STD_Caps wrote:The preist live experience was one of my best gigs. Possibly, THE best gig.

Abso-fucking-lutely! What an unbelievable experience that was. Victim of Changes almost destroyed my life. And for some reason so did The Green Manalishi, that riff sounded like the best thing on earth. Halford is a mighty man indeed. Nostradamus is going to be great!

I used to rank Maiden above everything and anything in life, but ever since Dance of Death, I've been gradually losing my faith in them. Obviously they are still amazing live (until they decide to play an entire above-average-but-still-not-that-amazing album live, they should've just played The Legacy and be done with it!), but with their ever increasingly formulaic, what they call 'progressive' (ie. slow intros/outros, repetitive chorus, long middle section), music and their recent tendency to re-release old songs as singles for no reason and their also increasing shoddy-ness with their artwork (though the new album had a good front cover), production, shit videos and what-not, I'm just beginning to lose interest in them. I can't believe I'm saying all this, it's like saying I hate my wife (if I had one, obviously I don't because I'm a virgin), but it's how I feel at the moment.

At least Priest are trying new things and are reinvigorated with wonderful metal. The idea of a Nostradamus metal musical seemed quite ridiculous at first, but at least they're being adventurous and trying new things whilst still being very metal about it all. Over the last few years as I've become older and wiser, I've begun to realise what a mass marketing machine Maiden are, and I've been a bit put off by it all. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is still one of the best albums ever made, but, well, that was a long time ago. If with their next album they give us another collection of the same songs with the same chords over and over again (These Colours Don't Run is the most ridiculous and shit song I've heard from Maiden in a long time! Though it was quite fun live, but that's just because I was enjoying it's stupidity), I may not even buy it.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, I just had to get it out of my system. Time to listen to some more Saxon.

Painkiller. The only one i ever really got into cos it was bordering on Thrash. One of the best gigs i have ever been to was Priest/Annihilator on the Painkiller tour.

painkillers my favourite but i'm hardly an expert on their back catalogue

jonny_boy34 wrote:

STD_Caps wrote:The preist live experience was one of my best gigs. Possibly, THE best gig.

Abso-fucking-lutely! What an unbelievable experience that was. Victim of Changes almost destroyed my life. And for some reason so did The Green Manalishi, that riff sounded like the best thing on earth. Halford is a mighty man indeed. Nostradamus is going to be great!

I used to rank Maiden above everything and anything in life, but ever since Dance of Death, I've been gradually losing my faith in them. Obviously they are still amazing live (until they decide to play an entire above-average-but-still-not-that-amazing album live, they should've just played The Legacy and be done with it!), but with their ever increasingly formulaic, what they call 'progressive' (ie. slow intros/outros, repetitive chorus, long middle section), music and their recent tendency to re-release old songs as singles for no reason and their also increasing shoddy-ness with their artwork (though the new album had a good front cover), production, shit videos and what-not, I'm just beginning to lose interest in them. I can't believe I'm saying all this, it's like saying I hate my wife (if I had one, obviously I don't because I'm a virgin), but it's how I feel at the moment.

At least Priest are trying new things and are reinvigorated with wonderful metal. The idea of a Nostradamus metal musical seemed quite ridiculous at first, but at least they're being adventurous and trying new things whilst still being very metal about it all. Over the last few years as I've become older and wiser, I've begun to realise what a mass marketing machine Maiden are, and I've been a bit put off by it all. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is still one of the best albums ever made, but, well, that was a long time ago. If with their next album they give us another collection of the same songs with the same chords over and over again (These Colours Don't Run is the most ridiculous and shit song I've heard from Maiden in a long time! Though it was quite fun live, but that's just because I was enjoying it's stupidity), I may not even buy it.

Anyway, sorry for the rant, I just had to get it out of my system. Time to listen to some more Saxon.

Keep the Faith my friend!

fucking hell! turbo was a great album! i love rocka rolla as well, but painkiller is the best

Metal Iain wrote:Defenders of the Faith
Screaming For Vengeance
Point of Entry
Stained Class
Painkiller

I've never got that much into the rest but I love everything I've heard by JP.

How life changes.

Wait, are you saying you no longer like Priest?

No, just that I never ever listen to them. Fair enough, I lost all of their albums when an external hard drive I had died on me, but I've never really felt that I should download them all again the way I did with Maiden and Metal Church's albums.

I think the problem with Priest is that they tend to be very inconsistent. Even their best albums tend to have something rubbish on them (apart from SWOD, which is amazing). Usually it'll be some sort of rubbish ballad or something. Painkiller is a very solid wonderful metal album but even that gets boring because it all sounds the same if you listen to it all in one go. Angel of Retribution is very good, Nostradamus is rubbish, Iron Maiden are better.

I only got 5 of their albums I can't say.

Painkiller for me. It is the only album of Priest's I ever felt the need to own. Their other shite is ok but nothing great. I remember thinking that they were really poor when I was listening to Maiden religiously back in the mid 80's.

Regale us with a story about how marvellous they were when you saw them live in '90...

I'm the best Priest album.

Still shit.

Metal Iain wrote:Regale us with a story about how marvellous they were when you saw them live in '90...

The show in '90 at the Edinburgh Playhouse was awesome but more to do with the fact that Annihilator supported and it was the Painkiller album Priest were touring. I actually preferred/went along to see Annihilator. If i remember correctly, it wasn't too busy when they were on. We were sat up in the Circle going mental. Coburn Pharr noticed the effort we were putting in and pointed up and said "I see you guys up there!". Quality. Priest were bloody good too but it was only the Painkiller moments I really loved. Scott Travis is an animal on the drums.

Saw them playing with the Scorps a couple of years back as Scoob had managed to get tickets last minute off e-bay. They were good but I wouldn't have paid the full whack to see them.

If Megadeth and Testament weren't playing next year I wouldn't be going.