Album Rating: 4.0

Fair do's. JT bro but we both know if anyone came out with a 'back to the village' now we'd shite ourselves.

Album Rating: 5.0

middle is good too. nothing wrong with the middle.

Album Rating: 5.0

This is my kindest 5, but Rime is about the best song ever made.

Album Rating: 2.5

used to be a big fan of this, especially rime. sure, it's cheesy and the vocals are just ridiculous but eh, has its moments

What changed, Art?

Album Rating: 2.5

i grew out of heavy metal

Album Rating: 3.0

I just bypassed the heavy metal phase completely, although I can't deny this & Seventh Son are enjoyable.

It should be illegal to rate this with a score below 5, seriously art, thank god that in finland there is no law that punishes you for hating power metal and depreciate Maiden's music

I mean, this has fuckin flash to the blade, the self titled and rime of the fucking ancient mariner

This is epic metal in its purest form, this is iron maiden at their prime.

Album Rating: 5.0

"heavy metal" lol. It's funny to call Iron Maiden AND Pantera the same thing when one's waaaaay heavier.

Pantera is groove metal

Album Rating: 2.5

these guys were one of the frontrunners in the whole NWOBHM movement so yeah, i wouldn't say it's totally wrong to call them heavy metal

Album Rating: 5.0

For their time they're definitely heavy metal, as was Led Zeppelin. It's just funny how noticeable the difference in aggression is.

Heavy metal and groove metal are not mutually exclusive. Also, Sputnik doesnt list them as groove metal ;)

Kinda weird that sputnik doesn't have that label

Specially considering that pantera, lamb of god, machine head and more are popular among rock and metal circles and they belong to that genre

Iron Maiden are pretty much the epitome of "Heavy Metal".

Kinda disagree about Zeppelin.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Zep were always just a badass hard rock group man.



Gonna jam Physical Graffiti right now, thanks for the reminder JT.

Album Rating: 5.0

Zep can be considered "early" heavy metal



there are many different 70's band which fit better in that category tho, the first obvious picks being Sabbath and Purple

Yeah Zep never distanced themselves far enough from the blues to be considered heavy metal for me.

Good choice, Pleb.

Album Rating: 5.0

Even Jethro Tull won a metal grammy. Over Justice For All. Oh how we raged.

lol as if a Grammy means anything

Album Rating: 5.0

lol it exemplifies why some people think metal and hard rock overlap lol

lol it was a bemused rage. Even Ian Anderson thought it was weird lol. And sure enough they changed their grammy MO afterwards.

lol