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Post by Bartwald on Dec 8, 2005 6:48:42 GMT -5
Don't you sometimes feel many bands you used to love years ago are now unfairly forgotten? I certainly do and here's the place for me - and you, I hope - to mention some of them. Let's start with... ACID REIGN  Obnoxious (1990) is a great album that boldly mixes thrash, heavy and hard rock with some true weirdness; any track has something special about it - Creative Restraint, Phantasm and My Open Mind being the favourites - and, for me at least, it's a great shame these guys haven't managed to record much more goodness apart from this album (only The Worst Of Acid Reign followed this second album and the band split). |
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Post by Quorthon on Dec 8, 2005 11:31:40 GMT -5
Desultory (Sweden). An old Death/Doom/Melodic Death Metal band from ages ago. The second album, Bitterness, is the better of the two, out of three, of their albums I've heard.
Bitterness is their second album, the third strayed from Death Metal into something akin to Thrash, with harsher vocals. The band fulfilled their 3-album deal with Metal Blade records than reformed into "Zebulon" which might actually still be around. Zebulon, reportedly, continues the style from the 3rd album.
There was a Nu-Metal band that actually didn't suck called Union Underground that put out one album, a live album, then vanished into oblivion.
Rumor has it Destroyer 666 may have split up (which I hope isn't true), which would be a helluva shame after only 3 albums.
I know I know of a couple more, but I just can't think of them right now.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Dec 8, 2005 18:30:03 GMT -5
All the 80's hair metal bands! ;D I know I'm gonna pay for that comment...
There was also a band called Iced Earth that I used to listen to. Haven't heard much in the last few years, but they didn't really get much mainstream airplay anyway.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Dec 9, 2005 11:34:12 GMT -5
I have the new Iced Earth one, Glorious Burden, which is the Japanese import version with a single disk containing the regular album and two other tracks: When the Eagle Cries acoustic and Greenface, a short full-throttle thrasher. It's not that bad, I prefer Horror Show myself, but I do so love Ripper's vocals so I picked it up. IF you want it, I can copy it for you.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Dec 9, 2005 11:57:40 GMT -5
The Turtles, The Animals, The Small Faces, Unit 4+2, The Creation....
Pretty much any band from the British Invasion that weren't The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, or The Who.
Just a song or two survives for each of them.
Oh, yeah, loads of oldies but goodies bands. Shangri-La's and junk.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Dec 9, 2005 12:13:21 GMT -5
Pulp, you might know this: Was Paul Rodgers ever a member of The Animals? My mother says she is, because she saw the recent Queen+Paul Rodgers DVD, and she said that Paul was a member of another banfd before Bad Company, and that it was The Animals. Do you know if we're correct or not?
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Dec 9, 2005 17:33:23 GMT -5
I have the new Iced Earth one, Glorious Burden, which is the Japanese import version with a single disk containing the regular album and two other tracks: When the Eagle Cries acoustic and Greenface, a short full-throttle thrasher. It's not that bad, I prefer Horror Show myself, but I do so love Ripper's vocals so I picked it up. IF you want it, I can copy it for you. I don't even have any of their cd's. One of my friend's had some of them & my brother has a couple so I just listened to theirs.  I'd love to have a copy of the new one though. Thanks!  |
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Dec 9, 2005 18:03:20 GMT -5
I don't think so.
you can check allmusic.com, they'll tell you. But I'm pretty sure he wasn't.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Dec 9, 2005 18:44:43 GMT -5
I don't even have any of their cd's. One of my friend's had some of them & my brother has a couple so I just listened to theirs. I'd love to have a copy of the new one though. Thanks! Great, PM me your address and I'll get it to you soon. |
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Post by Bartwald on Dec 11, 2005 10:37:31 GMT -5
Hmmm, I think Iced Earth is not all that "forgotten" - I think they're now working on a new album. And "The Glorious Burden" is a very good piece - in my opinion it's even better than the also good "Horror Show"; not as good as my favourite "Something Wicked This way Comes", though.
