@Derfel Cadarn Very cool! We have been playing shows for years and just writing with a plethora of musicians. We will be opening a studio here shortly not only for our own music but to produce/fill in for any bands as well. Super fun and rewarding to just write and play music all day! Would love to hear some of your work some time! Cheers!
@@megaduck7965 absolutely...... if I stopped listening to music made by people who are dicks, I would have to stop listening to most of my favorite bands :D:D so, I have no choice, but to separate the art from the artist.......
How about Deeds of Flesh - Of What's To Come ? All the critics, and Death Metal fans in general talking down the album . Testament - Souls of Black is widely considered an album of total filler , just recorded to fill a recording commitment . Deicide - Insinheratehymn ? It gets bad reviews. Digger was the best Heavy Metal album I ever heard.
I'm 36 and I have really been growing my music collection the past several years because I keep discovering more great stuff I missed out on. I will warn you, its addicting. Take care and have fun though.
@Redrum Err, so was I as I spent every cent on albums, guitars, amps and the like. In my 60's now and still play them all, both recordings and my own guitars..
Oh yes, especially Sony/Atlantic. They are the ones that forced Raven, Ted Nugent and Savatage into a commercial direction that was out of character for them. Everybody wanted their bands to sound like whatever was selling at the time. Quiet Riot - Metal Health was big in the early 80's so Atco Records pushed Blackfoot to sound more like Quiet Riot and we got the terrible Vertical Smiles album out of it. Haha!
DOKKEN was a great example of a band they should have left alone and not try to turn them into Poison or Warrant. They really could have thrived as a gritty hard rock band instead of being cast as the next Def Leppard.
@@masonb9788 I would say that Dokken was a slightly different case because what they had been doing would have probably shot them straight to the top had they been able to stay together for a few more years when the "Hair Band explosion" would've made them one of it's biggest stars. If you listen to Dokken and Lynch talk, you can tell that they know their business, between Don pointing out melodic hooks when he is showcasing new material and George coming up with awesome riffs and licks on the fly even today they could still release new material that would outclass anything written by their contemporaries at the same time. The fact of the matter is that they are two people who have figured out their art of popular songwriting, they just have trouble keeping themselves on the same track to work that magic.
Gordon Heaney you are absolutely correct. This is why I'm glad for the rise in social media and true metal's ride in the underground carrying them away from the mainstream. Yeah we got Bieber, but we got The Black Dahlia Murder and Anterior too!
People only seem to think the whole of the black album sounds like nothing else matters , the intro of wolf of man alone begs to differ . Wack wack wack that snare drum / guitar sound is as hard as a coffin nail . Well written songs doesn’t = selling out haha
Mega ducK No arguments from me. I like the black album. However I think the reason fans called it a sellout was because it was slower, had a more commercially acceptable production, etc. in other words, it wasn’t thrash.
Scott Waters for sure , if “your Metallica “ is Cliff Burton and fight fire with fire , battery and whiplash . Then I’m sure them putting out an album of massive rock/metal anthems must have been a complete wtf moment if you’re expecting the heaviest most crushing album after justice . I love Load as well , but again I can totally see the hair cut and sounding like Sabbath Skynrd and Alice in chains must have been and even bigger curve ball . All that said , I got into them in the early 2000s and started with justice puppets St anger and the black album . So I was just rabidly exploring their back catalogue .
cbond99 I think the bands sound overall was more simplified in the 80s compared to other their more complex 70s releases. Screaming for Vengeance is awesome. One of my all time favorite albums. Saying it’s “dumbed down” does not mean it’s bad. Songs like Heads Are Gonna Roll and Another Thing Coming are great songs but fall right in line with Breaking the Law and Living After Midnight.
@@nolifetilmetal1 Right. Another Thing Coming is sooo different that the rest of the songs on Screaming. It sounds almost like they felt obligated to write a anthem type song to fill out the album. The guitars leads the other songs had spread within them are absent.
@@nolifetilmetal1 true, because back in the 70's the approach to songwriting was much more complex in general...... it's because late 60's and 70's were a period of time when in rock music many bands had space to experiment and 70's were also the era of progressive rock, so even most metal/heavy rock bands were trying to implement some of that prog complexity into their style, Judas Priest including(especially on "Sad Wings" album)...... but still, albums like "Painkiller" or "Defenders" had amazing instrumental work and especially guitar solos....... when Travis Scott joined the band, Priest's drum work went 2 levels higher......
