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That's a mockumentary. Just like the Fozzy one.

New Heaven and Hell track: Bible Black

S&M is nothing special. The band is sloppy, the songs don't work well with the orchestra and the band is not that good to begin with. The orchestration brings very little to the table. I actually own this on CD, but I think I own about 10-15 better live albums. I'm quite a big live album fan and tend to buy lots from bands I like. Too many to start naming, but I guess my favourite heavy metal live album is Iced Earth's Alive in Athens. Then there's Testament's Live at the Fillmore, Judas Priest's Unleashed in the East, Rainbow On Stage, Blind Guardian Live, Annihilator's Double Live Annihilation, Dio's Holy Diver Live... there's even better albums with a band featuring a symphony orchestra like the Waltari one, Within Temptation and the newer Deep Purple one (the one without Ritchie Blackmore). EDIT: Oh yeah, the Rush in Rio one is okay, but the audience ruins it for me. The same goes for the Bruce Dickinson Scream for me Brazil!. Damn those South American soccer chants...

Here's one you forgot:

8 - maybe 7 for average quality, but they've had so many releases and been so consistent I gave an eight. Joshua Tree Discotheque

Savatage - Stay

Get the cheapest one you can find. Practise with that. Then upgrade if you still feel like it.

Dokken's Tooth and Nail. A classic. 'Into the Fire' is my favourite track.

He is not.

I was born in 1980. I guess I started with the usual kiddie stuff, plus later an assortment of poppy glam rock/metal like Scorpions, Europe, Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot. I then got seriously into heavy metal, around early to mid 90's. Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Judas Priest, Savatage... I started collecting CDs - lots of popular and also a bunch of more marginal music, but still mostly heavy metal. From mainstream 70's heavy metal to obscure 90's Australian power prog groups. But hey, last week I bought two Dokken CDs. I guess now I've degenerated back into my childhood state of mind.

I guess my favourite musician ever is a 'fatty'. Jon Oliva -(Savatage, Doctor Butcher, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Jon Oliva's Pain)

I got tickets to see Jon Oliva's Pain in June. I also read they will have a new album out later this year. Cristopher Kinder (the drummer) on JOP board: Also with a new album, Skyclad: That's from their MySpace and Blabbermouth. I can't wait. I loved A Semblance of Normality.

Best two albums of 2008: Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die Marshall Law - Razorhead

Here's a Youtube link to a nice version of the song.

Kotipelto solo releases > anything by Stratovarius since Infinite

Whitesnake - Love Ain't No Stranger A few reasons I can think of: - A power ballad. Something for the chicks AND for the boys. - The guitar work is real tasty. Seriously, you don't hear that anymore anywhere. Whitesnake always had the most awesome guitarists who played for the SONG and never indulged in wankery. - Recognision value: not an over-played song everyone knows, but by a band everyone knows. Not a hugely famous track, but it is a single by one of the most popular groups in the world, including the self-proclaimed 'Edith Piaf of rock' David Coverdale. He is ugly, but women love him. Or at least dug him. - It's not indie.

Get a hooker.

Here's a couple classic and essential heavy metal albums: Dio - Holy Diver Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Black Sabbath - Paranoid Guns'n'Roses - Appetite For Destruction Slayer - Reign in Blood Judas Priest - British Steel My personal favourite albums from 90's and beyond: Savatage - The Wake of Magellan Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side Valley's Eve - Deception of Pain Axxis - Back to the Kingdom Nightwish - Once Pink Cream 69 - Sonic Dynamite Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider

I'm not that much into progressive music as I used to be, but I still like some. Especially 80's Queensrÿche, as they are somewhat straight forward and at least their songs make sense. The Warning and Operation Mindcrime are my favourite from them. I also have a few of Dream Theater CDs (four), but I've pretty much grown off of them and I don't listen to them a lot. I guess Images and Words is my favourite off of what I have. I also have Lana Lane's Secrets of Astrology. It's not bad, actually has some very good songs on it. The thing I don't like that much about Lana Lane is her voice. But everything else is pretty much ace. I also have Fates Warning's Parallels. It's quite a lot like Operation Mindcrime, but not as awesome. Still a good listen and not as proggy and pretentious as a lot of their other material. A very infectious album. Let me see, what else counts - I have a lot of albums by power/prog bands like Vanishing Point and Stratovarius, but I guess that's a totally different thing, as bands like that actually tend to write good, sensible songs and not just cut and paste random passages to make a ten minute track and call it a 'song'. Anyway, prog metal - I guess King's X counts. They are actually very good. A somewhat unique, stoner sound. Just sometimes difficult to get through a whole album in one listen. 'Please Come Home... Mr Bulbous" is my favourite.

Saxon are really awesome. Been listening to "Into the Labyrinth" quite a lot lately, and even went through all my old Saxon CDs. This is how I'd rank their albums: 1. Unleash the Beast 2. Lionheart 3. The Inner Sanctum 4. Strong Arm of the Law 5. Wheels of Steel 6. Into the Labyrinth 7. Denim and Leather 8. Metalhead 9. Dogs of War 10. Forever Free 11. Killing Ground 12. Crusader 13. Power and the Glory --- I don't have the others. I do have the Heavy Metal Thunder re-recorded compilation double disc they released a few years back though. And one other 'Best of'.

Axxis - Love Doesn't Know Any Distance Kotipelto - Beauty Has Come Extreme - More Than Words HIM - Love You Like I Do Scorpions - To Be With You In Heaven Savatage - This Is Where You Should Be

If you're into epic heavy metal songs check out at least Iced Earth - A Question of Heaven and

I did a top 50 some time ago. I'm just going to paste that in here. It's only heavy metal and mosly of the melodic/classic kind. Spoiler: Click here to view1. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death 2. Angel Dust - Enlighten The Darkness 3. Nightwish - Once 4. Skyclad - A Semblance of Normality 5. Nightwish - Wishmaster 6. Pink Cream 69 - Sonic Dynamite 7. Black Label Society - Blessed Hellride 8. Annihilator - Carnival Diablos 9. Axxis - Back to the Kingdom 10. Valley's Eve - Deception of Pain 11. Saxon - Lionheart 12. Gamma Ray - Majestic 13. Iron Maiden - Brave New World 14. Nightwish - Century Child 15. Chris Caffery - Faces 16. Iron Maiden - Dance of Death 17. Blaze - Blood and Belief 18. Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper 19. Annihilator - Waking the Fury 20. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free Pt 2 21. Blaze - Silicon Messiah 22. Avantasia - The Metal Opera 23. Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards 24. Star One - Space Metal 25. Savage Circus - Dreamland Manor 26. Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy 27. Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die 28. Helloween - The Dark Ride 29. Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World 30. Blaze - The Tenth Dimension 31. Black Label Society - 1919 Eternal 32. Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls 33. Circle II Circle - Burden of Truth 34. Chris Caffery - Pins and Needles 35. Axxis - Doom of Destiny 36. Stratovarius - Infinite 37. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play 38. Axxis - Paradise in Flames 39. Jon Oliva's Pain - Maniacal Renderings 40. Angel Dust - Of Human Bondage 41. Gamma Ray - No World Order 42. Kotipelto - Waiting for the Dawn 43. Feinstein - Third Wish 44. Demons & Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King 45. Helloween - Gambling with the Devil 46. Jon Oliva's Pain - Global Warning 47. Within Temptation - Mother Earth 48. Saxon - The Inner Sanctum 49. The 69 Eyes - Blessed Be 50. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

*Ahem* Alestorm covering 'Wolves of the Sea' Owned.

Shadows - String Of Hits