I’m creating this thread so you can share your favourite hard rock and metal bands to like minded fans of the genre.

Personally, I define hard rock/metal as maybe Led Zeppelin/Sabbath/Deep Purple through to Lamb of God at the harder end. Heavy metal music is defined by great guitar work, thunderous drumming and soaring vocals.

When the vocals get “un-understandable”, there is a death metal thread created for fans of that genre. Feel free to migrate to that thread and share your favourite music.

Feel free to intelligently discuss others posts ... however, moronic posters of “that sucks” and the like will be ejected from the thread. Life’s far too short for that crap.

Go forth and share your love of metal!

Dave.

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Let’s kick it off with some classic stuff.

Ronnie James Dio at the peak of his game.

Ritchie Blackmore pissed off with Deep Purple and out to show them who’s the boss.

Kill the King.

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Last year I had the privilege to be at the Killswitch Engage show in Auckland .. they were playing the whole Alive or Just Breathing album for the 10th anniversary of its release.

Just an awesome show.

Here’s some of it from Canada.

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Slightly old news, but Judas Priest have released the first song off their new album Firepower, due out soon.

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I would concur.

Pretty much all of his output was top notch. Maybe a couple of dips in the middle of the Dio albums, but pretty darn good across the board.

Alas, the only time I ever got to see him live was with Heaven and Hell in Auckland. Dio never came to NZ. I missed Dio by a week in Las Vegas around 2000, which I was totally bummed about.

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I’ve got the first 8 albums, but sort of fell off the train after that. I had to look up Unleash the Beast to see what it was.

Back in the 80s Saxon were one of the biggest bands of the NWOBHM. They never really caught on outside of Europe though.

They played at Wacken last year. And they’re down to support Priest on their upcoming US tour.

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Don’t know if you’ve heard of Fastway, the band Eddie formed when he left Motörhead (he was replaced in Motörhead by Brian Robertson from Thin Lizzy, who recorded the awesome Another Perfect Day album)

Eddie and Pete Way (ex UFO) formed Fastway in 1983. Fast + Way = Fastway. Genius huh?

Pete Way recorded the album but he was contracted to a different label and had to leave the band. Fastway had some success with their few albums before they broke up.

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Talking of Motörhead, the Brian Robertson era is really interesting.

Fast Eddie quit, and the band strangely chose ex Thin Lizzy axe hero Brian Robertson.

They only made the one album, Another Perfect Day. Brian’s playing added a level of melody to the onslaught, which IMO makes it the best of the Motörhead studo records. YMMV.

Lemmy is on record as saying Brian was out of control on the drink (and heroin), one of the worst he’s seen ... and that’s coming from Lemmy.

The final straw was when Brian showed up to a gig in pink shorts, and the Hells Angels wanted to beat him up. Brian was out ... Phil and Wurzel were in.

Here’s Back at the Funny Farm with Brian.

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Yes, they did ... I’m not sure of what Genes involvement was. Probably took all the money.

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The best band nobody has really heard of. Except for Boys are back in Town.

That video shows the Thunder and Lightning tour ... John Sykes (ex Tygers of Pan Tang) was in the band. He was considerably younger than the other guys, and really gave them a boot up the ass musically. I have the double live album from that tour, and all the Lizzy classics are played way faster and heavier than the 70s versions, bringing the material into the 80s to compete with the NWOBHM bands.

John Sykes went on to join Whitesnake and re-record the Slide it In album for its American release. Then they created the 1987 album and they were millionaires overnight. Sykes never toured the album, he was kicked out of the band by Coverdale before it even came out. But he got his royalties from it. Ching Ching.

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Graham Bonnet could certainly belt it out.

Strange dude ... he admits he was never really into the rock/metal music, he much prefers singing rockabilly.

Back to Yngwie ... cool to see him with a V. I’d never seen him play any guitar other than a Strat.

it always amused me that he called himself Yngwie J. Malmsteen ... as to not get confused with all the other Yngwie Malmsteens out there ...

