The Line
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Post by The Line on Dec 31, 2009 18:07:53 GMT -5
Pink Floyd
From Syd to Roger Waters/David Gilmore to David Gilmour.
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"Hollywood" Cactus Matt
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Post by "Hollywood" Cactus Matt on Dec 31, 2009 20:26:07 GMT -5
Alice In Chains. The new album....f***ing terrific. I heard the first single on the radio; seeing the post above, and then seeing yours here, gives me hope. I was a HUGE AiC fan back in high school (aaahh, the '90s! *sigh*) and was bummed as hell when Layne Staley died. Glad to know the rest of the band is doing well these days.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Dec 31, 2009 20:43:33 GMT -5
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll have to get a hold of some Iced Earth and give it a listen. I don't think that if they weren't famous they shouldn;t count. The band still had to go through the whole change themselves. All be it without the acceptance (to the level that they would reach) of the fans. Cryptopsy Cryptopsy only ever made albums with Lord Worm. he was certainly never replaced by Mike Disalvo, and this new deathcore band calling themselves Cryptopsy must be a completely different band because there's no way that the Cryptopsy I love would ever associate themselves with such shit [/completely serious] Marduk pulled it off with their new singer Mortuus. he's IMO better than Legion. In Flames and Dark Tranquility did it too... by basically trading singers. no seriously. Mikael Stanne sang on the first In Flames album and Anders Friden sang on the first Dark Tranquility album. Killswitch Engage definitely pulled it off with the switch from Jesse Leach to Howard Jones. hell, they just got MORE famous. Sentenced pulled it off, too. they just sounded completely different with Ville Laihalla, not that the Taneli Jarva era material had any kind of conistency (they went from Death Metal on the first one to Black Metal on the second album and then some weird cross between Black Metal and Stoner Doom before becoming out-and-out Goth Metal) Arch Enemy pulled it off, I guess. pity the only good Angela album was the first one. the Johan Liiva stuff was just more interesting and Johan's voice was more unique.
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Post by Chinny Reckon on Dec 31, 2009 21:02:00 GMT -5
other bands that have pulled off the switch are Slipknot Cannibal Corpse Napalm Death Soil Cryptopsy So cheesed off that I didn't get here in time to get the first Napalm Death reference. The only band I can name where the entire line-up has changed twice. Oh, and I'd quibble over Cryptopsy. IM VHO, the non-Lord Worm years are entirely forgettable (apart from Flo's drumming, which remains excellent even now they've stopped being interesting)
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Post by Larryhausen on Dec 31, 2009 23:38:53 GMT -5
I bow to this man. I'm ashamed to say I always thought Owens was their only vocalist. I'm an idiot not to have noticed the difference. Those albums you mentioned are great. I swear there are times when I feel like they give me some sort of spiritual euphoria. That's the best way I can describe it. Amazing work. It's not That first record. Bruce didn't come in until their 3rd album. Many people, including myself consider them just as good as anything after. The fact of the matter is, with all due respect to the absolutely amazing musicians that have been in the band, Steve Harris is Iron Maiden. And he's had amazing amounts of talents, as well as himself to create his music. Including some spectacular vocalist. As to who is best, I honestly can't choose, they all are really great and unique. Everyone knows Bruce therefore Di'Anno is underrated, Blaze even more so. I will say one thing about all the people who have been in the band. I consider them the only band ever to have had a perfect/flawless discography, and believe me I've listened to a lot of music. ------ Does it even count if a band wasn't famous when they switched? Thanks for the recommendation. I'll have to get a hold of some Iced Earth and give it a listen. I don't think that if they weren't famous they shouldn;t count. The band still had to go through the whole change themselves. All be it without the acceptance (to the level that they would reach) of the fans. Songs to check out from the Barlow era(s): A Question of Heaven from the Dark Saga(concept album based on Spawn), Wolf and Dracula from Horror Show, the Something Wicked Trilogy - Prophecy, Birth of the Wicked, and the Coming Curse, Dante's Inferno(17 minutes of Epic Metal Awesomeness) from Burnt Offerings, and Come What May from The Crucible of Man, Barlows comeback album(He left for a while to be a cop and was replaced by Tim "Ripper" Owens) Also check out Days of Purgatory, a Best-of of sorts with songs from the first three albums with Barlow re-recording the vocals. I love it because it combined the awesomeness of the music from those albums, and got rid of the crappy vocals. One of my favorite tracks from that album: PUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEE EVIL!!!!!!
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Magnus the Magnificent
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Jan 1, 2010 16:07:54 GMT -5
There is no Black Sabbath with out Ozzy. Booh you! It's Tony Iommi that is Black Sabbath! I also think that every other recorded vocalist in Black Sabbath's history is better than Ozzy. I know I am in a minority, but OO's nasal whine never did anything for me. Dio, Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, Tony Martin, great voices all around. Special mention to Ray Gillen (RIP) who didn't release anything with Sabbath although a complete recording of "Seventh Star" with his vocals exist. Iron Maiden did it three times: Di'Anno->Dickinson->Bayley->Dickinson again. The Blaze-era albums are really underrated, probably because some "purists" can't accept anyone else than Dickinson. I whole-heartedly agree on Iced Earth and Judas Priest. What about Rainbow and Savatage?
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jan 1, 2010 16:10:14 GMT -5
There is no Black Sabbath with out Ozzy. Booh you! It's Tony Iommi that is Black Sabbath! I also think that every other recorded vocalist in Black Sabbath's history is better than Ozzy. I know I am in a minority, but OO's nasal whine never did anything for me. Dio, Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, Tony Martin, great voices all around. Special mention to Ray Gillen (RIP) who didn't release anything with Sabbath although a complete recording of "Seventh Star" with his vocals exist. Iron Maiden did it three times: Di'Anno->Dickinson->Bayley->Dickinson again. The Blaze-era albums are really underrated, probably because some "purists" can't accept anyone else than Dickinson. I whole-heartedly agree on Iced Earth and Judas Priest. What about Rainbow and Savatage? Ozzy Osbourne's first 4 Sabbath albums are great, and Ozzy's nasal style accents the music perfectly, but he has to be the worst vocalist the band had from a purely technical viewpoint, and his solo material has always been bottom barrel generic metal-lite with singing that somehow got worse as he got older.
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Red Lion
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Post by Red Lion on Jan 1, 2010 16:26:21 GMT -5
I was going to say that too, just to be a smartass. It worked both times they did it, in fact, everytime they did it they got more and more popular. Not to say that Terry Glaze isn't awesome, mind. Agreed with KSE, Alice In Chains and Sabbath too. With Iron Maiden it depends who you mention, ie, it was all ok apart from Blaze Bailey. I'd also throw Arch Enemy in there too, and Slipknot.
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Post by BlackJackRobby on Jan 1, 2010 17:25:13 GMT -5
I second that Tony Iommi is Black Sabbath, he also has an awsome singles record with some great vocalists.
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Post by Munkie91087 on Jan 1, 2010 17:28:00 GMT -5
Definitely Steel Dragon. Bobby Beers was a great singer, but I felt like the band improved by leaps and bounds when Chris "Izzy" Cole joined the band.
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Post by Harmonica on Jan 1, 2010 17:48:35 GMT -5
Helloween and Gamma Ray did pretty well.
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Post by @TenaciousBe on Jan 1, 2010 18:56:34 GMT -5
Definitely Steel Dragon. Bobby Beers was a great singer, but I felt like the band improved by leaps and bounds when Chris "Izzy" Cole joined the band. Don't forget, they did it twice! When Izzy got burned out and went home, he handed it off to Thor, God of THUNDEEEERRRRRRRRR!!!!!
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