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Post by paradiseflats on Feb 7, 2016 10:46:55 GMT
We hear very different things then. I hear a lot of blues in all of the sabbath albums. A lot of jazz to. As Ozzy referred to Tony, the master of the dark blues. As as for new wave... A marketing ploy no more. Surely not a ploy - the NWOBHM "movement" really does have a sound all of its own doesn't it? I must admit, I'm no expert on the NWOBHM. But take Maiden, Samson, Tygers of Pang Tang, Saxon, Def Leppard and Blitzkrieg. Not a common sound to me at all.
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Post by Victor on Feb 7, 2016 16:23:39 GMT
I must admit, I'm no expert on the NWOBHM. But take Maiden, Samson, Tygers of Pang Tang, Saxon, Def Leppard and Blitzkrieg. Not a common sound to me at all. I agree that the Def Leppard pretty quickly a more polished US MTV sound - but for others at the time the pace replacing heaviness, the mid-range-honky high-distortion guitar sound, the often twin-guitar attack, the fast solos, and the bass ceasing to be a highly melodic instrument, and the lyrical content, all to me point towards a true new wave, away from the hippie-ish and prog overtones of the roots of metal, which to me binds them all into a genre. The look too - the pointy guitars, the spandex, stripes, sweatbands, japanese logos - they shared these things - and though Priest got into it, bands like Motorhead and Sabbath didn't. Good while it lasted, before Thrash took over. (Not that I hate Thrash). (I don't know Blitzkrieg) Blitzkrieg was without a doubt one of the better bands at that time.
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