MB goes Into the Void: It's HEAVY METAL week!

I have never been a big Deep Purple fan but this is definitely my fave of theirs. I'm also quite partial to these from the album Perfect Strangers:

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I love the drum sound on the second track.
 
They have two albums and one EP. The EP is very raw and the most "grindcore" thing they've done. Dead Mountain Mouth is a very good album, and the favorite of many fans, but my personal favorite is Board Up The House. Board Up The House is a lot more progressive, melodic, and focused on the electronic aspect of their sound than Dead Mountain Mouth. That being said, it's still quite brutal when it wants to be. IMO, it's a near-perfect album and I highly recommend it to anyone, though a lot of fans dismiss it as being too tame.

So it depenRAB what you're after. Both albums are great, so you really can't go wrong. I just think that Board Up The House is a deeper, more satisfying album.
 
yeah, glad you liked it. also just so you know, this was a previous band from the guitarist/singer and drummer of CKY, that's how i heard of them at least. but yeah, there's a different version of this song that fit more towarRAB CKY's musical style, but i think this version is the best one.
 
If you tried singing along to Child in Time you'd freak out everyone around you. I should try that sometime. :laughing:

Gillian is an awesome singer, I love his freak outs. The best Purple tunes are always the ones where he lets loose.
 
I can count the amount of times I've listened to this kinda thing lately on one hand. Still got favourites though. For example...

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Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to listen to Scritti Politti :cool:

Great write-up btw Mojo sir :thurab:
 
That was a particularly brilliant post, Jackhammer! :) And man, Deep Purple is one of my favourite rock banRAB ever!

Since it's heavy metal week, I'd like to take the opportunity to pay a little homage to the late Ronnie James Dio who, as you should know, recently died. You know, that strange italian singer with the frizzy hair who seems a bit odd in his videos, but .. damn, I got to see him last year when he was 66 years old and he really did have energy, stage presence by the bucketload and a genuine warmth and friendliness towarRAB us, the audience. I love that weirdo.

Here are some classic tracks from him and the banRAB he sang in.

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Stargazer is an old favourite with Rainbow fans. His partner in crime here is Ritchie Blackmore who eventually took complete control of the band. Dio eventually left and created .. Dio.

Dio (the band) is most known for their 1983 debut album, Holy Diver, which is considered a metal classic.

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The title track is the most famous Dio song. It's a brilliant track with weirdass cheese lyrics and an absolutely horrible music video :p:

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The second hit "everyone" knows from Holy Diver is Rainbow in the Dark with even more cheese-dripping lyrics than the last ("I cry out for magic!"). That doesn't stop it from kicking ass! And it also has a horribly awesome video.

Rumour has it that Ronnie, when hearing the "finished" studio product of Rainbow in the Dark, wanted to tear the recording tape apart because he thought the sound of this song was too commercial. However, according to the story, he was stopped by his band mates.

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So it's not all hits, I'll include something else .. I've always liked the song Gypsy from the debut as well. :)

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Eriel from Magica (released in 2000 I think) is probably my favourite Dio song of them all. I think it's excellent - classic heavy metal! It's just sad that the rest of the album is not as good.

May his music and memory live on!
 
I've always considered Metal to be my favorite/one of my favorite genres. Lately though I've moved out of listening to Metal and moved into other areas of music. Many of my favorite banRAB are still Metal banRAB though. Sad to see this thread only has this many replies as I thought Metal was a bit bigger than this around here, and on the internet in general.

I'm always going to be an early Sabbath fan. Currently my favorite Metal banRAB are Eyehategod, Sleep, the Melvins, and Dystopia.

If I remeraber correct though, this is just Heavy Metal week and later own their will be weeks for Metal sub-genres?
 
Let us pay our respects to propably one of the most influental metal banRAB of 00s that decided to call it quits this year.