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Post by Quorthon on Dec 12, 2005 10:41:41 GMT -5
I have the new Iced Earth one, Glorious Burden, which is the Japanese import version with a single disk containing the regular album and two other tracks: When the Eagle Cries acoustic and Greenface, a short full-throttle thrasher. It's not that bad, I prefer Horror Show myself, but I do so love Ripper's vocals so I picked it up. IF you want it, I can copy it for you. I don't even have any of their cd's. One of my friend's had some of them & my brother has a couple so I just listened to theirs. I'd love to have a copy of the new one though. Thanks! Yeah, Iced Earth never went away, they're still in the Underground where Metal thrives. The Ripper that Slayrrr referred to is Tim "Ripper" Owens, the newest vocalist for Iced Earth. He was temporarily Rob Halford's replacement in Judas Priest. Intersting note (in case you didn't know, although I'm sure me, Bart and Slayrrr all knew this): Tim Owens' story of "the mega-fan that became frontman for his favorite band" was the inspiration for the movie Rock Star. Originally, it was going to be called "Metal God" and actually be about the Tim Owens/Judas Priest story. Maybe if it had been it wouldn't have sucked as badly. That ending made me so fucking mad that I was agitated over it for days. Fucking sell-out ending. |
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Dec 12, 2005 18:05:16 GMT -5
Yeah, Iced Earth never went away, they're still in the Underground where Metal thrives. Well, we don't have any radio stations around here who play any underground stuff (go figure...  ), so I've been missing out on them. It'll be good to hear them again. I don't even know which two my brother has so I can't comment on which I like better. |
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Dec 12, 2005 20:09:10 GMT -5
Pulp, you might know this: Was Paul Rodgers ever a member of The Animals? My mother says she is, because she saw the recent Queen+Paul Rodgers DVD, and she said that Paul was a member of another banfd before Bad Company, and that it was The Animals. Do you know if we're correct or not? Eric Burden was the lead singer of The Animals. Before Bad Company, Paul Rodgers was in a band called, Free. Their biggest hit was "Alright Now". I know because a band I was in used to cover that song. Ask your mom if that's the band she's thinking of. She'll probably know the song too. After Bad Company, Paul Rodgers was in another band called The Firm, along with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page. LDG, I don't think most of the 80's hair bands have been forgotten. You still hear a lot of them on the radio quite a bit. Plus, it seems like a lot of them are always still touring, usually in package concerts with about five of them, ie: Poison, Warrant, Cinderella, etc. Dee Snider hosts that syndicated radio show "House of Hair" every week. I recently got a Sirius satellite radio, so I can get my Howard Stern fix when he goes to satellite in January, and 80's hair metal even has it's own station, "Hair Nation". You'd love it! |
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Post by Quorthon on Dec 13, 2005 10:48:09 GMT -5
Yeah, Iced Earth never went away, they're still in the Underground where Metal thrives. Well, we don't have any radio stations around here who play any underground stuff (go figure... ), so I've been missing out on them. It'll be good to hear them again. I don't even know which two my brother has so I can't comment on which I like better. We have one Underground Metal radio show: The Root of All Evil radio show--painfully placed Sunday mornings 1am-6am on a "free air" station--so there's no commercials or censorship--they even played GWAR's "Fuckin' an Animal" once. When I worked overnights at my last job, I'd sometimes be there on the weekends and able to listen to it. It's where I heard Gorerotted for the first time. They played "Zombie Graveyard Rape Bonanza." One night, though, they had this guy on there that spent the night playing Van Halen and some really lame crap. |
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Post by Bartwald on Dec 13, 2005 14:27:00 GMT -5
Dontcha like Van Halen, Quorth? Why wouldn't you?
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I'd love to have a copy of the new one though. Thanks! 
), so I've been missing out on them. It'll be good to hear them again. I don't even know which two my brother has so I can't comment on which I like better. 