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This album from 1988 is a real ass-kicker: When it comes to Riot people are generally familiar with "Fire Down Under" but I think ThunderSteel easily kicks its ass.

I'm not a Slayer fan at all, but I like Seasons in the Abyss. So, my top 10 list: 1. Megadeth - Rust in Peace 2. Metallica - Ride the Lightning 3. Megadeth - Peace Sells but Who's Buying 4. Metallica - Master of Puppets 5. Metallica - And Justice for All 6. Anthrax - Among the Living 7...

Yep, the introduction of synths definitely disappointed a lot of metal fans in America. It was probably the time period when Metallica (and Megadeth and Slayer too) started to dominate over IM in terms of appeal and popularity to American metalheads.

SIT a bigger seller than Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind and Powerslave? Hardly possible.

Sabbath in America? Yes. In Europe? No way. Maiden is much more successful. Black Sabbath (Ozzy era) were never that big in Europe, unlike America. And I'm saying it as a Sabbath and Maiden fan from mainland Europe. And it's interesting that Ozzy solo was commercially more successful than Black...

Let's compare Iron Maiden, Metallica and Black Sabbath albums sales (three biggest metal bands): https://chartmasters.org/2021/11/iron-maiden-albums-and-songs-sales/ https://chartmasters.org/2019/02/metallica-albums-and-songs-sales/...

Yep, 7th Son was less successful compared to previous Maiden albums.

https://chartmasters.org/2021/11/iron-maiden-albums-and-songs-sales/ RIAA is not right. The Number of the Beast has sold over 2 million copies in the US. Piece of Mind too.

Maiden's style of heavy metal sounds quite different than Sabbath's. Early Black Sabbath music is mostly based on very heavy guitar riffs, while heavy riffs are not a very prominent feature of Maiden's general metal sound. So riff-wise Black Sabbath are significantly heavier than Maiden...

I'd say that they were also a bit influenced by Rush.

Wasn't Somewhere in Time less popular and successful than previous 3 Maiden albums (Beast, POM and Powerslave)? I always thought that those 3 albums are generally regarded as the bigger classics than SIT. I'd say the general reception to SIT in America was mixed when it came out (due to guitar...

Powerslave

How about Boston?

VH debut is so praised mainly due to inventive and groundbreaking guitar work. That album changed hard rock. Appetite wasn't innovative, it was just another hard rock album, but it rocked for sure.

Which metal tune do you prefer and why?

Unfortunately they didn't make it. But The Go-Go's did. WTF?

Maiden will definitely get in HOF this year.

What do you like better?

Peace Sells is another metal title track classic from the same year.