love these episodes with the original squad... such a throwback feeling every time these four dudes are on together... and Pete better do that Anathema albums' ranking before Nick disappears again! welcome back Nick.

Great point on Halford Chris! I hate when people get a total pass for saying unacceptable things (about Metal, etc.) and everyone conveniently "forgets" later on when it's fashionable to do so. It's not that they shouldn't be forgiven, so to speak, but let's not pretend those things weren't said or didn't happen.

Chris Alo- “We don’t shit on Metallica enough!” 😂

I came to age with Rush and "Roll the Bones," and that tour was the only time I saw them live. It'll always have a soft spot in my heart.

All of Petes co hosts are tremendous. This particular lineup card is always extra special to me. Welcome back NICK. Thx guys 👍💯

This lineup is awesome. Takes me back to early squares. Cheers fellas.

I can totally relate to Nicks pet peeve about artists disrespecting their old work. They always end up looking foolish. On that same note I hate when guitar players slag off on guitar and say dumb stuff like “guitar is dead” or “guitar is over” then put out non-rocking synthy albums that suck.

Takeaways from tonight's episode: 1. Chris A., Ryan and nice to see Nick in the house 2. "We're both bald so I know we blend together " 3. "...let me be a schoolgirl in college - let me experiment" 4. "Wow, this is $18.95 out the window" 5. "Sorry, Cake fans. I guess there are about 10 of you left" 6. A Pantera album that sounds like bad Judas Priest meets bad Metallica... 7. "The best song ever about pussy and Coors Light" 8. "Those Blaze Bailey albums are not good but I have at least two copies of them" 9. "darkier" 10. " quasi grunge fucking boredom fest" 11. "These guys took a left turn into pure, pure weapons grade bullshit" 12. It hits me at this point in the show that Ryan's background reminds me of the cover of ELO's "Face The Music" album 13. "I don't know what you think of the album Nick, but I think it sucks ass" 14. "...one little corner of that album that didn't suck and make me want to put my fist through the radio" 15. "We don't shit on Metallica enough" 16. Chris Alo as Marketing Director for the Scorpions... 17. "I wish I could say I pulled a Pete and sold it but nah, I still got it somewhere" 18. You know Chris Alo hates an album when he only has one copy of it... 19. "They must have done so much coke before making that album"

Good to see Nick and Ryan back!

Bon Jovi “Crush” (2000) for me. Bought it full price based on It’s My Life…and that song is GREAT. But the rest of the album is absolutely forgettable.

The phenomenal four. You 4 dudes together have so much chemistry, humor, knowledge, insight. All I got today is thank you man, for making my life better and keeping the metal alive. Respect. 🤘🤘🤘🤘

*junior's eyes* shines with a cool bassfigure and some psychodelic feeling in the intro using fuzz. the song *never say die* has some old skool rock'n'roll moments, so to say.

Man I miss this lineup. Along with Butch, Lynn, Steve and occasionally Professor Popoff, this is the best part of my Mondays over the last few years.

I like the evolution of Opeth. Where they're at now is really good.

The most tragic thing about Blaze is that his stuff with Wolfsbane was pretty legit

I don't know you all hate Judas Priest's Jugulator. Title track, Abductors, and bullet train are all incredible songs.

Regarding “Roll the Bones” by Rush, I enjoyed Dreamline, The Big Wheel and Ghost of a Chance as well as Bravado.

I was at the Metallica show in Buffalo. Didn’t have great seats (lower level though), bought them through Ticketmaster the day they went on sale, and if memory serves me correctly, I paid $190/ticket. It was a great show, really. Worth every penny. First time I’ve seen them. The show was 10 days ago and I’m still thinking about it.

Nick you were spot on I've had the exact same thought regarding bands/artists shitting on metal when it suits. The 90's were riddled with it.

