|
Register | Blogging | Today's Posts | Search |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
03-16-2009, 12:47 PM | #951 (permalink) | |
Unrepentant Ass-Mod
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 3,921
|
Quote:
I will have to check this out.
__________________
first.am |
|
03-17-2009, 10:16 AM | #952 (permalink) | |
Ba and Be.
Join Date: May 2007
Location: This Is England
Posts: 17,331
|
Quote:
__________________
“A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”
|
|
03-18-2009, 03:47 AM | #955 (permalink) |
daddy don't
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: the Wastes
Posts: 2,577
|
New Wave of British Heavy Metal groups Blitzkrieg and Witchfinder General, and their respective debut albums. These guys all had their own anthems (a song with the band name as the title) which I think is coool. Cheerios go very nicely with heavy metal. Milk optional but recommended. However mine are multi-grain (what do you think we are, peasants?) and don't have eyes The production on the Blitzkrieg album was a bit of a cock-up, there's loads of reverb but it's still standard stuff that solicits the reaction depicted above ^^ Nobody would remember Blitzkrieg if it wasn't for the Metallica cover of 'Blitzkrieg', and the singer is a dead ringer for early James Hetfield Last edited by Molecules; 03-18-2009 at 03:53 AM. |
03-18-2009, 03:57 AM | #956 (permalink) |
Unrepentant Ass-Mod
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 3,921
|
NWOBHM has dated badly. Witchfinder General, UFO, Angel Witch, Diamond Head were all great during their time but today sound inescapably still in the eighties. The thrash which coincided and bands like Sabbath that preceded NWOBHM are still relevant but those of the era have slipped in time, caught permanently behind thrash metal's wake.
__________________
first.am |
03-18-2009, 04:08 AM | #957 (permalink) |
daddy don't
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: the Wastes
Posts: 2,577
|
ech, i dunno Witchfinder General seem a bit more Sabbath that the power-pop stylings of most NWOBHM, and I was listening to mentalist progressive 80's thrash way before I succumbed to this stuff erm... last week. I see what you mean though, I'm still not partial to some of the more overly-theatrical yelped-vocal stylings of certain bands, but it's all quite light-hearted fun really
All brought on by the NWOBHM compilation that jackhammer has, which I imagine is pretty damned definitive in a scene that probably didn't yield many classic albums. I dare you to listen to that and not derive any enjoyment from it Also the more I listen to this Blitzkrieg album the less I like it, in the sense that bar a few bangers it really is a missed opportunity |
03-18-2009, 04:30 AM | #958 (permalink) | |
Unrepentant Ass-Mod
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 3,921
|
Quote:
__________________
first.am |
|
03-18-2009, 04:39 AM | #959 (permalink) | |
daddy don't
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: the Wastes
Posts: 2,577
|
Quote:
The variety is good though and there are plenty of ludicrous band names (my favourite is a track by Tygers of Pan Tang ) - also you can really hear the hangover of prog rock influence in some tracks, alot of these guys started in prog. Oh and there is a Maiden track (I've never been a fan either) but it's pre-Dickinson. |
|
03-18-2009, 06:36 AM | #960 (permalink) |
Melancholia Eternally
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: England
Posts: 5,018
|
Alot of NWOBHM metal bands have dated quite badly. Its a fairly hit and miss genre for me, some of it still sounds relevant to me and some of it I just can't get into at all. Witchfinder's debut though is one of my favourites and I think it still sounds very relevant. I can hear a lot of Witchfinder and a few other Sabbath-esque bands in some of the more traditional doom from the present day.
|
|