Iced Earth hold close to my heart since 1996 with them getting thru deaths in my family (on both dad's side & mom's side of the family) & my stroke in 2004 at the age 25.
Asking Opeth to play simplistic songs? What you are saying is: I really have no idea what kind of band Opeth is, but I still avoid them because of a live performance 20 years ago
Opeth are an incredible overrated and boring band. They have a few decent tracks but I’ve never understood the heaps of praise the band get. The tracks just meander and don’t go anywhere and the acoustic guitar parts pasted into the middle of a song sound janky and weird. There are so many better bands playing that style of music.
Haha fun video mate. I missed all Alice except for the song Poison of course which I did enjoy the pervy video of but I later worked with a guy who played me the old 70s stuff which was NOT what I expected. It sounded like circus music and was just bizarre.
Iced Earth are one of my all-time favourite bands! Like a blend of Power & Thrash. Songs I'd recommend are "Travel in Stygian", "Dante's Inferno" & "The Coming Curse". If people don't like them then I'd understand but I love Jon Schaffer's riff style - the music is like a halfway blend between Iron Maiden & Metallica. Obviously people will question the comparison in terms of quality but stylistically that's a good description!
Iced earth no,sound like paul stanley singing for some power metal band. I respect your likes tho. But in the same vain Manowar,Primal fear,Iron Savior,Helloween,Stratovarius,Gamma ray,Hammer fall to name very few before iced earth hitting my cd player. I hate the guy too that doesnt help too
Raise your fist and yell tour was the last big arena tour Alice ever did. Trashes the world he was touring arenas 1/3 filled with Great White as opener.Then theatres
Alice Cooper was at his best in the Alice Cooper Band. Albums like Love It To Death, Killer, School's Out and Billion Dollar Babies are fantastic imo. His solo stuff has been pretty hit or miss for me over the years though.
I really love Alice from 86 to 91 like yourself. I have a best of covering his early stuff that i really enjoy but I've never felt like doing a deep dive into his discography. Opeth are great, definitely a band that requires repeated listens thoough to take it all in. Great stuff as usual Mike. Your honesty is always refreshing. Cheers
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine Yeah I've seen some of the comments. It amazes me how grown adults are entirely incapable of understanding that your opinion isn't the same as theirs
You know I relate to you & your opinions on bands… we’ve had many a conversation about it… but I’ll never tire of hearing your opinions in a video Mike. If I didn’t like how a band looked… or I thought their logo & cover art was s**t… I just wasn’t interested… & if I’m totally honest with myself… I’m still like that now… I don’t think I’ll ever change… regardless of whether they’re actually good or not. If it doesn’t sit right with me… I don’t think it ever will. Good to see you mate🤘🏻
Cheers Marc. Yeah there's something in the air sometimes and it's hard to put your finger on. I'm like that with films too. I pick up on something early on in a film and Julie doesn't understand me. It can work positively too and of course when it works out like that she says oh great but when it doesn't she criticises my genius 😂. Hope you are doing well down there mate 🤘
Hello there! Well now you have certainly listen to more music that I have. You talk about albums from Alice Cooper, my interest stopped with the song Poison. Never heard a single note from many of the other bands you mentioned. But here in Norway all the nonsense of burning down churches and such was all over the news. I met Euronomys (from Mayhem) in his shop (Helvete) some months before he was killed. Not into black metal at that time but later I got into Covenant, Satyricon and Dimmu Borgir where the music was most in focus and not murdering bandmembers and burning down churches was so important (!) I enjoyed a couple of albums from Nevermore by the way. Nice video and cool concept for a discussion!
Hi Mike!!! Fair enough and i think we all have band we like an other like you said "avoid like the plague".....like a couple of Symphonic/folk bands, or a lot of female fronted bands that also sounded very samey to me. I think the thing with Alice Cooper is the same experience you had, i tried to listen to his 70's stuff and though "where's the heavy stuff"?? Iced Earth is a band i just discover a few years ago and thought it was a cool US power band with twoo cool vocalists. Never could get into Opeth. cheers.
Good video nice to see your input about these bands mate. Iced earth and opeth for me are just incredible. But as you rightly said it’s your perception and opinion and that’s what it’s all about mate. Good to see you mate.
I think you pretty much nailed it with that last ten minutes, mate. I couldn’t agree more! Anyway, thanks for the chuckles along the way too. Great stuff!
Your music journey isn’t too different from mine Mike , by early 90’s I was pretty much done with metal except for a few bands , for me it was all about punk rock , noise and alternative rock for the next 20 years. My experience of all the bands you mentioned was pretty much the same as yours at the time.
@@Rods__73 Yeah I see some guys who stayed with metal right the way through and that's great I was long gone by the mid to late 90s tho. Plenty of people in these comments can't handle that though lol
Love how you give a very honest opinion mike! And delivered in a way that gives me a giggle, I'm with you on most of them apart from Darkthrone. Ignore the haters, keep up the good work!
We're a similar age and I very much find myself sharing most of your list. I do have one divergence due to personal circumstances, I know Alice Cooper's pre-Constrictor stuff pretty well, as while I was an Iron Maiden kid my brother loved Alice Cooper. My favourites are those ones he did that he can't remember, which are quite New Wave/post punk, a bit like Magazine's Real Life and Hawkwind's Quark, Strangeness and Charm. I do have fondness for Killer though, Desperado and Dead Babies are great songs. Stuff like Saxon was never my jam, black metal seemed like a joke just courting magazine controversy when magazines seemed on the verge of dying off. I think that reaching adulthood around the 90s in the UK, it was really difficult to maintain interest in what metal was doing. I was much more interested in Therapy? and Nine Inch Nails, became obsessed with Coil (an experimental UK band from the 80s who were still active), as well as PJ Harvey etc. The exciting music just wasn't in metal anymore. It felt like it became obsessed with ever more obscure sub genres and disappeared up its own arse. And yes, PlayStation etc.
@@jackkaraquazian I loved that Therapy Babyteeth mini LP but they lost me after that. Good point about the magazines too. I stopped buying them by 94 too lol. I just absolutely switched off. Terrorvision I loved them.
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine I loved Nurse because it had that cold industrial sound. I've seen them live about three times and they're such a fun, energetic live band. Making so much noise for a three piece. Will always be one of my favourite bands, survived their brush with fame and have kept putting the work in over the years.
@@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine funnily enough, I've been listening through my 12" singles, listening to Stereolab right now but Terrorvision are up next on the physical pile.
