If there was a lifetime achievement award for real metal...

[Officer Nice]

If there was a lifetime achievement award for real honest heavy metal,
Who'd get it?


-OfficerNice

 

[hiddenlegions]

Metallica

ok ok , stop laughing hahaha

 

[hiddenlegions]

<hetfield voice> yeeeeeah baybaaaah ! </hetfield voice>

 

[Testament Legions]

Despite the Metal Gods tour disaster... my vote goes to Rob Halford.

 

[MindInsane]

I'm gonna have to say SLAYER!!! :hotjump:

 

[Reverand Joint Smoker]

Lemmy.

 

[Steiner]

Hmmmm. Until Ozzy's MTV family upstaged him he woulda got my vote. I still think metal owes a lot to him, even though Ozzfest has been a suck-fest lately. That being said...I gotta vote for Dave Mustaine. There are a shitload of death/thrash guitarists out there that point to him as their primary influence. The guys in Slayer would be my runner up though.

 

[hiddenlegions]

Definately on Dave , he's a metal visionary , and I agree about Ozzy , the "Osbournes" shouldn't take away what he's contributed to metal. Good call.

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Judas. Fucking. Priest. No question...they've accomplished more than almost any other metal band, bounced back every time they started to stray from the path of true metal, and are now stronger than ever.

I agree with Lemmy as a possible choice as well, and Overkill gets mad props.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

wow, thats so hard to decide !

i cant make up my mind between Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabath (Ozzy in perticular actually..)

its so hard to decide !

 

[PlatypusJesus]

I would say Iron Maiden....but with all of the best of cds they have put out.....and reissues....hmm..........Iron Maiden it is.

 

[Steiner]

Ozzy's MTV family? Oh My God - Jack and Kelly and Sharon aren't his
real family. I was fooled.
Shrug.
Erk.
Drats.

Officer Nice

Hehehe. There's an older daughter too that more or less said hell fucking no when MTV asked if she would like to come back and live in the house for the duration of the show. I sorta feel bad for Ozzy. People who know nothing about Ozzy the master musician and song writer will forever remember the trembling, doped up, stuttering wierdo he appeared to be on MTV. Apparently he was taking an insane amount of prescription drugs, something like 40+, while the show was running. He isn't anymore now that his physician is being investigated.

 

[pest666]

Halford as well. Ozzy's a $ellout and a hack...

if you think about what he's contributed to METAL....??? let's see Ozzfest (that nu metal extravaganza you may have heard of), his last couple album (let's face it, Ozzy covers a lot of ground on an album, and nu metal has been popular for awhile), he screws with metal history, screws with the people that got him to where he is, blah blah blah, you get the picture....

 

[Jason Washburn]

Chuck Shuldiner DeathNo others

 

[Jason Washburn]

Chuck Shuldiner DeathNo others

Chuck Shuldiner Death

 

[Imagikafan]

Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, The Scorpions (yeah, I know everything after Love At First Sting sucks), and Saxon all deserve it.

-Mark

 

[The saYer]

This Award I Present To 3 Individuals Who Despite All Types O Shit Have Given Their Soul Away To Metal

King Diamond
Eric Peterson
And Milano Petrozza

 

[Lykorian]

Iron Maiden.

They're one of the most consistent metal bands ever and have never dragged their loyal fans through failed attempts at modernization (Judas Priest, Ozzy, Halford, etc).

Honorable mentions go to Lemmy and Tony Iommi, for mostly the same reasons. Lemmy is probably the most consistent songwriter/vocalist/lyricist EVER.

 

[Testament Legions]

I was also going to say Ozzy too, but with all the silly, excessive hype with The Osbournes, I'm sticking to the "Metal God."

Honorable mention to Iron Maiden.

 

[Lykorian]

Yeah really! I keep wondering how different things would've turned out for Ozzy if he'd actually succeeded in killing Sharon...