I'll admit that I had the same experience with Seventh Son as Sniper did where it took time, so maybe time will prove me wrong. I'm also aware that the band is in a different headspace and bands evolve over time. You can't expect a band to rehash the same formula every album even if we wanted them to. I digress, but I certainly love talking about metal!
I think DOD and AMOLAD are great albums! To piggyback on what others have said on here, yes, they are different than the old stuff, but they're good examples of the band maturing and evolving and capturing a more large and epic sound. Honestly, I think those two albums are better than some of their older stuff, like No Prayer for the Dying for example.
I really dug Death Magnetic, I thought it was not only one of their best, but one of the best metal albums I had heard in a while, period.
All this metal talk makes me want to start a thread of burned CD passes and bombs...Death Magnetic was great, but there has been some great stuff released in the last couple years...
I really dug Death Magnetic, I thought it was not only one of their best, but one of the best metal albums I had heard in a while, period.
All this metal talk makes me want to start a thread of burned CD passes and bombs...Death Magnetic was great, but there has been some great stuff released in the last couple years...
I'm on a Lamb of God and Amon Amarth kick right now.
I'm as big an Ozzy fan as the next guy, but he has some amazing guitarists to back him up and his stuff just kind of sounds like whichever guitarist he has writing his music at the time (Tony Iommi, Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee, Zakk Wylde). His next album will sound like Gus G.
It's actually kind of the other way around. Zakk (and whoever else) writes the riffs and such, then Ozzy comes in and writes the lyrics and vocal melodies. Maybe my 17 years experience as a musician leads me to overanalyze things, but I can hear a definite distinction between Ozzy's writers. Like I said, I love his stuff and he's probably the best metal frontman of all time, but he has had the supporting cast.
LOL Well i respectfully still have to disagree and my 35 years as a musician having been Bass player in a metal band from 75-86 , writing tons of music and being the 4th generation musician from a long line of Jazz musicians i still dont see it... Also follwoing Ozzys Carreer and seeing him live over 25 times there may be some of that , definatlery there is Major joining forces in writting , THE bLIZZARD OF oZZ (OZZYS FIRST soLO EFFORT )was written Lyrically before Ozzy ever found Randy Rhodes then it was tweeeked.
I'm as big an Ozzy fan as the next guy, but he has some amazing guitarists to back him up and his stuff just kind of sounds like whichever guitarist he has writing his music at the time (Tony Iommi, Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee, Zakk Wylde). His next album will sound like Gus G.
The guitarist certainly has an influence over Ozzy's music, but I think its reciprocal and Ozzy's influence is greater because the guitarist wants to write "Ozzy" songs for Ozzy. Zakk Wylde is a great example if you take a look at BLS albums. My two favorite albums were the ones where he was writing with Ozzy a lot at the same time, 1919 Eternal and Blessed Hellride, and they sound drastically different from the albums both before and after when he was not writing with Ozzy. He even said a couple of Ozzy's rejects ended up on the BLS albums and I think you can pick them out if you listen closely enough. Just my 2c, sorry to deviate from Maiden again ::ducks and covers::
I'm as big an Ozzy fan as the next guy, but he has some amazing guitarists to back him up and his stuff just kind of sounds like whichever guitarist he has writing his music at the time (Tony Iommi, Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee, Zakk Wylde). His next album will sound like Gus G.
The guitarist certainly has an influence over Ozzy's music, but I think its reciprocal and Ozzy's influence is greater because the guitarist wants to write "Ozzy" songs for Ozzy. Zakk Wylde is a great example if you take a look at BLS albums. My two favorite albums were the ones where he was writing with Ozzy a lot at the same time, 1919 Eternal and Blessed Hellride, and they sound drastically different from the albums both before and after when he was not writing with Ozzy. He even said a couple of Ozzy's rejects ended up on the BLS albums and I think you can pick them out if you listen closely enough. Just my 2c, sorry to deviate from Maiden again ::ducks and covers::
Both great albums. Personally, my favorite BLS album is Sonic Brew, to me it just has that vintage, ditry-blues + classic metal-Zakk sound.
As a whole, I think this is probably their strongest album since Seventh Son. It is somewhat of a departure, I agree with that, and it took a few listens for me to start feeling it, but I really like the album a lot. I think refreshing is a good word to use after MoLaD, which I liked but to me it was very dense and serious, this album is more fun.
Well, that's neither here nor there, Coltrane and Davis are fine musicians, no doubt about that, but this is Iron Maiden...I'd never smoke a cigar while listening to Maiden, too hard to sing along.
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