PLAYLISTS 2012

Today on the elliptical :

Metallica - Overkill
Black Sabbath - Get A Grip
Metallica - Harvester Of Sorrow
Judas Priest - The Rage
Metal Church - Faster Than Life
Iced Earth - 1776
Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me
Machine Head - Death Church

Hm, is there any band like King Diamond? I'm looking for something new for my ears. By the way, I'm new in this forum.

Currently, these are the albums I liked at the moment. I like high-pitch voice, falsetto or real voice.

King Diamond - Abigail
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys I & II
Queensrÿche - Queensrÿche
Yngwie Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign

I'm sorry but I'm a newbie in metal world. My favorite sub genre are Symphonic and Power Metal.

Believe it or not because of the Anette discsussion I broke out my first exposure to Nightwish. While I don't like it as much as I used to (maybe because I've played it to death), many tracks like the title track and She Is My Sin still sound good to me even though I've pretty much abandoned this style of music.

Nightwish is one of the most beautiful band out there. Well, I took time to appreciate Anette's vocal style. I played DPP like hell back then just to appreciate it and I kept in my mind that there's still a light surrounding this band and I found it. I don't play their album that much but once in a while I listen to it. My favorite Nightwish album are Oceanborn and the Wishmaster. Those are their purest, darkest and aggressive album up to date.

Wobbler - Afterglow

S.D. wrote:

His remix of Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick comes out in a couple weeks.

Can't wait for that one! I'm jamming the Tarkus remix now.

Speaking of Nightwish, this was MY first introduction to them. My absolute favorites are Oceanborn followed by Wishmaster.




I used this image because there is no album cover for the comp I listened to. It is a CM compilation that I got with Martin Popoff's The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal back around 1996-97.

Steven Wilson remix

Iron Maiden - Live After Death

King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon

pre-game skull session

CRIMSONMASK wrote:

pre-game skull session

Methinks your definition of a "skull session" is different than mine.

Raven - ALL FOR ONE
Helloween - KEEPER OF THE SEVEN KEYS PART I
Scorpions - TAKEN BY FORCE
Def Leppard - YEAH!
Dokken - BROKEN BONES

Today on the elliptical :

Savatage - Strange Wings
Artillery - Deserter
Whitesnake - Sweet Lady Luck
Britny Fox - Girlschool
Rush - Red Barchetta
Iced Earth - Mystical End
Running Wild - Marching To Die

I'm playing through that John Arch EP again now

sidmaximus wrote:

Hm, is there any band like King Diamond? I'm looking for something new for my ears. By the way, I'm new in this forum.

Currently, these are the albums I liked at the moment. I like high-pitch voice, falsetto or real voice.

King Diamond - Abigail
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys I & II
Queensrÿche - Queensrÿche
Yngwie Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign

I'm sorry but I'm a newbie in metal world. My favorite sub genre are Symphonic and Power Metal.

Welcome aboard! To the boards! Welcome aboard the boards?!

I see you like great guitarwork to go with your amazing vocalists. The early Dio albums would be an obvious recommendation, especially the debut, so I won't even go there. How about Impellitteri? The distinct shredding of Chris Impellitteri, one of the better "neo-classical" style guitarists, coupled with the golden pipes of Rob Rock equals one epic metal band. Check out their Screaming Symphony, Eye of the Hurricane or Crunch albums.

I don't know if you've heard Sonata Arctica, but their Ecliptica (and why not Silence?) album is a standout in the otherwise many ways oversaturated euro-power genre.

If you want a bit heavier, but still like the high pitch to go with it, try Hollow. They only ever made two albums, and both are worth getting, but get Modern Cathedral, the better of the two, in my opinion.

Also, a band I cannot recommend highly enough is Savatage. Pretty much the greatest band ever to walk the Earth. My favourite band ever. Jon Oliva is a god among men and the band's music has great variety and will break your balls and heart. I'm not sure which album to recommend the most to you, since the best guitar work was on the earlier records (by Criss Oliva, an f'n god above gods), and you might enjoy the shrieking vocals of Jon, but Zak Stevens was the more melodic vocalist and he got some great guitar support too with Alex Skolnick (my personal favourite guitar wizard) and why not Chris Caffery. I don't know...
read the thread and make up your own mind. My favourites are Wake of Magellan, Dungeons Are Calling, Streets and Hall of the Mountain King.

If you want something current, Kiske's and Kai Hansen's band Unisonic released an album this year.

You're forgetting Al Pitrelli , a fine guitarist in his own right. I've seen him twice with TSO and he killed it. Of course he's no Oliva or Skolnick (two of my favorites), but then who is?