Interesting video mate we all like what we like and that's the way it should be personally i like saxon and iced earth opeth i do dip in and out of dark thorne i've never been able to get into and the same with alice cooper but i don't generally gravitate towards solo artists for some reason
Opeth are definitely an acquired taste and known for their long-drawn-out prog metal. Many lose interest in songs that carry on for 8-12 minutes like many of their songs ds. Unless it's a track like Stairway to Heaven of course. That said, I appreciate a lot of their material personally, but understand why many wouldn't.
Cool video. Shame you didn't get into any Darkthrone, though with those three picks I can see why. I would recommend checking out their first black metal album Ablaze in the Northern Sky as its pure Hellhammer/Bathory worship with great distinctive tracks and discernable production. It's my favourite by far. My list: Slipknot, Nirvana (and Pearl Jam), Manowar, Motley Crue, Six Feet Under, fucking shit drumming AC/DC, and lastly Iron "Christ-this-is-Boring" Maiden.
@@ExplosiveAction Pearl Jam definitely a one album band for me. They were finished after that. Slipknot is pure cringe now looking back. I did hear that Darkthrone but not all the way through. You just watch when anyone speaks about that album. They love to mention "Kathaarian Life Code". I think people just like to say it 😂
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine hahaha it's my favourite track of theirs across the catalogue, so if that one doesn't work for you then I'd say Darkthrone have nothing to offer you.
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine meaning you and anyone disrespecting cool metal bands. They can shred harder than you probably can, and also they can kick you butt!
@TapioSusi Are you skipping school. Don't waste your time on crappy bands over your school work mate. Stick in. Get a good education. Music will be there for you when you get your life in order
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine Bro, I im saying it's not your place to diss these bands when you are no better, shame! Glory to all bands that tried! You are no music fan, you're just a snobby critic. I am a real music fan, and not only metal! Rap and hiphop is what sucks, go rag on that!
Hello Mickeyy. Im big metal cds collector as You, and i want say my 5 cents. When we all young, we take everything to listening, make headbanging and screams with those bands... Over 30 taste is more speciffic, and over 40 etc. And end of the day we are see we play some albums, and lot of them don't. We lake some bands and avoid the rest, becouse always something is wrong (vocal, sounds, is to harsh or not to heavy, or too heavy, ot too chaotic etc). I love Your videos and stay strong metal brother !!!
I quite like Iced Earth, but there have been bands that I never bothered listening to, where I had no interest. Maybe it's just I heard the band name and figured I already knew what they'd sound like. And I didn't want another band sounding like that. Or I just thought their band name was stupid. Also Alice Cooper is one I barely tried with. I had a live album that was ok, but I don't know. Stuff like lost in america or schools out just sem too goofy for me.
When I first heard Opeth I had a similar yet different response. I immediately thought "Man, this is some artsy fartsy nonsense... I need to check out more of this." Something about musicians that are a bit up their own ass appeals to my sensibilities and I couldn't exactly tell you why that is.
I’m not sure where in the North of England you are, although I would think from the accent, perhaps Durham or Wearside? Anyway, I’m from Newcastle, and I always felt they were never away from the City Hall during that period from 1979 thru 1984-would that have been the venue near to you? Anyway, I agree with what you say about them. However, I saw them multiple times in that period and they were very popular in the area, though perhaps for reasons you suggest, that had more to do with the North East than Saxon themselves. Even when KISS first came through in 1983, I feel in retrospect, it was because they were on the way down and playing smaller venues. Cheers!
@@drpaulmasonphd I've never been to the City Hall. I'm from the opposite side on the West Coast. I used to frequent the Mayfair though and the Riverside. I seen Nirvana and Tool in those places.
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine Thanks for the reply. I'm an old man who's been into heavy music for most of my life. Heavier than ever, right now, as I'm exploring extreme metal.
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine I've been getting into thall, lately - Humanity's Last Breath and Mirar, but also deathcore - I absolutely love Disembodied Tyrant/Synestia (it's a collab), Darko US is fantastic, Code Orange...I'm also into prog - Tool is a longtime favorite, and Ne Obliviscaris. I listen to all kinds of crazy metal. Sleep is a favorite, as is Acid Bath. I could go on for a bit...of course, I still love Sabbath.
Your town is just " Sheep and Goats " I did not know you lived in New Zealand.😅 You would probably enjoy seeing Alice Cooper live , I saw him many years ago in Australia and it was a good show. My album experience with him is exactly the same as you, but I do put on his greatest hits for a blast from time to time.There are also many later " Accept " tracks I do enjoy, but I get why you bailed on them. Can't say I listened to lots of late 90's metal either . Interesting video Mike.
@@AttackFromDownunda I just get to a point with every band where I feel they've given me all they can. Music in the 90s forced me to look in other areas. Metal was the last place I was looking.
Iced earth was patchy but had a lot of quality material. Saxon is a reliable source of high quality blue collar meat and potatoes metal. Darkthrone is all over the place in content and quality but has done everything that exists in metal well at some point and put out more quality albums than 90% of bands. Alice is a creative pioneer with remarkably well composed rock music that doesn't always even veer into metal. Opeth were super influential, very unique, focused, and disciplined. Unimpeachable, unquestionable bands.
I'm a bit younger than you, but I fell in love with Opeth instantly. Having said that, metal has become very different since the early 1990s with more hardcore punk and hip hop influences. I suppose a few metal bands need gimmicks to gain attention and stand out. I also like Deftones, Nightwish, Children of Bodom, In Flames, Carcass, Death, Dark Tranquility and a couple of others, but I suppose age and the generation gap kicks in. When you go past 20, it becomes hard to find new music to like. I'll name a few I despise: Limp Bizkit, Tool, ACDC and Fear Factory. There's very little music I like that was released after 2010. I know a few around my age might list the likes of Parkway Drive, Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot, Korn, System of a Down, Linkin Park & Architects that got pushed a bit too hard in their faces. Only Architects & Parkway were bands from those names I could tolerate until the past 5 years. Once you hear a lot of same genre, it does get formulaic and copycats push new bands for tweaks in styles and themes
@@EncoreASMR Very good thinking. I didn't mind SOAD but not everything they did. Tool very early stuff but they got self indulgent fast. FF are just awful lol.
Yeah let's just go ahead and hate creativity and love our opinions and underground reputation more. Sorry I'm not quite dissing you man I just am sick and tired of all these scene an anti seen everything. Music is about the ears and if you don't like it it's probably something not wrong with the band but something wrong with the listener
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine opinions are ruining the fun of everything. But where the dragon eats its tail is where somebody could simply say, how opinionated of you to say that. To me. People have a narcissistic bent towards their opinion. How about simply put on the music and take the ride and forget your opinions.