@Chris Alo... I am a huge Cake fan and there are songs on that CD I like better than The Distance. I saw them once up in New Hampshire at this club on the beach. They came out and the singer said something like, "So I was in the bathroom and I heard a waitress telling another waitress "I wonder what they are gonna play last? The Distance?!" and they laughed. Well, tonight we are gonna play it first so you can all go home early." They did and no one left. She didn't know they always close with Jolene. I highly recommend that song. Also, I LOVE the Scorpions Unbreakable record. To me that was the best one since the 80s.

Nick, check out the version of Bravado on the live album Different Stages. The instrumental outro is one of the greatest pieces of music I have ever heard.

I think a good video idea would be albums/songs for when you’re in a certain type of mood. Like albums/songs you listen to when you’re angry, sad, happy, etc

Chris Alo is 100 percent correct about that Twisted Sister album. I think it was actually supposed to be a Dee Snyder solo album. Atlantic Records made Dee Snyder attach the Twisted Sister name to sell records. Wake Up (The Sleeping Giant) is the opening track and is by far the best of the worst! Yeah, I bought it. Only on cassette though!

Grumpy Uncle Alo's comments always take the Cake.

Pantera never had a bad album in my opinion even the 80s stuff, but I'm a couple hours away from where they came from so I may be biased.

Really late to this video, but I can't believe so many Metallica fans either haven't heard or don't appreciate "The Outlaw Torn" off of Load. I know, people call it their "Stranglehold", and don't want to hear Metallica do Nugent, but to me it's a classic with an extremely dark and heavy mood. Amazing use of space and dynamics, building tension and then releasing it. Fantastic guitar work from Hetfield and Hammett. It's what I would call an extremely mature song from a band in transition.

First two that come to mind: The Bloodrock album with "D.O.A." on it, and In-a-Gadda-da-Vida.

Disagree about Magica. It's not the best Dio but that album in no way sucks. If anything it's a story and most people dont get it. Rebel meets Rebel is actually a really great party record.. DAC vocals arent the best but the songs are fantastic

About moving on and shiting on metal, Bruce Dickinson did some of that around 1994/1995 - acusing Maiden of being very Spinal Tap and shit. About moving on and not shiting on the past, Nicke Andersson leaving the position of main songwrtiter and drummer from Entombed (he even sang on Clandestine) is a prime example. Lots of people hate his bands post-Entombed (Hellacopters, Imperial State Electric and Lucifer), but he had a vision and did stick to it He left Entombed and the death metal genre that he help to create to do his 70's inspired hard-heavy-power-pop music in different bands, but he kept saying he loved Entombed and death metal. He even did a short-lived death metal band in the 2000 called Death Breath and ocasionaly plays on Entombed AD.

I actually like Crazy Circles from Bad Company Desolation Angels.I also love Roll The Bones album by Rush.

Pete - the UFO album misdemeanour came out in 1985, I saw the line- up at Knebworth fair with Deep Purple & an amazing line up of bands that year. Phil wanted to call the band by a different name, but the record company would have none of it. Paul Raymond is on that album (take a closer look at the picture you showed us on the back, lol), & Atomic Tommy is a Japanese born American. Brilliant show as always.

"X-Factor" is super underrated imo, my 2nd favorite Maiden album! The drums & bass sound great on that album, at times it feels like John Paul Jones & John Bonham jamming, it doesn't sound like Zeppelin, but it has that jamming vibe where the bass/drums are felt! Great album, love Blaze!

Funny you mention P.S.T. 88. A modern thrash band, well not so much thrash anymore, but a band by the name of Lost Society from Finland covered that song on their 2016 album "Braindead" and it just sounds killer! I think you guys would really dig it and that album and their previous two albums before that are really great underrated young gun thrash/speed metal attack tunes that are awesome.

