I can of course only write from a non-American point of view, but weren`t the 80s not generally a decade of distinctive optimism after the 70s malaise (Vietnam, oil-crisis, double digit inflation, Iranian revolution, invasion of Afgahnistan by the USSR, unemployment, national self-doubt...)? You ca...

This thread is about a very specific phenomenon. Let's look at Sanctuary's lyric from the seminal 'Future Tense' What do you see on the news when you watch T.V. War in the name of God, or a playground killing spree Politicians promise you the world, and a preacher cries All he ever wanted was your m...

It is fascinating to me that there is so much immediate consensus on the boards on what prog/power is when we can't all agree on what melodic metal, or even speed metal is. Is it because 'prog/power' becomes pretty much interchangeable with 'US POWER' after 1990 and we have a lot of US metal hounds ...

Why did Root ever stop playing awesome occult black metal at any point in their carreer? I haven't heard the last one where blackie is gone, perhaps that one is bad but the rest is full of uncompromising material of usually high quality.

No, but it is coming. In a month or so you could have owned a nice juicy double CD release with both albums and the mega-rare 5-track demo, remastered by Erik Adam H at Neway Music, and 16-page booklet with all lyrics, pics, info, and exclusive interview by Franky Van Aerde... all for around $12.99...

Dark Quarterer are another, I just realized.

Virgin Steele actually I think 'Invictus' is the album they always wanted to make (well, actually Virgin Steele are pretty schizoid, half of their material is epic metal Olympus and the other half is songs about having sex with jailbait... I'm talking about the epic metal side here cuz I don't care ...

DIO? What?! Nooo

GJ, if you like fantasies... Metal Archives lists Anacrusis as "active" as of now... Don't know how factual that is but we can only dream. Turbo: I've only heard Kawaleria and Last Warrior... I didn't know the other stuff was good too. Will give a few listens. I don't even know who Risk ar...

Sorry yeah I broke my own rule with Anacrusis and I counted the demo *sigh* I debated putting Coroner in here, I'm not completely sure, still. Some material on the last two albums seems to outstay its welcome. I don't expect pop hits by Coroner of course and it's very clear they were considerate in ...

Absu have only put out one absolutely terrific album in my opinion, Tara. It's not that the other material is sub-par at any case, it's that Tara seems to encapture everything the band was ever going for so I don't play the other ones very often. This is why Fates Warning don't have any trouble beca...

EPs, miniCDs, split records, live albums, compilations and demos do not count! You know the HM rules! I've been thinking about this lots. There don't seem to be a lot of bands with 5 or more extremely good releases. At the top of my head I can think of Manilla Road (who have more than 5, actually). ...

I'm glad people have the strength of personality to dress in whichever unfashionable way they like but that's not really that important to me when it comes to HM.

I am confused about the image thing. Their mission is to pretend it's still 1983? I guess I don't understand nostalgia as much as other people. Or maybe they think that clothes like that are just cool? http://www.helvetetsport.com/nytt/index.htm I didn't pull out that 'pretend it's 1983' thing from...

I hope that shit doesn't stick