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I think you'd like Dio's Holy Diver.

Iron Maiden - Visions of the Beast Nightwish - End of an Era Judas Priest - Live in London Bruce Dickinson Anthology All really nice for fans. Bonus discs with CDs: Nevermore - Enemies of Reality Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death Testament - Formation of Damnation Saxon - The Inner Sanctum Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution Spinefarm Hardcovers Don't really watch them that often. But still like having bonus discs when available.

Any band that released their debut in the 21st century.

Shouldn't be too hard... I have most of my CDs catalogued and rated so I can quickly see what I have. Live albums and compilations are excluded. '68 to '79 I'll just do one per year. 1968 / The Beatles - The White Album 1969 / Led Zeppelin - II 1970 / Deep Purple - In Rock 1971 / Black Sabbath - Master of Reality 1972 / Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards 1973 / Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon 1974 / Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties 1975 / Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 1976 / Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune 1977 / Judas Priest - Sin After Sin 1978 / Van Halen - VH1 1979 / Judas Priest - Killing Machine Wasn't as easy as I thought. 1978 was especially difficult. Van Halen's debut came out the same year as Rainbow's Long Live Rock'n'Roll and Judas Priest's Stained Class. That's tough. Could have gone either way. Priest still dominated late 70's. 80's I'll make into a top three per year because there was just so much more metal and rock that I liked. 1980 1. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell 2. Judas Priest - British Steel 3. AC/DC - Back in Black 1981 1. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules 2. Rush - Moving Pictures 3. Saxon - Denim and Leather 1982 1. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast 2. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance 3. Scorpions - Blackout 1983 1. Dio - Holy Diver 2. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind 3. Accept - Balls to the Wall 1984 1. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith 2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 3. Queensrÿche - The Warning 1985 1. The Cult - Love 2. Helloween - Walls of Jericho 3. Savatage - Sirens 1986 1. Slayer - Reign in Blood 2. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time 3. Cinderella - Night Songs 1987 1. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys I 2. Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King 3. Dio - Dream Evil 1988 1. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys II 2. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime 3. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 1989 1. Skid Row - Skid Row 2. Savatage - Gutter Ballet 3. Axxis - Kingdom of the Night Real awesome years. Lots of terrible omissions. Metallica almost made it to my list in '86. 1980 was loaded with awesome albums. Including two by Saxon. And dammit, Rage's Perfect Man suffered from being released in '88. Actually, I have time and I own so many CDs from the nineties, I reckon I'll make it a top 5 from now on. 1990 1. Judas Priest - Painkiller 2. Megadeth - Rust in Peace 3. Annihilator - Never Neverland 4. Queensrÿche - Empire 5. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss 1991 1. Savatage - Streets, a Rock Opera 2. Skid Row - Slave to the Grind 3. Blind Guardian - Tales from the Twilight World 4. Motörhead - 1916 5. Fates Warning - Parallels 1992 1. Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider 2. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond 3. Dream Theater - Images and Words 4. Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark 5. Testament - The Ritual 1993 1. Doctor Butcher - Doctor Butcher 2. Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses 3. Axxis - The Big Thrill 4. Savatage - Edge of Thorns 5. Conception - Parallel Minds 1994 1. Bruce Dickinson - Balls to Picasso 2. Megadeth - Youthanasia 3. Savatage - Handful of Rain 4. Dream Theater - Awake 5. Helloween - Master of the Rings 1995 1. Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side 2. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free 3. Savatage - Dead Winter Dead 4. Iron Maiden - The X-Factor 5. Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings 1996 1. Iced Earth - The Dark Saga 2. Type O Negative - October Rust 3. Accept - Predator 4. Grave Digger - Tunes of War 5. Valley's Eve - Prodigia 1997 1. Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth 2. Stratovarius - Visions 3. Saxon - Unleash the Beast 4. Judas Priest - Jugulator 5. Gamma Ray - Somewhere out in Space 1998 1. Savatage - Wake of Magellan 2. Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth 3. Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding 4. Iced Earth - Something Wicked this Way Comes 5. Angel Dust - Border of Reality 1999 1. Gamma Ray - Powerplant 2. Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory 3. Angel Dust - Bleed 4. Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black 5. Saxon - Metalhead From 2000 on I can just do top tens. 2000 1. Angel Dust - Enlighten the Darkness 2. Pink Cream 69 - Sonic Dynamite 3. Axxis - Back to the Kingdom 4. Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper 5. Nevermore - Dead Heart, in a Dead World 6. Nightwish - Wishmaster 7. Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards 8. Helloween - The Dark Ride 9. Iron Maiden - Brave New World 10. Blaze - Silicon Messiah 2001 1. Annihilator - Carnival Diablos 2. Avantasia - The Metal Opera 3. Within Temptation - Mother Earth 4. Savatage - Poets and Madmen 5. Angel Dust - Of Human Bondage 6. Sonata Arctica - Silence 7. Iced Earth - The Horror Show 8. Falconer - Falconer 9. Saxon - Killing Ground 10. Slayer - God Hates Us All 2002 1. Star One - Space Metal 2. Valley's Eve - Deception of Pain 3. Nightwish - Century Child 4. Gamma Ray - No World Order 5. Annihilator - Waking the Fury 6. Blaze - The Tenth Dimension 7. Kotipelto - Waiting for the Dawn 8. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 9. Downfall - My Last Prayer 10. Black Label Society - 1919 Eternal 2003 1. Black Label Society - The Blessed Hellride 2. Iron Maiden - Dance of Death 3. Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy 4. The Darkness - Permission to Land 5. HIM - Love Metal 6. Circle II Circle - Watching in Silence 7. Machine Men - Scars and Wounds 8. Nevermore - Enemies of Reality 9. Overkill - Kill Box 13 10. Kamelot - Epica 2004 1. Skyclad - A Semblance of Normality 2. Nightwish - Once 3. Saxon - Lionheart 4. Chris Caffery - Faces 5. Blaze - Blood and Belief 6. Feinstein - Third Wish 7. Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden 8. Jon Oliva's Pain - 'Tage Mahal 9. Within Temptation - Silent Force 10. Turisas - Battle Metal 2005 1. Gamma Ray - Majestic 2. Savage Circus - Dreamland Manor 3. Demons & Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King 4. Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls 5. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor 6. Sentenced - The Funeral Album 7. Black Label Society - Mafia 8. Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution 9. Circle II Circle - The Middle of Nowhere 10. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy 2006 1. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death 2. Axxis - Paradise in Flames 3. Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth 4. Jon Oliva's Pain - Maniacal Renderings 5. Circle II Circle - Burden of Truth 6. Amorphis - Eclipse 7. Beyond Fear - Beyond Fear 8. Kiuas - Reformation 9. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mincrime II 10. Edguy - Rocket Ride 2007 1. Chris Caffery - Pins and Needles 2. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free II 3. HIM - Venus Doom 4. Therion - Gothic Kabbalah 5. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play 6. Helloween - Gambling with the Devil 7. Axxis - Doom of Destiny 8. Type O Negative - Dead Again 9. Machine Men - Circus of Fools 10. Mustasch - Latest Version of the Truth Wow... that was hardcore. All for nothing too, I'm sure. Here's the 2008 releases I have so far: 2008 1. Jon Oliva's Pain - Global Warning 2. Circle II Circle - Delusions of Grandeur 3. Testament - The Formation of Damnation