E.L.O. (First Album) - 10538 Overture PANTERA Far Beyond Driven - Planet Caravan DEATH Scream Bloody Gore - Regurgitated Guts ROGER WATERS The Pros & Cons Of Hitch Hiking - Title Track (Part 10 I Think.) FRANK ZAPPA MEETS THE MOTHERS OF PREVENTION - I Don't Even Care. That was a hard one to do.

For what it is worth I was at Metallica in Buffalo last week. My first row upper deck tickets were $72.50. The ticket prices for the best seats in the house are always going to be insane.

Having a hell of a time my dear, wish you were here.....

After a quick thought, my five good songs from the really crappy releases are the... 5. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut (from the indifferent S/T album) 4. Judas Priest - Out In The Cold (from the miserable album "Turbo") 3. Savatage - Red Light Paradise (from the very bad album "Fight For The Rock") 2. Uriah Heep - Choices (from the weak album "Innocent Victim") 1. Porcupine Tree - Radioactive Toy (from the - pretty boring - album "On The Sunday Of Life")

Well i really like the Roll The Bones album, came out when i was 18 and that tour was my first time seeing RUSH so i have great memories linked to that album.

What an interesting idea. Here’s a few bands that fit the theme. 1) In The Evening- Led Zeppelin 2) Dying For Love- Black Sabbath 3) Iron Fist- Motörhead 4) Ashes- Danzig 5) Go To Hell- Alice Cooper

Excellent topic guys! Glad to see the original lineup of Hudson valley squares. My picks: Judas priest-jekyll and Hyde on demolition. For some reason i always loved this. Metallica-st anger from st anger. Easily the best song on an abysmal album Megadeth-kingmaker from supercollider Iron maiden-where the wild wind blows. Don't hate the album but this is easily the best song on the album. Outstanding song System of a down-chopseuy from toxicity. Don't like the album at all but quite like this song I actually like reinventing the steel quite a bit. Especially goddamn electric and yesterday don't mean shit

Alice Cooper Wish you were here is a great song!Retreaded guitar solo from Ursa Major Dick Wagner of course!

Tormato - YES - On the Silent WIngs Of Freedom Mardi Gras - CCR - Sweet Hitchhiker Hot Space - Queen - Put Out The Fire Calling All Stations - Genesis - Calling All Stations Kilroy Was Here - Styx - Mr. Roboto Flush The Fashion - Alice Cooper - Clones It's Hard - The Who - Eminence Front Van Halen III - Van Halen - Fire In The Hole Who Do We Think We Are - Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo Never Say Die - Black Sabbath - Never Say Die

My choices: From Slayer's "Undisputed Attitude:" I don't actually hate this collection of hard core punk covers, but I will admit that it's not great. But the song that closes the disc, "Gemini" is slow and crushing. From "Hot Space" by Queen, the song with David Bowie, "Under Pressure" is a classic. It doesn't even sound like it came from the same album. Scorpions' 1999 album "Eye II Eye" was mostly craptacular, but the song "Mind Like a Tree" has a badass groove that's reminiscent of "China White." The title track from Kiss's "Psycho Circus" album is great. There's a couple of other decent tracks, but the whole thing overall is rubbish. I pretty much detest Megadeth's "Risk" album. It's not even really metal, nor should it have been called a Megadeth album. But the two songs that close the album, "Time: the Beginning" and "Time: the End," are pretty cool. I think they should have been put together as one track, and it would have been even cooler. But then, disappointment and underachieving are the names of the game with "Risk."

Chris's arm keeps disappearing, quite entertaining! Is that the Alice Cooper album with "I Never Cry?" That's a good tune, sort of heartbreaking.

Alice goes to hell is a good album! Title track awesome! , Wake me Gently a beautiful kinda creepy Alice song, I never cry is a classic!

