Controversial opinions on metal

[BrownSock]

Now that you guys bring it up, Mercyful Fate is definantly a lot better than Maiden for me. Honestly, though, I coldn't give two fucks about three shits how many albums Maiden made. If they are boring its not going to be any different.

 

[skeptik]

Priest > Fate >> Maiden

I'm sorry, but as much as I masturbate to Mercyful Fate (their entire catologue, mind you), you can't fucking top Judas Priest's early work, especially Sad Wings and Stained Class.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Agreed on all accounts. Mercyful Fate is pretty damn close, though.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Priest > Fate >> Maiden

I'm sorry, but as much as I masturbate to Mercyful Fate (their entire catologue, mind you), you can't fucking top Judas Priest's early work, especially Sad Wings and Stained Class.

those albums have been topped

 

[steve.h]

Yngwie broke wind shortly thereafter, however.

Am I the only one who caught this?

 

[Janga666]

Maiden > Priest






imo

 

[Life Sucks]

I might like Mercyful Fate better than the other two if it weren't for the vocals. I can't get into King Diamond's vocals.

 

[Black Friday]

those albums have been topped

Only by Mercyful Fate.

 

[Mort Divine]

Generally yes, though I find myself enjoying a lot of Manilla Road more than them anyways.

 

[Lord Kur]

manilla road rules. i use them almost exclusively when i'm walking the dark streets at night. it makes me feel powerful and i can ignore panhandlers without being rude.

 

[Gold]

fuck manilla road

 

[Lord Kur]

:zombie:

 

[Janga666]

fuck manilla road

 

[TheInsane]

I might like Mercyful Fate better than the other two if it weren't for the vocals. I can't get into King Diamond's vocals.

I have tried to like he stuff where KD sings but yeah I too have trouble with his vocals when he's doing the extremely high pitched stuff. It might be something that can grow on me because musically some of his stuff is really, really good.

 

[Life Sucks]

The guitarwork and riffs are really cool, but I find it hard to get past King Diamond's vocals. It's not that I don't like clean vocals, since I like plenty of clean vocalists. But King Diamond's vocals just sound silly to me. I think regular clean vocals or even typical power metal vocals would sound better. Dickinson, Halford, Ozzy, the guy from Solstice, the guy from Warning, Frank Brennan, Michael Kiske, Mark Shelton, etc. are what I consider to be good clean vocalists.

 

[whiskey funeral]

fuck manilla road

And after reading this post, it's pretty obvious how fitting your title is.

 

[Lord Kur]

if you don't like king's vocals just do us all a favor and stop listening to metal

 

[Ross]

the man speaks the truth

 

[Mort Divine]

if you don't like king's vocals just do us all a favor and stop listening to metal

.

 

[Life Sucks]

King's vocals are very distinctive; far from typical clean metal vocals, even far from typical power metal/falsetto clean vocals. They are definitely the kind of vocals that take time to get used to. Maybe I need to listen to a lot more KD/MF and eventually they would click with me.