My favorite ozzy album is the ultimate sin and I know people that hate it but to me personally it's just fantastic JAKE E LEE is amazing on the album as well as bark at the moon scott would love have your opinion on this album
that is my fav ozz album period. jake e lee was at his primo best on it. love every song on it. my fav song on it is lightening strikes. owww!! then never, then never know why, then the rest. listen to the excellent guitar work in never, just fabulous.
@@thomassibley9475 I agree with you but zakks first album with OZZY is his best but nothing on ozzys catolouge can beat ultimate sin or bark at the moon
@@donmc621 That's a terrible argument that I hear being used far too often. First of all, comparing pop and metal artists is idiotic - they're two completely different genres with completely different fan bases and demographics. Secondly, lots of one hit wonder artists sell millions of copies of one or even two albums, but only truly great bands have highly successful 30 and 40+ year careers and continue to sell millions of albums decades later like Metallica and a handful of other legendary rock and metal bands have. Use your brain before making such moronic statements.
The Black Album is a great album. Thirty years later its a classic Metallica album for me. What bothers me are metal fans who just want a band to keep the same sound and release a samey sounding album every other year. “Don’t try and do anything different! That’s wrong! You sell outs!”
MetalJesusRocks A lot of it depends on when and where you were at the time. Know what I mean? I was a Priest fanatic in the early 80s with Stained Class being my introduction. Saw them twice on the Defenders tour. So Turbo was a let down for me. However I can see why anyone could enjoy it. It’s just not in my first 10 choices of Priest albums.
Turbo is as different as Sin After Sin was after Sad Wings of Destiny and as Point of Entry was after British Steel. Always wondered though how much they were paid to play those synth guitars.
Turbo is more like the typical '80s Scorpions album than Judas Priest, it's so different from anything else they were doing that decade. Take, say Point of Entry it's a complete masterpiece compared to Turbo when you have songs like Solar Angels, Heading Out To The Highway, Desert Plains and Turning Circles you've got a winner and killer album no matter what. There's really nothing of this strong caliber on Turbo, even Defenders Of The Faith didn't have a solid collection of classic gems like that.
@@reclaimerReclaimer reclaimerReclaimer I Love every track on Point of Entry and if you listen to British Steel many of its songs like The Rage and Metal Gods would fit in with those tracks flawlessly but to say Freewheel Burning, Jawbreaker, Rock Hard, Ride Free, The Sentinel. Love Bites, Eat Me Alive, Some Heads Are Gonna Roll, Night Comes Down right in a row are not gems compared to PoE let alone Turbo makes me question your sanity.😉
@@betornween Well, I agree about POE it's fantastic and strangely underrated, it's actually my fave Priest album from the '80s. British Steel to be honest, is not that much more heavy really POE is just a more cohesive record where BS is a bit more diverse. Overall though, apart from a few tracks Defenders disappointed me at the time, somewhat muddled sounding coming after the excellent Screaming For Vengeance.
I’m with you 1000% with Another Perfect Day! From day one I was on board with that album and still think it’s absolutely one of the best Motörhead albums of all time… From start to finish fantastic songwriting even though it was a departure from there then signature… Dancing on your grave all time classic
As strange as this may sound, I watch your videos because you have such a kind face, comforting voice, and an uplifting personality. You never fail to make me smile. 🥰💖💗
I totally agree with you on Another Perfect Day , so many great tracks like Dancing On Your Grave , One Track Mind & Another Perfect Day , the whole album is great ! Strength Of Steel , another great album , I’d honestly rank it pretty high if I was ranking the Anvil studio albums ! You showed more albums that I really like than don’t like lol . Great idea for a video 🤘 Take care Scott
No Mention of Megadeth RISK? I bought that album. put it on in the parking lot. Skipped from song to song without finding anything worth hearing. Removed from my cd player and gave it away about an hour later.
