Metal Reviews

hey cool lets judge bands by low quality youtube videos o/

Plus, those NoMeansNo songs are from the first albums, def not their best ones...

But i love rich guns!

yeah Mama and Sex Mad are probably my least favourite of their studio albums. Rob's voice sounds so strange on Mama

King Diamond personifies Satanism perfectly.

Goofy, cartoony, taken too seriously, but in the end brings the goods.

King Diamond is a member of the Church of Satan (if not a Priest or a Magister due to his "non COS earthly success" they award those titles by)

That's not a very positive thing you know...

to him it is... tehy're gonna bring down christianity anytime now.

I heard he also had a degree in Chemical Engineering. What kind of evil omen is that?

You made the claim, so "those are not their best work" is the excuse I hear?
Nomeansno sucks ass. Maiden rules.
A couple of spasmoidal horn-rimmed dweebs that look like they are still virgins jerking their way through some pretentious punk/jazz twattery vs. the galloping bass of Harris, the twin guitar attack of Murray and Smith isn't any kind of contest.
Seeing bands perform live is the best gauge of their quality, anyways; if anything the video quality of the vids I posted don't do Maiden justice.

Yes it is. I wasn't aware the pursuit of happiness was a bad thing. Thats all that particular organization is trying to achieve in the most bare bones fashion.

Not at all.

It has everything to do with knowing the eventuality of that outcome, that religion will become inconsequential over time.

Compare the world's history as it relates to religion and it is clear that never has religion been more irrelevant than it is now. Sure, An argument could be made that fanatics are more powerful, but only because weapons are more powerful. Even in Iran their words are meaning less and less.

Anton LaVey anticipated religions end sooner than it is happening. Its really that cut and dry.

Satanists are not anti-christian (that's black metal your thinking of)

Satanists are anti-faith in any form.

Figure out the rest for yourself, the info is out there, so go find it.

yes. obviously a bootleg quality recording and a video of them as a 2-piece playing a song that sounds nothing like their other material is "seeing them live." (which i've been lucky enough to do =D)also them looking like virgins and grandpas has everything to do with the quality of their music.

Just from that vid you posted in Helheim, King Diamond's voice is seriously ridiculous. Like ridiculously bad.

And okay cryofthebanshee, you don't like NoMeansNo. Cool...calling them twats just makes you look like a darn fool.

I checked out at least 5 or so of their vids...
not even slightly impressed. No way, no how am I shelling out any bread or using up precious bandwidth / disk space to listen to this stuff, so the youtube vids are gonna have to do.
One: It's not as if I posted high quality non-bootleg Maiden clips (who I've seen live in their prime), so, quitchya bitchin.
Two: They actually sound about what they look like.
Three: I don't need high quality recording to suss whether or not the material is quality. I listen to a bit of raw BM, and have trained my ears to listen to the music, and not only the sound quality
Fourth: If they are so far ahead of Maiden "in every conceivable way". the quality of the video (which was actually better than that of the old videos of Maiden circa 1981), the "bootleg quality", as you put it, would be a moot point.

and

Five: If you had said "Nomeansno is underrated" it would have been left at that, as this band means zero to me; but you said

erm, wrong.

Up The Irons!

Saying Nomeansno is better than Maiden in every conceivable way is the only foolish thing happening here.
I never called them twats; I called them:



Get it right next time before throwing your shovel in.

Whoops.

noodles was making fun of you with the every conceivable way thing. and you think he's serious. lolz.

Twattery was what I said they engage in when they play, not what they look like or what they are, genius. Whoops, indeed.
Are you an english second language case?
And I got Noodles little joke about objective scientific fact right away, harhar...
Noodles (and you apparently) thinks Noodles is more clever than Noodles actually is.

No you didn't.

If you really want to argue semantics, calling them dweebs just makes you look like a darn fool...because that's not based on the music whatsoever.

Anyways I'm not gonna argue for noodles anymore. I've never even listened to a full NoMeansNo album.

Uhh, yeah, I did... only a fucking troglodyte would have thought it was an elusively deep joke. You apparently thought it was clever enough... ooohhh "he said objective scientific fact" to illustrate that opinions are opinions and, by definition, not quantifiable through science... sooo high-brow, dude. And regardless, he meant what he said, so what does that have to do with anything?
Calling them dweebs is being honest.
You want a critique of the music? It fucking sucks. I don't know why you had to argue for noodles in the first place, your case is weak, mixed up and all over the place.
You got the facts all wrong, son, go to bed and rest your neck awhile.

I only had one argument: that calling them dweebs/twats/whatever does not help your case because you're just throwing insults, not saying anything about the music itself. Maybe one is too much for you.

...if you did get the joke, you didn't do a good job of demonstrating that with your earlier posts.

Wait i'm still arguing. I lose. I'm seriously going to rest my case now, I know you have to have the last word but whatever.

I've never heard NoMeansNo before, but those YouTube vids are pretty cool. If that's their least good stuff, then I really have to give them a try.

And Iron Maiden's cool. Where Eagles Dare is one of my favorites. They've written classics for sure, but they've also written shit.