NLTM August '11 Update

http://www.nolifetilmetal.com/updates.htm

8/2/11
New Photos:
Anvil, Fueled by Fire, Giuffria, Kiss, Rez, The Rods, Slayer, TT Quick

Updated Kiss - Creatures of the Night facts.

Updated the Rez page: bio, photos, promo photo, etc.

Updated reviews:
Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth
Warlord - Best of Warlord

New vinyl:
Gary Moore - Back on the Streets

New CDs:
Children Of Bodom - Relentless Reckless Forever
Fueled by Fire - Plunging Into Darkness
Queensryche - American Soldier
The Rods - Vengeance
Shy - Once Bitten...Twice Shy
Sodom - War and Pieces
Soundtrack: Navy Seals: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Steeler - s/t
Styx - Edge of the Century
Twisted Sister - Under the Blade/Ruff Cutts

Pff..you sold out, I cant look at this.

Checking out the updates now.

Sweet! need to read some of this for sure! like -
Updated Kiss - Creatures of the Night facts.

New vinyl:
Gary Moore - Back on the Streets

Styx - Edge of the Century

Stender wrote:

Pff..you sold out, I cant look at this.

NEVER!

how much did Children of Bodom pay for that review?

mc666 wrote:

how much did Children of Bodom pay for that review?

I'll never tell.

This was from an earlier uptade, but I saw it only recently:

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Before listening to a note of this CD, I pondered the name of the band and wondered why they would call themselves, Space Eater. On second look I realized it was Space Eater, which is an even more bizarre name.

Also, will you get any Toto in the future? I'd recommend Hydra, pretty good proggy melodic hard rock...

First like in the American Soldier review:

Quote :

With Queensryche's tenth studio album the band (or more likely vocalist Geoff Tate) decided record another conceptual album

TheGreatDuck wrote:

This was from an earlier uptade, but I saw it only recently:

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Before listening to a note of this CD, I pondered the name of the band and wondered why they would call themselves, Space Eater. On second look I realized it was Space Eater, which is an even more bizarre name.

Also, will you get any Toto in the future? I'd recommend Hydra, pretty good proggy melodic hard rock...

I doubt Toto would be up Ults alley except maybe the first few albums (like the one you mentioned), also the later albums are probably their best material and may actaully suprise people.

I have Toto's debut on vinyl. Don't have it on CD to review. May get around to reviewing the vinyl. I like that album. Haven't heard any others that I recall.

The last one they did (Falling in Between) was REALLY good!

chewie wrote:

The last one they did (Falling in Between) was REALLY good!

I agree. I've always said if somone doesn't like 80s Toto should really give later Toto a try because they wrote their best music in later years.

DallasBlack wrote:

TheGreatDuck wrote:

This was from an earlier uptade, but I saw it only recently:

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Before listening to a note of this CD, I pondered the name of the band and wondered why they would call themselves, Space Eater. On second look I realized it was Space Eater, which is an even more bizarre name.

Also, will you get any Toto in the future? I'd recommend Hydra, pretty good proggy melodic hard rock...

I doubt Toto would be up Ults alley except maybe the first few albums (like the one you mentioned), also the later albums are probably their best material and may actaully suprise people.

I know, I wouldn't recommend him their 80s AOR/ pop-rock albums either, although, he does seem to like some poppier stuff like Phil Collins, so you never know...

BTW, Ult, what other albums do you own that you haven't reviewed yet? I remember you said you had a couple of Poison CDs you didn't review yet in the last thread...

I don't know all I have unreviewed, but I do have some CDs from Vixen, Living Colour, Sammy Hagar, Pat Benetar, Phil Collins, Hardline, Poison, Fiona, Bonfire, Saliva, Static X, Lacuna Coil, Rob Zombie, Bon Jovi, etc. Some of these I am working on reviews for. Others I just cannot get into at all, like the last five of so I listed. I really try to give everything a fair spin. In that past I've missed out on some great music because of pre-conceived ideas and prejudices. I never gave a band like Warrant a second thought in the past because I just chalked them up to "Cherry Pie" wuss-rock. Had I not given them a chance I wouldn't have discovered that there is much more to them than that one sappy pop rock song.

I done caught me a goof, yo:

From the "Creatures of the Night Facts" page:

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It's My Life and When The Legend Dies, two tracks written for Creatures

I believe that should be "Legends Never Die," not "When the Legend Dies"

Thanks FF.

Great reviews as usual!

I enjoyed the Rev Raptor's one

Gilbert wrote:

Great reviews as usual!

I enjoyed the Rev Raptor's one

Thank you.

Thanks for the UDO review.... I was curious how it compared with Dominator, which I love...

The Believer review also.... sometimes I just need to get a head check....

TheGreatDuck wrote:

Also, will you get any Toto in the future? I'd recommend Hydra, pretty good proggy melodic hard rock...

I now have "Toto" and "The Seventh One" on CD. I'll probably start by reviewing the self-titled.

ultmetal wrote:

TheGreatDuck wrote:

Also, will you get any Toto in the future? I'd recommend Hydra, pretty good proggy melodic hard rock...

I now have "Toto" and "The Seventh One" on CD. I'll probably start by reviewing the self-titled.

If you ever find them on the cheap, check out the stuff from the 90s early 00s. They might have been the epitome of pop in the 80s but they really matured once the pop rock craze died out and they became a solid AOR (bordering on melodic hard rock) band.

ultmetal wrote:

TheGreatDuck wrote:

Also, will you get any Toto in the future? I'd recommend Hydra, pretty good proggy melodic hard rock...

I now have "Toto" and "The Seventh One" on CD. I'll probably start by reviewing the self-titled.

Though the Seventh One is very slick.

Nice, ult. Have you heard the band Magnum? Check them out if you haven't!

Have heard Magnum. Don't have any of their CDs. Thanks for the samples.