Best band Metal of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ “One of the things I am most proud of, in my heart, is that Black Sabbath was not created by any big shot... we were four losers who wanted to try to make a dream come true, which ultimately did, exceeding all expectations.”

❝ Black Sabbath practically invented heavy metal out of nothing.

❝ We were not hippies, and we hated the hippies

❝ "The Trend Is Dead!!!"

❝ "Far Beyond Driven" is perhaps their masterpiece, their peak of success.

❝ "...Society is looking at this and saying, 'This is heavy metal.' That's not heavy metal, that's an insane act.."

❝ Among the "Big Four" of thrash metal, alongside Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth.

❝ And they’ve written unforgettable pages for crying out loud...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL...

❝ CARVED UPON MY STONE, MY BODY LIE BUT STILL I ROAM.

❝ Everything is accomplished: the sixteenth birth of the famous Iron Maiden has already started to whisper its occult rituals in the eardrums of all of us.

❝ They play like gods, there’s not much to add.

❝ A year lived dangerously, at the limits of human musical possibilities, and ending in Los Angeles after touching Japan, Brazil, Hawaii, and Australia.

❝ ...What is Metal? METAL IS PAINKILLER!

❝ Year 1976: the genre of Heavy Metal is officially born, and if this happens, we mainly owe it to the second work of Judas Priest, with the poetic name of Sad Wings of Destiny.

❝ A live that has truly made history and which I consider inimitable and unattainable in importance and beauty.

❝ O God of Progressive Metal, give me the strength to properly celebrate this immortal, powerful, heartbreaking, rocky, emotional, deeply suffered MASTERPIECE.

❝ Dream Theater is either loved or hated, there are no middle grounds, almost like Juventus.

❝ The void. The nothingness.

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For over 30 years, Slayer, to quote a fine thinker of our time, have been the best at what they do.

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The Slayer have broken up.

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If Metallica in the '80s played with heart, and Megadeth were cerebral, Slayer can only be physical and use muscles.

❝ The Motorhead, you either love them or hate them.

❝ We usually get drunk, play, and fall off the stage. Not necessarily in that order.

❝ We are Motörhead, and we play Rock 'N' Roll!

❝ Physics, sex, suffering, death, suicide, God, and whores.

❝ “Do you believe in forever? I don’t even believe in tomorrow…”

❝ Take life with more irony, that’s the advice from the Brooklyn four.

❝ Once upon a time.

❝ The essence of the true Sepultura led by Max Cavalera.

❝ Because when someone gargles with muriatic acid, concrete nails, and the metal spheres of stainless steel bearings and then screams in your face with all the strength and wheezing desperation they possess "STACCALASPINA", for me they are the undisputed champion of the entire (un)known universe in terms of elegiac assorted poetics.

❝ In memory of Chuck "Evil" Schuldiner May 13, 1967 - December 13, 2001

❝ The best compositions, the best lyrics, the best musicians, the best mediation between classic and experimental... the best work of Death.

❝ “YOU ARE BEWITCHED!”

❝ “Because Candlemass are “everything that sounds Doom today” in an absolute sense.”

❝ “To hatred, bitterness, suffering, discouragement, and drunkenness: without you, this record would not have been possible”

❝ One cannot deny that Accept are destined for metal greatness.

❝ Accept in 2017 have regained the popularity and respect they rightfully deserve

❝ Unlike many other bands returning to their genre, Accept have never changed style, always being direct and consistent.

❝ And Abba know how to compose a chorus. These guys know what they’re doing. They know how to build a song.

❝ it is an album that essentially celebrates the era of discos, warm and carefree nights.

❝ Listening, savoring every single note of this record has the same rejuvenating effect as a cool shower after a hot, sticky day

❝ Because the band from Wichita is black or white. You either love them or hate them, there's no middle ground.

❝ Manilla Road, a group founded in 1977 by singer and guitarist Mark Shelton.

