Close call but Kreator on the strength of Pleasure To Kill, esp Ripping Corpse. And since the thread started to slide in this direction I will say that I think Ironbound is probably the best album released by any of the big ol' thrashers from the 80s. :lol: Hmm I don't mean "of all time" ...

Metallica playing for the first time ever in my little city on the bottom of the world. $180 a ticket, hmmm. But at least they're not doing the in the round set up. Don't wanna find myself trying to avoid looking at Lars' sweaty bottom.

Close call but Kreator on the strength of Pleasure To Kill, esp Ripping Corpse.

And since the thread started to slide in this direction I will say that I think Ironbound is probably the best album released by any of the big ol' thrashers from the 80s.

Ernest Thesiger wrote:

http://dissolution.bandcamp.com

That's my band Hope you enjoyed it!

Just checked out the tracks on myspace. Agree with the comments...great songs and very cool artwork!

Lord

Witnessed them a couple of days ago...fantastic live band. Half their set was made up of Dungeon songs.

This is very cool indeed.

I notice a thanks to Sam Dunn in the special thanks list. I assume this is the same anthropolist / filmaker responsible for Headbanger's Journey, Flight 666 and Global Metal docos?

bigfootkit wrote:Awwww. Thanks to Ernest, Hellride Mike and The Sentinel for saying nice things about my blog NILOOB, http://www.liveandotherwise.blogspot.com/ it's nice to know that the work's appreciated.

Very much appreciated! d/l'd quite a few choice items!

Last Saxon album I bought.... Back on the Streets club mix 12"

hmmm, that could be another thread... how many other dreadful albums are there like that. i've heard ace of spades too.

The video collection Power and the Glory (i think; memory's a bit sketchy) might hold the key. Very ugly band. :D Musically great though. Biff has still got it! Saw him recently on a video appearing during Metallica's set to sing Motorcycle Man for an encore Most people in the crowd seemed to react ...

Good and Ready - Strikemaster

Mostly self made compilation - esp punk and nwobhm; anything one can sing along with. Though Aerosmith's Gems and KD's Them has had a lot of high rotation recently.

Has to be Metallica for me. They were the first real hard hit, and despite chasing that high over the last couple of decades, I've never got there with anything else.

Though, live, it might possibly be Maiden.

A couple of days ago I ended up watching some of The Roadrunner 25th anniversay dvd with Ripper Owens singing Curse of The Pharoahs, Abigail, and Alison Hell w/Jeff Waters on guitar. I thought he really nailed it! Very powerful sounding.

The best thing about the 80's in relation to HM is also the worst thing. Because it was a fresh, modernist movement there was a lot of experimentation. Nobody knew exactly, in 1981, how concrete and idiotically entrenched the genre definitions of Heavy Metal would become just 10 years from then. An...