The hard rock/MetaL/80's metal thread

fanch75
fanch75 Posts: 3,734
edited August 2008 in Other Music
I've seen little threads pop up here & there discussing this genre of music, so I thought we could maybe discuss it in one cool, awesome thread.

Ideas for discussion:

1) Hard rock
2) 80's metal as a whole (WASP, Crue, MetallicA, Maiden, Megadeth)
3) "Hair" metal (Ratt, Poison, etc)
3) Modern metal (Mastodon, Avenged Sevenfold)
4) Anything else that you think would fit in well here.

Just for fun, I'll tell you this: On the way into work Friday, I put on Dokken's "Til The Living End." I forgot what a great, kick-ass song this was. I was flattening the mountaintops that gorgeous morning, focused totally on the ferocious George Lynch riff and just hearing Don’s vox as background. I just started thrashing in the car, it was great! And I just backed it up and played it again!

In terms of quality, this year has been a great year for new releases from 80's metal bands:

Whitesnake - Good to be Bad

Dokken - Lightning Strikes Again

Judas Priest - Nostradamus

Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles

Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted

Testament - Formation of Damnation

MetallicA - We hope it doesn't suck
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  • Matty Boy
    Matty Boy Posts: 421
    Guns N' Roses-Chinese Democracy leaks
    Shackler's Revenge should be out within the month. Axl's almost back.
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    Matty Boy wrote:
    Guns N' Roses-Chinese Democracy leaks
    Shackler's Revenge should be out within the month. Axl's almost back.

    Those were good! Or, at least I heard they were good! :)

    I am very eager to hear Shackler's Revenge. Will the tune be available through any other format than by buying Guitar Hero or whatever game that is?
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  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    The new Soulfly album Conquer is fuckin' awesome. Got a really nice egyptian undertone in there. Really recommend this one if you like heavy shit.

    Also there's a new Motorhead album out next month and i think i might get tickets to see them in Manchester.

    Not heard much from Metallica yet tho. Anyone gonna get the 'Coffin' box set? Be worth a small fortune in a few years i think.
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  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    mole1985 wrote:
    The new Soulfly album Conquer is fuckin' awesome. Got a really nice egyptian undertone in there. Really recommend this one if you like heavy shit.

    I don't have the new Soulfly, but I do have the new one from Cavalera Conspiracy. It has both of the Cavalera brothers, which hasn't happened since the late 90's, I think. Heavy, good groove.
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  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    fanch75 wrote:
    I don't have the new Soulfly, but I do have the new one from Cavalera Conspiracy. It has both of the Cavalera brothers, which hasn't happened since the late 90's, I think. Heavy, good groove.


    Still not picked this up yet. It's on the list....
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  • NewDamage
    NewDamage Posts: 1,913
    Testament - Formation of Damnation

    This record is mindblowingly good. Great to hear Skolnick back in the lineup. Sucks these guys weren't part of the "big 4" of thrash, or didn't make a bigger impact during the 80s/early 90s. To me Testament is and was the most consistently good thrash band to emerge during that time. Highly recommed this to thrash fans
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    mole1985 wrote:

    Not heard much from Metallica yet tho. Anyone gonna get the 'Coffin' box set? Be worth a small fortune in a few years i think.

    I saw it on http://www.play.com it costs a small fortune now, never mind a few years
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    NewDamage wrote:
    Testament - Formation of Damnation

    This record is mindblowingly good. Great to hear Skolnick back in the lineup. Sucks these guys weren't part of the "big 4" of thrash, or didn't make a bigger impact during the 80s/early 90s. To me Testament is and was the most consistently good thrash band to emerge during that time. Highly recommed this to thrash fans

    I love Testament's Low album; that thing smokes. I like this new album, but not as much as Low.
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  • Vitalogy7
    Vitalogy7 Posts: 75
    Megadeth's last album which came out last year was really good.
    "Up here so high the sky I scrape,
    I'm so high I hold just one breath here within my chest,
    Just like innocence."
  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    jamie uk wrote:
    I saw it on http://www.play.com it costs a small fortune now, never mind a few years

    What the dickins?!?!?!?! Fuck That.
    I'll just go with the average joe copy since the digipack doesn't have the dvd with it.

    Alice Cooper had a new one out this year Along Came A Spider, aint heard it mind just thought I'd throw it out there.:)
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  • SENROCK
    SENROCK Posts: 10,736
    The new CRUE is freakin good. I cant stop listening to it!!!
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  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    No one named Exodus yet! super heavy thrash band! that's been in the scene for years and years and still keeps on going.
  • NewDamage
    NewDamage Posts: 1,913
    genie wrote:
    No one named Exodus yet! super heavy thrash band! that's been in the scene for years and years and still keeps on going.


    I haven't kept up with Exodus in recent years. How are those two new albums? I bought the "comeback" record, "Tempo of the Damned" in 2004, but now I hear they don't even have Souza in the band
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  • down_ski
    down_ski Posts: 328
    Vitalogy7 wrote:
    Megadeth's last album which came out last year was really good.

    United Abomination? Yeah that CD is badass. Megadeth is really awesome.

    As far as metal goes I enjoy real technical stuff, Lamb of God for example...some serious talent in that band (Instrumentally)

    And IRON MAIDEN! YEAH!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSTBlbylMzM&feature=related
  • Feedbacker
    Feedbacker Posts: 35
    Are there any fans of real metal here?
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    What ya got?
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  • surfanddestroy
    surfanddestroy Posts: 2,786
    I like the new whitesnake, very good.

    Not to sure on the new Crue one though, I am hoping it will grow on me.

    Saw Cavalera Conspiracy the other month and can't say I was all that impressed.

    Heard a couple of songs from Alice Coopers new one, they are pretty good.
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  • NewDamage
    NewDamage Posts: 1,913
    Feedbacker wrote:
    Are there any fans of real metal here?


    What would that be?
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  • Feedbacker
    Feedbacker Posts: 35
    I mean like, extreme metal. I was just busting balls because most of what has been talked about on page one is just heavy metal/80's thrash bands.

    Let me re-phrase; Are there any fans of death metal, black metal, or any other sub genre other than thrash?

    I personally love black(leaning more towards the folkish side mostly) doom, and some death sometimes. I love some post-metal bands but idk if that's technically a genre or why people even call it metal. It's just thicker post rock with harsh vocals really.
  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    You mean bands like Mayhem?
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