❝ Crystal Logic is an album belonging to another era, a fundamental record for the genre's development, a must-have piece for heavy metal enthusiasts at all costs...

❝ This is in my opinion the most important work by Bathory from the genius Quorthon (RIP).

❝ Cold. The song of the North, an electric waltz of dim lights among the pines, a giant with a head covered in moss, a distant sun, a glimmer amidst sleepy heaths buried under inches of powdery snow.

❝ Quorton was already looking beyond, already ahead of his disciples.

❝ “I enjoyed the concert of one of the greatest bands in history at their prime: the Megadeth of “Rust in Peace”.”

❝ “The album in question is a bomb, fast, vicious, with a devastating sound, a complete, dynamic work, among the best Megadeth has ever produced, not just in the recent period.”

❝ “Contrary to its title, “Rust In Peace” proves to be an indestructible work.”

❝ This is an album that changed my life.

❝ Serj Tankian's voice cannot simply be called the voice of a singer; sometimes screamed, sometimes manic, sometimes sweet, it adds a touch of originality and uniqueness to the already splendid music signed by System Of A Down.

❝ A good album, but not at the levels of "Toxicity" where the band brought out the best of themselves with simply stunning songs.

❝ Holy Diver is one of those rare albums that you listen to with immense pleasure even after a long time.

❝ This posthumous release is a product of excellent quality and great appeal, both for the fan and the newcomer, who can get an idea of what "Dio" was at the time, a true and immortal rock'n'roll band. Recommended

❝ "Dio’s Inferno," in fact, proves to be a quality product, well-played – it would be impossible to expect otherwise – and with a rather balanced setlist, drawing a bit from the entire discography of the New York sprite.

❝ Born in the early eighties to emulate the characteristics of the purest classic "heavy metal," Fates Warning will be remembered for their direct contribution to the development of Progressive Metal undertaken after a succession of integral and radical changes both in their line-up and in the sound they produced.

❝ "Parallels" (1991), in my opinion, is the best starting point for listening to Fates Warning, especially for those who have never heard of them.

❝ A Pleasant Shade Of Gray, which is almost unanimously considered their masterpiece.

❝ Five songs in thirty-five minutes. Raw, imperfect.

❝ Dirty, wasted, stinky, hallucinated, psychedelic, heavy, weird. Saint Vitus.

❝ Saint Vitus have returned. They have done so cautiously and without much courage.

❝ …because Max is one of those who, every time you put him in front of a microphone and give him his beloved “Brazilian guitar,” can bring down a building...[cit.]

❝ “Conquer,” like everything Max, the new King Midas, touches is gold, is anger, power, protest, aggression, rebellion, insurgence, guerrilla warfare in the form of ethnic thrash metal and tropical hardcore,

❝ “Prophecy” is an album that captures, that evokes apocalyptic scenarios but also offers plenty of mystical and alternative relaxation.

❝ "Main Course" is an album that satisfies everyone, fans of the Bee Gees from the late '60s as well as admirers of the disco period, and it is simply one of the most important and influential albums in pop history: incontrovertible, impossible to deny.

❝ Even while continuing to produce excellent albums in the following years, the Gibb brothers would never again reach such heights: this album imbued with style, inspiration, elegance, and creativity will remain the most precious gem of their career, as well as one of the greatest masterpieces of pop music, even ahead of the Beatles' "Abbey Road" and the Kinks' "Village Green Preservation Society".

❝ My first memories, instead, are of that open hi-hat on the upbeat, and the guitar riff of Stayin' Alive.

❝ If only one adjective could be used for B.O.C.'s music, I would undoubtedly use: VISIONARY.

❝ Secret Treaties will make Blue Öyster Cult appreciated even by critics.

❝ "It's the nexus of the crisis / and the origin of storms."

❝ Never did the mantle of Evil cover such vast regions of this poor, miserable world of ours.

❝ Ah, Emperor... Just the name inspires reverential fear, an atypical band and yet strongly adhering to the Euronymous canon, with their sumptuous keyboards amidst icy riffs.