I finally listened to "Cold Lake" last year for the 1st time and didn't think it was bad at all. In fact it has a nice sound. Tom is pretty creative and even at his worst, he's still pushing the envelope somehow. I agree about the Motorhead record. The others...eh, could take 'em or leave 'em. I often like bands or albums that are not popular at all. That would be a big list to compile, but one off the top of my head is Mercury Fang's "Ignition" album. They were a Swedish hard rock band similar to Whitesnake, Deep Purple. I also think Griffin's 1st album "Flight of The Griffin" is one of the most brilliant metal records ever. It has a small fan base but it's pretty obscure. Same with Halloween's ""Don't Metal With Evil." I'll try to think of some more.
Personally I like some glam, or just hardrock as I prefer to call it. The problem with "Cold Lake" is that is has nothing to do with what they did before. And It is much better heavy metal/hardrock out there,
Hey dude, really nice video. I was thinking about an album which a lot of people got disappointed with and Swansong (1996) popped in my head. It's the only album which is very different from their discography.
Absolutely! So many hated APD bc it wasn't the classic lineup anymore, but it was/is an excellent album from start to finish. IMHO, I find Iron Fist to be a bit subpar,even though there's a handful of classics there,and felt the production was lacking as well. Still like it, but if rather hear APD.
I remember most reviews disliked APD quite a bit, I didn't warm to it immediately either it took a while because (at the time) the song structure seemed very different from their known sound. I loved the single Rock It right away, very catchy for a Motorhead tune and a minor radio hit even. I absolutely love Iron Fist, I listened to it nonstop whereas APD was like a whole new band and acquired taste, in many ways it was with new guitarist and different producer. I think some fans objected to the slickness of the sound, wheras IF was the complete opposite down and dirty maybe too dirty, even for Lemmy's liking.
Hey Scott!! Funnily enough "The Pack is Back" was the first Raven album I picked up. I'm not proud of that, lol! I had heard a handful of songs by the band, thought they were cool, and it just happened that the first album I came across in the wild was "The Pack", and as soon as I spun it I was like "What the???". But luckily I've gotten several of their better albums since then. Coincidentally, "Another Perfect Day" was also the first Motorhead album I picked up back in the day. That one however, I've always liked, just like you said. Great stuff Scott. I'm making up for lost time and catching up on videos I've missed, haha! Cheers brother! -Jex
Seriously? That's when so many of their fans gave up, including me. The image change was horrible too. To Mega Therion was when they were at their best IMO.
Great video Scott . I felt the same about the black album , from the day it came out up until just a couple years ago . There's some great stuff on that album I just think I was liking other music more when it was initially released . I also feel the same about Saint Anger , I just can't do it , maybe some day , but I don't think so . Take care and enjoy the summer .
No, St. Anger is a crap album. Had any band released that as their demo they would have been laughed at by any record label, no less sell millions of copies of it. Throw the Metallica name on it and suddenly it's gold? Nope, it's still crap! Metallica could release and album of fart noises and fans would defend it to the death. (Oh wait, they sort of did...Lulu!)
Venom "Possessed" is an album that gets no love and I absolutely love it! Another Perfect Day is my favorite Motorhead album too, so maybe I am the idiot.
You're not...I loved Possessed. Harmony Dies, and Mystique are a couple of my favorite Venom Songs. The production just is muddy. And Another Perfect Day fits into classic Motorhead era fine. I'd have to say the biggest piece of shit Venom album was Calm Before the Storm...I fucking hated that album.
@@nolifetilmetal1 I think part of the hatred for Possessed is that when Venom released that album, they proved that they were no longer Innovators in the genre. Where once they were the top dogs in heaviness, and offensive lyrics, they had really fallen behind bands like Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, and a slew of other bands coming up, who were doing it heavier, faster, and more over the top. I think if Possessed was Venom's first album in 1980 in would have been considered ground breaking, but by 1985 it was just a good album in a sea of bands that were doing it better by then.
Another Perfect Day.. damn i fuckin love this album.. the guitar solos with some melody made this album stand out from other Motorhead releases! i like Possessed too, it's different, my second best after Black Metal.
Great idea for a video, I really enjoyed it. I didn’t mind Cold Lake either but it was a complete surprise when I picked it up back in the day. I love In Search of Sanity, Steve did a killer job singing on this album. Very true that the post Black albums ultimately made the Black album better. Helloween’s Pink Bubbles (and maybe Chameleon) could be on the list as well.
