Favorite Heavy/Traditional Metal bands?

[Wyvern]

thanks. i'm not to picky on metal as long as i can understand the vocals

I'm not picky on metal as long as the song have some catch, vibe and energy and the vocals are clean.

So you won't see me running around death, black, glam, stoner or certain variations of doom (sludge, funeral, drone, etc.)

Give it 30 years, all the bands we listen to today will be "traditional / classic metal" and Sabbath/Purple will be "proto metal.

Most probably, accursed revisionism

 

[KMADD]

Yeah i just got into The Sword. Gates Of Slumber, Bible Of The Devil, Bulletwolf, The Cocaine Wolves.

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

It's a modern tag used to describe the sub-genre of heavy metal more akin to the sound of Judas Priest, Motorhead, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden (and the whole NWOBHM sometimes) specially towards the 80's.

It's a classification that defies that a band can be tag along power metal (like Hammerfall), doom (like Candlemass), thrash (like Coroner), prog (like Dream Theater), etc.

By my standards if you check bands like Metalucifer, Hammerheart, Wolf, White Wizzard more or less they are around that definition.

Oh why don't you just say it's also called "classic" metal and not write a novel...

Give it 30 years, all the bands we listen to today will be "traditional / classic metal" and Sabbath/Purple will be "proto metal.

It's already happened my friend... just go to the GMD forum... the intellectual elite there do not consider anything before the 80's as metal with the exception of Sabbath as metal and the zombies who follow them just repeat the same words... hell, they didnt live through the 80's and do not consider some of the bands then as metal though most of us metalheads then and now do...

I'm not picky on metal as long as the song have some catch, vibe and energy and the vocals are clean.

So you won't see me running around death, black, glam, stoner or certain variations of doom (sludge, funeral, drone, etc.)



Most probably, accursed revisionism

who you kidding? you are very picky and do not like good or real metal.... your close minded in that regards unlike me Worship Lars before i Chia Pet you >>> :Smokedev:

 

[Wyvern]

who you kidding? you are very picky and do not like good or real metal.... your close minded in that regards unlike me

Larry you wouldn't know what good or real metal is even if Lemmy breaks his bass upon your head

 

[jesterlove17]

Armored Saint!

 

[THEMICRULAH]

Priest / Maiden. Christian Mistress is a great newer band that plays the old style.

 

[Kreated]

Metallica
Megadeth
Metal Church
Kreator
Saxon
Iced Earth

 

[Hell Patrol]

Judas Priest
Motorhead
Iron Maiden
Saxon
Black Sabbath
Uriah Heep

 

[Tyrant Of Hell]

From Great Britain ( definitely Heavy Metal Kingdome ):
Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Saxon, Battleaxe, Tank, Satan, Jaguar, Blade Runner, Witchfynde, Blitzkrieg, Raven, Holocaust.

From Germany:
Accept, Steeler, Grave Digger, Railway

From Belgium:
Killer

From France:
H-BOMB, Vulcain, Killers

From Spain:
Baron Rojo

From Sweden:
Heavy Load

From Denmark:
Mercyful Fate

From Poland:
Turbo, early KAT, VooDoo, Open Fire

From Czech Republic:
Citron

From Hungary:
Pokolgep

From Russia:
Aria

From Japan:
Loudness

From USA:
Manowar ( its probaly the one and only Heavy Metal band in USA, because USA practically didn't have any traditional heavy metal bands )

 

[poundingmetal74]

Manowar ( its probaly the one and only Heavy Metal band in USA, because USA practically didn't have any traditional heavy metal bands )

I'd have to disagree. Look at the Metal Massacre compilations from the 80s - the US had tons of trad metal bands!

 

[Wyvern]

From France:
H-BOMB, Vulcain, Killers

From Spain:
Baron Rojo

From Sweden:
Heavy Load

From Poland:
Turbo

From Japan:
Loudness

Great to see someone else in here who love metal in other languages.

I will add to your list,

France: Sortilege, High Power, ADX, Blaspheme
Spain: Panzer, Obus.
Denmark: Witch Cross
Argentina: V8
Hungary: Ossian
Canada: Witchkiller, Wicked Angel, Sword
Belgium: Ostrogoth, Acid
Australia: Pegazus

I think there are newer bands that play with the spirit of 80's metal, which is many times associated with traditional.

Majesty (Germany)
Crystal Viper (Poland)
Wolf (Sweden)
Air Raid (Sweden)
Enforcer (Sweden)
Sister Sin (Sweden)Striker (Canada)
Betrayer (Canada)
High Spirits (USA)
White Wizzard (USA)
Icarus Witch (USA)
Miles Beyond (USA)
Natur (USA)
Reverence (USA)
Bakken (Ireland)
Neuronspoiler (England)
Black Steel (Australia)
Diphtheria (Cyprus)
Metalucifer (Japan)
Hellhound (Japan)
Mesmerize (Italy)
Obstruction (Hungary)
Final Stage (Canada)
Stimulans (Croatia)
Viron (Germany) sadly disbanded now.

From USA:
Manowar ( its probaly the one and only Heavy Metal band in USA, because USA practically didn't have any traditional heavy metal bands )

Warlord, Omen, Armored Saint, Griffin, Hawk, Gargoyle, Culprit, Liege Lord, Manilla Road.

 

[Tyrant Of Hell]

Warlord, Omen, Armored Saint, Griffin, Hawk, Gargoyle, Culprit, Liege Lord, Manilla Road.

In fact, Manilla Road, Warlord, Armored Saint and Culprit is indeed traditional heavy metal, but Omen, Griffin and Gargoyle is more power metal, like Helstar.
Hawk....unfortunately with keybords.
Liege Lord is power/speed metal.

I know also Avalanche, Demon Flight and Pandemonium. Its really good bands, I admit that I was wrong, but its not tons of bands.
I associate 80's US metal scene especially with thrash metal bands.
In the case of traditional heavy metal bands, England, France, Germany and several onther western European countries had significantly more bands.
But in fact - USA had good heavy metal bands. I must get first Pandemonium LP.