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If I can say one positive about it - I was expecting the chorus to be “Live to Rock… Rock to Live!” and thankfully it wasn’t. Saxon has some OK songs about rocking, but I personally don’t enjoy Live to Rock.

Very interesting you prefer the Heavy Metal Thunder versions to the originals. It makes sense though as you had heard those versions first. Those are good re-recordings. Glad you liked Lionheart so much. It’s still underrated to this day. Also Strong Arm of the Law was my favorite when I first...

Inspired very much so by @The Dissident getting into Saxon in the band's 46th year of operation, I decided to go back to some albums I disregarded when first going through Saxon's discography. Turns out I picked a good album to start with! Into the Labyrinth (2009) I hadn't listened to this...

Very nice breakdown of Painkiller @Kalata . Painkiller is an album I take for granted, it really is a masterpiece with no real skippable songs. I don’t really like Metal Meltdown but the rest I’ve gone through phases where I thought “this is the greatest thing Priest has ever done!”. I have a...

Lionheart I view as an EXCELLENT traditional heavy metal meets EU styled power metal album. It even has Jörg Michael on drums! I don’t listen to a ton of Saxon anymore, but my favorite album from them now has got to be Innocence is No Excuse. For that album they really perfected their more...

Thanks, I will consider that. My friend and his partner both accepted my apology, but I still feel bad. I’ll think of something to offer them. For context I’ve known this friend for a very long time, about 15 years. As with all relationships we’ve got into little arguments in the past but we’ve...

Had one too many to drink Saturday night. In a belligerent state I insulted my best friend's partner. When the "Hangxiety" set in Sunday morning I profusely apologized to my best friend and his partner. Even now 2 days removed I still feel awful, well quite honestly I feel like the biggest...

I enjoyed reading the Motorhead discussion (I understand I need an umlaut, you'll have to forgive me in the name of time, Lem). To really sit there and listen to Motorhead's early work is very interesting. In September of 1975 was when a good bit of the intended debut album On Parole was...

I’m simply one of a couple resident Motörhead fans, but there is a LOT to this band outside of that song. That album in particular is my favorite album of all time, but Killed By Death is simply fantastic. Great song composition, a little unorthodox for Motörhead, it’s the first song they...

Child in Time is a behemoth proto-metal track, but I'm slightly leaning Perfect Strangers. That keyboard riff in the middle! Perfect Strangers is a strange (in a good way) album. It's like Deep Purple already knew they were an older metal act by the mid 80's and just kinda reinforced that they...

I understand different tastes and everything like that, but the constant dogging on Mark The Shark Shelton’s voice irks me. They’re not bad, I in fact find them great. I just don’t like seeing one of the greatest underground legends in heavy metal being dragged for anything. I’m connected to a...

I need to listen to every song in these matchups still, but big ups to all my Battle Cry truthers out there

My heavy metal brain is still so captivated by Ride the Lightning. That song AND album. I just don’t know how they did it, there’s these albums that come along every so often that you hear and think to yourself “everyone in the world is chasing this sound” and that’s what I think every time I...

I quite like Turbo. I listen to a lot of glam and I’ve always heard Tubro less as a glam album and more so Priest trying to channel a commercial 80’s metal sound. Mosh hit it right on the head by highlighting some of the great atmospheric parts of the album - that intro to Out in the Cold rules!

Yeah that is crazy. It’s widely hailed as Bathory’s best song.

“It’s only just begun” is one of the greatest moments in heavy metal and also probably one of Bathory’s best moments. One Rode to Asa Bay just missed my list, but a couple of years ago I wore out Hammerheart, awesome stuff even though I now prefer the first two Bathory albums to everything else...

Nice write-ups Diesel, I expect nothing less from the Listmaster himself. These are my favorite artists: Motörhead Iron Maiden Judas Priest Razor Municipal Waste Lixx (Utah) Slayer Metallica Megadeth Mercyful Fate KISS Rage (Germany) Pentagram (United States) Overkill Misfits Ramones W.A.S.P...

Very high praise. I think this is the highest I've ever seen anyone on this album.

Yes, it’s crazy to me that almost 50 years into their career they had one of their most iconic live moments in 2015 - that being Halls of Valhalla live on Battle Cry. When I first heard that I was utterly blown away.

Battle Cry has long been my favorite Priest song, and it’s CRIMINAL it’s never been played live. It’s a modern heavy metal classic. I personally like the drum sound quite a lot. This album when played in full is a little boring however. Probably would’ve worked better by taking the strongest...