It's genuinely crazy how many bands there were and how they ALL could play/sing so well! Like the whole scene was wished upon a Monkey's Paw by a fan of Swedish/Japanese metal who wished for consistently good singers hah. There's been an influx of these on Spotify since I last checked. I had a playl...

Nope, always avoided Internet 2.0 because of 90% bad reviews. Cool as f**k to meet a fellow PoL fan though :D I hope & pray you are aware of the "Revolution By Numbers" and "Gigantic Days" demo comp CDs from the late 90's? Just love how they partly want to be post-punk/new-w...

Nonseinormale65 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:20 pm Well....you will like their 1986 demo too!!!

I do! I Mention it above!

I was going to just post this in the lesser known Doom Metal-thread OR my Epic Metal-thread but I think this deserves to be properly highlighted on it's own. Contropotere's‎ "Nessuna Speranza Nessuna Paura" from 1988 is a cult classic of the Italian anarcho punk scene. Often talked about a...

I too very much enjoyed your selections MechaBarbarian (though i was sorry to see you've abandoned your 'classic' avatar :( ). Haha cheers dude! I must say I've always been embarrassed by the old one as I just ripped a part of somebody's black sabbath fanart. I drew this lil' fella myself! BTW, the...

To diversify some from the mostly 70's progsy proto-Heavy stüffs, here's VOIVOD before Voivod started Voivod'ing with their Voivodness about 5 years later, especially/Voivodically in the "Dimension Hatröss"/"Nothingface"-style of Voivod'ery: Dan! Are you in my social media circl...

Hell yeah! I've actually got a list of my "100 favorite 70s metal tracks (not on Metal Archives)" in the works on my RYM, which I'll post as soon as I've finished typing it up. Love all the Italian stuff mentioned so far, all of it new to me! Can't get enough of that scene. Anyhow here's s...

@DMR: Yeah there's obviously a difference between a licensed piece of existing artwork and tracing something. Really appreciate you pinpointing the exact origins though! Good stuff

Hey Mecha B., cheers for this eye-opener. In my youth I was mainly into comics that artists wouldn't rip off for the sake of heavy metal album covers, so nothing to contribute. You help uncovered very interesting info that don't leave good aftertaste, but yeah, truth should be told and acknowledged...

Maxim wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2024 9:42 pm I think you are talking about different Savage (the Loose n Lethal band)
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Sa ... 3540488492

Certainly was! haha

Interesting! :o I'm pretty sure Garry Sharpe-Young who did most of the later Savage artwork got a lot of his designs from the pages of 2000AD etc. Speaking of 2000AD I read through a bunch trying to find other examples: https://i.imgur.com/urpxKRO.png https://i.imgur.com/Giw1REw.png From Nemesis the...

So I recently got obsessed with proving that Sodom's "Witching Metal" was based on the early Conan comics (especially when I read that Angelripper took full credit for it haha). Ended up reading through something like 70+ issues...and it often was so damn close... https://i.imgur.com/VOJHS...

Interesting topic but there's the problem with 'made up' genres. What might be 'Epic Metal' to someone might not be to you & vice-versa. Yeah but this is always the case. God did not decide power metal or death metal existed. They exist because people recognize common elements in certain bands ...

@Nonseinormale65: As for your suggestions, while I love Asia (both records) and can see the crossover appeal for fans of say Legend and Alkana I don't really think of it as Epic Metal, it's not really those kinds of riffs or arcane atmosphere. Same must be said for the White Wolf track. The Bride an...

https://youtu.be/2R0bWDrXAbc?si=RgY1oWKKUEkwmMv0 Thanks Hank! I actually don't think I've really listened to any Tull past Heavy Horses but this was really cool and I see where you're getting at! I absolutely think "Broadsword" applies as well! Sent me on a bit of a journey. https://youtu...