Cold Lake fan here. I think that album is fascinating, I always liked it despite being not a CF specialist and/or super collector or super fan, great band of course but not one of those I grew up with or listened a lot to. I always got some sort of weird Megadeth-meets-Discharge vibe through the album. And most of all, absolutely nothing to do with the "hair metal" thing at all! Enjoyed the video, thank you.
Your Morta Skuld shirt is a huge holy shit for me. I'm from WI still live here. Why I don't know. So I digress...I remember seeing their flyers in like '93ish. They were a local bad with a "Record Deal" Legends at the time! Once a legend always a legend!
Another big problem for Cold Lake was simply that it followed a masterpiece like "Into the Pandemonium". Every part of that album was a nocturnal dream, from Reed's unmistakable drumming(The beat from "Babylon Fell" is STILL stuck in my head), Ain's ominous bass(Seriously, that line right before the chorus on "Mesmerized"), and Tom's awesome sludgy guitar along with his indescribable acoustic passages (the end of "Sorrows of the Moon", anyone?)
@@nolifetilmetal1 Those three did something special on ItP and I consider it a truly complete interpretation of the nocturnal atmosphere it described. I wish they had managed to give us one more release with that atmosphere. Reed St. Mark is one of the most unique drummers I have ever heard, coupled with Ain, they were something else entirely, along with the melodies Tom came up with,. A truly one of a kind trio.
@@2112res The first Priest album with a really heavy guitar tone was Unleashed In The East. The versions of all those songs on that album destroy the studio versions.
That it did. Old school fans were dying for new stuff, and kids that were too young for AJFA had grown up enough to start getting into harder rock, and saw Enter Sandman video a billion times on MTV
@@Sue_V accurate summation. It bummed me out. But, In hindsight of all that was to come, it wasnt horrible. They stood for something, going against the system, at least I was young and stupid enough to think that. When in interviews they say " after Justice, there wasnt anything left to do with heavy duty thrash, ya know?". No. I dont. You can still keep making awesome metal albums in succession nothing wrong with that. Mainstream radio rock? See ya.
@@saltpeter7429 I agree totally. There's still some good songs on The Black Album, but for the most part it was kind of a disappointment. Turned out it was the last one I bought too, other than the Garage Days that came out around 2000
Hmmm... Interesting subject. I feel similarly about Satyricon's 2000s albums, Rebel Extravaganza, Volcano, The Age of Nero, and those releases. Many people back then criticised them intensely, but I like those albums. I like their fist three as well, but their third-wave sound defined them completely and that side of black metal. During that time, some people were not impressed with Fate of Norns by Amon Amarth, but I find that album solid. And, this one might be obvious, but Venom's albums are great, yet everyone only listens to the first three. I get it, I love Black Metal very much, it's a classic that many of us grew up on, but Storm the Gates is amazing! Great video as always! Take care. 🤘🤘🤘
I thought Possessed by Venom was quite good as well. Raven suffers from the same problem. People only listen to the first three albums. I'm not a big fan of Amon Amarth so I can't speak to them and I am only vaguely familiar with Satyricon.
Possessed, Prime Evil, From The Very Depths and especially Resurrection are brilliant albums. Cast In Stone has its moments of greatness as does Calm Before The Storm. Metal Black could have used more songs like the title track, which is just ripping and menacing piece of black metal. Satyricon's Volcano and The Age Of Nero are great albums and Volcano's Possessed is a total killer!
Killer vid Scott! Couldn't believe no one hated the one and only... "The Black Album"... It was different at the time and now every band was influenced from this band and this album... Your right... They didn't repeat themselves on every albums... People don't like change... Thanks brother! 🎶🤘🎵🎼👊🙂❤
I include myself in the "don't like change" category. Sometimes it takes me some time to enjoy an album in which a band changes their sound. Sometimes I never do like it, other times I love it. It's all a matter of taste.
