Controversial opinions on metal

[HamburgerBoy]

The punk influence on early Iron Maiden is really overstated anyways. It has a street attitude and I think Paul Di'Anno was into some punk stuff himself, but Steve Harris himself detested it (he canceled gigs in the 70s upon discovering he's be playing with punk bands) and only a few songs on the first album even vaguely resemble punk (their eponymous, Sanctuary, and Running Free, and I'd say that last one is a massive stretch anyways). Although it is interesting that the first Iron Maiden song ever, Burning Ambition, sounds like a punk song.

But regardless, even the S/T sounds nothing like anything I've heard of Motorhead, let alone anything released after.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Like @Satanstoenail said, they're not really comparable. That being said, im a much bigger fan of Motorhead. Only Maiden albums i find myself reaching for as much are the S/T and Killers.

 

[no country for old wainds]

who cares both are great lets move on thx

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I'll go ahead and say it

Motorhead>Iron Maiden

 

[no country for old wainds]

i would choose the best maiden over the best motorhead but i accept the consistency counter-argument.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I'm just a sucker for Motorhead in pretty much every way.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I've listened to almost no 90s Motorhead but I'm tempted to pick an album randomly just to say how bad it is because I have a hard time imagining Motorhead being that consistent even though I have no basis to say they aren't (except that I think the weaker tracks on their best albums are far below the worst on Maiden's best albums).

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Overnight Sensation is great actually. Have you heard their newest album Bad Magic? Quite a nice swansong for Lemmy.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

OK, just finished listening to Sacrifice. I guess the thing is, yeah, almost nothing in the history of metal goes as low as Maiden did with Virtual XI, and I'm sure Lemmy never wrote a nine minute song where he repeats a chorus for half the duration, so fair enough. Still, after the first two songs some of these riffs sound like poor grunge riffs. This isn't bad, and I know just one listen isn't good to judge things, but I dunno, a band coasting on a similar sound for decades with the occasional contemporary rock/metal bit thrown in isn't the good kind of consistency. I'd rather have Maiden's new stuff where they write great songs alongside the garbage (although the title track sounds pretty damn excellent here).

Some of Dee's drumming is fucking insane on this thing though, like he's doing straight-up tech-metal stuff at points that I can't follow at all, loving that. For that alone I'm going to start exploring more of these albums.

 

[Baroque]

March or Die was the worst thing I found in their discog, like it made me laugh it was so bad. although I skipped some of their later stuff, Most of their albums are consistently decent to good.

 

[no country for old wainds]

doesn't that one include ozzy and slash lol, i only know it by reputation

 

[CiG]

Motorhead and Iron Maiden are comparable because they're both massively influential British bands in the realm of heavy metal. Same with Venom, Saxon and any other massively influential British metal band.

 

[EspaDa]

March or Die was the worst thing I found in their discog, like it made me laugh it was so bad. although I skipped some of their later stuff, Most of their albums are consistently decent to good.

Heard about Snake Bit Love?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Motorhead and Iron Maiden are comparable because they're both massively influential British bands in the realm of heavy metal. Same with Venom, Saxon and any other massively influential British metal band.

Comparable in popularity and influence, yeah sure. Comparable music? No, not so much.

 

[The Ozzman]

Venom is influential but complete shit musically.

 

[The Butt]

And here we go with another 'What is the best Iron Maiden album?' argument for the 20th time in the thread. I need to close this piece of shit and start a new one with some rules..

Don't screw with the single best thread on the boards please.

Also if you don't like Venom you're gay.

 

[The Ozzman]

Don't screw with the single best thread on the boards please.

I created the thread, so I am ultimately the gatekeeper...

 

[The Butt]

I created the thread, so I am ultimately the gatekeeper...

All that microwave food's gone to your head. Dirty old radiation waves flying into your brain.

 

[The Ozzman]

Dirty old radiation waves flying into your brain.

This is everyone now because of cell phones

 

[CiG]

Venom is influential but complete shit musically.

Are you crazy? Band is fucking godly.