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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #50 on: May 18, 2023, 11:24:54 AM »

Another band that needs to have a talk with their singer about retiring. Bruce isn't even sniffing those higher notes...hell, he's not even hitting the regular verse notes. They need to tune down a step or whatever and see if he can even do that. Not everybody's voice is going to hold up like a Dio, Halford...or King Diamond...haha. Even Geoff Tate sounds terrible and he might have been the best of the 80s.

Saw WASP on sunday, Blackie's voice was still on par, his back not so much. He sat through the entire show.

I'm going to see Maiden next Sunday. They are starting their new tour in my country. Would be great if they opened with Caught somewhere in time. Deja-vu live would be awesome as well

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #51 on: May 18, 2023, 11:47:33 AM »
Saw WASP on sunday, Blackie's voice was still on par, his back not so much. He sat through the entire show.

I'm going to see Maiden next Sunday. They are starting their new tour in my country. Would be great if they opened with Caught somewhere in time. Deja-vu live would be awesome as well

That song and Sea of Madness are two of my all time favorites. 

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #52 on: May 18, 2023, 03:16:49 PM »
Blackie performing while seated is beyond depressing.


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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #53 on: May 18, 2023, 03:27:09 PM »
Saw WASP on sunday, Blackie's voice was still on par, his back not so much. He sat through the entire show.

I'm going to see Maiden next Sunday. They are starting their new tour in my country. Would be great if they opened with Caught somewhere in time. Deja-vu live would be awesome as well

Haven't seen WASP recently but Blackie uses a lot of backing tracks. Did you notice any obvious lip-syncing? Several videos on youtube show it.

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #54 on: May 18, 2023, 04:07:43 PM »
Pantera

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #55 on: May 18, 2023, 05:51:41 PM »
On the Black Album, I like Of Wolf and Man and Sandman will be iconic for me because of Mariano Rivera.  Couldn't care less for any of the others, save maybe Through the Never.

To me Puppets is the album that's untouchable, and that alone puts them over Slayer. Is there a better start/end to an album than Battery/Damage Inc?  Nah.  I probably listen to a part of it every day.

One caveat about my 18 year run of shit - I thought the first S&M was great.  I think the S&M version of One is better that the original.

Seen Metallica a handful of times, but I will say I saw Slayer at a club in Boston, where I could go to the bar, get a beer, then get right back to front standing about 4 feet in front of them.  There wasn't even really a stage, they were just standing there.  Maybe 100 or so people.

And the fuckers went 3 hours hard, no different if it was a stadium.  King was an absolute monster.  Even got a Jeff Hanneman guitar pick.

Sandman is a song i despise, because that is the song that made them mainstream. And every single radio station played in every 30 minutes for like a year. Everyone i knew didn't like Metallica, but once Sandman came out EVERYONE was a fan, it drove me nuts. I really don't care for the song, but Wolf and Man, The God That Failed and My Friend of Misery are decent.

Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets are incredible.

I still listen to RtL all the time.

Orion was one of my favorite songs as a kid and the reason i played the guitar in High School.

Slayer to me is just the same thing song after song. Even Iron Maiden has a diverse play set, like Metallica.

NIN used to play at this small venue in Austin, Texas back in the day. My brother and i used to go see them quite often, but like Metallica I think Trent went too mainstream.

I do agree S&M had some hits in there, completely forgot about that album.

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #56 on: May 18, 2023, 08:54:09 PM »
Most hardcore metal heads prefer Slayer but millions and millions love Metallica.
Tbh when I was a teenager I was like obsessed with Metallica, srs

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #57 on: May 18, 2023, 08:55:13 PM »
Sandman is a song i despise, because that is the song that made them mainstream. And every single radio station played in every 30 minutes for like a year. Everyone i knew didn't like Metallica, but once Sandman came out EVERYONE was a fan, it drove me nuts. I really don't care for the song, but Wolf and Man, The God That Failed and My Friend of Misery are decent.

Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets are incredible.

I still listen to RtL all the time.

