There is Only One Metal God!!!!
343496
This Cd plain and simple, Kicks Butt!!!! If you liked Resurrection, you will definately love this latest offering from the Metal God. The CD has a great sound to it and the band is in absolute top notch form. Songs Like Crucible, Betrayal, Golgotha,Hearts of Darkness,She and Weaving Sorrow just come right out at you. I have been a Priest/Halford fan for over 20 years and I must say that the MeTal God certainly has given his legion of fans something really good. Rob Halford has been and always will be the BEST MeTal vocalist, PERIOD!!!! His range can still break windows and he has been doing it for 30 years now.
I cant wait to see HALFORD and his Mighty Crew live when they hit New York!!!
4939559
Its a sad state of affairs these days when it comes to the perception of a band such as Iron Maiden. Too many times I have seen people group them with bands such as Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue, Poison and other glam styled  bands with one or so good albums or (in the case of Poison) no good albums.  Very rarely is Maiden looked upon in the same way as bands such as The  Doors and Pink Floyd, in the sense of their being sort of  "untouchable" and of no modern band coming close to what they  did. Folks, The Doors really only ever had two good albums (first and last)  and Pink Floyd only two as well (Dark Side and The Wall). Iron Maiden had  SEVEN awesome albums in a row. Thats right folks, they had more hit albums  one after another then most bands ever make in their entire career.  Powerslave was their fifth album in this long string of greatness and next  to Number Of The Beast it was their second greatest album. I won't say why  its good, any metalhead worth his salt knows just how damn good this thing  really is along with the other Maiden classics. I won't say you should buy  it because there are a lot of other reviews here saying just that and you  should already own it! Don't listen to those who proclaim bands such as The  Doors, Pink Floyd and others as the last word in rock. Take a band still  turning out excellent material (Brave New World) and who only had two bad  albums in their whole career (No Prayer and X-Factor) of twelve albums. If  you like metal then please buy this or stop claiming to be a metalhead
1229288
I'm sick of all these kids who think Nu Metal is "soooo original" and think they know better. "Black Sabath" is the first metal album and it's a lot more diverse than your Korny. Tell me how metal could have been created in 1994 if we already had 1/4 century of metal like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Saxon and many more...?
Now shut up and go slit your wrist!
2750141
ANOTHER MAIDEN MASTERPIECE!!!! yes, SOMEWHERE IN TIME is another MAIDEN CLASSIC, from a time when this band rule the land...what can i say???IRON MAIDEN create MASTERPIECE after MASTERPIECE in the 80's...IT's just AMAZING!!!! 7 masterpieces, until the ok No Prayer for the dying!!!!! this one is SOMEWHERE in the middle of a collection of MAIDEN albuns that redefine HEAVY METAL and music FROREVER!!!!! i don't know...maybe IRON MAIDEN is the best METAL band EVER....well, TOTALLY RECOMMENDED if you want melodic HEAVY METAL!!!! UP THE IRONS!!!!!!!!!
1183954
I gotta give these guys props for sticking it out for so long!! any band that's been together for 30+ years should get some kind of recognition... unfortunately the problem is: metal is dead! they can write the greatest metal album of all time in 2010, but who would care? ...or who would buy it? I loved metal back in the 80's and even into the 90's, but come on... there's only a hand full of people that still like it. do you guys seriously think if there was a tour with Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax... etc. that they would sell out large venues across the world now??? highly doubtful... sure, they would sell out small concert halls, but selling out places like the Garden (Madison Square Garden) or football stadiums, etc... those days are gone now. anyway, I did listen to this album, and I have to say (with the exception of the lyrics) these guys are extremely talented musicians (the drummer is amazing), but then again... it's metal... who cares??
1584683
1985!!!!!!!!1985!!!!!!!!!!1985!!!!!!!!!1985!!!!!!..but really was made in 1550 or something!! INVOKE YOUR ANCIENT SPIRIT HERE!!

Just take a glimpse at this album cover..IT STALK's you!!! always in your mind..and is one of the best T shirt designs ever!!

Now..EPICUS DOOMICUS METALLICUS..here stand's one of the PLANET EARTH's best thing's..of any human achivement!! no one had to die during the making of this unlike other thing's in HUMAN HISTORY!!

Just from the begining second of ''SOLITUDE'' you know  this is gonna be an all time GREAT!!

EVERY SINGLE SONG IS A EPIC MASTERPEICE!! YOU KNOW HOW GOOD THIS IS!!!!!!

NO more word's must stop talking before the world end's..we aren't allowed to talk about this album..I THINK IT's that GOOD!!

TIMELESS and one of the FIRST DOOM band's with this type of FEELING to it!!! INFLUENCED AS MANY AS SABBATH!!!

WE ARE DOOMED!!!!!!!!!!! SO BUY DOOM!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!