Same here... When Testament and Deliverance changed their sound in '91- '92... Was a shock and I thought these bands we're not gonna change and stay heavy forever.... Thanks Scott! 🤘❤👊🎼
Great show! I have a natural affinity for albums that go against the usual flow... I was told to avoid Power Windows and Grace Under Pressure by Rush and they're my favourites by them!!
Great video, man! I have always loved "Turbo", and have never really understand, why so many people dislike that album. The same thing with that Anvil album. 'Concrete Jungle' is one of their best songs ever. In my book anyway. Have never checked out that Raven album, but I am a bit curious now. So I'll give it a listen tomorrow.
Pretty spot on, totally agree with you on a lot of these. IMO, any true metalhead should have diverse taste, whether it its glam or less heavy all the way to the brutal screamy grunty stuff. Its ALL good. Going to check out your other videos as well. cheers
Personally I loved Onslaught's "In Search of Sanity". Yeah, the "Let There Be Rock" cover wasn't brilliant and is probably the weakest track on the album, but come on, tracks like "Blood Upon The Ice" and the title track are absolute beasts! I actually preferred it to the first two albums if I'm being honest, which were ok, but there were much better bands doing the whole growly darker stuff in those days, so getting in a vocalist as good as Grimmett was a great move for me, yes it was different, but it was great! As was Celtic Frost's "Into The Pandemonium" following on from the Hellhammer stuff as well as "Morbid Tales" and "To Mega Therion". Sometimes it's important to try and do something different from previous albums if you want your sound to progress. However "Cold Lake" was a bad move. As you say it has a few reasonable tracks on it, but it's just not Celtic Frost at all. I'd agree that if it being released as a glam rock album, then it's better than most glam albums from that period. I'm just not a huge fan of the glam side of metal personally. Metallica's Black album is a great record with some solid songs on it. Is it as good as the first four? Of course not. But as you say, it's way better than most of the Metallica albums that have followed it.
I actually like the cover of Let There Be Rock. Of course it's hard to beat a classic AC/DC song like that, but it's not a bad cover nonetheless. I'd say Cold Lake was a bad move as well, though I don't think it's a bad album. If Cherry Orchards had been on the previous album I think people would have praised it. It's not really all that different from I Won't Dance or their cover of Mexican Radio IMO. Yes, I like Metallica's black album. It's far from my favorite, but it's about 1000x better than St. Anger or...cough, cough, Lulu.
I've always thought Cold Lake was solid as hell. I never cared what a band looked like. Another Perfect Day is awesome; Dancing On Your Grave blew me away back in the 80s. Sometimes the experimental or off-model album is among a band / artist's best: Alice Cooper's Flush The Fashion, Discharge's Grave New World, Manson's Mechanical Animals.
How 'bout Bad Religion's "Into the Unknown" (1983)? BR , for their second LP, put aside their hardcore punk sound in favor of "heavy New Wave Arena Rock"... and EVERYONE hated it! Except as part of a 15 LP box set it NEVER got an official reissue (even on CD) and BR are STILL apologising for it. However... it is a GREAT KICKASS ALBUM! Since it has been posted on RU-vid more-than-once (either as a whole or individual tracks) call it up & make your own decision...
The Blaze albums were both dog shit. When I hear them, I just can't imagine why they hired that guy. Terrible....and they should have booted Gers along with him.
@@twikirobot6897 He's definitely not a terrible singer, he's just different. He's not unlike John Bush of Armored Saint with that low, raspy delivery. It's very metal IMO! But he isn't Bruce and I think that's the point. However, even if Bruce had sang on X-Factor, the music is very different.
I loved Another Perfect Day so much I had to kind of break up with it. Every album I owned had to compare to it. The funny thing is that I am not the biggest Motorhead fan. The thing about Turbo is that people would actually buy records back then, in record stores, and not all girls would immediately leave the room when you played it. It was a new experience for me and my gang back then. Good Times.
Onslaught's In Search Of Sanity is the first album I ever listened to by them. I saw their video of the AC/DC song Let There Be Rock on MTV'S Headbanger's Ball back in the day and I loved it. I got the deluxe edition of In Search Of Sanity a few years ago and it sounds better than ever. It is remastered and the second CD is live show and it sounds phenomenal also. My favorite song has always been Welcome To Dying even though it is a rip-off of Metallica's Sanatarium Welcome Home song.
