Having just listened to tracks I did as a youth to current day, 'Priest edge it for me...
Accept also stirred up memories - fantastic.
Maiden for me, bigger body of great work in my opinion. Only really loved the Painkiller album from 'Priest
Maiden all the way. I liked the odd Priest song but don't recal ever having a full album of theirs
I'd pick Saxon!
Maiden all day long. Priest are just the stereotype of metal bands that everyone takes the mickey out of.
Chugga-chugga-chugga-SCREAM-chugga-chugga
Iron Maiden🤘, Live after Death was the first real metal album I bought. Kinda disappointed BD was a Brexiteer then moaned about the difficulties it caused him afterwards.
Maiden (wanders off to Spotify 'Fear of the Dark - Live in Rio')
Maiden
Sorry - it's not even a contest!!
Maiden for me too – and their latest stuff is pretty good too – Senjutsu is a pretty decent album. Tickets purchased just this morning for the tour next summer 🙂
Fear of the Dark – Live in Rio
Good shout, along with Thunderstruck by AC/DC, it's one of those that just sounds better live than the original studio version.
My Priest love goes out to the album 'Screaming for Vengeance'. Not much else appealed back in the day. And they are bloody painful live - they really are a 'turn it up to 11' type of band and Halford's vocals go right through you. I saw them with Queensryche supporting and they were far, far better.
Maiden here too. first metal albums I bought were live after death and killers. Killers remains one of my favourite albums of all, even though I prefer dickinson over d'ianno. It's got a really nice rouded sound and much better production.
I saw them with Queensryche supporting and they were far, far better.
Jeff Tate is one the best rock/metal vocalists out there!
Maiden for me too. So many good songs. Currently at my desk with Senjutsu on the turntable.
Maiden.
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Having seen both live in the early eighties, there’s no contest. Maiden.
I never bought a Judas Priest album so can’t comment on their studio work whilst I still play a number of Maiden albums every now and again
Maiden. And another shout out for Thunderstruck live. Love it when it appears in my ears on a pedal courtesy of Spotify! Last song on this afternoon's ride was Run to Hills. Spooky!
Neither, Black Sabbath all day long.
If we are classing acdc as metal then thin Lizzy aswell (both over priest and maiden)
Maiden all day long.
First band I ever saw live, at Leeds Queens Hall, original line up, with Paul Di'anno singing.
It was also the height of the Yorkshire ripper nightmare, never seen so many police as that night.
Great gig though
Neither, Black Sabbath all day long.
This for me too
Maiden......Maiden has Eddie
if we're talking old school metal, you missed out........motorhead.....but only with Eddie on guitar 🙂
Maiden……Maiden has Eddie
Their biggest legacy to music by far - few bands more iconic. Legendary imagery and marketing.
Hat is off to anyone nostalgic enough to listen to that lightweight tinny 80s disco heavy metal - my Gosh it is bad but formative years and all that.
Maiden(as above)
Was going to suggest either Saxon or even UFO.
But here's a compromise with Iron Maiden(official YT site) playing the UFO hit 'Doctor Doctor'
Or how about for a change - Ethel the Frog.
I take it you all had the 'Metal for Muthas' albums 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVarUxytTi0&ab_channel=NWOBHMFullAlbums
MSG for a proper flavour of the time.
Neither.
ACDC
My first ever live gig was Iron Maiden. I much preferred their support act Spider. In fact I went out the next day and bought the Spider album. I have never bought an Iron Maiden album.
My school English O'Level Teacher set us an essay to discuss the lyrics of a good song. I chose "the Rage' by Judas Priest and remember waxing lyrical over "like a Tiger in the cage we begin to shake with rage". It made the hairs stand up on my arms and is doing so again now as I am listening to it as I type this.
Hat is off to anyone nostalgic enough to listen to that lightweight tinny 80s disco heavy metal
Pretty much this.
I am fortunate to be young enough to come at all these bands after the fact.
