Got any favourite 'old school' metal albums?

EricTheWeary

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

Who knew that the keyboard player on that record would one day reach the dizzying heights of creating the music on Doc Martin? 
I've long since lost my cassette of Mr U but I can still hum a lot of it. Start of my appreciation of Bernie Torme. 

Reverend

EricTheWeary said:

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

Who knew that the keyboard player on that record would one day reach the dizzying heights of creating the music on Doc Martin? 
I've long since lost my cassette of Mr U but I can still hum a lot of it. Start of my appreciation of Bernie Torme. 

I first bought it on the Famelp. Then got the original Acrobat release. Ive since acquired the recent Demon reissues on normal and pic disc. 
I once saw John McCoy drive past me in a jeep; turns out that Bernie Torme lived literally 300 yards from me and I had no idea. Joe Elliot lived next door to him but that isn't even remotely as cool.

scrumhalf

Early stuff by Girlschool, Raven, Angelwitch, Urchin and others come to mind. 

sev112

Axe Attack Vol ii, and Vol i as well

distressed

Battleaxe - Burn This Town

Exciter - Violence & Force

Philly_Q

It's definitely not metal, except perhaps in a proto-hair-metal kind of way, but I've been listening to Starz quite a lot recently.  You have to overlook some very dubious sweet-sixteen type lyrics, but I think they were ahead of their time in being poppy but really quite rocking, in the mid to late 1970s.

Philly_Q

Philly_Q said:

hollywoodrox said:

Philly_Q said:

This evening I listened to Licence to Kill by Malice, after which Spotify took me into a pretty decent playlist - Icon, Madam X, The Rods, Hurricane, Lillian Axe, Sword, Fifth Angel, Shok Paris, Stone Fury, Vicious Rumors.... I love Spotify.

I really need night Icon night of the crime ,but can’t justify buying it at the moment as my list of records to buy is so long 

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I need to bump NOTC to top of the list ,it’s so my kinda stuff 

Yeah, it's a really good album.  I've got it on vinyl, not CD... in fact everything I've posted in this thread is stuff I bought on vinyl, before I started buying CDs.  Some of them I did also buy on CD, years later.

@hollywoodrox I've just been listening to Night of the Crime - and singing along, I was surprised to find I still remember nearly all the lyrics, 37 years on!

hollywoodrox

Philly_Q said:

Philly_Q said:

hollywoodrox said:

Philly_Q said:

This evening I listened to Licence to Kill by Malice, after which Spotify took me into a pretty decent playlist - Icon, Madam X, The Rods, Hurricane, Lillian Axe, Sword, Fifth Angel, Shok Paris, Stone Fury, Vicious Rumors.... I love Spotify.

I really need night Icon night of the crime ,but can’t justify buying it at the moment as my list of records to buy is so long 

edit 

I need to bump NOTC to top of the list ,it’s so my kinda stuff 

Yeah, it's a really good album.  I've got it on vinyl, not CD... in fact everything I've posted in this thread is stuff I bought on vinyl, before I started buying CDs.  Some of them I did also buy on CD, years later.

@hollywoodrox I've just been listening to Night of the Crime - and singing along, I was surprised to find I still remember nearly all the lyrics, 37 years on!

Well done 

Btrcu

Apologies for bumping an old thread, but found this after searching for Savatage, which somehow passed me by completely as I was growing up.

A lot of my favourite albums have already been listed, but amongst those that haven't, I'm going to say:

 Breaking the Silence - Heathen

Come Out and Play - Twisted Sister

Battle Hymns - Manowar

Too Fast for Love - Motley Crue

Speak of the Devil - Ozzy Osbourne (although all Black Sabbath songs) - LIVE

Reverend

heathen are massively overlooked. Such a killer album. all those albums are in fact great. 

LionAquaLooper

Testament - "Practice What You Preach" and "Low".  

thermionic

Sin After Sin, Stained Class, and Unleashed In The East by Judas Priest. Takes me back to being 14 again.

ICBM

The first five Black Sabbath albums.

The first three Rainbow albums if they still count as metal (debatable/probably not).

Jethro Tull - Crest Of A Knave.









Joke . It’s not a metal album despite that ridiculous Grammy win, and anyway I don’t really like it even though I’m an (earlier) Tull fan.

Philly_Q

ICBM said:

The first three Rainbow albums if they still count as metal (debatable/probably not).

I think they do, as we are talking old school.

Offset

ICBM said:

The first five Black Sabbath albums.

This by the bucketload.  Not just any old metal albums - THE metal albums.  Volume 4 is in my top 10 favourite albums, period.

Headphones

May feel a bit early in the context of some of these - but do try Deep Purple's "In Rock" album.   It's the one that made them and it's pretty much set the mould that much of the music above came from - more so than the early Sabbath.

Philly_Q

Offset said:

ICBM said:

The first five Black Sabbath albums.

This by the bucketload.  Not just any old metal albums - THE metal albums.  Volume 4 is in my top 10 favourite albums, period.

I think I'd go first six.  Sabotage is underrated.

Offset

Headphones said:

May feel a bit early in the context of some of these - but do try Deep Purple's "In Rock" album.   It's the one that made them and it's pretty much set the mould that much of the music above came from - more so than the early Sabbath.

Hmmmm.  I've never considered DP to be a 'metal' band (cue Bad News-type bickering).  Hard rock yes, metal no.

Philly_Q

Offset said:

Headphones said:

May feel a bit early in the context of some of these - but do try Deep Purple's "In Rock" album.   It's the one that made them and it's pretty much set the mould that much of the music above came from - more so than the early Sabbath.

Hmmmm.  I've never considered DP to be a 'metal' band (cue Bad News-type bickering).  Hard rock yes, metal no.

Tempted to argue, but it could go on forever...

midiman1962

Btrcu said:

Apologies for bumping an old thread, but found this after searching for Savatage, which somehow passed me by completely as I was growing up.

A lot of my favourite albums have already been listed, but amongst those that haven't, I'm going to say:

 Breaking the Silence - Heathen

Come Out and Play - Twisted Sister

Battle Hymns - Manowar

Too Fast for Love - Motley Crue

Speak of the Devil - Ozzy Osbourne (although all Black Sabbath songs) - LIVE

Coming back to “motley crue” via bizarrely mick wall (the old kerrang journo’s podcast) I’ve found the songs and riffs to be impressively tricky to play as well as memorable ( or maybe I’m jus5 a terrible guitar player)