Recent content by Diesel 11

I love the Blaze era a lot, but I gotta go with Martin-era Sabbath. Headless Cross and Tyr are incredible albums and Cross Purposes is a strong third record (I don’t count Forbidden, it doesn’t exist). Here’s the thing: Blaze era Maiden is great and I would say better than Di’Anno era Maiden...

Currently watching the Braves destroy the Yankees and it really feels like the whole shitty season has led up to this one awesome moment.

It's middle of the road rock music. It's fine. That's about it.

Yeah it really makes you appreciate how much better Steve is as a writer.

Throwing Converge an extra vote because it's 1,000x more important to music history than The World Needs a Hero.

My hot take is that “Aerials” is SOAD’s take on a Tool song.

I know the pieces fit, man. You just gotta pry open your third eye and spiral out. Keep going. Cut away, snip away, and sever your insecure delusions. Once you reach the bottom of the undertow you’ll be sober enough to escape the prison song of your intolerance. And don’t forget your pen.

You Just Don’t get It, LC. This complexity, Mathematical musicking Reaching out to thee — You can’t see.

With proper breath support you can do it. You’re also given enough pauses to take another breath. Bruce should’ve just done a couple more takes. With “Lightning”, that punctuation is punishing. To properly hit each word the way Blaze does you literally can’t take a breath, ever.

Lightning is the better song but the MoM chorus is easier to sing.

So? “White Whales” is the best song since “Sign of the Cross”.

What’s that, black metal Iron Maiden?

Glad you liked it! Iced Earth definitely fits into a thrash-hybrid category but those riffs are some of the tightest ones in the genre. Life has gotten in the way of me participating in the game but hopefully I’ll have a chance to check out a round eventually.

That Bruce Dickinson guy was alright. Wonder what he’s been doing since The Alchemy Marriage or whatever that was called.

Mission from ‘Arry over Age of ‘Icko by a clear country mile