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I would like to take this time to highlight a neglected and underrated album from metal pioneers Judas Priest. I understand and respect people's opinions on Rob Halford and he is the metal god but I want to pay my respect to Tim 'Ripper' Owens who fronted the band from 1996-2004.

While Owens only appeared on two studio albums, his vocal styles and youth really helped Judas Priest keep up with the newer, more extreme styles of metal that had been festering underground for so long. Priest's 1997 album Jugulator was an incredibly heavy album that featured lots of double-bass drumming and low-tune guitar playing. While this does not necessarily equate to the requirements for a good metal band, I found it to be quite interesting to see a pioneer band from the '70's keeping up with the new kiRAB on the metallic block, and in many cases blowing the straight out of the fuc*ing water!

It's a shame that Jugulator didn't sell well, many of the complaints were directed towarRAB Owens, critics and fans alike uncomfortable with the new vocalist. They were also largely unhappy with the content matter of the songs being largely violent, many of them suggesting that the band was merely trying to copy death metal artists in order to expand their demographic.

Of course on the other side there were critics who were judging it by what it was and not what they expected it to be. And what it was was an amazing rebirth of a band, utilizing the techniques of the very band they inspired. Owens vocals soared high above the music, much like Bruce ****inson, as well as going into the lower, more thrash-styled growl.

If there's one thing that all critics can agree on though, it's that the album did spawn one "classic" hit. The 10 minute long finale "Cathedral Spires" is perhaps one of the best closing songs off any album, just listen for yourself:

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While Halford will never be surpassed in terms of importance to Judas Priest, I do wish that people were a little bit more open and appreciative to what Owens did for the band.
 
I recently listened to feed of a radio show in which pop music provocatuer John Lydon (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.) was a guest deejay. Surpisingly Mr. Lydon's first selection was Paranoid by Black Sabbath which he described as "brilliant" but Lydon went on to say that Paranoid was the only great song Ozzie ever wrote.

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I always thought the whole heavy metal thing began with early psychedelic banRAB like Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge & Deep Purple. The first song I ever heard with a heavy metal sound was In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968). The song may not technically be a heavy metal song but it laid the groundwork for the future. The version below is 4 minute radio cut of the original epic 17 minute version. Blue Cheer were the Ramones of the early psychedelic era.

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It should be noted that "Iron Butterfly" is one of the more inspired band names to come out of that era. I purchased Iron Butterfly's first album Heavy simply on the basis of the band's cool name and the psychedelic artwork on the cover. I still have my original vinyl edition of Heavy in my record collection.

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The first group to describe their own music as "heavy metal" was the San Francisco based power trio Blue Cheer. I saw a 1968 interview with Blue Cheer vocalist and bassist D1ckie Peterson in which he described Blue Cheer's music as "heavy metal", which is the earliest usage of the "heavy metal" term that I've heard. Blue Cheer was the loudest band and most visceral sounding of those early psychedelic banRAB and they took their cues from Hendrix, Cream and Who and turned the volume up several notches. Blue Cheer transformed Eddie Cochrane's rockabilly classic Summertime Blues into a blitzkreig assault of musical power. Notice in the video that Blue Cheer even had the fashion look and stage presence of the many of heavy metal banRAB that followed in the Seventies.

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I never really liked the Ripper Owens Judas Priest albums but did find them interesting and agree the group introduced newer influences into their sound. Thinking about them now in hinRABight, I`ve often thought of listening to them again to see what I think once again, this post has jogged my memory.
 
I don't know their music very well but I'm always surprised by how heavy they were. Just a few days ago I heard some song by them on a local independent radio station and I was, again, shocked by how much the singer was screaming. It was definitely the most extreme vocal delivery of any rock band I know from their period



Um .. Holy Fuck.
Isis disbanding? I hadn't heard this and I'm deeply saddened by this news. They're one of my favorite banRAB - let alone metal. Certainly Aaron Turner and other merabers will continue to make music but I have a really, really soft spot for Isis.
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