Orion was one of my favorite songs as a kid and the reason i played the guitar in High School.

Slayer to me is just the same thing song after song. Even Iron Maiden has a diverse play set, like Metallica.

NIN used to play at this small venue in Austin, Texas back in the day. My brother and i used to go see them quite often, but like Metallica I think Trent went too mainstream.

I do agree S&M had some hits in there, completely forgot about that album.
Hey tbh, enter sandman is a good song, it's just overplayed

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #58 on: May 18, 2023, 11:52:35 PM »
Nothing they've done compares to the 1st three... Amazing...
And Justice For All is a fucking masterpiece!

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #59 on: May 19, 2023, 05:32:43 AM »
Haven't seen WASP recently but Blackie uses a lot of backing tracks. Did you notice any obvious lip-syncing? Several videos on youtube show it.

Was in the back so could not tell but it would not surprise me cause he really sounded great

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #60 on: May 19, 2023, 05:40:44 AM »
And Justice For All is a fucking masterpiece!

Indeed

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #61 on: May 19, 2023, 05:49:21 AM »
Saw WASP on sunday, Blackie's voice was still on par, his back not so much. He sat through the entire show.

I'm going to see Maiden next Sunday. They are starting their new tour in my country. Would be great if they opened with Caught somewhere in time. Deja-vu live would be awesome as well

WASP is great.  Saw them open for KISS in the mid 80s - GREAT show. 

Blackie and his revolving bandmates have continued to put out music all these years. Still love the early stuff the best.

Saw Blackie do a bunch of Q and A type interviews last year, promoting what I guess is this tour?  Sucks to hear he's crippled up.  Hopefully it's temporary....

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #62 on: May 19, 2023, 06:28:48 AM »
Sandman is a song i despise, because that is the song that made them mainstream. And every single radio station played in every 30 minutes for like a year. Everyone i knew didn't like Metallica, but once Sandman came out EVERYONE was a fan, it drove me nuts. I really don't care for the song, but Wolf and Man, The God That Failed and My Friend of Misery are decent.

Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets are incredible.

I still listen to RtL all the time.

Orion was one of my favorite songs as a kid and the reason i played the guitar in High School.

Slayer to me is just the same thing song after song. Even Iron Maiden has a diverse play set, like Metallica.

NIN used to play at this small venue in Austin, Texas back in the day. My brother and i used to go see them quite often, but like Metallica I think Trent went too mainstream.

I do agree S&M had some hits in there, completely forgot about that album.

Yeah, I agree, Sandman would be forgettable to me if it wasn't for Rivera.  But to be at Yankee Stadium when that music played in the WS was f'n fantastic.  The stadium shook.

I may have told this, but I bought that album day one, put it in the camaro, listened, was like....Sandman ok, yeah, different,  then got to the chorus of The Unforgiven and wanted to throw the disc out the window.  Was so bummed.
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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #63 on: May 19, 2023, 08:19:42 AM »
Yeah, I agree, Sandman would be forgettable to me if it wasn't for Rivera.  But to be at Yankee Stadium when that music played in the WS was f'n fantastic.  The stadium shook.

I may have told this, but I bought that album day one, put it in the camaro, listened, was like....Sandman ok, yeah, different,  then got to the chorus of The Unforgiven and wanted to throw the disc out the window.  Was so bummed.

Felt the same way after Maiden got Bruce and Adrian back in 99 and released their reunion album in 2000.

I wanted to like that album so much, but at heart I wanted them to go back to my favourite albums which were Somewhere in Time and Seventh son. Instead, they went with a more prog rock/metal approach that was kind meh...

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #64 on: May 19, 2023, 02:16:00 PM »

I never got into Slayer, music just didn’t ever appeal and no song ever jumped out at me.

Enter Sandman was the first Metallica song I heard. Loved it. Have seen them live 5 times when they came to Australia. Justice is my favourite album then Puppets.

Metallica were a gateway to Metal music for myself being 14 at the time. I got into Pantera after Metallica and then Sepultura along with Iron Maiden in my teenage years.