❝ They are the four emperors and this is their kingdom! Now go away, however, they have tolerated you enough!

❝ A masterpiece! Actually, A MAS-TER-PIECE! This is THE album of the '80s (and beyond...).

❝ In 1988, Queensryche wrote a record that probably changed the history of heavy metal!

❝ An intelligent album for intelligent minds. I would dare call it "Intellectual Metal"

❝ They have personality to spare, and they possess enough irony and persistence that their brand and their notes are undeniably recognizable.

❝ To love them is a dirty job, but someone will have to do it, oh yes … I open by paraphrasing Bonnie Tyler and Todd Rundgren, and perhaps also taking a bit of a trip down memory lane, trying to recall how this great love of mine was born …

❝ Sonne is one of the most beautiful and famous tracks by Rammstein, a single from the album "Mutter" (2001) that has been a constant presence in all their concert setlists since then.

❝ Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast!!!

❝ In conclusion, the album also features good tracks and electrifying moments, nonetheless its predecessor "Through The Ashes of Empires" had convinced much more and it's worth noting that between "Master of Puppets" and "The Blackening" there's a sea.

❝ In conclusion, this album is a must for all fans of bands like Pantera, Sepultura, and Fear Factory.

❝ “For I am every forest, I am every tree, I am everything, I am you and me, I am every ocean, I am every sea, I am all the breathing”

❝ WE WILL ALWAYS BE SO MUCH MORE HUMAN THAN WE WISH TO BE..

❝ An album like this comes along once in a while in history, but when it does, it keeps a large number of enthusiasts glued.

❝ Attention!
The album in question is a BOMB!

❝ D E A D L Y !!!

❝ Fear is the mind-killer.

❝ One of the best hard rock albums ever! Period.

❝ Kings, sorcerers, castles, popular revolts, elves, fantastic and evocative scenarios: in one word, FANTASY.

❝ This album is unanimously considered inferior to the subsequent "Rising," considered the great masterpiece of this extraordinary band;

❝ Paul Chain is a cult artist: his dark aura makes him a sort of cursed figure in the Italian music scene, comparable in some ways to the late Antonio Bartoccetti.

❝ IMPROVISATION is the key word to understand Paul Chain's solo career.

❝ Opera Decima is a cult album, a monumental and dark work that is unique and original in its own way: it is a manifesto of pure and uncompromising dark art.

❝ Perfect from every point of view, where the songs (taken from all the band’s works without underestimating any album) are played so well that the live seems like a fake studio recording, given also the excellent mixing by Jim Morris, who couldn’t have done any better.

❝ In conclusion, a great album, recommended to all lovers of a powerful and structured Metal, yet melodic; in short, one of the finest expressions of Heavy Metal in these years.

❝ How else to define "Dante's Inferno"? A devastating ride with the Supreme Poet through all the circles of Hell, among fire, flames, demons, and the damned until reaching Lucifer himself.

❝ I would say an album with a touching cover at first glance.

❝ An album that cannot be missed by a genre enthusiast, to be listened to "in the presence of an adult".

❝ Unstoppable.

❝ A band that has always, and I mean always, adhered to this ideal is Saxon.

❝ This album takes your breath away from start to finish, not a single slow piece, not a single guitar without distortion.

❝ "When silence beckons And the day is closing When the light of your life sighs And love dies in your eyes Only then will I realize What you mean to me"

❝ A once in a lifetime experience that words can barely do justice

❝ Anathema no longer play metal.

❝ “All I need is a simple reminder...”

❝ “We always try not to repeat ourselves”

❝ “I don’t really know what sorry means”

❝ There are few bands like Riot, and this release today, represents a small gem that every genre lover will surely adore, and I recommend buying it sight unseen.

❝ Not giving it a listen would truly be a big mistake, especially if this is the genre you prefer.

❝ Riot were a fundamental band in the history of heavy metal, as they were the first in the United States to infuse it with the most primordial power metal (nothing to do with what power metal would become in the 90s, to be clear).