I prefer the Jeff Scott Soto stuff off the first two albums. He belts it out! He’s singing on Mike Portnoy and Billy Sheehan’s new project.

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Actually, Blackmore put Rainbow back together! After 20 years playing renaissance fairs.

They performed at some big European festivals in 2016/17. He found an unknown singer dude who is pretty good. Handles the Purple stuff and all the Rainbow stuff well.

They did it all pretty much in secret, the first most people knew about it was when they walked out on stage at a euro festival.

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That’s amazing ... I had no idea that he’d got back together with Gary Barden. He still sings just like he did on the MSG records of the 80s! As soon as I saw the stage moves I knew it was him.

Good band too ... Neil Murray on bass and Simon Philips on drums.

I wonder if Schenker was drinking back then. He was pretty bad. I think he’s off the booze now.

I used to crank the MSG albums all the time when I was learning guitar, and try to keep up. Great guitar player.

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If you’re going to be a dick, please go do it elsewhere. This thread has been going in a very positive direction.

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Yep, I’ve got the 3 Blue Murder albums. Sykes is an amazing guitarist, such a good tone.

Check out Bad Boy Live if you haven’t heard it, his solo album recorded in Japan around 2004ish. Blue Murder, Whitesnake and Lizzy songs, recorded with Tommy Aldridge, Marco Mendoza and Derek Sherinian.

Pretty sure that was his last recording, although he is supposed to have had a new solo album in the can for some time.

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Man, the Cults Electric album ... I think we played that more at parties in 1988 than we did Appetite for Destruction (and that was on extremely high rotation...)

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Yep, it was Killing Machine everywhere in the world except for the USA where the record company thought that was too extreme. So it became “Hell bent for leather” in the USA.

Which is funny because “bent” is an English slang word for gay. So I’m sure Rob was having a chuckle at that irony.

I have the original Gull albums on Italian pressings ... and also Hero Hero, the Gull greatest hits double LP ... found them new in this totally random ma and pa record store in Napier in the late 80s.

As we discussed some time back, it’s interesting to listen to Priest from Rocka Rolla all the way through, and watch as they evolve from basically a heavy blues band through to prototype speed metal (rapid fire) and then full metal (SFV and DOTF) and then heavier again with Painkiller onwards.

I quite like the Ripper Owens albums too. Different to Halford obviously but the albums are ok.

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Were you wearing your buzzsaw codpiece?

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Funny, I was going to bring them up.

They’re what we call Aussie pub rock .. rock music with a hard rock edge. Honed in the tough pubs of Adelaide and toured around Australia. Exactly the same circuit that AC/DC played.

The Angels were one of the biggest bands in Australia for years, along with Cold Chisel.

After AC/DC broke big time in 1980 with Back in Black, the american record labels set their sights on Aussie for more gold.

They signed both The Angels, Rose Tattoo and Cold Chisel to contracts.

They renamed The Angels to “Angel City” for the US market, to avoid any confusion with the 70s glam band Angel, the guys who wore all white robes. If you saw the two bands together, there could hardly be any confusion ....

None of these new Aussie bands hit it big in the USA, but The Angels had some success on the west coast circuit. In Slash’s book, he talks about sneaking into their shows in Hollywood and how they were a big influence on him. Same for Rose Tattoo ... in fact GnR covered Rose Tattoos Nice Boys (don’t play rock n roll) on their self produced EP “live f**k like a suicide” in 1986.

This is a cool song, not their heaviest, but a good tune nonetheless ... Stand Up, live in 1983. It comes off the album Watch the Red from the same year.

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What a great song to blast first thing in the morning.

Good pit!

Laid to rest.

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The best rock/hard rock band you’ve never heard of. Kings X.

They seem to be lauded more by musos than by the public. I’ve been into them since 1987 when their first album came out, after reading a really good review in Kerrang (that was how we got our metal news pre Internet ...)

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New Zealand.

Subtract.

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I remember buying the Metal Church album The Dark in 1986 — dropped the needle down, cranked it up — “whaaaat the faaaaaark!” I’d never heard anything like it. So heavy for the time.

