Top 3 NWOBHM releases

It was a period when I was digging into the genre to acclimate myself more with it. Nothing more. I was listening to a lot better stuff before that brief stint.

Face it Jeff, comparing the actual music and musicians of black metal, for the most part, to actual Heavy Metal music...is flat-out laughable.

No, "evolution" or "growing up" is involved here.
 
It was a period when I was digging into the genre to acclimate myself more with it. Nothing more. I was listening to a lot better stuff before that brief stint.

Face it Jeff, comparing the actual music and musicians of black metal, for the most part, to actual Heavy Metal music...is flat-out laughable.

No, "evolution" or "growing up" is involved here.

I don't think it's flat out laughable at all, because I would bearly want to compare Black Metal to Heavy Metal at all. The aspects of music are usually completely different.

On the other hand, J.'s posting was kind of annoying :erk:
 
I bought "Power Games - The Anthology" from Sentinel Steel, along with a lot of other quite nice NWOBHM stuff, so you should look there first.