❝ It's really true: Running Wild were without any doubt "The Chiefs".

❝ If you don't know them, buy it blind.

❝ A mess.

❝ I don't wanna stop, fuck! I'm Ozzy Osbourne and fuck reality, money, and everything else!

❝ Make it yours.

❝ “Emerald Sword” is THE POWER METAL SONG, 4 beautiful minutes of swirling and whirling emotions that truly capture the soul, a timeless anthem that speaks directly to the listener's heart.

❝ “In conclusion, despite saving three tracks, the album leaks from all sides and not even a hyper-production and a good instrumental performance by all the band members can lift this record from total insufficiency.”

❝ “A CD to own, but not a masterpiece.”

❝ Gamma Ray means Kai Hansen.

❝ I'm not afraid to define as the absolute best in Gamma Ray's discography and one of the best in metal in general.

❝ The Teutonic band disappoints those who expected any kind of musical evolution.

❝ “The Bergen duo composes the definitive black metal work, unleashes an animal born of the wind and the Norwegian night, ready to devour the ears of the unfortunate listeners…”

❝ “Battles In The North is perhaps one of the greatest albums that the Norwegian black metal scene has ever produced.”

❝ “In 1999, Immortal delighted us with one of the most beautiful black albums of all time.”

❝ "I am not a slave to a God that doesn’t exist. I am not a slave to a world that doesn’t give a shit."

❝ for five years Manson was thepublicenemynumber1 of American pop, probably the most perfect and memorable it has ever had.

❝ Marilyn Manson is the perfect sci-fi metaphor of Christianity.

❝ "Scum", as we know, is now history, a work that shines more for its conceptual significance than for its intrinsic content, a work that, for better or worse, marked a point of rupture and no return in the history of music as a whole.

❝ The fathers of Grindcore are back; once again to confirm their absolute dominance... Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs... Ad Maiora.

❝ "You Suffer But Why" screams Nicholas Bullen with his cavernous growl.

❝ “Ghost In The Ruins” is the testament that Savatage wants to leave to their fans to remember that Criss will never be forgotten, and even if he was never one of those guitarists inclined to interviews and praise, in fact, for much of his career in Savatage he was never seen in a good light by critics, his music and passion are still alive in the hearts of those who have always appreciated him, and want to continue remembering him.

❝ With this quote begins what can easily be considered the musical masterpiece of the symphonic-baroque era of Savatage: “Dead Winter Dead”.

❝ The following album “Gutter Ballet,” from 1989, alongside “Streets: a Rock Opera,” represents the peak of Savatage’s career.

❝ Every Nevermore album is a small step in a journey along the path of perfection.

❝ The gem is certainly the cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound Of Silence": from soft ballad to devastating and bone-crushing song, all without forcing: this also shows the value of a band

❝ An authentic miracle, there are no words.

❝ "So just say goodbye to all your fucking angels!!!"

❝ "I think Melissa's still with us"

❝ "A reunion of Mercyful Fate? I could never say no..."

❝ "Follow The Blind!"

❝ "Farewell, He said...Back to where it all began..."

❝ I looked closely at the mirror and gazed through it: I saw a fantastic world made of ruined houses and skies dominated by dragons moving from one side to the other.

❝ They kick the ass of 101% of the sonic extremism of the new millennium.

❝ It essentially is a noisy, heavy, extremely violent and thoroughly enjoyable record, boasting also an excellent and clean production, another quite unusual fact in the genre.

❝ Among the masterpieces of 90s metal, the first two albums by Brujeria undoubtedly stand out, especially the second work, "Raza Odiada", a pleasing confirmation even groovier and sicker than the raw debut "Matando Gueros".

❝ Forty-seven minutes to demonstrate that the Kings of Death Metal are back...FROM THE HAND OF KINGS... (I just wrote it!!!!!).

❝ Morbid Angel are a part of the History of Death Metal, yet they seem to be condemned to remain there.