@jamiemay8546 I'm not telling people to not listen or like them. I'm telling my experience and connections with them. I even say at the end it's really all about circumstances
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine call me sensitive? LOL. It's no big deal I'm projecting. And it's totally the wrong thing to do. You're still not understanding what I'm saying though. But that's all good.. what's cool about this is like all the other people on UA-cam you're actually doing something and creating something and not just sitting around all day droning out. It's a good video and well put together. In my opinionlessness I always try to embrace that. Like I said my very refute is a dragon eating its tail. And thank you for responding.
"Music is all about ears and if you don't like it, it's probably something not wrong with the band but something with the listener." "Opinions are ruining the fun of everything." Lmfao
Interesting video mate, I've never been interested in Alice Cooper, on paper and musically it does nothing for me. Now Iced Earth, their live album 'Alive in Athens' is well worth a punt, I genuinely think you'd enjoy them. Their almost a thrashy version of Maiden and NWOBHM bands of the 80s with some elements of power metal. Matt Barlow albums are the ones to listen to, their last singer sounded like the fella from Creed. Utter shite! Darkthrone is another I like but only a handful of albums. Newer stuff is ok and a bit doomy but not fussed. Saxon are a greatest hits band for me, couldn't care less about owning an album. Glad to see you looking well chief.
Interesting stuff Mike , don’t think I ever heard a full Alice cooper album , I’m just not interested, have an old greatest hits of his but never played As for Accept , I do like there first few albums but the new era of the band just bores me I love Opeth one of my favorite bands Still have a few , maybe 8 of those Nuclear Blast dvd sets, and I like throwing them on the odd time Good video, I’m sure we all could do this video for a lot of bands who just never clicked with us
I guess we all have artist like that. I sure do. Some of them are bands I used to like, and others are bands I never liked. In both cases, I just don't want to waste my time on them. I've seen Opeth live a couple of times and strangely, at outdoor venues, they were not interesting and, at indoor venues, they were really good.
@ hahaha yep. Other than one or two bands you mentioned in the last part of this, I 100% agree with all of it. Thing is I have one Opeth record and it’s good, but I need to be in the mood for them. And yes fuck em 🤣
I’m surprised Annihilator didn’t take a shit kicking in this video 😂 As you said these are your experiences with these bands, not mine! I’m just happy it only took you 37 years to like U.D.O. Animal House 🤘
Very cool insight in your musical journey. I like most of those bands, at least parts of their careere. I love some Saxon but I never got it why they were and are headlining festivals like Wacken in front of 85.000 people. I like them playing mid sized indoor shows but i never made it through a whole Saxon set at a festival. Cooper, oh boy... I tried his "cult" 70s albums and they did nothing for me, the only one I kind of like is "Raise your Fist..." The first two Iced Earth are fantastic. Everything else? Nah...
Saxon is a great and underrated band but they're not an S tier one and never were - they're a B tier band that's been left ignored on the D tier long enough that people on the hunt for "hidden gems" or "overlooked albums" have critically reappraised them and are more appreciative now.
I've never owned an Alice Cooper album but I've seen him live twice and his live shows are pretty rockin'. "School's Out" and "18" are great tracks too, hard rock not metal though I'd say. Ice Age were effing class, I saw them 3 times in Walthamstow and their 3 demos still to this day. Iced Earth are Ok, seen em live, have a couple of albums, not great for me but decent enough. In my musical journey I bought 1Saxon album and it was pants. Seen them live twice and with a beer or two inside they are pretty good live to my ears. Dark Throne are pretty cool, I own a few of there's, funnily enough I don't have any Burzum or Mayhem. Wow I'm not sure if I still have my copy of that Kerrang issue. Opeth = yawn. I never moved on from metal really, although I only really listen to it nowadays whilst doing my show. Primal Fear, Dark Tranquillity and Kataklysm are my picks of them bands you never got in to.
How you don't like Iced Earth is beyond me. Those last 2 Saxon albums are brilliant as they have been since the mid 90's. Alice Cooper is the original Detroit Garage Rocker who has had a hand in every Hard Rock genre there is. Suit yourself.
@@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine -- That's the weirdest answer I've ever heard. I have no idea why you don't like Iced Earth, unless the galloping rhythms, expressive leads, and Matt Barlow's voice of God don't appeal to you. What difference does it make how old someone is? Biff Byford is a great singer/songwriter and those last 2 albums are awesome. It's guys like you who ruin great Rock.
@@ricenglish4556 I said in the video I seen the logo and a few album covers and instinctively knew it wouldn't be for me. A mate just said I need to try them and send me a link to a song called The last laugh. It was exactly what I thought it was going to be and I hated it. Satisfied?
Everyone has popular bands they dont like its normal. Opeth is my favorite band and I definitely understand why you dont like them. Cant help it if the music does nothing for you and bores you. Im the same with Nirvana for an example, I like some songs but theyre not really my thing.
Alice Cooper's better stuff was in the early 70's, but I'm with you on Opeth. Just the one album was enough for me. Agree that the mid 90's were an odd time for heavy music but I was getting into punk and hip hop along with any metal albums that took my interest. I didn't bother with The Burning Red because I thought Machine Head were jumping on the nu metal bandwagon.
Opeth have never really been my thing, saw their van at one of the Damnation festivals up in Leeds and it looked like it had a giant Christmas advert on the sides 🤣🤣🤣 Can see what you mean about Saxon, saw them live some 20 years ago and I thought they were good but not a band I've any interest in checking out.
I feel so triggered that you don't worship Alice Cooper. Love It To Death, Killer, School's Out and Welcome To My Nightmare are classics that everybody should own. Now my day is ruined! I am so offended by your take! I used to be really into Opeth but now I feel like they are just boring. Great musicians and all but there's so much better music around. Great video as always! Cheers!
My list in no order...I could add plenty more Opeth - Boring and overly complicated arrangements Rush - Long winded, boring progressive 70's dinosaur rock Annihilator - overly technical Yngwie Malmsteen - pretensions overly complicated guitar masturbation Sammy Hagar era Van Halen - BORING radio friendly boomer rock Dokken - Talented band, Too many ballads, Not hard enough Sorry if I pissed anyone off but....
Thats just it, no need to get offended at all, we all agree or disagree based upon our own tastes and perceptions. I am a big fan of the first 8 OPETH releases. The last two? Irredeemably awful!! Lol. They are media/ review format darlings. Nothing but high praise. People who dont like the new stuff are derided as " neanderthal non progressives". So...the new album was hailed as a return to form, Opeth growls again. I played it. He does growl again, as if the value of a band was simply the particular attributes, or characteristic sum of its parts. It sucks as bad as the last stupid, unbelievably pointless and boring release, but....hey guys!, he's growling again. Growl over a piece of shit its still a piece of shit. So that is my self absorbed opinion. Its not that I don't mind being in a minority, I just find it odd that I dont hear/ read any other opinions of dissent or contrary perspective.
