CaptainHowdy

If that's the case, I'm not even nice; rather, the right definition would be "a nasty person." Beware of me, I could throw you to the sharks while you sleep... and I wouldn't feel remorse...

P.S.: Check out this page: New Wave of British Heavy Metal - Wikipedia or this one: Guida NWOBHM

No, I’m not confusing anything. Do you think JP aren’t self-congratulatory? I think they are, and quite a lot too, without even touching on the pleasantly gaudy style of Manowar, but they are, indeed... then, I repeat, if you want to consider them NWOBHM, go ahead, but it’s not objectively true; you are free to express your opinion, I'm not stopping you from doing so, I’m just saying that, in this case, you’re saying something incorrect (we’re talking about history, not taste, so the word objectivity fits here). If you consider Grunge as a movement then the comparison works, if you consider it as a school, I think you might be a bit off track. Goodnight.

...and I think I have never insulted anyone despite being a convinced debaserian, I should be a case study for this alone...

ahemm, I've been here for a while (cptgaio and hemophiliac)...

The last album of theirs that I liked was "Check Your Head," and the ones that came after it (which, if I'm not mistaken, are four, and I haven't listened to them) I found a bit boring. As for the review, I don't know what to say because it doesn't excite me much, but I see that, apart from the Punisher (by the way, I don't know your reasons for bitterness, but I don't think it's elegant to call someone impaired just for a minor critique, and at least here, civilly, how much time someone spends in front of the computer or on this site is their own business), it has received a lot of enthusiasm. Maybe I've missed something about Rap, Music, Life, Love, and DeBaser...

So, establishing that no one is exempt from influences and that there are no clear-cut passages in history, it can be said that "Sad Wings" is certainly an album different from the previous standards of the Priest, but to say it is Metal is a stretch, at least in the way we conceive the genre now (even the definition, like all labeling, is vague). I reiterate that many things are said, often without justification; I limit myself to listening to the records and sharing impressions. The Priest definitively abandoned Hard Rock after (many) others (who have never really lived Hard Rock, Maiden for example, and I am not saying that the latter are objectively better than the Priest; I anticipate any potential naysayers, although subjectively they are eons better to me, but I am stating facts), for me since "Painkiller." If the NWOBHM (of which they were not a part) had not existed, for which you have above reported an almost exact definition, I don't know if the Priest would have reached this turning point. Regarding the opinions in favor of Judas as the inventors of Metal (something that no one invented, but which was an evolution born from a germinal Sabbath idea), honestly, the sources that report this are quite suspicious. Then again, this is a matter of little importance because it does not detract from their greatness. My note was mainly (and the probably I mentioned when talking about Metal in general is evidence of this, scripta manent...) about the objective unfairness regarding the NWOBHM. Bye!

@rive: the JP weren't part of the NWOBHM, period. If you want to change history, go ahead and think what you like, but it's not like that. @Recensore: the JP were born as Hard Rock and then became HM; it's just a matter of when, for me it's from "Pankiller," for others from '82. Even though there's a few years in between, the essence doesn't change much; Metal was already born from others, including the Saxon you mention. The term "Gods of Metal" seems self-congratulatory to me, but I don't care about that because, honestly, I respect Priest as a band, and talking about these things risks caricaturing them. @Senmayan: there's really very little hard rock in the albums of Maiden or Diamond Head; we are in the presence of canonized and codified Metal (a feat done alongside other representatives of the NWOBHM) based on style elements created in an embryonic state by Black Sabbath (and I don't think I need to explain what these elements are), and with this, I've also answered my friend Bartle.

@Kea: damn, you mention recognitions of high artistic value...