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Metallica
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Vertigo (Audio CD) - July 1991 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Called "the Black Album" by many (due to its monochrome cover),
Metallica marks the group's entrance into the mainstream, with
shorter songs, simpler song structures and slower tempos overall. That
said, this is an excellent album, featuring some of the best songwriting
Metallica has ever done.... |
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The Number of the Beast
~Iron Maiden (Artist)
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Emi (Audio CD) - September 14, 1998 |
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Times might have changed, now--with the advent of new-metal acts like
Korn--but throughout the 1980s, a damning generalisation held true:
English heavy metal rocked, while the American variant--with a few
notable exceptions--sucked. The difference went beyond aesthetics--the
Yanks' avowed penchant.. |
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Piece of Mind
~Iron Maiden (Artist)
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Emi (Audio CD) - September 14, 1998 |
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music fan, England, April 14, 2005
Maiden's finest album
Having broken through with The Number of the Beast, aided by new
vocalist Bruce Dickinson's roaring vocal style and the unusually
sophisticated songs it allowed them to pursue, Maiden continued their
evolution towards superstardom with this gem. Lyrically it moves towards
serious fare, with the... |
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Powerslave [ENHANCED]
~Iron Maiden (Artist)
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Emi (Audio CD) - September 14, 1998 |
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It's way too easy to write off Iron Maiden as the preserve of
maladjusted boys with fluffy, budding moustaches, stuck in the murk of
the British 1980s. They were preposterous, they were anachronistic--in
utterly appropriate Spinal Tap terms--and their growth rate could
not even be charted. But they... |
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Vol.3 - The Subliminal Verses [ENHANCED]
~Slipknot (Artist)
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Roadrunner (Audio CD) - May 24, 2004 |
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There's absolutely nothing subliminal about Slipknot's third album,
Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses). No, the anger and frustration is
pretty much at the forefront throughout the 14 tracks here. But this
isn't just blind rage on display--the nine masked men of Slipknot sound
more focused than ever,... |
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Live After Death [ENHANCED] [LIVE]
~Iron Maiden (Artist)
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Emi (Audio CD) - September 14, 1998 |
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In the live arena heavy metal can be implausibly powerful; it can rattle
teeth from gums, set ears ringing like the clappers of doom and, when
concocted by the gentlemen of Iron Maiden, virtually fracture your
skull. Live After Death, meanwhile (a packed double disc set
recorded during the band's... |
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Lateralus
~Tool (Artist)
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Music for Nations (Audio CD) - May 14, 2001 |
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The epic scope of Tool's excellent third album, Lateralus, could
well spell a whole new era for metal. To many casual rock fans, frontman
Maynard James Keenan is probably better known as the vocalist in the
more MTV-friendly A Perfect Circle but it's indisputably Keenan's main
group--art-metal... |
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Killers [ENHANCED]
~Iron Maiden (Artist)
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Emi (Audio CD) - September 14, 1998 |
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music fan, Huntingdon, Cambs United Kingdom, August 18, 2005
When rock had some imagination
I love this album, for me it is on a par with the debut, both are my
favourites and I think Paul Di'anno sounds particularly good. Don't get
me wrong, I love the later stuff too, but this and the first album just
have different qualities to them that I can't explain. The songs are
imaginative and... |
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Master of Puppets
~Metallica (Artist)
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Polydor (Audio CD) - May 1989 |
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One of the defining albums of thrash metal, Master of Puppets is
arguably Metallica's best album (as well as their last with bassist
Cliff Burton). Focusing on the concept of power and abuses thereof, this
is a collection of complex, intelligent music, played at about a hundred
miles an hour. Not... |
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Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
~Iron Maiden (Artist)
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Emi (Audio CD) - September 14, 1998 |
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By the release of this landmark eighth album, Iron Maiden had settled
into what's generally considered their classic line-up. With Bruce
Dickinson, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Nicko McBrain operating at the
very peak of their form, band mastermind, main songwriter and bassist
Steve Harris decided... |