A lot of the bands you talked about I'm not too bothered about either Mike. I like Darkthrone what I've heard (which isn't much), and I like Opeth but haven't listened to much of them either. Never listened to Saxon, and I've never been interested in Alice Cooper or Iced Earth. On those 90's/2000's Metal bands, would you have been more interested in them if they came out earlier? I guess it's the generational thing, my dad never bothered with Metal passed the mid 90's until I started getting into the 90's/2000's Metal in the late 2010's. I do enjoy a lot of those bands, but equally there's a lot of bands from that period I'm not interested in too. Interesting vid 🤘🏻
@@JoshKeech I think and you could ask you dad maybe he might agree. Metal splintered into lots of styles, way more than it was before. As stupid as this sounds, bands were cutting their hair and it all just felt like it had had its day. I've never been massively traditional in my tastes. Iron Maiden has so much to offer a new metal fan but that same level of professionalism and marketing and exposure didn't stretch out to many traditional metal bands so I never got into them. Plus, and it's a huge plus...You find yourself going out looking for birds and getting drunk. No these days that's died off as well but when I was your age that was more important than what albums were knocking about. It mattered when I was too young to go out.
@@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine Ahh yeah, I see what you mean. By that stage, Metal had so many subgenres and even more now it's crazy! And with the movement of other music, Metal kinda fell away. My dad got into Grunge and Alt Rock in the mid-late 90's as that was the big thing. He still listened to the old 80's stuff but nothing "new" until I had gotten interested in 90's/2000's Metal. So I totally see where you're coming from. Yeah I totally get that too, a lot of Traditional Metal kinda passed me by because my dad was never into it apart from Maiden too. But your last point is very valid, things are so different now, people don't go out like they used to in your and my parents time. I agree there
I've never been an Alice Cooper. First thing I heard was the "Poison" abomination. Anything else I heard (Teenage Frankenstein/School's Out/No More Mr Nice Guy)was all turd. Mince. Iced Earth are not for me either. Shite vocals ruin it. Poor man's Iron Maiden. Dogshit. I've seen Saxon live supporting Motörhead and enjoyed them, but anytime I've listened to studio material it's done fuck all for me. Big Dark Throne fan, always buy their new albums. I get how you dislike Blac Metal though. I detested it for years. When/if it clicks with you it's astounding. I like bits of Opeth- the growly stuff, but when they went all acoustic it made me want to go deaf. Saw them live though and they were great. The new album is worth a punt though.... Them dvds at the end are 98% shite. Great idea for a video though, cheers for the mention!!
@@thegrimmfluencer I don't have the willingness to seek out new stuff to be honest mate. I feel like I'm at saturation point. There's obviously going to be something else down the line but I feel I've overdone it. It's like UA-cam got my interest in music back but killed it as well.
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine The other night my mate randomly phoned me and said his son's mate was there and he was "into Death Metal" and so my mate thought it'd be a good idea to get him to speak to me (he was drunk) so anyway it turned out e was into Desthcore. He'dd never heard f Autopsy or Gorguts, so it was pointless continuing! Then he asked if zlI'd heard Lorna Shore....I said "fuck knows, never met her".....turns out it was the name of a band.......maybe I'm just too old.... too old,...as Darkthrone would say.....
@@under-one-flag First Tool mini album is good and second Danzig is good but I can see why you don't like them, same with Manowar. I don't know what Metal Core is 😂
@ I like early Opeth - when they released Heritage they were dead to me. Although the new album is supposed to be back on track - well the growls are back
@@under-one-flag early Opeth up to Blackwater park we’re immense…but saying that I also like their stuff transitioning to the proggy direction. Heritage grew on me, and now I really love all their albums tbh…the new one is great, one of the albums of the year. I mean, just my opinion of course, what my ear hears. My favourite album of theirs is Still Life - that, to me, is a masterpiece
Iced Earth hold close to my heart since 1996 with them getting thru deaths in my family (on both dad's side & mom's side of the family) & my stroke in 2004 at the age 25.
@@MetalJohn1979 Fair enough dude you enjoy them I'm not knocking you
Asking Opeth to play simplistic songs? What you are saying is: I really have no idea what kind of band Opeth is, but I still avoid them because of a live performance 20 years ago
@@NeptuneTowers Exactly that
Opeth are an incredible overrated and boring band. They have a few decent tracks but I’ve never understood the heaps of praise the band get. The tracks just meander and don’t go anywhere and the acoustic guitar parts pasted into the middle of a song sound janky and weird. There are so many better bands playing that style of music.
Haha fun video mate. I missed all Alice except for the song Poison of course which I did enjoy the pervy video of but I later worked with a guy who played me the old 70s stuff which was NOT what I expected. It sounded like circus music and was just bizarre.
Iced Earth are one of my all-time favourite bands! Like a blend of Power & Thrash.
Songs I'd recommend are "Travel in Stygian", "Dante's Inferno" & "The Coming Curse".
If people don't like them then I'd understand but I love Jon Schaffer's riff style - the music is like a halfway blend between Iron Maiden & Metallica. Obviously people will question the comparison in terms of quality but stylistically that's a good description!
@Stevie-Steele I looked at that first song you mentioned and it had some decent riffs but nothing I haven't done do death from others though
Great band….love the Alive in Athen live set
Iced earth no,sound like paul stanley singing for some power metal band.
I respect your likes tho.
But in the same vain Manowar,Primal fear,Iron Savior,Helloween,Stratovarius,Gamma ray,Hammer fall to name very few before iced earth hitting my cd player.
I hate the guy too that doesnt help too
I agree with you about Alice,Kane was the best thing to that band.
Raise your fist and yell tour was the last big arena tour Alice ever did.
Trashes the world he was touring arenas 1/3 filled with Great White as opener.Then theatres
Alice Cooper was at his best in the Alice Cooper Band. Albums like Love It To Death, Killer, School's Out and Billion Dollar Babies are fantastic imo. His solo stuff has been pretty hit or miss for me over the years though.
