Emerald is just pure fireworks and the heaviest track they made in the 70s.

God bless you.

Even though I don't think that record is really in the top tier Priest albums, that intro is one of the best openings of any metal album. And yeah, Electric Eye has it all: the great intro, the riff, the solo and those piercing vocals that cut like lasers from one Rob Halford. Great band.

That solo is beautiful, then again, so is the entire song.

Opeth has so many powerful solos. Those guys are like Death Metal Pink Floyd for me.

Some favorites:
Emerald-Thin Lizzy
Pigs (Three Different Ones)-Pink Floyd
Rock Bottom-UFO
Beyond The Realms Of Death-Judas Priest
Muffin Man-Frank Zappa
You Won't Change Me-Black Sabbath
Floods-Pantera
50 Million Year Trip-Kyuss
Working Man-Rush
Powerslave-Iron Maiden
Fade To Black-Metallica
Tornado Of Souls-Megadeth
Revelation:…

I don't know why they didn't just keep the classic monster characters. Who is this for even? If it's for classic monster fans, it looks like a disaster. They should have just made one big Gothic hellfest with Del Toro at helm, he'd probably love it, and stay true to the originals. I mean, that's why Marvel was…

Thayil always seemed so pretentious to me. His comment about Sabbath and Zeppelin bear that out. It's obvious that's where the band's core sound(at least a good portion of it) sprang from. Years ago, in the episode of "Metal Evolution" about Grunge, he denied it again and pointed toward Aerosmith(!) as the bigger…

They really dropped the dumb on this movie. Wow. I also like how they have so much confidence in it, that each trailer just gives away about the whole damn movie.

And that goes along with what I said regarding his similarity to Plant. Wilson probably does the best imitation of him I have heard(outside of maybe, David Coverdale at his prime.)

This is unbelievable news. I still don't consider these guys part of the "old guard," so when they pass it's just that more shocking.
For me, Soundgarden was the most talented of the "Grunge" era bands and the one most directly linked with hard rock's history. Cornell was like Robert Plant for the 90s, even though the…

Well, that's like your opinion, man.

Kansas was better than their hits. They were a prog band that time forgot. Boston had a killer self-titled and….yeah, nothing else, really. I think that band suffers mostly from familiarity. They are played just too damn much!

The early records worked better when they were a hard rock act. It was in the 80s when they achieved hit status, that they went in decline.

Not even close. The self-titled was a strong debut and while the music certainly held no surprises it was fun and had solid hooks. Plus, Paul Rodgers was always a very talented vocalist. I think Free was likely the better band but Bad Company is not a truly bad band.

I can't lump in Aerosmith from the 1970s as mediocre. No way. "Toys in the Attic" and "Rocks" are pretty terrific hard rock records.

It's extremely strange that I was actually thinking about this today! For some reason, Fu Manchu popped into my head. I was thinking of classic horror literature and thought, "Those books sure couldn't be made today!"

I'm so glad that Frankenstein: The True Story was mentioned. That has to be one of the finest Frankenstein films ever made and certainly one of the best made for tv horror films, in an era where there were many memorable ones.
It is certainly not the "true" story but contains an epic sweep that few were able to…

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