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Hetfield's voice just makes me sad. I'd rather listen to any of these...

got to be honest, the only one of those I liked was the overkill version of space truckin....metallica doing deep purple is just wrong on so many levels

Sudden Sam wrote: Deep Purple is one of the very few bands I failed to see live and I will always regret it. Mountain, Traffic and Wishbone Ash being the others.

I never really appreciated Deep Purple until it was too late....I bought Machine Head and liked the album, but never considered traveling for a DP concert....my bad

don't feel like you're alone....Mountain, Wishbone, and Traffic were primarily bands that stayed in the east and south and never really came out this way....

Sudden Sam wrote:Never been a Metallica fan.

Metallica v1.0 was awesome. The later versions suck donkey balls.

Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, and And Justice For All (and also the Garage Days Revisited and the other EPs) were fucking great. Everything after that was an offensive joke.

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What he said.

Drink it up, Sam.

They truly were two different bands, the first incarnation of which is mind-bogglingly awesome.

If I never hear a Metallica song made after 1989, it'll be too soon.

Sudden Sam wrote:Never listened to Megadeth

wish I could say the same...I'm sure my ears are still bleeding from the megadeth concert I was dragged to...the only reason I stayed was the proposition of getting laid, which didn't work out..... there's four hours of my life I'll never get back

Sudden Sam wrote:I bought a used Corrosion of Conformity CD several years ago, but never gave it much of a listen.

CoC ain't so bad. You might like this:



Pepper of CoC on guitar, and Phil of Pentera on vocals...

I guess I have an entire period of music that I somehow overlooked. I skipped from the '70s straight to 2000! I don't feel bad about missing most of the '80s schlock, though.

Speaking of Pentera, if you missed out on them 20 years ago, you should check them out. Cowboys From Hell is amazing.

I wish those fucksticks from Metallica would just go out and play And Justice BACK to the early days...fuck the Black Album and that new shit...

Master of Puppets has one of my all time fave songs Disposable Heroes...and fuck yeah Ride The Lighning is so bad ass on all levels...

I have seen seen Megadeth and they rocked it hard core...




and fucking Pantera...saw them twice and probably the two best LIVE SHOWS I have ever seen...they just brought THE HAMMER...and sadly...R.I.P Dime...fuck...they were just fucking awesome...brutal live...fuck

buckeye_in_sc wrote:I wish those fucksticks from Metallica would just go out and play And Justice BACK to the early days...fuck the Black Album and that new shit...

Master of Puppets has one of my all time fave songs Disposable Heroes...and fuck yeah Ride The Lighning is so bad ass on all levels...

I have seen seen Megadeth and they rocked it hard core...




and fucking Pantera...saw them twice and probably the two best LIVE SHOWS I have ever seen...they just brought THE HAMMER...and sadly...R.I.P Dime...fuck...they were just fucking awesome...brutal live...fuck

It's too late for Metallica to recapture their old glory. James's voice is shot. They played almost all old-school shit at the Big 4 show in Indio, but it wasn't the same with Hetfield's nasal crooning.

Anthrax and Slayer are the only two of the Big 4 who still put on a show worth paying to see. Dave Mustaine is all born again nowadays and Megadeth setlists skew WAY too modern. If they only played stuff from Rust in Peace and before, they could probably put on a good show, but unfortunately, Dave is under the impression that he doesn't need herion to write great songs, despite 20 years of evidence to the contrary.

Pantera was indeed a great live band, but their crowds were a little off-putting. They had the scariest pits I've ever seen, hands down. The pits at Pantera shows made Slayer pits look like duck-duck-goose. It was all skinheads in red suspenders and jackboots just flailing away at each other. No thanks.

Phil Anselmo might be an asshole, but he's a helluva frontman. I've seen him with Down a couple times and with Superjoint Ritual, and the guy just knows how to work a crowd. It's kinda cheesy in a "rally the troops" kinda way, and the guy drops enough f-bombs to make Al Swearengen blush, but it's entertaining in the right context.

Sam,
If you want to dig deeper than the Big 4, Kreator made some amazing music in the late '80s/early '90s. They're probably the most underrated band of that era. Death Angel, despite their generic name, were also an amazing band. They're currently on tour playing their debut album, The Ultra-Violence, it its entirety. Gonna catch that show next week. They were only age 14-19 when it came out back in 1987, so they're actually kind of the spring chickens of thrash metal's old guard.

Other bands worth checking out from that era are Testament, Overkill, Exodus, Fates Warning (more prog than thrash, but still awesome), Metal Church, Possessed and Destruction.

Sam,

If you want an 80s metal band you can get down with, try some Witchfinder General. Yea, they're totally ripping Sabbath riffs and themes left and right, but they fucking rock.

Sudden Sam wrote:Thanks, Mike.

I've actually got a little Testament and Overkill. I'm not into the hyper-speed stuff and that type of vocals. I can enjoy a little of it, but not an entire album's worth.

You might not dig Kreator's vocals then, but the music is fantastic. And don't be fooled by Death Angel's name. They actually have some fairly melodic stuff. Check out Act III and Frolic Through the Park. They were pushing boundaries back in the day.