John Katsoudas And that is the purpose for many cover songs. They pull you in and hopefully get you to listen to the rest of the album. When my band use to play clubs we would always play originals but we would throw in a cover just because we knew it would draw in the crowd who may not know our originals.
I do find it strange that Tom G doesn't like Cold Lake yet he wrote that album and went along with all the videos, band pics ect... Wonder what he would say if people said they love it haha. I agree with the Anvil album, it sounds no different to the others and 'Mad Dog' is one of their best tracks. JP 'Turbo'... yeah don't get it, sounds nothing like anything else in their discography and thankfully it's mostly forgotten about when they play live. Awesome video dude 🤘🤘
The big problem with it is they were trying too hard to have it like a garage sound. Which is hard to to do on purpose and is better when it is real and natural. Like when your band is first starting in a garage. Not in the middle of your career. lol Besides the lack of guitar solos and Lars sounding like he is banging on trash cans. lol
St. Anger is one of the best out of the norm albums ever by a band as big as Metallica. Better than that symphony album and that Lou Reed album. I look at it as a punk covers album of Metallica songs.
The Tony Martin era is very underated. I love The Eternal Idol,TYR, and especially The Headless Cross. The Headless Cross is a MASTERPIECE!!!! Every song on it is amazing. One of my all time favorite Black Sabbath songs is When Death Calls.
Hey Scott, Can’t really weigh in on this video since I don’t have any of the albums you showed (not even Turbo by Priest and I love Priest ) but I trust your metal expertise, an informative video as always regardless! Great seeing you brother and enjoy your weekend! Take care ~ Jeff
Scott Waters I do want to get Turbo 30 and then I think that I would only need 3 more to finish up the studio collection ...soon buddy! I still need to send you some 8-track photos of boxes when I get a chance, sorry for the holdup, haven’t dug them out yet.
@@nolifetilmetal1 Ironically Celtic Frost were were about experimenting and taken as part of their whole career Cold Lake kind of fits that broader description.
Three out of my top five Black Sabbath albums are Headless Cross, Tyr and Seventh Star, none of which are that well received generally among Sabbath fans (or Ozzy fans at least). I also love Maiden's The X Factor, I find it way better overall than the rest of their 90s catalog. Also, love Another Perfect Day! I actually own a few albums in this countdown, and I think I mostly agree with you on them all, except I still don't like the Black Album. It has nothing to do with lack of thrash or anything like that, I just don't connect with most of the songs somehow.
There's a decent and respectable underground fanbase of post-Ozzy Black Sabbath fans. Me included. It just makes Tony Iommi greater. A mainstream metal legend and an underground metal reference at the same time.
I was disappointed with the black album the second I had seen the video for enter sandman on mtv. I still bought it in hopes that there would be some heavy thrash songs on it but in the end there were none. I still don't care for it. I also had turbo lover and I don't really remember much from that album except for the title track which I do like as well as the video for it. I lost the tape years ago but I would buy the cd just for the title track "turbo lover".
Great video Scott. Some of these albums I'm not familiar with but I thought it was interesting when you held up the Anvil one followed by the Accept one. These two albums.... I'm having trouble getting into..... I'm late to the party on both of these bands, i got the debut from Anvil which i really enjoyed and then this Strength Of Steel was the next one I got and while I was listening to it I was thinking, I really don't like this record.... why is that? I'll give it another couple of spins, but I might pass this one on. And I grabbed Eat the Heat on cassette really cheap, but I just didn't dig the songs... it is very different from the other Accept ones, obviously the change of singer had a lot to do with it, but to me it's like Accepts version of Turbo..... and yet, moving on to Turbo..... I really like that album.... particularly the opening track Turbo Lover..... I think because for me it's just got a great 80's vibe to it. It embodies the mid-eighties commercial style sound and is a catchy tune.... I understand where you are coming from regarding the production and sounds. But I don't hate Turbo in the way many other people do. 👍👍😎🎸🤘
Holy cow this video got a lot of response. Sorry it took so long to reply. With Anvil, you have to get Forged in Fire and Metal on Metal. Albums don't get more classic than those two. You are correct about Accept too. Eat the Heat was their Turbo. However, I still think X-T-C is a great song from that albm. I don't have Turbo, it's just not the first album I go to when I want to hear some Priest.