THE VOKILL's on here are some of the best EVER done as well!!!

BUY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!
4237489
God !!!! They managed to destroy the whole concept of a rock album with orchestra !!! How Kamen ( a superb maestro and musician ) entered into this fray ? METALLICA supreme arrogance reached new heights, when they allowed some of their classic albuns to be destroyed by the orchestra. THe orchestra plays bad ? Of course not !! It's just that the arangments has nothing to do at all with the songs !! I never listened to the CD after the first three times, it will be forgotten in my collection. METALLICA, you're history. I've got all your albuns (except for "RELOAD"). Never again, never again. I quit.
3594351
There are two fillers on the whole album wich are not realy fillers they just don't have the intensity and whole heart felt metal feeling you get from the other songs. Fates warning in the 80's is some of the best metal you will ever hear, F*** ATREYU and as i lay dying.... THIS IS VERY HIGH QUALITY OF THE PUREST FORMS OF MUSIC>...This is when metal singing took talent. Do not buy any of the new fates albums they are horrid crap, the singer blows and they don't even play metal anymore. Bottom Line is FATES WARNING AWAKEN THE GUARDIAN contains some of the greatest metal music ever recorded. If you don't like this than you simply suck!

NEVERMORE SUCKS TOO>...BUY fates Warning's metal albums instead(not the garbage they make today)
3877166
Slipknot isn't Metal ok! Rap-rock is the word for it! I hate all of these songs on this album and the band too as well! Try true Metal! Like! Cannibal Corpse,cryptopsy,morbidangel,pantera,slayer,deicide,suffocation six feet under,vader,napalm death,fear factory,nile,old sepultura,mortician,obituary and old machine head! I would say the old metallica and megadeth but even their old stuff is getting on my nerves anymore because of followers who listen to stuff like slipknot,korn,and bizkit! If you want somehting heavy listen to those bands i named and then give me a call and tell me what true metal is and what's not like SLIPKNOT!
4429393
I can't believe this band has a five-star album, yet the originators of this sound (Godsmack) doesn't! What is wrong with the reviewers of this site!? I guess some refuse to believe that their favorite band could be capable of ripping off another band (the superior and original Godsmack)! But I have facts to prove my statement!

You say they didn't rip-off of metal legends Godsmack? Well, why do they have a song called "God Smack" ('Cleverly' spaced so that they wouldn't get sued)? I am so sick of cheap imiation bands like this. having bands doing this kind of stuff should be illegal. I bet none of you knew that Alice In Chains started out as nothing more than a Godsmack cover band, did you?!!
3298517
The Gathering is quit simply the best metal album I have heard in years. I loved it so much that I decided to put down some extra dough and purchase the Japanese import with the extra track "Hammer of the Gods". Hammer of the Gods actually doesn't live up to its name. It's just a slow intrmental that lacks punch. It really doesn't even sound like Testament. Die Hard collectors might want to get the Japanese release to get this track, but I wish I didn't spend the extra dough for it. I recommend some good, hard thinking before you decide to get this Japanese release with the bonus track.
1562239
With hundreds already on this site, one more raving Master of Puppets review seems a bit redundant, but I'm gonna do it anyway. 16 years later, this is still the best metal album their is. Iced  Earth has stolen the crown of metal for the 90's, but they've still never written anything quite as good as this.(though don't take my word for it; buy everything they've written. Right now!) Metallica was unquestionably the best thrash band, and frankly, nothing written by the 3 other major thrash bands is even in the same league. Some people have claimed Peace Sells... by Megadeth is better than this. These people are psychotics.(Megadeth isn't even close to Metallica, ever, and Peace Sells isn't even their best album. Rust In Peace is better) Peace Sells... is a great album, but "Good Mourning/Black Friday" is the only song that is even in the same league as every song on Puppets. Hetfield's vocals and lyrics are much, much better than Mustaine's.(Someone tried to claim that Mustaine's vocals are more meaningful. Yeah. Whatever. Wake Up Dead, Bad Omen, Black Friday and Devils Island are all, ummm, brilliant, and oozing with insight.) Someone also claimed that Mustaine wrote some of the riffs for this album. Look at the liner notes. He doesn't get a single writing credit. I know this is supposed to be a review, not a comparison, but the poor reviews are all too infuriating to ignore.
But, anyway, enough of that. The only real complaint about this album is the way the vocals are recorded. They sounded better on Lightning, and better on Justice 2 years later. The general sound quality isn't great, but thats just standard for cds from this era.
This album is as consistent as they get. Metallica's albums were all very consistent in the 80's,(though the 90's are still good, but nowhere near as good.) but this is the only one with out a single noticably weaker track. Ulrich's drumming has improved a lot since the earlier albums, though he's still no Lombardo or Benante.  Hetfield's rhythm guitar simply destroys. I don't care if other people are more technical,(though he sure as hell isn't an amateur) his riffs are just brilliant. The main riff to every song is incredible.  The same goes for Hammet's solos. The only part of the music no one tries to dispute is the brilliance of Burton's bass. You can't always hear it too well, but when you can it's spectacular, particularly on Orion.
Though this is definitely thrash metal, this album extends the forays into slower tempos that they started on Lightning, though this album is arguably heavier overall.(though nothing here is quite as heavier as Fight Fire With Fire) Therefore, though this is unquestionably the best thrash album, it isn't the quintessential thrash album.(Kill 'Em All is. This album is really prog-thrash) As is almost always the case, expansion of sounds improves the album greatly. It's got plenty of pure thrash, specifically Batter, Disposable Heroes and Damage Inc.( Some people say Peace Sells... is heavier than this. Bullcrap. The aforementioned songs CRUSH anything on Peace Sells) Welcome Home is their second and prog-thrash ballad, and is the best song on the album, and probably my favorite Metallica song. The soloing, particularly the harmonized ones are just brilliant. The Thing That Should Not Be and Leper Messiah are the two slower, straight metal songs. They are arguably the slightly weaker songs on the album, but they still rock hard. Master of Puppets is the most progressive song here, with a stunning instrumental section in the beginning, and another brilliant main riff.(The laughing at the end is a bit cheesy, but it's a small problem.) Orion is the instrumental, with perhaps the best soloing of any Metallica song, and a really cool introduction.
In short, everything here is great, and this album really explores pretty much everything that thrash metal has to offer. BUY BUY BUY!!
3548183
This is pop teeny bopper garbage!!!!! The only thing worse then this is poser punk if you want good music by anything by KoRn, marilyn manson,mudvayne,metallica, icp,disturbed,slayer any rock with meaning metal rules!!!!
pop sucks  - KoRn
3652011
Another reviewer said that if you were expecting another Slipknot, don't bother! Another reviewer said that this was a unique metal album and plenty of others said this was their album of the year for 2013.

