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New album is out tomorrow. I really like 3/4 of the singles released so far (less keen on Seeking Vengeance).

I agree on the remaining top three. For me the order goes: 1 - Painkiller 2 - Screaming for Vengeance 3 - Defenders of the Faith

Is it too on the nose to say I hate Radiohead, but don't mind Creep?

There is at least one song in every single one of these matchups that I'd choose over Ghost of Perdition.

A little late in replying to this but I do feel obligated to point out the irony in you taking this stance in this particular matchup given that: a) I have not once dismissed a band because it's "not metal"; b) I voted against my own nomination here in favour of the classic band. :p

I'll be honest; I just don't understand the love for this album. It's probably an age / style thing but whilst the album is enjoyable enough it really doesn't click with me. Take Victim of Changes, for example - it's widely touted to be one of the best songs Judas Priest ever wrote but for me...

Of course! The Spirit Carries On is my favourite DT song (and it's not particularly close) but Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the greatest songs of all time (regardless of genre) and I'm not crazy enough to vote against it. :p

Congratulations; you've made me vote against myself.

I definitely had to increase my cadence at one point - though for me it was bringing it up from something that was very low (in the 150s) to somewhere in the 160s. I was trying to hit 180 cadence because that's what the internet had told me to do; in reality I trained a bit using 180bpm music...

I will not stand for any slander of Angel or Lochness. Fine songs, very fine songs indeed.

A more general running query: what music do we all listen to? I tend to do mostly older rock / metal and am going through the process of making a longer playlist for eventual longer races.

Armed and Dangerous, but I don't have strong feelings about it either way. No One Like You is a classic, one of Scorpions' best and my favourite song in the entire round. Engel is fine but I like Alice Cooper a lot and I especially like Welcome To My Nightmare. Black Dog, but neither of these...

I'd argue The Wicker Man probably qualifies here.

Honestly, Iron Maiden themselves are a good parallel - The Trooper is their most popular song in general based on Spotify data, yet it doesn't make the vast majority of Top 10s on this forum.

Based on what? I don't know what metric this statement is based upon - and even then, you've moved the goalposts by talking about the albums they come from rather than the songs themselves.

I did say it was a spicy take! I just don't care for the early Priest sound. The only 70s album of theirs I didn't put in my personal bottom 6 (along with the Ripper albums) was Stained Class.

No arguments there; I just think it is sufficiently popular that it would be surprising for it to lose to something that's not an obvious frontrunner for the competition or one of the specific artists (Priest, Dio) that this forum leans towards.

All personal feelings about both songs aside, Through The Fire and Flames is one of the best known metal songs full stop. For example, on Spotify, it's sitting at over 244 million streams, which is higher than: - Every Black Sabbath song except Paranoid, Iron Man, and War Pigs - Every Maiden...

I think the only one I have multiple copies of is Powerslave, and that's because the first copy I bought was the remaster that moved the intro to Powerslave to the end of Back in the Village.

An update to this: I went to a taster session this week. I had a good time so I've signed up fully and will be returning. It helped that the signup cost was noticeably less than I previously thought. :p