Team-BHP - The Heavy Metal & Rock Thread

naveen, X factor may not be a fan favourite but Sign of the Cross is one the best Maiden/Harris tracks ever.

Roorback? will check it and some later stuff too although being a thrash fan I enjoyed most of their earlier works a lot more with more of a death/thrash feel.

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Originally Posted by naveenroy (Post 2050796)

Yeah - kinda the same here and somehow, for the first time, I have not listened to the Final Frontier after the first few listens. But methinks me need to revisit it!

The Final Frontier is like the film Inception. You gotta go back to it again and again to fully understand it ;-)

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Originally Posted by naveenroy (Post 2050796)

And I actually got really hooked to Maiden after the X Factor - the album hated by many Maiden fans! :)

In fact I quite like the X-Factor as well! Though Blaze Bailey doesn't have Dickinson's range he was a good replacement.

Dave Mustaine is back! Not with an album though but with a book! Its' Mustaine's biography! With all the feuds that Mustaine has had over the years, this is going to be a fun read! Can't wait to get my hands on it. Check it out here:

Amazon.com: Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir (9780061714375): Dave Mustaine, Joe Layden: Books

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Damn even Ozzy's written one.! It's called "I Am Ozzy". Here it is:

http://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Ozzy-Osbo...ref=pd_sim_b_8

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Originally Posted by Wolfheart (Post 2051747)

Yeah, would love to lay my hands on this biography. Somehow like Megadeth/Mustaine more because of the feud with Metallica. After seeing Some Kind of Monster, this feeling has increased!

Also, Jimmy Page has had his biography released - only pictures though - all through these years, concert and other pics.

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Originally Posted by naveenroy (Post 2051813)

Also, Jimmy Page has had his biography released - only pictures though - all through these years, concert and other pics.

Yeah but it's limited to just 2500 copies and at $700(?), it's not cheap!

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Originally Posted by e1t1bet (Post 2052389)

The new Kamelot. Very good album. Released yesterday in Japan. Highly recommended.

Thanks for that info. Will check out.

FF Reviews on Metal Rules:

METAL RULES

On the Story of X-Factor, I did not know about the Blaze era initially. The Sign of the cross version I heard was with Bruce in Rock in Rio.
That was awesome. Then I went and bought the studio album.

@Suhaas, Have you read the autobiography of Pink Floyd? Written by Masson. I have a copy got at Forum. It makes a nice collector's item.

Listening to the last Septic Flesh album - Communion. I remember Wolfheart recommended this one and it is indeed quite good. very atmospheric with orchestras, while blending brutality and melody.

I have gone back to The Yardbirds and Beck. Great sound and Guitars.

What a history it has spawned. Two Legendary solo careers : Beck and Clapton and a Legendary Band : Led Zep!

^ampere, indeed..they have been an inspiration to so many guitar players over the years!

@wolf, also listening to some Master (check out if you haven't - another old school DM band) and Cabal (this is thrash almost deathrash) on YT.