I am still surprised at the HATRED Motorhead's '83 LP generates! It DOES have some of their best moments: "dancing on your grave", "one track mind", "I got mine" and the Ramones-esque "back on the funnyfarm"...!
Tom Warrior wrote about this in his book "Are You Morbid?". He was pretty broken after Into The Pandemonium, tired of fighting his label and bandmates he basically broke up the band. He was pretty much done, but a guy by the name of Oliver Amberg convinced him to restart Frost with a new lineup. Having been so beat up, he let Oliver pretty much run a lot of the show, write music and kind of lead a bit. Tom for his part admits he just wanted to have fun playing music again so he conceded a lot of control to Oliver in both the band writing and presentation. They got talented guys in to play {Stephen Priestly who played with Tom in Hellhammer and early Frost) And Kurt Bryant who stayed with the band for the next album. I mean, at the time Tom didn't hate it, In fact the only official video release from Frost was the video of that tour. However in time, Tom got out of his funk, clashed with Oliver and learned that the songs Oliver "wrote" were actually riffs stolen from other bands. From that point on, Tom has soured on the album and because of this has stated he considers the album unfit for remastering.
Scott Waters congrats for the great video! Metal fans can be extremely resistant to change and then complain when bands don't change and evolve. Obviously I don't expect AC/DC to do an electronic album, but when Paradise Lost put out Host most fans despised it but I think It is a cool album, not remotely their best, but still a well constructed record.
I think growing up discovering KISS at 8 shortly before they released Dynasty was a cosmic gift. Being that young and so into KISS allowed me to accept that they tried something new with Dynasty, Unmasked and finally the Elder before going back to the harder sound of Creatures and I never had the thought that "this sucks" because I Was Made For Loving You wasn't another Deuce. It was KISS. Years later I took my favorite bands trying something different in stride and while I had friends who would drop bands over albums they didn't like because it wasn't the same as the albums they had released before. I'd have gotten bored if each band only released the same shit over and over again.
I was 14 when that turd came out. I was a major Kiss fan since I was 11. Love Gun was already pushing it. I loved the ferocity of Alive, and liked the "live" parts of Alive 2. The studio tracks blew. The solos were a joke. I finally saw them on the dynasty tour. Judas Priest opened. Holy shit!
Does Turbo actually get hate though? Everytime I've seen Priest live, they play a track from Turbo and the crowd goes louder than anything else on the set list.
Here a few that i know will get shit and some agreement, depends on your age really. Carcass- Heartwork. Some love it, for me and my friends was such a huge drop from necroticism. Sepultura- Chaos ad, same thing. And maybe the biggest one to cause controversy, Death- Human, i personally didnt care for the technical change going on and love the " simpler" Death
Heres a couple id forgot- testament- souls of black,, eww, garage album, maybe if it wasnt testament and some others bands debut but the standard they set made this one especially painful, kreator- whatever was the title of release after extreme aggression, caca imo. Napalm death- utopia banished. Maybe i should just title.my list as most disappointing follow up albums huh?
@@troycleek3985 yeah... but just if YOU think something is shit, doesnt mean it realy is... but yes, its at least a boring one. Still high above load... a d reload
@@jensbaumann6945 Your right I'm sure some people liked it. Like Motley Crue fans and Poison fans. As far as load and the rest of that garbage your preaching to the choir. The first 3 Metallica albums are great after that. Shit!!! EXODUS Attack!!! LOL
Cold Lake doesn't sound like anything other than Celtic Frost. They were always doing weird stuff, and Cold Lake fits right in. If you think it sounds like Glam, show it to your girlfriend, and see how she reacts. Also, Eat the Heat, Canterbury, In Search of Sanity, Turbo, and Another Perfect Day are all amazing records.
I actually like it a lot as well, apart from the naff sounding drum machine. That track "Crosstitution" is a total rager in my book. I disliked "Octagon" a lot more actually.
