Mystery Metal Tracks
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OK, with the "top five 90's metal albums" thread earlier, I decided to put up two mystery metal tracks to see who has legit metal cred and who doesn't. These two tracks represent metal IMHO. Not death metal, nu-metal, or whatever sub genre..this is just basic old school metal. They're not really obscure, but the casual late 90's - current nu metal fan probably ain't going to know them. So let's see whose got it and who doesn't it...
- sherman0
fuckin Blind Guardian man
- sherman0
and saxon.
i just put on my leather pants and busted out my old records.
- sherman0
blistering solo on the saxon
i wish i still had hair
- MLP0
gimme some mercyful fate
- sherman0
or some king diamond
- jevad0
SAxON
- blaw0
the great thing about metal like this is that the scene wasn't so fragmented, so everyone was into the same handful.
now you get two dudes and one is, "i need songs about satan, but the dudes i'm into can't have painted faces, but must be between 28-35 yrs. old, though spikes are allowed," and the other's like, "what do you mean 'no make-up'? you suck."
too fucking detailed.
- ********0
You got the Saxon right..the other is Overkill, not Blind Guardian...
And yeah it is way more detailed now. Back in my day circa 84-rise of grunge, you had what your regular metal, your thrash and your glam metal. That was it. Well ok, you had the hardcore/metal crossover and no one really could agree on what to call it, and early on Venom was more of a sucky band than the start of the whole doom/death etc..and there was no quibling about is "Zepplin metal?" Of course they were compared to what was around - Journey? Metal they were..now it's like they're hard rock or proto metal or whatever some dumb ass indie rock crritic wants to call it and all the little lemmings follow along. Zepplin big guitars, drums, solos, songs about vikings and Golem. It's fucking metal.
Now I talk to kids and it's like we're "grindcore/death metal with doom vocals and a power metal attitude, sans makeup. Check out my cool tshit from Hot Topic". Crap man, we used to trade tapes. Yeah trade tapes - you'd mail a freaking shitty cassette to the other side of the planet of crappy bands in hope to get some cool cassettes back from Germany or Japan or Sweden or wherever, and buy crappy handmade ezines. That was a scene man, not this MetalMall crap..That was when you could wear striped spandex with a bullet belt and a denim jacket and be cool. Yeah, cool. I said it.
No, dude, it's either metal or it's not. It should be that simple...
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Oh and for the record TheDarkness sucks. I talk to clueless indie rock, SPIN reading 19 year old kids and they're like - Wow metal is back did you check out the Darkness? They're so cool and hip..
No. The Darkness suck. They are a joke. They are to Metal what Monty Python is to Medieval Times in the Holy Grail. Funny, lightweight and a joke.
In the 80's they would of sucked. Been run out of town. Fir chrisakes Dokken sounds better than they do. Think about that one. Dokken. And their name wouldn't of been The Drakness, it would've been Free Drinx or some other lame ass name to trick people into showing up at a venue to watch their sucky crap. "Tonight! Free Drinx!"
OK, I'm turning into a crumugeon...