Gamma Ray - "Real World"

Err... most of my favourite bands? For instance, my top three bands: I got into Iron Maiden around 1994. That was 14 years after their debut album. I got into Judas Priest something like 1997 and that was 24 years after their debut. Savatage came maybe 1999. Over 15 years late, and only two years before their final album (don't think they'll be recording anymore). Don't even get me started on Led Zep, Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult, Uriah Heep and such...

Just picked up the new Testament album, the Formation of Damnation. Got the version with the bonus DVD. I'm not a huge thrash metal fan, but I do like the old Skolnick era Testament. When the band was more technical and frantic thrash and not the brutal 'wall-of-noise' Testament of the latter years. Picked this up for nostalgic reasons mostly, because Skolnick is back with the band and the last I saw them live they sounded good. Didn't even give it a listen yet because I'm watching hockey, but I will soon. I now have all six of Skolnick's Testament albums. And the album he did with Savatage. Does that make me a fanboy? I suppose it's more like I'm a fan of anything Savatage-related. Speaking of Savatage, I also got the new Circle II Circle. Same thing, didn't listen to it yet. Got the limited edition with a bonus track and a video.

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Men Without Hats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg Axxis: Cinderella: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD3Hhzgqkrc

I like me some hair metal. Cinderella, Dokken, Skid Row... all awesome.