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Iron Maiden
~Iron Maiden |
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Emi (Audio CD) - September 14, 1998 |
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This opening sonic salvo from Steve Harris's East End stalwarts pretty
much defined the late 1970's post-punk rebirth of rock traditionalism
known as the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. Featuring the strident
cockney roar of the band's original lead vocalist Paul Di'Anno, Iron
Maiden capitalised on... |
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Audioslave
~Audioslave |
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Epic (Audio CD) - November 18, 2002 |
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The debut of thundering supergroup Audioslave--featuring members of Rage
Against the Machine post-Zack de la Rocha with ex-Soundgarden singer
Chris Cornell--is as much curio as fascinating blend of visions. Cornell
might be outnumbered, but his unmistakable holler and nihilistic imagery
ensure that ... |
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S&M
~Metallica (Artist), San
Francisco Symphony Orchestra |
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Mercury (Audio CD) - November 22, 1999 |
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As if to accentuate their fundamental hugeness, Metallica (arguably the
most consistently innovative metal band of the 80s and 90s) stretched
yet further into the arena of the titanic with this immense cohesion of
the orchestral and the truly seismic. Recorded live at California's
Berkeley Community... |
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Superunknown
~Soundgarden (Artist)
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A & M (Audio CD) - March 29, 1999 |
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"Fell on Black Days", indeed. Seattle sludge slingers Soundgarden made a
living out of cathartic, woe-is-me wailing (we're talking the banshee
vocals of Chris Cornell and the crypt-creaking guitar of Kim
Thayil), but this wallowing in grim depression ironically proved to be
the band's most uplifting... |
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The Collection
~Dio (Artist)
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Spectrum (Audio CD) - November 3, 2003 |
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music fan, Stevenston, Ayrshire, December 28, 2003
Classic tracks followed by classic rehashes
This is an excellent (and cheap) compilation of the best of Dio between
1983-1993. Having been involved in two of the greatest metal albums EVER
(Rainbow`s "Rising" and Black Sabbath`s "Heaven and Hell"), Ronnie James
Dio delivered the goods and came up with a third with his own band`s
"Holy diver"... |
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Ride the Lightning
~Metallica (Artist)
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Mercury (Audio CD) - November 22, 1989 |
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Don't let that classical-guitar opening to "Fight Fire with Fire" fool
you--Ride the Lightning packs a heavy-metal wallop. While not as
ambitious as the subsequent Master of Puppets, this early
Metallica album is indubitably one of their best. Thematically, it
explores death and dying from myriad... |
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Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory
~Dream Theater (Artist)
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Elektra (Audio CD) - October 25, 1999 |
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There's always been an element of slightly camp theatricality about
progressive rock--witness Peter Gabriel dressing up as a giant
hogweed--so the idea of a progressive musical isn't too much of a
stretch. Dream Theater's Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes from a Memory
takes the progressive rock staple of a... |
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Morning View
~Incubus (Artist)
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Epic (Audio CD) - July 28, 2003 |
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Though Morning View follows hot on the heels of Incubus'
breakthrough single "Drive", in no way does this fine album sound rushed
(after all, their previous album Make Yourself was released
nearly two years previously). Like fellow Los Angeles metal pioneers
System of a Down, Incubus find themselves... |
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Somewhere in Time
~Iron Maiden (Artist)
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Emi (Audio CD) - September 14, 1998 |
Gary
Stubbs, Stafford, Staffordshire United Kingdom, December 11, 2003
Stands Out With Time
Every Maiden fan has their favourite album - this is mine and I'll
explain why. Off the back of the monumental World Slavery Tour Iron
Maiden were their most confident, big punching and most successful. This
shined through the band especially to the most emotional songwriter of
the band - Adrian... |
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Kill 'em All
~Metallica (Artist)
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Mercury (Audio CD) - November 15, 1989 |
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While not as timeless as Ride the Lightning or Master of
Puppets, Metallica's debut album--originally released in 1983--is
still a fine piece of thrash metal and as good a marker as any for the
debut of the genre. Fusing the rapid-fire attack of bands like Motörhead
with a guitar style... |