Metallica?

If you add Metallica, I expect a spot also for Celtic Frost and Mercyful Fate.

Edited by paolo.beenees - May 15 2007 at 17:29

Stop! Stop, will you?!

Stop that! Stop it! Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle!

Do you understand?!

Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if he did say 'Metallica'.

Well, the search option sucks, and my laziness to use it sucks, too. I will go against everything I said some three months ago in an unrelated thread about another band and say that now that I've heard Metallica's albums more than  years since the last time I did, and with a LOT of prog-metal in my bloodstream, I'm ready to recognize the fact that Hetfield, Ulrich and the others deserve a spot here as much as Iron Maiden did. I know I'll get some violence because of this (so, let me act ahead of you...... Ok...), but it's just undeniable that without Metallica, even that band I tolerate, Dream Theater, , wouldn't exist, and when we look at the history of metal and how thrash was being developed, there's no other band that actually progressed and made metal progress as this band did. Maybe for symphonic prog they didn't do anything... But for progressive-metal, one of prog's most important genres today, whether we like it or not, Metallica was the cornerstone. I'd say that the mix that generated prog-metal is Rush+Iron Maiden+Metallica, with a little bit of Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple... Of these, 4 are already here. I don't know about Sabbath, but when you hear theevolution from Kill 'Em All to the evolved-thrash of Ride The Lightning to the actual progressive metal of Master of Puppets and And justice for All, to how they finally destroyed what thrash was about releasing a fantastic mature metal album as the Black album, where riffs have their shiniest moment of glory, I'd say there could be no doubt.