ARE YOU PEOPLE RETARDED???

This is the same bland radio rock formula that metal bands should be trying desperately to stay away from! It's got OK music (nothing that hasn't been done before) but then they use a singer who does that boring old sing, then scream, then sing, BS! Do you people who call this metal know bands like Meshuggah, Gojira, Strapping Young Lad, Black Breath, Converge, Pig Destroyer, Insect Warfare, ect. That's metal. This band is trying to cash in on the Disturbed crowd (and why do they even have a crowd?? On their first album the singer makes monkey noises and tries to sound like a bad ass while describing getting beat up by his own mom??!!) and that's like shooting fish in a barrel! As far as comparisons with Slipknot go, this has nothing in common with the first 2 albums that made them a household name in metal, I can say that. Unfortunately, this DOES use the same formula that Slipknot used when it turned into SlipSour and most people stopped caring........sing, scream, sing, *chorus*...aggressive sing. I'm only this angry because I was expecting something so much better!!
913507
This is by far the best Soulfly album I have heard. They just released yet another metal album (Omen), without any of the sound they started with. I so miss the sound they had from there first three albums. There are already a lot of metal bands out there who are doing the same sound, go back to your Roots brother. BLOODY ROOTS....
3894101
Awesome cd! Hard to find! Just a great price! Halford still blows everybody away! Metal Gods forever!!!!
1229934
I don't know as much about Agent Steel as someone who remembers them when they came up, but back in 93/94 I was at a friends apartment & he had this one song I forgot the title-it goes ''metal attack coming from space''Ahhh, Rager it was that was on this Metal Blade compilation from '87 he had that ''Death'' was on.& I loved it! I was already wicked into Priest Megadeth & I remember spending like an hour trying to figure out the dangerous guitar solo to the Steel tune & I felt kind of bad about putting all that wear on my friend's tape deck! I still cant play the solo-those guitarists must sure have listened to Y Malmsteen's rising Nausea to the ground! Once I got home I looked around for A steel's  music at record stores & the clerk would be like ''duh I doono-who're they-we only have Nirvana & Alice & Chains'' type of attitude-well thanks-that was why I never got to explore A.S. but last summer I found ''Omega Conspiracy'' & absolutely loved it! amazing guitarwork/musicianship & everything else! Thanks to Amazon I have ''Illuminati'' from '03 coming my way & I cant wait!! These guys are sadly underrated & they can stand up to any other metal band no question! I wish theye'd reissue their 1980's albums in a big way-lets pray they do!!I'm sure the die hard metal head will love this album. Oh, last night I managed to dig out my old crusty cassete tape with that old A.S. tune Rager went thru the frikin ceiling hearing it!!-A.S. RULES!!!!