I don’t really listen to Metallica anymore but it’s basically all I play on guitar. I have a Hetfield explorer and Hammet Gibson spider guitars. I run it through some studio speakers and have Metallica album patches which are almost identical to the album sound. When I play to the album it just sounds like another guitar. Pretty mind blowing.


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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #65 on: May 19, 2023, 03:15:39 PM »
I never got into Slayer, music just didn’t ever appeal and no song ever jumped out at me.

Enter Sandman was the first Metallica song I heard. Loved it. Have seen them live 5 times when they came to Australia. Justice is my favourite album then Puppets.

Metallica were a gateway to Metal music for myself being 14 at the time. I got into Pantera after Metallica and then Sepultura along with Iron Maiden in my teenage years.

I don’t really listen to Metallica anymore but it’s basically all I play on guitar. I have a Hetfield explorer and Hammet Gibson spider guitars. I run it through some studio speakers and have Metallica album patches which are almost identical to the album sound. When I play to the album it just sounds like another guitar. Pretty mind blowing.

That's cool you can play it.

For me it's Pantera > Metallica > Slayer, but I think they're all awesome.
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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #66 on: May 19, 2023, 03:33:29 PM »
I've seen Pantera live

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #67 on: May 20, 2023, 12:28:54 AM »
That's cool you can play it.

For me it's Pantera > Metallica > Slayer, but I think they're all awesome.

Played from 14-18 and hardwired a lot of Metallica song to muscle memory. Bought these 2 at 42yrs old and played Master of a puppets first go all the way through lol. Can’t do that for all songs, just the ones I played a lot.

Playing a lot of Limp Bizkit at the moment. Having the patches to sound 99% album sound really makes the difference because you ‘want’ to pick up a guitar. As a kid I couldnt afford nice guitars, amps or effects like my friends had. I had the biggest piece of shit guitar as a kid. Fucking horrible and no, having shit gear doesn’t make you somehow awesome, it slows progress.

Pantera has sick guitar work from Dimebag. Loved a lot of their songs and heavy is always good.

A day to remember is what I listen to mostly now.

I've seen Pantera live

Had tickets at 19 to see them live in Sydney. Was mega sick and gave them to my brother who saw them instead. Such a shame but then again I can watch concerts on YouTube.

Kirk Hammett guitar work live is a shocker. He is so shit it isn’t funny.

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #68 on: May 20, 2023, 12:48:49 AM »
I've seen Pantera live
Never got into Pantera.

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #69 on: May 22, 2023, 11:05:28 PM »

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #70 on: May 22, 2023, 11:10:25 PM »

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #71 on: May 23, 2023, 12:28:07 AM »
Of all time metal bands I would put Metallica at #1, with Black Sabbath, Judas Priest (no homo), Iron Maiden and Megadeth rounding out the top 5. I would have Anthrax, Trivium and Breaking Benjamin all above Slayer.

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #72 on: May 24, 2023, 05:08:01 PM »
Liar
I did, twice actually, once they played with morbid angel and sepultura (many yrs ago) and another time I saw them at the ozzfest, they are great live. Keep in mind i'm 46 and I've been a ''metalhead'' since I was 17, lol

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #73 on: May 24, 2023, 05:12:24 PM »
Of all time metal bands I would put Metallica at #1, with Black Sabbath, Judas Priest (no homo), Iron Maiden and Megadeth rounding out the top 5. I would have Anthrax, Trivium and Breaking Benjamin all above Slayer.
It's a matter of personal opinion, to me slayer is better than metallica and megadeth, never got that much into trivium, anthrax is alright though, but slayer is a whole nother level, i'm also a big fun of king diamond and mercyful fate and Ratt

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Re: Slayer or Metallica?
« Reply #74 on: May 24, 2023, 05:17:18 PM »
I did, twice actually, once they played with morbid angel and sepultura (many yrs ago) and another time I saw them at the ozzfest, they are great live. Keep in mind i'm 46 and I've been a ''metalhead'' since I was 17, lol
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