Is Metallica the greatest Metal band of all time?

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
They revolutionized the Metal genre. Metallica is, was, and always will be the best.

Iron Maiden and Judas Priest popularized metal many years before Metallica because popular.

Originally posted by: davestar
you've got a distorted memory of Number of the Beast. it peaked on the Billboard Pop charts at #33 and the Top 200 at #150. it took years for it to go platinum

So when did it go platinum? From what I've heard from people that were in their teens in the early 80's, NOTB was pretty well known back then.

 

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[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
They revolutionized the Metal genre. Metallica is, was, and always will be the best.

Iron Maiden and Judas Priest popularized metal many years before Metallica because popular.

I don't think you could call Metal mainstream before metallica entered the picture

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
I don't think you could call Metal mainstream before metallica entered the picture

As I've said before, what were the sales on KEM/RTL/MOP/AJFA before 1991? The Black Album isn't a metal album and that was by far the most mainstream out of all the Metallica albums.

 

[BATCH71]

Iron Maiden=Excellent band, Dickenson has an outstandingly powerful voice accompanied by some very talented musicians that many "younger listeners" may not appreciate.

Metallica=Excellent band up to the black album and then kinda went downhill with very uninspired music. Lars Ulrich kind of gave up on drumming. I am a drummer and he is absolutley brilliant on RTL,MOP and AJFA. Other than that....snore.

Queensryche= Holy crap they were great up to Empire. It is amazing how fast a ballad like "Silent Lucidity" can hit the chart tops and kill an image. "Operation Mindcrime" is still one of my favority CD's ever. Pure genius and very well balanced production where no band member takes the spotlight. I have seen them perform the whole set twice and both times 10 years or so apart were just awe inspiring.

Dream Theater= My favorite band ever. Mike Portnoy is....."Godlike" that is the only way to describe him. The other members in the band are all prodigy musicians. I have found that DT is a band you WORSHIP or HATE. Their music is very difficult to listen to if you don't "get them" I have found myself needing to repeat the entire disc 10 times before I really absorb the music. Say what you will about them. I think they are great. The new stuff is really dark and very repeat of other bands, I am not sure why.

If you have learned DT stuffs and ever seen them live. Oh My GOD!! They are tighter than a whales ass. Mike Portnoy is unreal on the albums but he is flashy and a showman to boot and puts much more into a show that what is already out of this world on the albums

Keep rockin' peeps!!

Dave

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: kalster
Black Sabbath is the greatest hard rock/metal band

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Black Sabbath might barely be able to be considered metal.. lol

I think it needs to be thought of this way:

Was is considered metal AT THE TIME?

Guns N Roses was considered very hard rock, sort of underground, and only the serious head bangers knew about them.

Then Sweet Child became a hit, people started buying the same album that had been out for a year or so already, and GnR is popular.
And a good bit of the album is being played on the radio, and the original audience, the metal fans, are saying GnR sold out.
Why? Because the exact same album you were listening to and loving before it became popular is not mainstream?

Basically, as stuff gets popular, it doesn't seem as hard anymore.
Remember, MTV's Headbanger's Ball used to play stuff like Dio, Cinderella, Ratt, Poison, Slaughter, along with Maiden, Priest, Van Halen, Quiet Riot, Dokken, etc.
Hard rock to metal was what that stuff was considered back in the day.
Not thought of that way now, but you have to consider what it was THEN.

So you have to consider....Zeppelin. Considered hard rock in their day.
The Who...considered hard rock in their day. Definitely had a hand in influencing heavy metal.
Sabbath....still considered at least hard rock, were definitely metal in their day.
Priest....some metal, some hard rock in their day, moreso metal now.
Metallica...thrash in the early days, morphed into metal, then got digested by the general public and shat out St. Anger. Should have taken some Kaopectate.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
They revolutionized the Metal genre. Metallica is, was, and always will be the best.

Iron Maiden and Judas Priest popularized metal many years before Metallica because popular.

Originally posted by: davestar
you've got a distorted memory of Number of the Beast. it peaked on the Billboard Pop charts at #33 and the Top 200 at #150. it took years for it to go platinum

So when did it go platinum? From what I've heard from people that were in their teens in the early 80's, NOTB was pretty well known back then.

I think it was about 10/02/1986. So it took over 3 years to go platinum.

 

[snowdogg187]

Originally posted by: Schwan
Hell no.

Sell-outs.

 

[mrrman]

dont like them

 

[SlitheryDee]

absoposolutely.