I really love Alice from 86 to 91 like yourself. I have a best of covering his early stuff that i really enjoy but I've never felt like doing a deep dive into his discography. Opeth are great, definitely a band that requires repeated listens thoough to take it all in. Great stuff as usual Mike. Your honesty is always refreshing. Cheers
@@mrboulder9714 Cheers James. I was really just giving my perspective bus as usual the mongs are out in force 😂
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine Yeah I've seen some of the comments. It amazes me how grown adults are entirely incapable of understanding that your opinion isn't the same as theirs
You know I relate to you & your opinions on bands… we’ve had many a conversation about it… but I’ll never tire of hearing your opinions in a video Mike. If I didn’t like how a band looked… or I thought their logo & cover art was s**t… I just wasn’t interested… & if I’m totally honest with myself… I’m still like that now… I don’t think I’ll ever change… regardless of whether they’re actually good or not. If it doesn’t sit right with me… I don’t think it ever will. Good to see you mate🤘🏻
Cheers Marc. Yeah there's something in the air sometimes and it's hard to put your finger on. I'm like that with films too. I pick up on something early on in a film and Julie doesn't understand me. It can work positively too and of course when it works out like that she says oh great but when it doesn't she criticises my genius 😂. Hope you are doing well down there mate 🤘
Great video man thanks for making it we need more
Hello there! Well now you have certainly listen to more music that I have. You talk about albums from Alice Cooper, my interest stopped with the song Poison. Never heard a single note from many of the other bands you mentioned. But here in Norway all the nonsense of burning down churches and such was all over the news. I met Euronomys (from Mayhem) in his shop (Helvete) some months before he was killed. Not into black metal at that time but later I got into Covenant, Satyricon and Dimmu Borgir where the music was most in focus and not murdering bandmembers and burning down churches was so important (!) I enjoyed a couple of albums from Nevermore by the way. Nice video and cool concept for a discussion!
Hi Mike!!! Fair enough and i think we all have band we like an other like you said "avoid like the plague".....like a couple of Symphonic/folk bands, or a lot of female fronted bands that also sounded very samey to me. I think the thing with Alice Cooper is the same experience you had, i tried to listen to his 70's stuff and though "where's the heavy stuff"?? Iced Earth is a band i just discover a few years ago and thought it was a cool US power band with twoo cool vocalists. Never could get into Opeth. cheers.
Where's the heavy stuff is spot on. It's like that with all of the 70s bands really but especially him. Cheers Christian
Good video nice to see your input about these bands mate. Iced earth and opeth for me are just incredible. But as you rightly said it’s your perception and opinion and that’s what it’s all about mate. Good to see you mate.
@@HM2dylanpowell Cheers Dylan. You can't get it through to some of the yanks like 😂
Hey Micky ,
Greetings from Canada , great video mate .
Glad to see you back doing this stuff .
@@MarkOBrien-jl6cf Cheers dude
I think you pretty much nailed it with that last ten minutes, mate. I couldn’t agree more! Anyway, thanks for the chuckles along the way too. Great stuff!
@@pjcryptfeeder Cheers mate glad you enjoyed it. Hope you're well 🤘
Your music journey isn’t too different from mine Mike , by early 90’s I was pretty much done with metal except for a few bands , for me it was all about punk rock , noise and alternative rock for the next 20 years.
My experience of all the bands you mentioned was pretty much the same as yours at the time.
@@Rods__73 Yeah I see some guys who stayed with metal right the way through and that's great I was long gone by the mid to late 90s tho. Plenty of people in these comments can't handle that though lol
Love how you give a very honest opinion mike! And delivered in a way that gives me a giggle, I'm with you on most of them apart from Darkthrone. Ignore the haters, keep up the good work!
Thank you dude.
We're a similar age and I very much find myself sharing most of your list. I do have one divergence due to personal circumstances, I know Alice Cooper's pre-Constrictor stuff pretty well, as while I was an Iron Maiden kid my brother loved Alice Cooper. My favourites are those ones he did that he can't remember, which are quite New Wave/post punk, a bit like Magazine's Real Life and Hawkwind's Quark, Strangeness and Charm. I do have fondness for Killer though, Desperado and Dead Babies are great songs. Stuff like Saxon was never my jam, black metal seemed like a joke just courting magazine controversy when magazines seemed on the verge of dying off.
I think that reaching adulthood around the 90s in the UK, it was really difficult to maintain interest in what metal was doing. I was much more interested in Therapy? and Nine Inch Nails, became obsessed with Coil (an experimental UK band from the 80s who were still active), as well as PJ Harvey etc. The exciting music just wasn't in metal anymore. It felt like it became obsessed with ever more obscure sub genres and disappeared up its own arse.
And yes, PlayStation etc.
@@jackkaraquazian I loved that Therapy Babyteeth mini LP but they lost me after that. Good point about the magazines too. I stopped buying them by 94 too lol. I just absolutely switched off. Terrorvision I loved them.
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine I loved Nurse because it had that cold industrial sound. I've seen them live about three times and they're such a fun, energetic live band. Making so much noise for a three piece. Will always be one of my favourite bands, survived their brush with fame and have kept putting the work in over the years.
@@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine funnily enough, I've been listening through my 12" singles, listening to Stereolab right now but Terrorvision are up next on the physical pile.
Interesting video mate we all like what we like and that's the way it should be personally i like saxon and iced earth opeth i do dip in and out of dark thorne i've never been able to get into and the same with alice cooper but i don't generally gravitate towards solo artists for some reason
Yeah I understand what you mean by the solo artists I don't tend to bother with female vocals. It's enough to put me off most of the time
Opeth are definitely an acquired taste and known for their long-drawn-out prog metal. Many lose interest in songs that carry on for 8-12 minutes like many of their songs ds. Unless it's a track like Stairway to Heaven of course. That said, I appreciate a lot of their material personally, but understand why many wouldn't.
@@mynameismud-qd9vu Oh add Led Zeppelin to this list as well I can't stand them
Some people dont understand time changes
Cool video. Shame you didn't get into any Darkthrone, though with those three picks I can see why. I would recommend checking out their first black metal album Ablaze in the Northern Sky as its pure Hellhammer/Bathory worship with great distinctive tracks and discernable production. It's my favourite by far.
My list: Slipknot, Nirvana (and Pearl Jam), Manowar, Motley Crue, Six Feet Under, fucking shit drumming AC/DC, and lastly Iron "Christ-this-is-Boring" Maiden.
@@ExplosiveAction Pearl Jam definitely a one album band for me. They were finished after that. Slipknot is pure cringe now looking back. I did hear that Darkthrone but not all the way through. You just watch when anyone speaks about that album. They love to mention
"Kathaarian Life Code". I think people just like to say it 😂
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine hahaha it's my favourite track of theirs across the catalogue, so if that one doesn't work for you then I'd say Darkthrone have nothing to offer you.
Darkthrone is one of the coolest bands out there. A Blaze in the northern sky and Transalvanian hunger are SPECTACULAR
@@beans8269 You're lucky to have them pump out so much stuff then
Y'all tripping. I wouldn't be disrespectful about these bands!