Still play them all the time. Saw them in NYC last year, they were great.

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Jake E Lee shows you you’ve been playing Bark at the Moon wrong all these years ...

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Let’s have some Fake Healer ...

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A good way to start the day. Some rock n roll in your face. Some Hellyeah.

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Talking of Krokus ... here is a very good story about them from Dee Snider. Well worth the listen!!

Note the part when the mob were going to kill them .... !!

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Yes sir! I think it’s the best of all the Lizzy albums. Tied with Live and Dangerous.

John Sykes cranks the band to a much heavier sound on Live Life ... Lizzy had to compete with the NWOBHM.

That was always Lizzys issue ... the production on the studio albums was dull and shithouse, it’s really only on the live albums where the songs come to life ...

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Walk with me ...

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Love Badlands. Jake E Lee is such a good guitar player, and Ray Gillan belts out the vocals. Eric Singer on drums too.

Great heavy blues/rock.

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One band I really like, Underoath.

They’re a Christian metalcore band out of Florida .. they had some success in the late 2000s, then split in 2013 .. evidently they got back together again in 2015 but I haven’t seen a new album yet.

They go pretty hard, but there’s a good sense of melody behind it all.

I have the CDs in high rotation in the pinball room. As cycochris will attest to when he rang me the other day and couldn’t hear me over the Underoath racket lolll

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Korn is hardly new and trendy .. they’ve been around since 1993. That’s 25 years ...

I like their stuff, the 7 string guitars really give you a punch in the nuts! Some killer riffs in there.

I haven’t got the newer albums, so don’t know much about that. But I have seen the live show, and they’re still out there performing to huge crowds around the world.

If you like a good read, Brian “Head” Welch’s book about finding god is a really good read. He (and the rest of the band) were completely off the rails doing drugs and partying 24/7, and one day he begged god to save him from his imminent death. He reckons god came to him (maybe it was the drugs ..) and told him to quit the band. So he did. Just walked out in 2005. In 2013 he reunited with the cleaned up band and stays there to this day.

Love them or hate them, Korn redefined the heavy sound with the 7 string guitars and downtuning.

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True ... but they were laughing all the way to the bank.

It’s easy to look back at certain eras and have a laugh ... what about 70s disco? Huge collars, huge hairdos, bell bottoms, light up dance floors ...

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Dunno ... I wasn’t around LA in the late 80s but I understand Winger BJs were pretty popular ...

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That is not good. Mind you, all these guys are getting old ... that’s why about 10 years ago I made the decision to see all my favourite bands before they quit/die.

Only 2 left on the list ...

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Let’s kick off the day with some good old 70s rock n roll.

Have I mentioned the Led Zeppelin pin I’m making .... ?

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Dunno ... as long as Rob can still sing they’ll probably keep it going.

Looks like they have bought in Andy Sneap from the UK as touring guitarist.

Ian Hill is the only original member ... he’s been there since 1969! Remember Al Atkins was the original singer before Rob. Halford joined in 73 and Tipton in 74.

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So let’s crank up the best Fleetwood Mac cover you’ll hear today.

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Some classic Thin Lizzy from 1976. I hadn't seen this before ....

Love Brian Robertson. The king of the rock wah wah pedal.

I always wanted to play like him when I was a teenager. My dream guitar was a black Les Paul like he has on Live and Dangerous ... I got one eventually, a 1980s model. It was f**ken tone dead lol. Sometimes the dream is better than reality haha.

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I saw that Heaven and Hell tour here in Auckland. Its the only time I ever got to see Dio perform.

Small in stature ... kicked ass on stage. So cool ...

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When the Holy Diver album came out in 1984, I saw it in the store and thought
“Cool cover! What the f**k is a Dio?” ... as a 14 year old kid would ...

Bought it and it blew my mind! Great singing, and awesome guitar playing by Vivian Campbell.

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Lol at this ... it’s from the Offical live video that came out back in the 80s. Hear Vivian play the wrong guitar part at 1.27 ... wonder they didn’t edit it out and tidy it up.