❝ But where is the new Morbid Angel album?

❝ Buy this The Divine Wings Of Tragedy by Symphony X and you'll understand what Dream Theater really are: a bunch of wannabes!

❝ The true Symphony X is born with this album!

❝ Romeo proves to be one of the best composers and guitarists currently on the global prog-metal scene…

❝ The music of Mastodon is the sound of nature.

❝ We waited for them for years!

❝ Crack The Skye is a work that needs time to be fully appreciated.

❝ this is the first review we're doing on what, in my opinion, is the best Korn album, the angriest one.

❝ "There is a place in my mind that I love to hide"

❝ Having Korn perform an Unplugged concert is like putting Nutella on a nice plate of macaroni: it doesn't make any damn sense!

❝ Make it yours, knowing that you have in your hands one of the definitive rock masterpieces of the seventies.

❝ If this group makes it, I'll have to kill myself!

❝ I find it hard to describe "The House Of Atreus - Act I", except with the word masterpiece.

❝ David DeFeis is musically dead.

❝ Born as the final chapter of the trilogy on the war between gods and men, 1998 saw the release of "Invictus", which represents perhaps the musical and compositional peak in Virgin Steele's discography.

❝ The long-awaited moment for countless fans and industry insiders has arrived: Cavalera Conspiracy, the sensational return to the scene of the Cavalera brothers, is no longer just a vague rumor but a concrete reality.

❝ As you've probably gathered, "Inflikted" is yet another masterpiece by Max Cavalera and the chance to hear him playing again with the legendary brother Igor, the album every Sepultura fan (aside from Soulfly records, which I adore) wanted to hear since 1996.

❝ Sorry to say it, but the album is decidedly terrible.

❝ In 2004, Brocas Helm self-produced and released their third album: "Defender Of The Crown".

❝ "Into Battle", the debut album for the San Francisco trio, was released in 1984 and is an album with very strong NWOBHM tones.

❝ Lost in the underground of American metal, these Brocas Helm have garnered little, too little from their career.

❝ Viva Emptiness is a journey into true and sincere darkness.

❝ Describing Katatonia’s masterpiece, now dated 1996, without exaggeration is utterly impossible.

❝ Katatonia dispel any doubts that had crept in of late and close a circle probably fueling all the class they had in the tank; nothing better could have been asked for.

❝ Manowar is a complex band, much more so than critics and "experts" might think.

❝ Beyond their questionable image and attitude, Manowar remains, by virtue of albums like this one, a great band, which shares nothing with the current Power Metal bands so useless and inconsistent, who vainly try to emulate their feats.

❝ The album, allow me to say it, is awful.

❝ 'Exit... Stage Left' is their second double live album and the best record ever made by the boys from Toronto, and I’m categorical about that.

❝ One of the most underrated rock albums is the right definition for 'Caress of Steel'.

❝ The Canadian band Rush is a trio with undeniable technical and compositional skills, and in this excellent 1988 live album, they provide a brilliant demonstration of them.

❝ This is the best album ever composed by a band of semi-deities, and anyone who denies it doesn’t understand a damn thing about True Music!

❝ Tool is a group that undeniably has managed to create a style distinctly different from any other.

❝ The album starts immediately rough, hard, and uncensored: "Stinkfist" is a perhaps ambiguous metaphor in which the "sweet" experience of fist-fucking symbolizes the desensitization of the spirit and the constant pushing of boundaries to continue feeling emotions.

❝ It's like hearing Pink Floyd and Meshuggah on the same record.

❝ Intriguing, a tad over the top, but nonetheless captivating, "Colors" is a sensational product, and calling it a "masterpiece" is no exaggeration.

❝ They could have made a single album, they should have made a single album, then I understand corporate marketing strategies, but in this case, I don't agree with them.

❝ This "Squawk" is certainly a small masterpiece of creativity and imagination, where each track shines with its own life and light, while at the same time managing to develop the band's more Heavy and weighty side. A work unjustly ignored at the time but should be rediscovered.

