Iron Maiden or Metallica?

I like both, I used to like Metallica more, but now days its Iron Maiden that gets the vote, looking forward listening to the new album soon!

I have to reveal a secret: I´m neither Iron Maiden or Metallica fan. I´ve liked Iron Maiden 25 years ago until Piece of Mind. I think Paul di Anno era was more raw and harder than Dickinson era. Their last release Final Frontier seems to be a return to roots.

UP THE IRONS

Catcher10 wrote: rogerthat wrote: Pekka wrote: Catcher10 wrote: Metallica songs all SOUND THE SAME!!!!! ... Metallica guitar riffs are the same throughout their collection Seems you haven't heard very many of them. Indeed, if anything, I would say Maiden's work can get rather similar-sounding.  Maiden is winning quite comfortably, seems consistency always wins the day over brilliance, as much as I go the other way.  Maiden at their best were a variation on a style essentially pioneered by Judas Priest.  Metallica expanded the frontiers of thrash even when it was still a fledgling genre.  Ride the Lightning is amazingly ambitious for a thrash metal album and so is MOP, they were taking risks at levels not many in the metal scene then were prepared to.  But of course, metal celebrates 'true' warriors rather than innovators.   I'm not sure how much sense this makes......Maiden crawled out of the bowels of hell across the pond, they were fighting the punk movement at its height in the UK, kept on the straight and narrow and came out smelling like a rose, as the punk scene died. There isn't a radio station that would play their music for fear of getting license pulled.......since they were devil worshipers and all....That's innovation and a warrior.   If you watch any of the biography shows on Metallica, their early days were all about how much booze they could get into their bodies 24/7...A complete waste, and you could see the Hetfield godlike attitude just growing..within himself only..Yea they were good...but after a few albums they succumbed to the all mighty $$ and went the route of pop rock/metal and MTV, any talent stopped there...Now they live on their past success and there isn't anyone who wants to hear new music performed..only the old stuff...pre pop rock/metal.

Cristi wrote: Gandalff wrote: I have to reveal a secret: I´m neither Iron Maiden or Metallica fan. I´ve liked Iron Maiden 25 years ago until Piece of Mind. I think Paul di Anno era was more raw and harder than Dickinson era. Their last release Final Frontier seems to be a return to roots.     Final Frontier a return to roots?! What roots are those? It's the same sound they've had since Bruce and Adrian returned.

For example guitars sounds like on first two albums, after first listening at least.

Leo Milani wrote: Man, I have to say... If you are more than 15 and still listen to these bands, there's something very wrong... Marcio Okayama (myspace.com/maricookayama), brazilian fusion guitarist, said that in a work shop. And I totally agree with him...

Catcher10 wrote: You are correct sir...it does not make sense to me......Metallica's music has been dead for many years, due to their attitude...That makes all the sense in the world to me.

You are talking about the post-AJFA phase.  Prior to that, Metallica tried to do something different with each new album; actually, along with Sabbath, Priest and maybe Megadeth, one of the few metal bands who actually thought that was a good thing.  They tasted commercial success on levels Maiden never did and sold out, but so what?  Maiden has been making the same album since Killers anyway and I couldn't care tuppence about their warrior attitude or whatever, musically, they are dinosaurs.   They have a better live act than Metallica or Priest these days, they are a very successful rock enterprise now, I will say that for them but musically they are as stodgy as they come.  As a prog rock fan, I certainly have a lot more respect for Robert Fripp rather than Angus Young and by the same token I respect Hetfield and Burton a lot more than Steve Harris.  Lars...becomes hard not to begrudge respect to that d**k, knowing full well that he was one of the chief songwriters of Metallica and the band would have been, for better or worse, different without him.

Wherever I May Roam is without question the greatest song they ever did/ riff.

Iron Maiden > Any band of the 80s / 90s / 00s.

I admit I've had limited experience with Metallica.  I've heard the albums Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets, and some songs were okay, but they didn't even approach Maiden's best.