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Azas said:
Just listened to it. I really like it. It certainly would have fitted on Somewhere In Time. Or No Prayer. And I certainly like production style here. Guitar sound and rhythm section overall. How do you call it? Woody? Thick? Imagine No Prayer for the Dying, or The Final Frontier with this sort of production.
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The Lion is a great song. Quality hard rock. It could have fitted SIT (ofc) and NPFTD indeed, it's like Hooks In You but better. And it would have been a bit heavier for the latter album.

The production is very good, so 80's and clean, guitars and everything. I don't think it would have been fitting for NPFTD's approach though. Better? Yes, because of the rhythm guitar sound and drums. For NPFTD, something like Bruce's debut solo album production, methinks.
SAG production for TFF? Nope imo. I think TFF's production is ''underrated''. It's powerful (especially compared to other Reunion albums), louder mix and heavy in sound, which is needed for the album and for a song like El Dorado.
Azas said:
Kings of true metal have returned to Europe, Ostrava. Is it me, or their stage production is getting bigger?

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Their biggest production was for the previous tour, but this is their biggest and widest screen. And it looks cool, especially when the stage design is included too. Manowar are one of the bands that use the screens best/right.
 
A.S.A.P. - After The Storm

I rediscovered this gem of a song. So much quality and soul in the chorus, acoustic parts (haunting melody) and solos (Adrian's one with a SSOASS feel). The riff, the drumming and the female vocals are great.

 
I love this style of ZZ Top. Commercial for sure but it gets you going. Groovy baby! Judas Priest should have go full retard and make Turbo album even more Turbier, a la ZZ top. :cool:




On a side note. I am for sure missing some attitude in Maiden's music. Not No Prayer attitude but Running Free, Killers, Die With Your Boots On, Aces High, Two Minutes, Be Quick or Be Dead, etc. type attitude. It doesn't have to be just depression/serious face, mourning all the time. Gimme somme healthy metal (within Maiden framework)
 
Azas said:
Judas Priest should have go full retard and make Turbo album even more Turbier...
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Priest needed some ''metal'' in Turbo, it's normal.
Azas said:
On a side note. I am for sure missing some attitude in Maiden's music. Not No Prayer attitude but Running Free, Killers, Die With Your Boots On, Aces High, Two Minutes, Be Quick or Be Dead, etc. type attitude. It doesn't have to be just depression/serious face, mourning all the time. Gimme somme healthy metal (within Maiden framework)
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Early days songs overall vibe in Maiden or Priest? Can't see it now. Be Quick is unique. Aces and 2 Minutes? I guess Death Or Glory and Speed Of Light. You mean more like a lyrics approach? Well, Maiden are a more serious band now. So Boots-type of song... Montsegur?
We are getting the fun attitude from the melodies.
 
Kalata said:
Priest needed some ''metal'' in Turbo, it's normal.

Early days songs overall vibe in Maiden or Priest? Can't see it now. Be Quick is unique. Aces and 2 Minutes? I guess Death Or Glory and Speed Of Light. You mean more like a lyrics approach? Well, Maiden are a more serious band now. So Boots-type of song... Montsegur?
We are getting the fun attitude from the melodies.
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Two short kick ass rockers per album would be nice. In my book, Stratego and Days of Future Past do not fall in that category. Death or Glory was very good, imo. I agree that they are serious now. But cmmon, being serious all the time becomes so tiresome.
 
Azas said:
Two short kick ass rockers per album would be nice. In my book, Stratego and Days of Future Past do not fall in that category. Death or Glory was very good, imo. I agree that they are serious now. But cmmon, being serious all the time becomes so tiresome.
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More short rockers in general per album. Not just 2, like 3-4.
Isn't Stratego like Death Or Glory? Tempo-wise. Kick ass rockers (you mean like in tempo, right, because Stratego and even Days Of Future Past are pure gold imo) are like: Futureal, Alchemist, Speed Of Light, When The River Runs Deep (without the slow chorus), New Frontier, Rainmaker, Wicker Man, Mercenary. Something not that serious now are the lyrics of Time Machine, I guess.
 
Kalata said:
More short rockers in general per album. Not just 2, like 3-4.
Isn't Stratego like Death Or Glory? Tempo-wise. Kick ass rockers (you mean like in tempo, right, because Stratego and even Days Of Future Past are pure gold imo) are like: Futureal, Alchemist, Speed Of Light, When The River Runs Deep (without the slow chorus), New Frontier, Rainmaker, Wicker Man, Mercenary. Something not that serious now are the lyrics of Time Machine, I guess.
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Stratego is nice song but is more contemplative? Futureal, musically alone, is the last truly monstrous explosive Maiden's short rocker. Musically it is very high in the ranks. The Wicker Man is a short rocker - very good. New Frontier, Rainmaker, Wildest Dreams - short rockers without cojones, imo. Maybe nice songs but without that "oomph" feeling.
About Time Machine... I wrote after release of the album... I don't like what protagonist in the lyrics is doing. All he is doing, he is bragging that he has Time Machine and that he have lived a very colorful life. But he does not show us any wonders, not going into specifics and that sucks big time, imo.
 
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