@@TapioSusi Y'all? There's only me 😂
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine meaning you and anyone disrespecting cool metal bands. They can shred harder than you probably can, and also they can kick you butt!
@TapioSusi Are you skipping school. Don't waste your time on crappy bands over your school work mate. Stick in. Get a good education. Music will be there for you when you get your life in order
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine Bro, I im saying it's not your place to diss these bands when you are no better, shame! Glory to all bands that tried! You are no music fan, you're just a snobby critic. I am a real music fan, and not only metal! Rap and hiphop is what sucks, go rag on that!
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine I'm older than you except I don't have gray hair, and it's sad you're still in school at your age!
Hello Mickeyy. Im big metal cds collector as You, and i want say my 5 cents. When we all young, we take everything to listening, make headbanging and screams with those bands... Over 30 taste is more speciffic, and over 40 etc. And end of the day we are see we play some albums, and lot of them don't. We lake some bands and avoid the rest, becouse always something is wrong (vocal, sounds, is to harsh or not to heavy, or too heavy, ot too chaotic etc). I love Your videos and stay strong metal brother !!!
@@kaytek9737 Cheers dude much appreciated. You're right with your points too
I quite like Iced Earth, but there have been bands that I never bothered listening to, where I had no interest. Maybe it's just I heard the band name and figured I already knew what they'd sound like. And I didn't want another band sounding like that. Or I just thought their band name was stupid. Also Alice Cooper is one I barely tried with. I had a live album that was ok, but I don't know. Stuff like lost in america or schools out just sem too goofy for me.
Absolutely with you there. A name can make or break me listening
When I first heard Opeth I had a similar yet different response. I immediately thought "Man, this is some artsy fartsy nonsense... I need to check out more of this." Something about musicians that are a bit up their own ass appeals to my sensibilities and I couldn't exactly tell you why that is.
@@benwebb4424 😂 yeah total opposites.
I’m not sure where in the North of England you are, although I would think from the accent, perhaps Durham or Wearside? Anyway, I’m from Newcastle, and I always felt they were never away from the City Hall during that period from 1979 thru 1984-would that have been the venue near to you? Anyway, I agree with what you say about them. However, I saw them multiple times in that period and they were very popular in the area, though perhaps for reasons you suggest, that had more to do with the North East than Saxon themselves. Even when KISS first came through in 1983, I feel in retrospect, it was because they were on the way down and playing smaller venues. Cheers!
@@drpaulmasonphd I've never been to the City Hall. I'm from the opposite side on the West Coast. I used to frequent the Mayfair though and the Riverside. I seen Nirvana and Tool in those places.
Just out of curiosity, what are you into? This is the first video of yours I've seen.
Have a look at some videos. 80s thrash and glam 90s death metal and alternative
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine Thanks for the reply. I'm an old man who's been into heavy music for most of my life. Heavier than ever, right now, as I'm exploring extreme metal.
@DavidMiller-dt8mx Oh very cool. Which bands have you gotten into so far in the extreme stuff? I'm old school. Death Morbid Angel etc
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine I've been getting into thall, lately - Humanity's Last Breath and Mirar, but also deathcore - I absolutely love Disembodied Tyrant/Synestia (it's a collab), Darko US is fantastic, Code Orange...I'm also into prog - Tool is a longtime favorite, and Ne Obliviscaris. I listen to all kinds of crazy metal. Sleep is a favorite, as is Acid Bath.
I could go on for a bit...of course, I still love Sabbath.
Your town is just " Sheep and Goats " I did not know you lived in New Zealand.😅
You would probably enjoy seeing Alice Cooper live , I saw him many years ago in Australia and it was a good
show.
My album experience with him is exactly the same as you, but I do put on his greatest hits for a blast from
time to time.There are also many later " Accept " tracks I do enjoy, but I get why you bailed on them.
Can't say I listened to lots of late 90's metal either . Interesting video Mike.
@@AttackFromDownunda I just get to a point with every band where I feel they've given me all they can. Music in the 90s forced me to look in other areas. Metal was the last place I was looking.
Iced earth was patchy but had a lot of quality material. Saxon is a reliable source of high quality blue collar meat and potatoes metal. Darkthrone is all over the place in content and quality but has done everything that exists in metal well at some point and put out more quality albums than 90% of bands. Alice is a creative pioneer with remarkably well composed rock music that doesn't always even veer into metal. Opeth were super influential, very unique, focused, and disciplined.
Unimpeachable, unquestionable bands.
Well, iced earth you can at least question
I'm a bit younger than you, but I fell in love with Opeth instantly. Having said that, metal has become very different since the early 1990s with more hardcore punk and hip hop influences. I suppose a few metal bands need gimmicks to gain attention and stand out. I also like Deftones, Nightwish, Children of Bodom, In Flames, Carcass, Death, Dark Tranquility and a couple of others, but I suppose age and the generation gap kicks in. When you go past 20, it becomes hard to find new music to like. I'll name a few I despise: Limp Bizkit, Tool, ACDC and Fear Factory. There's very little music I like that was released after 2010. I know a few around my age might list the likes of Parkway Drive, Bring Me The Horizon, Slipknot, Korn, System of a Down, Linkin Park & Architects that got pushed a bit too hard in their faces. Only Architects & Parkway were bands from those names I could tolerate until the past 5 years. Once you hear a lot of same genre, it does get formulaic and copycats push new bands for tweaks in styles and themes
@@EncoreASMR Very good thinking. I didn't mind SOAD but not everything they did. Tool very early stuff but they got self indulgent fast. FF are just awful lol.
Yeah let's just go ahead and hate creativity and love our opinions and underground reputation more. Sorry I'm not quite dissing you man I just am sick and tired of all these scene an anti seen everything. Music is about the ears and if you don't like it it's probably something not wrong with the band but something wrong with the listener
@@jamiemay8546 Too sensitive it's just my opinion
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine opinions are ruining the fun of everything. But where the dragon eats its tail is where somebody could simply say, how opinionated of you to say that. To me. People have a narcissistic bent towards their opinion. How about simply put on the music and take the ride and forget your opinions.
@jamiemay8546 I'm not telling people to not listen or like them. I'm telling my experience and connections with them. I even say at the end it's really all about circumstances
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine call me sensitive? LOL. It's no big deal I'm projecting. And it's totally the wrong thing to do. You're still not understanding what I'm saying though. But that's all good.. what's cool about this is like all the other people on UA-cam you're actually doing something and creating something and not just sitting around all day droning out. It's a good video and well put together. In my opinionlessness I always try to embrace that. Like I said my very refute is a dragon eating its tail. And thank you for responding.
