halford vs bruce, solo

[fat bastard]

i've had the last 3 dickinson discs for awhile and have found them enjoyable from time to time and i just grabbed the 2 halford discs last week and find them pretty sweet as well. who do you guys did a better job with their solo projects? there's some great perfomances here.

 

[ElectricWiz]

For my money you can't beat Bruce. Accident of Birth, Chemical Wedding, and Tyrrany of Souls are all great, and I'd even go so far as to say they are some of the better metal albums of the last 10 or 15 years. Especially Chemical Wedding. I like a couple others too, but those are THE ones.

Robs stuff is fine, but measures up closer to Bruce's other solo albums, which are mostly average.

 

[KMADD]

I like halfords material incl. 2 if you believe that but I always trent reznor's music as well.

 

[No-Mercy]

bruce fuckin dickinson. hes freakin awesome, especially the CW album, my favorite and a brilliant. than with TOS and AOB, you just cant beat that.

 

[SoundMaster]

Accident of Birth and Chem Wedding are amazing records. Taking the Queen is one of the BEST metal tunes ever penned.

Balls To Picasso is a breath of fresh air......true balls for Bruce to release such an album.

With that said, Bruce takes this one. Halford solo has been great. But Bruce has simply been better.

 

[fat bastard]

i dont quite know why but i seem to prefer robs vocal stylings a little more even though bruce has a classier and more grand of a sound. halford just seems more metal to me and after seeing judas priest for the first time a couple weeks ago it would be hard to convince me otherwise. halford sounds a lot scarier and extreme live with some of those screams and his normal voice sounded fantastic as well. bruce destroys him as far as stage presence though. i found halford pretty imobile and seeming a little stage shy but i should stop now before this thread starts moving towards the who's a better singer direction which has probably been done to death.

 

[Wyvern]

i've had the last 3 dickinson discs for awhile and have found them enjoyable from time to time and i just grabbed the 2 halford discs last week and find them pretty sweet as well. who do you guys did a better job with their solo projects? there's some great perfomances here.

If we compare Bruce olo material (including "Tattoed Millionaire") against all non-JP Rob material the Bruce kick ass-big time.

If we only compare Bruce material against Halford (as a band) then is very much a tie-up since Halford material is very solid.

But in when it all comes to strip the two and their material up to single album then Bruce wins by a nose since "Accident Of Birth" is slightly ahed IMO to "Resurrection".

In both cases nevertheless the vocalists came with much much better material than their best-known bands since their left and came back.

 

[Fangface]

Crucible and Chemical Wedding are two of my favorite records of the past 10 years.

That being said, both solo careers have been doing really well lately IMO, I'd choose Rob's stuff over Bruce's but not by much.

 

[wdiv]

Halford's disks were good, but Bruce's last 3 solo albums are masterpieces.
If we were to compare Halford's solo to Bruce pre-Accident, then I may opt for Halford.

 

[JonnyD]

Fight - War of Words .... need I say more