Yeah yeah this is the Nevermore forum, so of course it is going to be everyones favorite band (mine also), but just thought I'd see what you thought of some other bands too.
Anyone ever check out Tim Calverts band prior to Nevermore, Forbidden?
Their first two cd's, Forbidden Evil and Twist Into Form are what I consider two of the top 10 best thrash cd's ever..it's too bad they never had much label support.
http://vibrationsofdoom.com/test/Forbidden.html (almost the entire first cd via real player..their second is even better though)
Also, I know a lot of people think John Schaeffer is a riff masher/recycler and while I agree, I still like the majority of Iced Earth stuff. Just curious as to what your thoughts on having Tim Owens on the mic now that Barlow wants to become a cop or whatever. If you never checked out the samples from the upcoming cd while they were on the official site, here is a link to another (official is down). I like it, but hey...I liked Owens to begin with...he seems to have a lot more room to actually do his own thing now as opposed to just mimicking Halford.
http://www.spv.de/artikel/icedearth.html
Last but not least, have you ever heard of Brainstorm? Reminds me a lot of a mixture of Nevermore, Iced Earth, Jag Panzer and some of Bruce Dickinson's solo works. It's another German metal band (with a godly singer), but they have a lot more in common with the US metal than Euro IMO.
http://www.truemetal.org/brainstorm/index2.htm
Anyone ever check out Tim Calverts band prior to Nevermore, Forbidden?
Their first two cd's, Forbidden Evil and Twist Into Form are what I consider two of the top 10 best thrash cd's ever..it's too bad they never had much label support.
http://vibrationsofdoom.com/test/Forbidden.html (almost the entire first cd via real player..their second is even better though)
Also, I know a lot of people think John Schaeffer is a riff masher/recycler and while I agree, I still like the majority of Iced Earth stuff. Just curious as to what your thoughts on having Tim Owens on the mic now that Barlow wants to become a cop or whatever. If you never checked out the samples from the upcoming cd while they were on the official site, here is a link to another (official is down). I like it, but hey...I liked Owens to begin with...he seems to have a lot more room to actually do his own thing now as opposed to just mimicking Halford.
http://www.spv.de/artikel/icedearth.html
Last but not least, have you ever heard of Brainstorm? Reminds me a lot of a mixture of Nevermore, Iced Earth, Jag Panzer and some of Bruce Dickinson's solo works. It's another German metal band (with a godly singer), but they have a lot more in common with the US metal than Euro IMO.
http://www.truemetal.org/brainstorm/index2.htm