"Music is all about ears and if you don't like it, it's probably something not wrong with the band but something with the listener."
"Opinions are ruining the fun of everything." Lmfao
Interesting video mate, I've never been interested in Alice Cooper, on paper and musically it does nothing for me. Now Iced Earth, their live album 'Alive in Athens' is well worth a punt, I genuinely think you'd enjoy them. Their almost a thrashy version of Maiden and NWOBHM bands of the 80s with some elements of power metal. Matt Barlow albums are the ones to listen to, their last singer sounded like the fella from Creed. Utter shite! Darkthrone is another I like but only a handful of albums. Newer stuff is ok and a bit doomy but not fussed. Saxon are a greatest hits band for me, couldn't care less about owning an album. Glad to see you looking well chief.
@@TheDeathDoomMetalHead What is thee song to try. I'll try it. I hate new wave of British heavy metal as well so I'm not hopeful 😂.
Interesting stuff Mike , don’t think I ever heard a full Alice cooper album , I’m just not interested, have an old greatest hits of his but never played
As for Accept , I do like there first few albums but the new era of the band just bores me
I love Opeth one of my favorite bands
Still have a few , maybe 8 of those Nuclear Blast dvd sets, and I like throwing them on the odd time
Good video, I’m sure we all could do this video for a lot of bands who just never clicked with us
@@metalmartymac Feel free to jump on the idea mate I'd. E interested to hear it 🤘
I guess we all have artist like that. I sure do. Some of them are bands I used to like, and others are bands I never liked. In both cases, I just don't want to waste my time on them. I've seen Opeth live a couple of times and strangely, at outdoor venues, they were not interesting and, at indoor venues, they were really good.
@This-Is-Music A few bands live have killed my interest in them and visa versa.
Mastodon is another band that have baffled me with their success, although that's because sludge and doom metal has never been my thing
@@EncoreASMR I like a couple of poppy albums they did but the early growly stuff I don't like
🤣🤣 you bring up this is your experience with these bands, and then a couple people get mad 🤣.
Ok will return to this after I finish watching 😊
Fuqem they're pathetic
@ hahaha yep. Other than one or two bands you mentioned in the last part of this, I 100% agree with all of it. Thing is I have one Opeth record and it’s good, but I need to be in the mood for them. And yes fuck em 🤣
I got every Darkthrone & Opeth cd.
I was born in ‘87 though, that would explain it.
@@DesolateSolitude Yeah that's about 15 years younger than me 😂
I’m surprised Annihilator didn’t take a shit kicking in this video 😂 As you said these are your experiences with these bands, not mine! I’m just happy it only took you 37 years to like U.D.O. Animal House 🤘
@@darcysixstringsninelives3493 I didn't think about including them but yeah there wank enough to make this list 😂
Very cool insight in your musical journey. I like most of those bands, at least parts of their careere. I love some Saxon but I never got it why they were and are headlining festivals like Wacken in front of 85.000 people. I like them playing mid sized indoor shows but i never made it through a whole Saxon set at a festival.
Cooper, oh boy... I tried his "cult" 70s albums and they did nothing for me, the only one I kind of like is "Raise your Fist..." The first two Iced Earth are fantastic. Everything else? Nah...
@@albertampel4175 Darcy sees Saxon in the same league as Maiden and Priest. I can only assume the accent, the downmarketness is lost overseas
Saxon's manager is one of the organisers of the Wacken Festival. I guess that has something to do with it😃
Saxon is a great and underrated band but they're not an S tier one and never were - they're a B tier band that's been left ignored on the D tier long enough that people on the hunt for "hidden gems" or "overlooked albums" have critically reappraised them and are more appreciative now.
I've never owned an Alice Cooper album but I've seen him live twice and his live shows are pretty rockin'. "School's Out" and "18" are great tracks too, hard rock not metal though I'd say. Ice Age were effing class, I saw them 3 times in Walthamstow and their 3 demos still to this day. Iced Earth are Ok, seen em live, have a couple of albums, not great for me but decent enough. In my musical journey I bought 1Saxon album and it was pants. Seen them live twice and with a beer or two inside they are pretty good live to my ears. Dark Throne are pretty cool, I own a few of there's, funnily enough I don't have any Burzum or Mayhem. Wow I'm not sure if I still have my copy of that Kerrang issue. Opeth = yawn. I never moved on from metal really, although I only really listen to it nowadays whilst doing my show. Primal Fear, Dark Tranquillity and Kataklysm are my picks of them bands you never got in to.
@@thegreyman If you have it you'll get decent money at the moment and it's not worth keeping at that price
@@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine I did sell a bunch of mags but can't recall if that one got sold too.
How you don't like Iced Earth is beyond me. Those last 2 Saxon albums are brilliant as they have been since the mid 90's. Alice Cooper is the original Detroit Garage Rocker who has had a hand in every Hard Rock genre there is. Suit yourself.
@@ricenglish4556 You know why I don't like Iced Earth 😂 Saxon is old man metal.
@@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine -- That's the weirdest answer I've ever heard. I have no idea why you don't like Iced Earth, unless the galloping rhythms, expressive leads, and Matt Barlow's voice of God don't appeal to you. What difference does it make how old someone is? Biff Byford is a great singer/songwriter and those last 2 albums are awesome. It's guys like you who ruin great Rock.
@@ricenglish4556 I said in the video I seen the logo and a few album covers and instinctively knew it wouldn't be for me. A mate just said I need to try them and send me a link to a song called The last laugh. It was exactly what I thought it was going to be and I hated it. Satisfied?
Everyone has popular bands they dont like its normal. Opeth is my favorite band and I definitely understand why you dont like them. Cant help it if the music does nothing for you and bores you. Im the same with Nirvana for an example, I like some songs but theyre not really my thing.
Yeah that's fair enough. I wish some others could see it like that. Lots of butthurts
Alice Cooper's better stuff was in the early 70's, but I'm with you on Opeth. Just the one album was enough for me. Agree that the mid 90's were an odd time for heavy music but I was getting into punk and hip hop along with any metal albums that took my interest. I didn't bother with The Burning Red because I thought Machine Head were jumping on the nu metal bandwagon.
@@MosherBear Nu Metal has aged badly but I think that has a bit of hip hop more than Nu Metal really. Punk got big then tho yeah
Opeth have never really been my thing, saw their van at one of the Damnation festivals up in Leeds and it looked like it had a giant Christmas advert on the sides 🤣🤣🤣 Can see what you mean about Saxon, saw them live some 20 years ago and I thought they were good but not a band I've any interest in checking out.
