Metal bands you wish to bring back

Excellent that David Wayne and Layne Staley are mentioned already. 2 amazing talents greatly missed.


Miss Andrew Wood tremendously and can only imagine how the Seattle music scene would differ if he had not passed.

Riot(Mark Reale, Guy Speranza, and Rhett Forester)
Jani Lane
Slipknot(Paul Gray)
Type O Negative(Peter O Toole)
INXS(Michael Hutchence)
Phantom Blue(Michelle Meldrum)
Wendy O Williams
Slaughter(Tim Kelly)
Helix(Paul Hackman)
Cliff Burton
Wayne(Metal Church)
Kevin Dubrow
Armored Saint(Dave Pritchard)
Dimebag Darrel
Great White(Ty Longley)
Fear Of God(Dawn Crosby)
Ratt(Robin Crosby)
Randy Castillo
Y&T(Phil Kennemore)
Dirty Looks

RUSH !

oh wait, no


Vio-Lence and Demolition Hammer

Death
Dark Angel
Sacrament

Only one really had someone die, but the other two both had vocalists told that if they kept up, they would face serious injury.
So, kinda works.

The Moshketeers (No one has passed, but Paul has Parkinson's and can no longer play guitar.)

Kiss(Eric Carr and Mark St. John)

The sweet
Slade
T Rex
Queen

Acid Bath. Audie Pitre was a huge part of their sound & their albums were classics IMO. Would have loved to heard what was to come!

Riot - with the Speranza line up AND the Forrester line up. Which I guess is the same line up, but with Guy and Rhett, respectively.

I'm more interested in members of older bands creating new music. And I mean NEW music, not 1 existing member of a long-defunct band resurrecting the name to make a few bucks...but new band, new songs.

vgmaster9 wrote:

krokus wrote:

Nobody, i am happy with all those great new bands today. They are the future and those bands that are long gone were the past. We have to start suporting the new bands by buying their albums, going to see them live, buy their tshirts etc..... Its their time. The time of bands that are long gone have passed away.

So you're saying we should just forget about the past bands altogether?

No, of course not. I still play every day albums of bands of the past and buy records of bands that are going strong for 20 years. The only thing i am saying that i prefere new bands then resurrect bands from the past.

DallasBlack wrote:

Savatage w/ Criss
Shadow Gallery w/ Mike Baker
Dio
Metallica w/ Cliff
Ronnie Van Zant (Van Zant could be a trio w/ Donnie and Johnny)
Metal Church w/ Wayne

Thanks for doing all the work

The Doors
Jimi Hendrix Experience

metalhead777 wrote:

Death
Dark Angel
Sacrament

Only one really had someone die, but the other two both had vocalists told that if they kept up, they would face serious injury.
So, kinda works.

Oh man....a major DITTO for me on Sacrament. Haunts of Violence was/is so amazing. So Wolfe had to quit? I always wondered what happened to them.

Athiest Piece Of Time line-up with the late Roger Patterson.

Not a metal band but I always wondered what would have happened if Mia Zapata (of the Gits) had not been murdered.

Most of the bands/artists I would like to see back have been mentioned but the top 3 for me would be:

1. Chuck schuldiner. Death are sorely missed and I'd love to have more stuff from control denied aswell.

2. Cliff burton. I really liked justice for all but after that Metallica nosedived for me. Can't help but think it might have been oh so different if cliff was still alive. Granted if they had stuck to their ride the lightening/master of puppets creative style they would not be as big commercially as they are now but we may have had some great albums.

3. Savatage. Love the guitar work of Chris oliva but really enjoyed a lot of their stuff post his death. Would love to see these get back together to create more music. Nearest thing I'll get to savatage is the new tour for Jon olivas pain which fortunately is coming to the uk for a date in London in a couple of weeks. They've said their going to play a greatest hits set of savatage and Jon olivas pain material plus as its the 25th anniversary of hall of the mountain king they are gonna play the whole album live too. Can't wait.

Dio obviously.
And maybe Pink Floyd. It bugs me I didn't see them live (I was like 10 when they came here), and I believe I won't see them at all.
And Vicious Rumors with mighty Carl Albert.

Of those who has passed on, the ones I personaly seem to miss the most are: Randy Rhoads, Dave Pritchard, Criss Oliva, David Wayne, Cliff Burton, Jesse Pintado (and although i like the more recent Terrorizer and Napalm Death cds, they just seem to be missing something....).
But defunct bands that I wish put out more music in their era are: Fifth Angel, Demolition Hammer, the Crucified, and Sanctuary.

Lari wrote:

Angel Dust

The band name I was trying to remember ... Thank you Lari! My age is beginning to be a hindrance.

Exodus w/ Baloff
Metallica w/ Cliff
Vio-lence
Pantera

& just for shits & giggles:

N.W.A.

Cliff Burton
Criss Oliva
Gar Samuelson
Randy Rhoads
David Wayne
Ronnie James Dio
Chuck Schuldiner
Ingo Schwitzenberg (Helloween)
Robin Crosby


I think it would be mildly interesting to take each of the members who've died and have age progression photos done of them to estimate what they'd look like now, if they were still alive. Of course, some of them would look pretty thrashed, since they abused themselves and would reflect that now...

Liege Lord
Hellhammer
Bathory

Rocky era Suicidal Tendencies
Martin era Faith No More
origional Guns & Roses

DallasBlack wrote:

Rocky era Suicidal Tendencies

This

Rocky's got to be the one of the most melodic Thrash Metal lead guitar player ever... His playing is so detached from the conventional style you can almost identify his solos on the spot

EmoElmo wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

Rocky era Suicidal Tendencies

This

Rocky's got to be the one of the most melodic Thrash Metal lead guitar player ever... His playing is so detached from the conventional style you can almost identify his solos on the spot

Yeah, I think his talent is wasted with Fishbone. I tried listening to their stuff and it did absolutly nothing for me.

Definitely would choose:
Alice in Chains, Type O Negative, Acid Bath, Death, Dio, and Xasthur. Those are the only ones I can really think of at the moment.