I was sooo happy to land a copy of anything Celtic Frost. I bought it, took it home and played it. I was like...umm...what happened to the sound from Mega Therion? I'm keeping it, it's great 80s hard rock/metal. Great theme. Later Scott! ~Corey
I need to take a day and watch all your videos especially if there's anything on your band my dear I'm just an old Native that loves rhythmic music especially in the Christ centered thrash genre
Onslaught's In Search of Sanity is their best album, as far as I'm concerned. Purists annoy me. Blood Upon The Ice, Shellshock, & Lightning War are as good as any track on Metallica's Puppets. Yes, I take it that far. The album is as good as Annihilator's Alice in Hell. The thing is terrific, and people shouldn't give it shit. Just pass on it, if Steve Grimmet's vocals are so upsetting. The guitars are aces.
A list of albums that get flack but most of which I think are great. Image definitely went against Accept and Celtic Frost but sound wise they’re still well within the heavy metal bracket. Priest on the other hand not so much but I still love Turbo! 🤘.
In search of sanity is still my favourite album from Onslaught alot of these bands had to make a change to keep up with times alot of new genres, and pretty much most of the bands were being viewed on video, obviously a new way to be viewed by the fans and I bet the record companies in the day had control of what the bands had to do probably with the promise of more money. So many things and reasons for alot of these changes fans don't think of.
I really enjoy that Onslaught album. I think they got better musically and obviously the vocals too. I don't mind Turbo. Yes its far from their best, but it's a fun listen. Another Perfect day is great! I think fans have warmed it to it more over time. And I would of liked to see what they would of done with Robo for another album or two. Surprised you didn't have RISK on your list haha!
Holds up the Black album? Should have definitely started with St. Anger, which is the only one I don't own. Then go on to Load and Reload. Those albums got some serious hate when they came out. Granted, the Black album wasn't that liked by some of the hardcore thrash fans, but it was well loved by many of the fans.
And the core fanbase of Metallica is who I was speaking of and the reason I chose the black album. Metal fans hated it when it came out. I like the black album. Nearly everyone dislike St. Anger save for Metallica diehards who would like an album of fart noises if it had the Metallica names slapped on the cover. There is not defending that album IMO.
My theory has always been people just hate a band not being "underground" anymore so they all of a sudden "sold out" i personally like every album ya showed. However I Specially love Cold Lake, In search of sanity & Eat the heat are great albums imo. The Raven was a lil weak but I liked it. I called Digger... Dig Leppard lol kinda what it reminded of. I like the Black.album just haaaate Enter Sandman.
When Another Perfect Day was released, I read a review praising it, saying it was a return to form after Iron Fist. Iron Fist was my introduction to Motörhead so I'll always love that album, and to me, Another Perfect Day was great from the beginning because it meant I was gonna hear more Motörhead on the radio as records were just too expensive for a kid like me.
I got Turbo in high school. I liked it back then but it is far from the Priest I know and love. Glad they decided to go back to their metal roots on their later albums.
Much of it is what you grew up with. If you grew up with Hell Bent For Leather and Stained Class then Turbo may not be your thing. Doesn't mean it's bad necessarily. Its all a matter of taste. For me, Turbo wasn't the Priest I knew and loved. It was too bubblegum at the time. However, I certainly can understand and appreciate how people who grew up with that album would love it.
oh man!! cold lake!!!! i ordered it....waited six weeks for it to arrive from overseas...paid through my ass for it and was never more disappointed in an album.....i kept it for about a year and tried to gt into it but eventually frisbeed it from the top of our block of flats....
I loved that accept record from the minute I got it. If it was released under a different name it would have been huge. Not many bands can pull off the new lead singer with much success
Nice! A quick question: How does the Onslaught vinyl sound compared to the cd ? I mean this is a long album and long albums mostly does not sound good on vinyl. And thank you ! On the last video you showed the canadian band Freeways. Checked the band on Spotify and man, their 2 releases make me so happy. No chance to get the vinyl in europe so I had to order it directly in canada. I am officially a financier of the canadian postal service now haha. Shipping rate my ass. Hope they don't destroy the package.
Onslaught sounds fine on vinyl. I don't think the quality of the vinyl goes down on longer albums, but the volume definitely does. Glad you dig the Freeways. I was pleasantly surprised myself. The vocals remind me of Haunt but the music is definitely inspired by the likes of UFO and Thin Lizzy.
