Slave is a 10/10 album for me. Mixes the melodic side of their debut with a more heavy sound. Love the debut, but Slave is as good as it gets for me. This album as well as Appetite For Destruction, Hysteria and Metallica's Black album are perfect 10/10 albums for me from that late 80's early 90's era of music. Still listen to all of them on a regular basis...
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It was a debacle. Firstly, yes the site kept crashing and a lot of people missed out on pre sale. Imagine what it will be like when it opens to general public! Secondly, when my wife finally got onto the site to buy tickets, she said the website kept refreshing, and when it did it defaults back to the start which somehow automatically assumed you wanted tickets to the Sydney show. Ebay has he
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Went to both nights in Melbourne this week. They played End Of The Beginning, God Is Dead, Loner, Age Of Reason and Methademic over the 2 nights. Ozzy struggled a little on the newer tracks, which all sounded ok. Actually, Methademic probably sounded the best of the lot and I see it's down as a bonus track. Definitely worth getting for the track alone IMO. As for the shows, well worth the w
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I was at Stone, and thought Dave let the band down tbh. Cpmpared to the Boston show I witnessed about a year ago, his vocals really let the show down. The band were on fire and to my ears the sound was pretty good for an outdoor event! But Dave as good as he was as a front man, his vocals made a mockery of some of the older material. His vocals were actually better on the new material. It did
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Yeah, I found the Sambora album really grew on me as well. Played it a cpl of times then dismissed it besides a few songs. But revisiting it the past week or so has opened my ears to how good it is. Good mix of rockers and ballads, solid production(besides a couple of alterations on Richie's voice at times) and the songs are winners. I'm not saying this is as good as his amazing 'Stranger In This
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TBh, I really enjoyed the first W.E.T. album, but I thought the adoration on here about it was a little over the top. However, this is a first class song. Nice video as well. Really looking forward to this one now.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TypJVVmJ_n0 I pulled the latest Richie Sambora album out again the other day, and I believe it got a fairly bad wrap. This track alone is worth the purchase. This song is better than anything Bon Jovi has released since the 'Faith' days IMO. Throw in the classy ballads 'I'll Always Walk Beside You' and 'You Can Only Get So High' as well as melodic rockers 'Ev
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That sounds huge! Can't wait to hear more
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Really looking forward to this album. There last 2 albums have been solid...
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Agree 100%. Have not released a bad album. Very underated band IMO. Don't get the kudos they deserve...
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Yeah, I think the problem for me was I really enjoyed the heavier 'Beyond Good And Evil' album. And I was taken a bit back by the rawness of Born Into This. Totally agree on the song 'Stand Alone'. Should have been on the album. It has 4 stars in my itunes, so it must be a good song. Dirty Little Rockstar, Tiger In The Sun and Citizen are the only songs I got anything out of on that record. Might
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Yeah Wardy, totally agree on The Cult. Very under rated album from last year. I read an interview a couple of years ago when they toured here in Melbourne that they were going to release 'capsules' from now on with 4 or 5 songs on them. Obviously changed there mind. But happy with the result. Much better than the poor Born Into This album...
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As much as I would also love a new Def Lep cd, their last one was very poor. I wonder how much time and effort would actually go into making a full length cd and if they are capable anymore of releasing 10-12 solid tunes. I'd be happy if they released a few songs at a time, but made Ep's available on disc for the collector's like myself. Maybe 3 or 4 songs at a time. I'm actually meeting them
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I agree with the comments about being a weak album. The album sounds rushed to me. A lot of similarities with the last Nickelback album. Songs written for radio airplay that never hit any heights at all. Easily their weakest album for me. Which is a shame as I really liked their last two albums. Here's hoping Buckcherry can make up for Hinder's disappointment...
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Under rated band with virtually zero profile here in Australia. I saw them at the Espy earlier this year supporting Catheral. It was a million degrees in the room and on a tiny stage, but they still delivered. They haven't released a bad album since returning to form with Symbol Of Life. Their latest album Tragic Idol is well worth getting. Just for the track 'Theories From Another World' alo
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The Heat The Outsiders The Reckoning All worth getting IMO. On a par or better than Daylight, all of them. Great band.