Judas priest and maiden do not stack up well. Much of it to do with production and massively compressed everything. But the writing is pretty poor, no dynamics makes the whole thing lack punch. Thin Lizzy stepped into that at times but kept a bit more rawk in the mix.
The grunge scene managed more punch with less noise.
Maiden for me too - such a variety of content and some well developed themes/lyrics in their songs too. Not completely writing off some of the others, but Maiden remain my go to metal band.
The choice was Priest or Maiden.
But if we’re expanding the options then AC/DC in that era trump both - classic after classic - closely followed by Rainbow for me.
Stargazer is a mega rock production.
if we’re talking old school metal, you missed out……..motorhead…..but only with Eddie on guitar 🙂
Not metal and I quote Lemmy - "We are Motörhead and we play Rock N Roll!" 🙂 😉
Any excuse for this 🙂
Maiden without a doubt. Brexit whining aside they've made some great music (interspersed with some disappointing stuff). Saw them at the O2 a few years back. That was a stage show and a half.
Priest are cooler!
I’d pick Saxon!
Said no-one ever.
Maiden out of those two,
For me
Bon Scott era AC-DC
Rainbow, Rising is a brilliant album
MSG
UFO
Sabbath, Heaven and Hell
Motor Head
Scorpions
🤘
Maiden - Live at Donington '92 is a great album - all the more so as it was my first 'Monsters.
Overall.... Maiden ... but Painkiller is a better album than any single studio release Maiden ever laid down.
I mean...the drumming on the title track alone.
Poison….and I’m not even joking!
#glamslamkingsofnoize
Poison….and I’m not even joking!
Oh my god, look what the cat dragged in.
We'll be getting Extreme views next.
No mention of Led Zeppelin. Aren't they "heavy metal"? Are they from a different sub genre?
Absolutely unequivocally the Irons.
JP have some good tracks and Pain killer is decent, but Maiden, from Number of the Beast until Fear of the Dark were on the absolute top of their game.
I just wish I was a few years older to have seen them on their Seventh Son tour. I got them at Donnington '92 in the end.
Led Zeppelin are not metal. The fact that you do not know this immediately invalidates all your opinions in this matter. 😉
Neither are ‘old-school metal’, they were part of ‘the new-wave of British Heavy Metal’. That is an indisputable fact.
’Old-school’ is Sabbath, Deep Purple, The Who, Zeppelin, Mötörhead. Anything later, in the 80’s is new-wave metal. Don’t argue about it, it’s fact. Yes, I know that Maiden formed in 1975, and Priest in 1969, but it was 1980 before JP started getting attention, and IM also in 1980 despite forming in 1975.
I'm pretty much in line with johndoh.
Judas Priest lost it to me when they sacked drummer Dave Holland, and sacrificed away any melody at the alter of thrashy double bass drum dirge.
IM have waay more depth.
First saw them on the Piece of Mind tour, and the next few after that. Think Somewhere in Time was the last tour I saw them.
I've tickets to the next tour though 🤘. Taking my daughter (hopefully not to the slaughter!!) for some quality dad and daughter time.
Book of Souls was a remarkably good recent album.
And Bruce can still sing well, unlike Halford.
(Even though as others say he was a Brexit goon who is surprised that leaving the EU makes aviation and travel for immigrant non EU musicians wanting to going into the EU to work harder).
The choice was Priest or Maiden.
But if we’re expanding the options then AC/DC in that era trump both – classic after classic – closely followed by Rainbow for me.
As I suspected.....Dio fan ^^
Poison….and I’m not even joking!
Oh my god, look what the cat dragged in.
We’ll be getting Extreme views next.
More my era!
Priest or Maiden? I'm in the neither camp, to be honest. Sabbath from that era for me.
Saxon were my first gig.
As I suspected…..Dio fan ^^
Too right - Holy Diver - great days mate! 🤘🤘
Loving H.E.A.T too at the minute - that 80's style bought just a little bit up to date.
