. Where Eagles Dare and Die With Your Boots On are two of my fave Maiden tracks.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Never really liked Maiden

 

[EspaDa]

Infinite Dreams, Only the Good Die Young and the title track are best picks on SSoSS

 

[Baroque]

Never really liked Maiden

Same, they kinda annoy me tbh.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Infinite Dreams, Only the Good Die Young and the title track are best picks on SSoSS

Replace Only the Good Die Young with The Prophecy and I agree.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Same, they kinda annoy me tbh.

I can totally understand. If I hadn't gotten into them in the 80s I never would have.

Replace Only the Good Die Young with The Prophecy and I agree.

Moonchild tbh

 

[The Ozzman]

The Clairvoyant

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The Clairvoyant

Riffless.

 

[ProphetofHatred]

Powerslave, Seventh Son and Piece of Mind are Iron Maiden at their best. Iced Earth is better though :Spin:

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The first three Iced Earth albums are definitely underrated by certain trve el33t types, but not better than prime Maiden.

 

[CiG]

Agreed, early Iced Earth are awesome, but not nearly on Iron Maiden's level.

 

[ProphetofHatred]

First three albums are better than anything Iron Maiden has done in my opinion, Horror Show is also good but not better than Iron Maiden, Dystopia was decent I should listen it again.

 

[CiG]

Piece of Mind is a masterpiece.

Speaking of opinions, is there a thread for discussing top 10 favourite Metal albums of all time?
I'd be interested to read everybody's lists.

 

[ProphetofHatred]

I have no idea how people can pick 10 albums as their "favorites" there's literally no way I could possibly decide on something like that.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Piece of Mind is a masterpiece.

Speaking of opinions, is there a thread for discussing top 10 favourite Metal albums of all time?
I'd be interested to read everybody's lists.

I think we've had one (many) before, but just create a new one anyways

 

[CiG]

Mine has been basically the same for years, but I like to use other people's as strong recommendation lists.

I think we've had one (many) before, but just create a new one anyways

Yeah, will do.

 

[EspaDa]

I used to enjoy A Matter of Life and Death, but now I find the songs to be unnecessarily long and I can hardly listen to them besides Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, and maybe These Colours Don't Run.