I wasn’t into Black Sabbath when I was 10. I doubt you were either ...

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I was 11 when I saw Zeppelin do Stairway from Song remains the Same. The next day I had the double cassette and a few weeks later a black Swan Song Zep shirt.

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I can’t recall ever seeing an 8 track for sale new here. Maybe back in the 70s (before my time..) but I don’t think we had the players here, at least in large numbers. Certainly the cars never had them like they did in the States.

Probably a bit like the Beta VCR players. There were a few around but 99% of people here had VHS so beta went the way of the dinosaurs ...

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Haven’t you seen Scott Travis play? He’s all about the double bass drums ...

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Anyone made it along to the Priest/Saxon Tour yet?

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Let’s start the day with some widdly-widdly!

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These guys are playing at ReplayFX .. Saturday night around midnight.

Dethlehem ... best band name ever?

Cool music ... obviously they have a sense of humour. Watch the video right till the end.

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A great band from Sweden - Soilwork.

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Good Friday - quite a few beers - some rugby league on TV - and some Deftones.

Rock on.

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Burn the Priest are back - for a cover album.

(Burn the Priest was Lamb of Gods original name)

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Comedian Dean Delray put on a Bon Scott tribute show in Hollywood last week.

Guests included Bill Burr (drums) Marc Maron (guitar) Nikki Sixx, Scott Ian, Rudy Sarzo, Michael Devin ...

They played the Powerage album right through, and some other tracks at the end. Add in some stand up as well.

Looks really cool. I almost flew over for it but decided not to ...

PS listen to the Dean Delray podcast if you like comedy and rock music. He has lots of really interesting guests. Including Tim from Pinball Hall of Fame on episode 100. I’ve seen Dean live at the LA Comedy Store a few times, funny guy. Chatted to him about pinball too, he loves it.

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Arch Enemy from 2009. Live in Japan.

Hadn’t seen this before ..

Metal Church re-recorded Fake Healer last year, with Todd La Torre guesting on vocals.

If you haven’t seen Todd in Queensryche, check him out. As good (if not better) than Tate. Really good singer.

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Ozzy back out on the road with Zakk back in the band butchering more Classic Songs ...

Zakk Wilde - the man who ruined pinch harmonics for everyone.

Bring back the Greek guy!

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The guy can certainly play, for sure.

But I couldn’t even make it to the end of Bark at the Moon on that video. Between Ozzys out of tune singing and Zakks whiizzz wherrrrr whizzzz EEEEEEEOOOOOEEEEEE every 10 seconds, I could take no more.

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Oh yeah. I went to see Black Label Society last year, more of the same. But he seems to really overdo it in those old Ozzy songs.

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Does he still do the porn stuff?

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Anthrax are always a good way to start my day.

I actually prefer the John Bush albums. Such a powerful singer.

If you didn’t know, John Bush is who Metallica originally wanted to sing for them (as James wasn’t comfortable singing). It would have been interesting to see how that would have gone.

John was in Armoured Saint back then. And is again now. The latest album is pretty strong.

PS if you want to see how powerful a singer Bush is, watch Belladonna try to sing this song on a recent tour. They dropped it from the setlist half way through. Just couldn’t pull it off.

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You may remember Dee Snider, the singer from Twisted Sister. About 6 months ago, he was on the Jamey Jasta podcast (recommended) and Jamey pitched him to make a real heavy record.

Dee took him up on it, and the first song is coming out today. Album is coming out in July.

Songs were written by Jamey, Howard Jones, Mark Morton and others. Lots of guests on the tracks including Alissa White-Gluz from Arch Enemy.

I’ve heard some snippets of it, sounds pretty impressive.

Here’s the first release from it.

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“I am a Vikkkkkkinnngggggg!”

I was a fan back in the day when I was trying to steal his licks.

I listened to the first 2 albums a few months ago when I was painting a ceiling. I usually have metal playing as I paint. Helps make the job bearable. The albums are still sounding good - and Jeff Scott Soto’s vocals were really strong.