❝ What emerges is a work that fits perfectly within the historical context of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, important for the genre and for the influences it has managed to direct towards the entire Metal movement.

❝ "Breadfan", the first work of the album, is introduced by a snappy riff, made famous by Metallica, fast and rapid, one is stunned by the compositional skills of the trio, but above all, as I have already said, by the voice of Bourge supported and well blended by the continuous explosive scales of Shelley and Bourge himself.

❝ Do you know what the strength of this extraordinary group of Californians, active for over two decades, is? They know how to embellish their music with the most diverse nuances (folk, epic, Celtic, doom) while always remaining unmistakably metallic!

❝ Formed in 1980 by the "rocky" singer Chris Boltendahl, Grave Digger represent in the heavy metal scene one of the bands that over the years has been able to respect the word consistency.

❝ In conclusion, "The Reaper" is a milestone of metal, a sort of nascent concept that tells of the skeletal and relentless reaper of souls and the forms it can take in the collective imagination and the reality of everyday life to the present day, an obligatory step for those who want to dive into epic atmospheres, among cobwebs, bloodshed, steeds and their sinister and dark whinnies.

❝ "Clash of the gods" is the classic Grave Digger album: hard to find new ideas, everything is within the tracks of the classicism to which the band has habituated its followers.

❝ The winds of the north roar.

❝ I REPEAT: "IT IS NOT METAL."

❝ The 3rd and the Mortal, hailing from Trondheim (Norway), are one of the unjustly forgotten groups in the avant-garde metal or rock scene, depending on how one might define it.

❝ Probably, Thin Lizzy is the most underrated band in the great rock landscape of the seventies, overshadowed by the quadrumvirate Zeppelin/Purple/Sabbath/Uriah Heep that reigned supreme among the fans of Albion.

❝ Thin Lizzy: arguably the most underrated band of all time.

❝ This Black Rose: A Rock Legend, from ’79, is seen by many as the swan song, the last noteworthy one before the personal problems of the individual musicians engulfed everything.

❝ A winning team doesn't change.

❝ Well done, Axel! You've figured out how to create a great album: the important thing is that you don't write the songs yourself..... muah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!!!!!

❝ Because this album truly sucks.

❝ Therefore, the specialized newspapers of the time were not wrong when they defined Dark Quarterer as the founders of Epic-Progressive.

❝ A band labeled as “epic progressive” due to their long, complex compositions with dark passages and, above all, incredibly evocative.

❝ Gianni Nepi’s voice is powerful and otherworldly: a champion of vocal technique and acting, who also finds the time to pluck the strings of his beloved bass, weaving sumptuous and solemn rhythms.

❝ “The death metal is dead.
Long live death metal.”

❝ “The Dark Side of “The Gallery”.”

❝ “This WATV is a bland album, void of ideas and passion, without a track that one could call acceptable, least of all in Dark Tranquillity style,”

❝ The greatest Metalcore album of all time?

❝ The album, engaging and well self-produced, sets the standards of the Killswitch Engage sound and lays the foundation for the subsequent masterpiece "Alive or Just Breathing".

❝ Killswitch Engage you either love them or hate them.

❝ There has never been a band as controversial as MAYHEM.

❝ Michael Schenker seems to be unstoppable and released in 1982 what many call the best album of the Michael Schenker Group: 'Assault Attack'.

❝ Here we are in the year 1981: the Michael Schenker Group releases their second album: MSG, perhaps even more beautiful than the first!

❝ To debut like this is every guitarist’s dream.

❝ in two words, "The Powerless Rise" is a purely and proudly Thrash Metal album, nothing more, nothing less.

❝ with this fourth album As I Lay Dying finally reach their artistic maturity, delivering an album that will delight all metalcore and N.W.O.A.H.M. enthusiasts.

