Got any favourite 'old school' metal albums?

Svennn

Craaaaaank it up!!!!

midiman1962

The big prize by Honeymoon Suite - probably not metally for some but a great album i would put in my top 10 

DavidR

'Skull Wars' by The Pirates.

Saw them in a pub, Paddington I think, in about 1979. Very Loud and great fun. Had a copy of Skull Wars but lent it to someone and never returned. Not all metal, and they probably wouldn't have described themselves as such, but they were, by current definitions anyway.

Where has pub music like this gone?! Not for modern tastes I suppose. We didn't even go to the pub to see them as I recall. They were just there! There are still/have been London bands in this tradition (The Spitfires, The Rifles) but sort of more toned down. The Pirates were raucous, in the same way as Johnny Winter was raucous. 

Have a listen. It's there for free on YouTube Music because I listened to it recently. It will cheer you up.  :-)

Philly_Q

midiman1962 said:

The big prize by Honeymoon Suite - probably not metally for some but a great album i would put in my top 10 

I've got that one, again on vinyl.  I remember I really liked some of the tracks, but not all of them, and I liked the guitar playing.  I never heard any of their other albums.

Sporky

The God Machine - Scenes from the Second Storey

30 years old nex year, so that's pretty old. 

roberty

I randomly got into Savatage - In the Hall of the Mountain King a few years ago

It's fucking silly but the guitar playing is ace. I think they were in D standard, and this one is in drop C

Svennn

midiman1962 said:

The big prize by Honeymoon Suite - probably not metally for some but a great album i would put in my top 10 

Oddly, I sold my original vinyl copy of this last weekend.  I spent hours and hours learning stuff like Feel It Again, Lost  and Found etc. back then. Derry Grehan has a you tube channel where he plays through a lot of the originals and unsurprisingly boy was I over complicating some of those riffs and runs 

Reverend

Sporky said:

The God Machine - Scenes from the Second Storey

30 years old nex year, so that's pretty old. 

great record but not sure it fits the bill here

Perdix

Accept : Balls to the wall. Proper metal album from the early 80’s. 

Sporky

Reverend said:

Sporky said:

The God Machine - Scenes from the Second Storey

30 years old nex year, so that's pretty old. 

great record but not sure it fits the bill here

As a meek indie-goth I thought it was jolly metal at the time. You might be right though. 

Reverend

Sporky said:

Reverend said:

Sporky said:

The God Machine - Scenes from the Second Storey

30 years old nex year, so that's pretty old. 

great record but not sure it fits the bill here

As a meek indie-goth I thought it was jolly metal at the time. You might be right though. 

Definitely wouldn't appeal to the Keep It True or Muskelrock crowds, but rightly heralded as one the great bands of the 90s.

There is a real difference between metal in general and heavy metal. And it not even about how extreme it is or anything. Ashbury and Wytch Hazel  can fit along side Dark Throne and Nifelheim quite easily, but Killswitch and FFDP would not. 

Reverend

Going through some vinyl:

Attacker- Battle at helms deep
Loudness - disillusion
Cirith Ungol - frost and fire
Jag Panzer - ample destruction
Glory Bell's Band - Century Rendezvous
Apocalypse  - storm child ep
Brocas Helm - black death

For more modern bands
Lord weird slough feg are incredible live, somewhere beyween thin lizzy 
Visigoth - powermetal but us style rather than weaker euro pm
Eternal champion 
Sumerlands - members of ec but first album has phil swanson (ex hour of 13)on vocals and second has brendan radigan (stone dagger/magic circle/rival mob and now pagan altar)

RobDavies

Armored Saint.  

That is all.  

  

Boromedic

Any Maiden album from debut to Seventh Son, patchy returns after this except for Brave New World. Live after Death is amazing.

British Steel

Lightning to the Nation's

gordiji

Sin after Sin , Judas Priest's finest when metal was called heavy/hard rock. Ian Gillan's Mr Universe, it disappeared down the plughole but was a great album and tour.

TTBZ

Death Angel - The Ultra Violence
Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

Not sure if those fit the criteria but used to love those albums!

Reverend

gordiji said:

Sin after Sin , Judas Priest's finest when metal was called heavy/hard rock. Ian Gillan's Mr Universe, it disappeared down the plughole but was a great album and tour.

Mt Universe is an all time great Especially Secret Of The Dance

Reverend

TTBZ said:

Death Angel - The Ultra Violence
Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

Not sure if those fit the criteria but used to love those albums!

not quite Dio-esque but classics 

fretmeister

I remember Loudness! Blimey. That's a blast from the past.

Philly_Q

Reverend said:

gordiji said:

Sin after Sin , Judas Priest's finest when metal was called heavy/hard rock. Ian Gillan's Mr Universe, it disappeared down the plughole but was a great album and tour.

Mt Universe is an all time great Especially Secret Of The Dance

I remember buying that for a special price of £3 when it was first released!