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I would concur - I thought (at the time) that the first two albums were really strong. The third album started getting more proggy, exactly as you say. I don’t think I bought the fourth one! I think I’d moved on by then.

Good to see Jeff Scott Soto still out there singing. You probably know he did a tour with Journey (before they got Arnel) and now he is singing with the supergroup Sons of Apollo.

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How about some Alex Skolnick to start up the day ...

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Good picks Haz.

I’d add in some tracks from “the dark album”

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No shit! Bat shit crazy.

Watch the moneyed up yuppies snap them up though ...

Good money making scheme for Axl and buddies.

I remember when the box set of Live:binge and purge came out and we were up in arms because it was like $60 or something haha

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Seen LOG 5 times I think? Every time they’ve been to NZ.

Here’s some footage I took in 2013.

“Yo! Bison is metal!”

Rearranging my shed/competition pinball zone.

Dug out my boxes of cassette tapes from the early/mid 80s when I used to buy cassettes.

Pretty much every hard rock/metal album that came out I would buy on either vinyl or cassette. Generally vinyl, then I’d tape it to listen to in the car.

Some real blasts from the past in there. Girlschool anyone? How’s about some Warlock? Doro was sooooo hot.

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My hearse has a tape deck ... can’t wait for it to chew up my Killers tape. Lollll

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Cool.

We only have a little scene here.

My favourite is Subtract. They’ve been quiet for a while but there’s a new album about to come out. Seen these guys a bunch, supporting Lamb of God and other touring bands.

Arguably our biggest rock/metal band is Shihad. They started very much as a Metallica sounding band, but after 30 years gigging, they’ve mellowed out to more of a hard rock.

I saw them last year, they did a special 1 hour set ... and every song was a hit. One of the best sets I’ve seen.

They were signed to an American label in 2010. They were recording their new album in LA when 9/11 happened. The record company said their name sounded too much like Jihad and made them change it. That didn’t go well ... There was a feature film documentary made about them, it was on Netflix.

This song is a banger.

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If Priest are looking for a permanent replacement for Glen, I have a candidate.

Better looking too, just quietly ...

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Priest and Ozzy just announced a NZ tour for March next year. Amped ... I’ve seen Ozzy heaps but haven’t seen Priest before.

Here’s some US festival! My old mate Odin was there ...

And how harrdddd is this! Pretty damn cool.

From my favourite JP album, Defenders of the Faith ...

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New Soilwork album on the way.

Great metalcore band from Sweden.

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Maybe a bit before most of our time I guess?

I know of them, but they don’t have a huge following “down under”. I know they were popular across UK/Europe and Canada ...

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CrazyLevi - you need this in your life. Haha!

Shame you can’t capitalise the letters - looks like Crazylevl lol

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https://www.judaspriest-namegenerator.com

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Great video of Queensryche coming into their peak period.

If you haven’t seen the Operation Livecrime DVD, do yourself a favour and check it out.

Always love the chain drum set. So cool.

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I heard that, maybe on Eddie Trunk. I think it was a Todd La Torre interview.

I like Todd La Torres vocals - arguably better than Tates ...

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I would agree - Chris DeGarmo maybe more so. He was a big contributor in the songwriting. Of course, the focus will always be on the vocalist, that’s just the way it is.

Those first few albums were epic metal records. Operation Mindcrime is at the top of a lot of “best metal album” lists.

But in the last ten+ years, Tate was taking the band in a softer direction which the rest of the band didn’t like, amd by all accounts was becoming a real jerk, so ultimately they had to get rid of him.

Le Torre has proved a more than capable replacement - the latest albums with him singing are way heavier, and the best music the band has done in 20 years.

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What a great story! I love shit like that.

Now, for some big LOLs listen to Gillan talk about the dwarf!!

You can see where Spinal Tap borrowed their ideas from...

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Nobody. Haha!

God bless ya Grrrryyyzzzzzzz!

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Hopefully she wasn’t talking about her “time of month ...”.

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Did you go to the Operation Livecrime show at the Metro a while back?

I flew over to Sydney for that. It was pretty cool.