❝ "Confined" and "The Darkest Nights" stand out, two little masterpieces, that for as much as they are the two most conventional and "melodic" tracks, they penetrate inside and never leave, positioning themselves among the most beautiful songs that this genre has ever produced and that my ears have ever heard.

❝ One foot in hell, Cirith Ungol had in practice throughout their entire career.

❝ Cirith Ungol were a cornerstone of '80s Epic Metal, representing its most decadent and dark soul.

❝ The final yet underrated effort from the fundamental Heavy/Epic Metal band known as Cirith Ungol, "Paradise Lost" was released in 1991 under Restless Records.

❝ No classification comes to mind for this work, perhaps because it is born from the union of many genres: black, viking, folk, doom, and more. But frankly, who cares, it needs to be listened to, plain and simple.

❝ The album offers eight suites for an hour of pure lyricism and ineffable sound class.

❝ 'The Gathering Wilderness' is the latest album by Primordial, an Irish band led by the extraordinary Alan Nemtheanga, capable of making an evolution from the most extreme shores to a more reflective and progressive sound, still within the Metal realm.

❝ This is not just viking. This is musical poetry.

❝ In my opinion, it remains the highest peak reached in the genre, and thus also by the artist, who has nonetheless continued to produce works that are never less than excellent.

❝ For those who are not adept at approaching the pagan chants of Vratyas Vakyas, the proposal is that of a folkmetal with direct and linear structures, yet so engaging and fascinating that it manages to touch the heart from the first listen.

❝ "The nine prophets enter in the dark and immediately it is madness."

❝ "IF YOU'RE THE 555 THEN I'M 666!!!"

❝ "All Hope Is Gone" is an album that's already been released, specifically for a while now.

❝ Really, I don't understand why a band capable of mixing pagan-influenced Celtic folk elements with old-school metal with thrash tones has gone so unnoticed.

❝ even if our friends were not the inventors of so-called “folk metal,” they certainly represent its flag bearers.

❝ he founded Skyclad with the intent to create “the ultimate pagan metal band”.

❝ "Spellbound", the second release by the Tygers, was released under MCA in 1981, and compared to the previous Wild Cats, it has one of the essential qualities to be a masterpiece: greater sonic compactness and variety supported by an incredible soul that seems to vividly live from the first to the last listen, as well as being played devilishly well.

❝ What a show, this is what metal is.

❝ The reason why the Tygers of Pan Tang are famous is certainly not found in this 1985 album, "The Wreck-Age", a pop metal/AOR candy that thrives on unique, unrepeatable novel elements that, in fact, have never been replicated by anyone.

❝ There are albums that deserve to be considered (not only) for their intrinsic value as a record, but for their quality as real "time machines."

❝ "Just watching them on stage for a minute convinced you that no one could stop them. They were a lit fuse." (Gene Simmons, Kiss).

❝ Van Halen was a band that had fun.

❝ Very easy, almost cheerful and shameless melodic lines characterize almost all the songs.

❝ the album is beautiful, dynamic, colorful, and incredibly fun!

❝ the emotional charge of this record is high.

❝ Malmsteen is a show-off guitarist. No, actually, Malmsteen is the daddy of all show-off guitarists.

❝ Egocentrism. This word alone would be enough to describe Malmsteen

❝ on that day, the young man decided he would become the new music legend, particularly in the world of guitarists.

❝ 1982 is the year of the release of the first album by Vanadium, the first Italian band that had the courage to introduce metal in our nation.

❝ 1985 brought the first live album by an Italian band: this is precisely the "Live On Streets Of Danger" by the legendary Vanadium.

❝ After the release of the good "Metal Rock" the previous year, largely inspired by 70s hard rock, this "A Race with the Devil" features a powerful hardening of sound by the Milanese band

❝ Party anthem: "Callisto Rising" from "The Power Cosmic" by Bal-Sagoth!

❝ Never has epic/fantasy music had, at least according to me, such evocative power.

❝ Fate is really strange!