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$100 - $160 makes it cheaper than seeing Black Sabbath. But I'm not convinced Etihad is the right venue for Melbourne. Too big. Motley barely sold out Rod Laver just last year, while Kiss's popularity has waned for a number of years. Throw in the fact that Soundwave Festival and all it's sideshows are on around the same time, Deep Purple/Journey are touring the same time as well as Black Sabbath
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$140is quite reasonable. Just paid $180 for Black Sabbath tix... The scheduling for the Journey/Deep Purple Melbourne show however plain sucks. Same night as the Soundwave festival. Kiss/Motley is that week as well. All far too close together. Throw in a potential Aerosmith tour in May and all hard rock fans in Australia will be broke.
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Two words - Toxic Holocaust!!! Their latest album Conjure and Command is excellent old school thrash! Havok are awesome as well. Love the album Time Is Up, and the latest EP as you say is great also. As others have mentioned, check out bands such as Warbringer, Evile, Bonded By Blood, SkeletonWitch, Municipal Waste, Gama Bomb, Violator, Fueled By Fire, Demonica, Witchery, Lazarus AD,
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I remember seeing their debut album on the shelf and thought it looked pretty cool and bought it. As you did back then. I found both their albums were a mixed bag. Both had some killer tunes on them but also some filler. 'King Of The Dogs' from Open To The Public is an amazing tune and showed if they went more metal than hard rock, they could have survived. Definitely had some talent. Althoug
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Yep, can't wait. Also with Aerosmith in May, Kiss/Motley in March, Deep Purple/Journey in March, Robert Plant and Soundwave festival, it's a massive first half of the year for us fans in Australia!!!!!
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Their last album will be hard to top. Was arguably their best in close to 30 years of releases. If it's anywhere near as good as Pandemonium, I'll be very surprised, but very happy. Looking forward to hearing it.
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That's where downloading is actually a good thing! Aren't there websites where you can set up a US postal address so you can order things from the net and get them delivered to that address, then they post them on to you for a minimal fee? I was looking at doing that awhile ago, but lost the website adresses. If anyone can help, that would be great. Cheers...
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Mafia and The Blessed Hellride are his two best I feel. Order Of The Black isn't bad either. The production on some of his earlier recordings is pretty patchy and he was definitely going for a heavier sound earlier on. But post 1919 Eternal album, he's managed to find a nice balance of heavy tunes, melodic rockers and some fine ballads with a better production. His voice has gotten better as well
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You need to get 'Ocean Machine'. That album is still in my top 5 albums of all time. Devin is a genius. Also, get your hands on 'Addicted' which is in a similar vein to 'Epicloud'. Also try 'Infinity' or even 'Accelerated Evolution'. Steer clear of the Strapping Young Lad stuff if you don't like the heavier stuff. Well worth a listen if you do though. You really can't go wrong with any De
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Agree. Solid album.
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Always he said she said in regards to what album is better. But the figures don't lie. From what I gather Matchbox 20's debut has sold somewhere in the vicinity of 15 million albums. An incredible amount of sales. While Mad Season hasn't sold half that. You can't compare it to Hysteria in any way shape or form. Pyromania was an incredible album that sold 10+ million copies in the states. The foll
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To even consider Mad Season being 'their' Hysteria is hilarious!!! Weren't there something like 6 or 7 hit singles from Hysteria? Mad Season had 2. The debut album has sold something like 4 times more albums! Mad Season will universally be known as a flop compared to their debut album...
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3, maybe 4 good songs on Mad Season. Their debut is streets ahead of that album. I thought it was rather a poor follow up to their debut tbh and is quite possibly their weakest album. I think it's crazy talk you even mention the album in the same breath as Hysteria! Different strokes I suppose...
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Unfortunately for this band they released easily their best work on debut. Nothing they have done since has come close, including this latest effort. Have lived with this album for a number of weeks and I have to agree with most, and say it's a disappointing effort. The songwriting is as always solid. Thomas knows how to write lyrics. But most of the songs themselves are dull and lifeless. No
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