@@greywanderer5935 😂😂😂😂
I feel so triggered that you don't worship Alice Cooper. Love It To Death, Killer, School's Out and Welcome To My Nightmare are classics that everybody should own. Now my day is ruined! I am so offended by your take! I used to be really into Opeth but now I feel like they are just boring. Great musicians and all but there's so much better music around. Great video as always! Cheers!
@@petrirantanen Haha yeah you're twice my age do it works out that Alice Cooper thing though 😂
I hate complainers if you like the music then like it simple as that no need to claim you an elitist like come on those are the real posers
@@666Deicide If you hate complainers why did you click on the video?
I'm so relieved not to see Led Zeppelin on that list.
@@moodlefyful 😂 I try to blot them out of my mind 🤣🤣🤣
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine 😆
My list in no order...I could add plenty more
Opeth - Boring and overly complicated arrangements
Rush - Long winded, boring progressive 70's dinosaur rock
Annihilator - overly technical
Yngwie Malmsteen - pretensions overly complicated guitar masturbation
Sammy Hagar era Van Halen - BORING radio friendly boomer rock
Dokken - Talented band, Too many ballads, Not hard enough
Sorry if I pissed anyone off but....
@@MB-oc1nw Took me a long time to enjoy Rush so I get it. Dokken is the other one I don't mind now but I get that also and the rest
Thats just it, no need to get offended at all, we all agree or disagree based upon our own tastes and perceptions.
I am a big fan of the first 8 OPETH releases. The last two?
Irredeemably awful!! Lol.
They are media/ review format darlings. Nothing but high praise. People who dont like the new stuff are derided as " neanderthal non progressives".
So...the new album was hailed as a return to form, Opeth growls again. I played it. He does growl again, as if the value of a band was simply the particular attributes, or characteristic sum of its parts.
It sucks as bad as the last stupid, unbelievably pointless and boring release, but....hey guys!, he's growling again.
Growl over a piece of shit its still a piece of shit.
So that is my self absorbed opinion. Its not that I don't mind being in a minority, I just find it odd that I dont hear/ read any other opinions of dissent or contrary perspective.
A lot of the bands you talked about I'm not too bothered about either Mike. I like Darkthrone what I've heard (which isn't much), and I like Opeth but haven't listened to much of them either. Never listened to Saxon, and I've never been interested in Alice Cooper or Iced Earth. On those 90's/2000's Metal bands, would you have been more interested in them if they came out earlier? I guess it's the generational thing, my dad never bothered with Metal passed the mid 90's until I started getting into the 90's/2000's Metal in the late 2010's. I do enjoy a lot of those bands, but equally there's a lot of bands from that period I'm not interested in too. Interesting vid 🤘🏻
@@JoshKeech I think and you could ask you dad maybe he might agree. Metal splintered into lots of styles, way more than it was before. As stupid as this sounds, bands were cutting their hair and it all just felt like it had had its day. I've never been massively traditional in my tastes. Iron Maiden has so much to offer a new metal fan but that same level of professionalism and marketing and exposure didn't stretch out to many traditional metal bands so I never got into them. Plus, and it's a huge plus...You find yourself going out looking for birds and getting drunk. No these days that's died off as well but when I was your age that was more important than what albums were knocking about. It mattered when I was too young to go out.
@@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine Ahh yeah, I see what you mean. By that stage, Metal had so many subgenres and even more now it's crazy! And with the movement of other music, Metal kinda fell away. My dad got into Grunge and Alt Rock in the mid-late 90's as that was the big thing. He still listened to the old 80's stuff but nothing "new" until I had gotten interested in 90's/2000's Metal. So I totally see where you're coming from.
Yeah I totally get that too, a lot of Traditional Metal kinda passed me by because my dad was never into it apart from Maiden too. But your last point is very valid, things are so different now, people don't go out like they used to in your and my parents time. I agree there
I've never been an Alice Cooper. First thing I heard was the "Poison" abomination. Anything else I heard (Teenage Frankenstein/School's Out/No More Mr Nice Guy)was all turd. Mince.
Iced Earth are not for me either. Shite vocals ruin it. Poor man's Iron Maiden. Dogshit.
I've seen Saxon live supporting Motörhead and enjoyed them, but anytime I've listened to studio material it's done fuck all for me.
Big Dark Throne fan, always buy their new albums. I get how you dislike Blac Metal though. I detested it for years. When/if it clicks with you it's astounding.
I like bits of Opeth- the growly stuff, but when they went all acoustic it made me want to go deaf. Saw them live though and they were great. The new album is worth a punt though....
Them dvds at the end are 98% shite.
Great idea for a video though, cheers for the mention!!
@@thegrimmfluencer I don't have the willingness to seek out new stuff to be honest mate. I feel like I'm at saturation point. There's obviously going to be something else down the line but I feel I've overdone it. It's like UA-cam got my interest in music back but killed it as well.
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine The other night my mate randomly phoned me and said his son's mate was there and he was "into Death Metal" and so my mate thought it'd be a good idea to get him to speak to me (he was drunk) so anyway it turned out e was into Desthcore. He'dd never heard f Autopsy or Gorguts, so it was pointless continuing! Then he asked if zlI'd heard Lorna Shore....I said "fuck knows, never met her".....turns out it was the name of a band.......maybe I'm just too old.... too old,...as Darkthrone would say.....
@thegrimmfluencer Yeah that Lorna Shaw are utter wank 😂
Tool, Danzig, Manowar, all nu metal bands, all metal core bands...
@@under-one-flag First Tool mini album is good and second Danzig is good but I can see why you don't like them, same with Manowar. I don't know what Metal Core is 😂
@ I like early Opeth - when they released Heritage they were dead to me. Although the new album is supposed to be back on track - well the growls are back
Manowar are great. Hail to England, for example is a good album. Sure, cheesy, but sonically it’s great…but that just me, lol
Danzig?? Come on!
@@under-one-flag early Opeth up to Blackwater park we’re immense…but saying that I also like their stuff transitioning to the proggy direction. Heritage grew on me, and now I really love all their albums tbh…the new one is great, one of the albums of the year. I mean, just my opinion of course, what my ear hears. My favourite album of theirs is Still Life - that, to me, is a masterpiece
I love iced earth! This list is bs
😂 Because you like them eh. Nice logic
@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine no,because all the metal people I know ,all love iced earth. Surprised the were on the list
@timdyson5036 Where are you from ?
@@sixzerothreeonesevensixnine b.c. canada
@@timdyson5036 There you go. They made no impression here. Very different worlds
my fav alice cooper song is probably "Raped and Freezing" the guy wuz always a class act, however after (19!)74 everything is shite