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Just saw a picture of this album cover and it sent me down a brief Deep Purple rabbit hole...

Was never a massive purple fan, but I do like the Coverdale MK3 era. And I love Ritchie Blackmore, he’s one of the best guitar players ever. And Jon Lord .. genius.

If you are working in front of your computer, throw this album on and give it a whirl all the way through. This is taken from a live radio broadcast the MK3 lineup did on their only UK tour in 1974 .. so there are probably no overdubs at all.

What you heard live in 1974 is what you get.

Ritchie Blackmore
David Coverdale
Glenn Hughes
Jon Lord
Ian Paice

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Yeah, he can still sing like a MF even though he’s almost 70 and has done more coke than maybe anyone else on the planet (read his book if you haven’t - a good read)

Did you see Black Country Communion had a new album last year... For those who don’t know, BCC is Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, Joe Bonamassa and Derek Sherinian. Good hard rocking music.

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The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.

He did drum for Foreigner for ages, I guess he couldn’t have made them sound like Kashmir ...

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New Soilwork songs are out ...

Slightly more melodic than usual, although it does kick in around 3:00 in ...

New drummer in place, as the old one is now in Megadeth.

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And the new Slipknot came out a while back.

Whatever you think of their shtick, this song will go off big time on the stage ... when that riff kicks in, it’s a banger!

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So good.

Jake E Lee was on Dean Delray’s podcast a few weeks ago, he talked about being the original guitarist in Dio ... jammed in Dios house and everything .. before they went for Vivian Campbell.

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Lots of talk online about it.

Appears Paul is singing along to tracks this time. Just like most pop acts do these days.

A lot of fans can’t stomach Thayer singing Shock Me and Singer doing the Beth schtick on the pretend Liberace grand piano. Reality is 95% of the audience probably don’t even know they’re not “the guys”. Lol

They’re coming here in December - I’ve seen them a dozen times but I might take my 9 year old grandson along to them cause he’s a big fan. Stageshow will blow his mind.

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Tears for Fears reimagined...

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A few weeks to go!

Danni is amped!

Slayer/Anthrax are the 15th, the day before.

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Saw Alice in Chains in Auckland last night. Was going to see them in 1993, but they cancelled because the drummer hurt his arm.

Good show. Towards the end, Chad Smith and Josh Kinghoffer from RHCP came out and jammed Them Bones and Dam that River - this rarely happens in NZ because it’s rare for two big bands to be here at the same time.

We have a heap of good bands coming over the next month - Priest, Anthrax, Slayer, Halestorm, Sevendust ... concert bonanza!

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I don’t think Gryzzzzz is unaccustomed to that ....:

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Its a long way to the shop .... when you want a sausage roll .....

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Caught Anthrax and Slayer last night in Auckland.

Anthrax were on first, and in great form. All Joey songs, mostly old ones but a couple from the newer Joey records.

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Slayer followed, and while I’m not a big fan, there are plenty who are and they were loving it! The crosses turning upside down on the curtain before the show was pretty cool.

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Another concert in the month of metal.

Judas Priest and Halestorm tonight.

3rd time seeing Halestorm and they’re always good live. Their recordings are a bit on the softer side, but they really rock out live. And 100% live, no tracks! Lzzy belts it out, and her brother is a star on the drums.

Priest were one of the last bands on my “must see before they quit” list (the only remaining one is Kings X) and they didn’t disappoint, coming out to Delivering the Goods, and slamming metal hit after metal hit.

Personal highlights were Desert Plains and Freewheel Burning ... nice!

Danni was gagging for some Priest, and when Rob Halford came out she said “it’s like seeing Metal Jesus”. Lol

Good times.

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Mariachi heavy metal songs.

You need this in your life.

https://metalachi.com

Thank me later.

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So, as I said, Danni (just turned 17 the other day) is right into her Priest ... her current jam is Tyrant.

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Cool video about the guy who was Van Halens third singer ... but wasn’t ....

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Maybe the worst rock merch I’ve ever seen ...

https://loudwire.com/kiss-crocs/

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