Oh, and Axxis' "Engel Aus Hass", their new album bonus track. Fun. Though it sounds too much like "Better Fate" from the actual album.

I second this. And would pay to hear it.

Right, so it's impossible to make a complete list, but it's Friday night, the old lady went to bed early (mad at me for something I did this morning) and I'm drunk, so I decided to try. And at least you'll see a good portion of the bands I've seen. Spoiler: Click here to viewAccept Altaria Amaran Amorphis Anathema Apocalyptica Arch Enemy Axxis Blind Guardian Bloodhound Gang Bruce Dickinson Cargo Celtic Frost Charon Children of Bodom Cradle of Filth Dark Angel Dark Funeral Dark Tranquillity Death Angel Dew-Scented Diablo Dimmu Borgir Dio Dismember Dream Theater Edguy Ensiferum Evergrey Faithless Fear Factory Finntroll Freedom Call Gamma Ray Gojira Hanoi Rocks Helloween HIM Hundred Reasons Iced Earth Impaled Nazarene In Flames Iris Iron Maiden Judas Priest Katatonia Kent Kiuas Kotipelto Kotiteollisuus Lake of Tears Lordi Machine Head Machine Men Marduk Metsatoll Mokoma Monster Magnet Moonsorrow Motorhomes Motörhead Mustasch Narnia Nightwish Norther Opeth Primal Fear Rammstein Royksopp Satyricon Scorpions Sentenced Sinergy Sisters of Mercy Skyclad Slayer Sodom Soilwork Soulfly Stratovarius Suburban Tribe Super Furry Animals Swallow the Sun Tarot Terasbetoni Testament The 69 Eyes The Ark The Crash The Darkness The Haunted The Hellacopters The Rasmus Therion Thunderstone Trio Niskalaukaus Trooper Turisas Twilightning Type O Negative Uriah Heep Vanishing Point WASP Venom Venom Viikate Within Temptation +50-100 less known bands

In the past ten years I've been to more than a dozen festivals and at least a hundred club gigs. I don't know if it's feasible to list all the bands I've seen. Actually, I doubt I could even remember half of them, but it's mostly hard rock and heavy metal.

Cargo, the Romanian band. Nice, catchy, 70's/80's style heavy rock, but I don't understand anything of the lyrics.

I was thinking of the Jaws theme song.

Ed Hunter

Ministry - Keys to the City (hockey)

I'm not a fan. Sure, I own one CD (VH-1, from '78), and they could possibly rank in the bottom half of my top 100 favourite bands if I ever made such a list, but that's just because I have respect over their talent and interest towards similar music.

Wow, I'm not the only one who likes Axxis? I'd like some Back to the Kingdom songs, but otherwise a good set. EDIT: the old "festivus for the rest of us" thread and my festival post: Iron Maiden | Judas Priest Dio | Testament Blind Guardian | Savatage | Iced Earth Skyclad | Axxis | Pink Cream 69 Not in order of preference, but an order I could realistically see these bands billed. Angel Dust would have definitely been on the list, but I suppose they are not really that active anymore. At least not with Dirk Thurisch. Savatage is probably the same, but replace them with Chris Caffery if you want to nitpick.

Deep Purple with Smoke on the Water or Black Sabbath with Paranoid?

Van Halen was not a one hit wonder. Their debut album was a milestone in heavy metal and helped pioneer glam metal. Perhaps the best album of the 70's. Running with the Devil and Ain't Talking 'Bout Love are still played on the radio. And that was way before Jump or Panama.

Love's Requiem by HIM

Iron Maiden's The X-Factor. One of my all-time favourite albums, but it was certainly not well-received by the general audience. The biggest reasons must have been the change of vocalists (Blaze Bayley replaced Bruce Dickinson), and that it didn't sound like what people knew to expect from Maiden. It was slow, brooding and with long intros. Very difficult to approach. But to me, the X-Factor is a dark masterpiece, a work of art with some of the best ever Maiden tracks, such as the Edge of Darkness, Fortunes of War, Look for the Truth, the Aftermath and Sign of the Cross. A brilliant album. A+.

I prefer Peter Gabriel era Genesis. By a wide margin, too. Only thing I didn't like in the early Genesis albums were the lyrics, which I never quite understood, but the music was brilliant. It wasn't like Genesis sold out, the music was still good after Gabriel left, but it took a different direction without him, into something like consumer good as opposed to the art that it used to be.