❝ After the great success of the album ‘Metal Health’, the Quiet Riot, led by the euphoric singer Kevin DuBrow (sadly recently passed away at the age of 52), faithfully followed by the excellent guitarist Carlos Cavazo, bassist Rudy Sarzo, and the wild drummer Frankie Banali, try to ride the wave of success by releasing just a year later this ‘Condition Critical’.

❝ A sincere rock, hard and melodic in equal measure, which is still fun to listen to after thirty years.

❝ In conclusion, it's one of the best live albums of the '80s, but above all, one of the best live Metal albums in general, that every self-respecting metalhead should own!

❝ The first track is stratospheric, "Headhunter" is a true Metal bomb worthy of the early NWOBHM.

❝ “Let’s get it into our heads: the Satyricon who created old-school black metal masterpieces like “Nemesis Divina” (I hear someone mumbling, trying to imitate Satyr in “Mother North”...) no longer exist.”

❝ “I find myself in serious difficulty trying to describe the greatness of “Nemesis Divina.””

❝ “Do you want to end your, indisputably, flourishing career so miserably, or make it in time to change your mind?”

❝ Let's be honest: what a bore!

❝ In summary, then, the album is absolutely not a disaster, but lacks inventiveness in the second part, which turns out to be boring and stagnant, even if the always catchy and direct choruses that have always distinguished the band remain.

❝ Par Sundstrom himself has declared that this is the most important track in the entire Sabaton discography.

❝ “Ballad group us? We absolutely reject this label. We haven't actually done that many ballads... and I don’t think people identify us this way” (Klaus Meine)

❝ “Apoteosis is the right term to define this record which, in my opinion, represents the peak of a glorious climb, success after success, through a series of excellent albums, for a band that never gave up or got discouraged during difficult moments.”

❝ “This album ultimately represents the last masterpiece of the Scorpions' second “classic” lineup: angry, rock-solid, embellished by the outstanding performance of all the members.”

❝ This is the true masterpiece of DoomSword, solemn and filled with dark decadence,

❝ The third studio work by Doomsword is undoubtedly a solid, well-played, and complex album, which requires several listens to be fully appreciated.

❝ the offering from the Italian band Doomsword is far from the artificial fluffiness of all those groups that could very easily be mistaken for metal cover bands of Cristina d’Avena.

❝ Strangers in the Night is one of the 10 best hard rock live albums of all time.

❝ One of the most explosive live albums in rock history.

❝ It’s 1977 and UFO reaches the pinnacle of a prodigious ascent, to be followed by the praiseworthy “Obsession” and the memorable live “Strangers in the Night”.

❝ Dissection indeed represents the perfect synthesis of a certain way of understanding metal music: they created a style that incorporates the characteristics of the two main extreme genres that found fertile ground in Northern Europe, death metal and black metal, and they combined them with the melodic influences characteristic of classic metal from the eighties.

❝ The fourth song is perhaps the most famous by Dissection: "Where Dead Angels Lie", a rare example of black metal ballad, where more marked acoustic breaks give the song an aura of melancholy, accentuated by the sad lyrics: "A spell was cast and the sky turned red/ The angel's heart froze to ice/ In the gloomy sky - The silence where dead angels lie".

❝ The charismatic frontman Jon Nodtveidt brings to life a record that lays the foundations for a new conception of the genre to which it claims to belong...

❝ Winning team doesn't change, and it's well known what to expect from a band like this: a beautiful blend of hard'n'heavy mixed with lots of melody and a voice eternally indebted to the blues.

❝ "Summertime Girls," one of the most famous tracks in the Californians' discography, with its chorus and keyboards taking center stage.

❝ The tracks are all smooth, fast, and certainly don't disappoint a listener who enjoys the genre leaning towards more melodic Hard and Hair Metal.

❝ Balance.

❝ I start with the assumption that Haggard is one of the best Medieval Orchestral Metal bands in the world, but very little known in Italy.

❝ "My son, listen to what I say: Keep in mind what you have learned and wrap your sword around your fingers... autumn has brought us fear!"