"Eat The Heat" was an Accept album (the first after Udo left). The Scorpions album you're talking about was called "Face The Heat". :)

1. Saxon- Call of the Wild (Innocence Is No Excuse, 1985) 2. Bachman-Turner Overdrive- Rock and Roll Hell (Rock n' Roll Nights, 1979) 3. The Smashing Pumpkins- Ava Adore (Adore, 1998) 4. Pink Floyd- Fat Old Sun (Atom Heart Mother, 1970) 5. Motley Crue- Smoke the Sky (1994) I find that even albums I'd generally consider weak have two or three songs I like, otherwise I it's something I altogether dispise, so this was kind of challenging. I could pick apart several albums from top names but I stuck to the ones where I really could just think of one. If I could only remember more specifically albums that I heard to a lesser extent several years ago, I could expand. Krokus had a real bad album in the mid-80's called Change of Address, but I can't remember how any of it goes.

Hey Pete. Went to Boston's web page. It hasn't been updated since 2017 (their tour on that page was from 2017). So who knows if there will ever be another Boston album or tour.

I don't understand, why Opeth gets a pass for reinventing themselves, but Metallica don't. Metallica never shitted on their legacy. They just felt at a time in their lives that they wanted to do music like, well, like they did on the Loads. And they admit to that and play songs from all their eras.

OMG, I thought of one more watching this show again. The irony is that it's Robert Plant's birthday and I thought of the one solo album from the 80s that wasn't good. Shaken-n-Stirred and the one awesome song is Little by Little, which is one of my favorite Plant solo songs. Sixes and Svens is okay but the rest I'm sorry is a mess. And from what I understand, I'm not alone in that opinion.

Chris’s dance moves are fucking great 😂😂😂😂

Damn Ryan is killing me with his picks. Horror Show, Reinventing, Colony (???), great albums! I’m guessing it’s because I was just a little behind him on my metal journey where my gateway to death metal was through In Flames’ more melodic material. Horror Show was also the first IE album I bought new.

Right Side Of My Mind from Q2K is an amazing Queensryche song.

I realise that the metal guys don’t like it because it puts them out of their comfort zone but Love Is For Suckers is fantastic and underrated glam metal album, I don’t care what people say, I’ll always defend it.

Nic, Promised Land is worth a relisten. With tracks like I am I, Disconnected, Bridge and the title song, the album's bleak and beautiful, and still something I reach for.

Chris, tell us how you REALLY feel about that album by Cake? 😂🤣🤣

I like every album from Sabbath with Ozzy and Technical Ecstasy is one of my favorites, also think Never Say die is better than 13 but is still good.

The last record from the Mahavishnu Orchestra, "Inner Worlds", ca 1976. McLaughlin was clearly done with the classic MO format and looking for a new direction - he'd stripped the band down to a quartet (keys, bass, drums, and himself on Synclavier guitar), had included some sappy vocals and one embarrassing attempt at soul-funk. Only one song had any echoes of the JM of old: "Way of the Pilgrim", in which he played the coda on an old-fashioned analog electric guitar. It's the only song from the album I still play, and even then I'm impatient for all the synth noodling to be done with so he can get to the real guitar lines. There was an oddity from the late 80s called "Giants" - a pickup band, with the likes of Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock, Neal Schon, others - all playing a peculiar blend of Cuban-influenced slow-dance music, a few tepid vocals - and one outstanding Willie Bobo comp called "Neckbones & Home Fries", where Santana finally let loose with a blistering solo. The one high spot in an otherwise forgettable session.

Question for Nick - Do you not like the songs themselves from ANATO or is it the production that you have an issue with? I love the album, but can acknowledge that the versions on "Live" and "Imaginations Through the Looking Glass" are more in keeping with their sound up until that point in time. The version of Punishment Divine from "Imaginations Through the Looking Glass" is so powerful and Hansi really shows all parts of his range excellently!

I think I want my $7 back for the time it cost me to earn the money, get myself to the store by bus, buy Skyscraper cassette from David Lee Roth. Putting the tape in and listening for the first time was total garbage. Retro-listening maybe I was too harsh but...I made $4/hr at the time lol. Bless you all

Here are a few for me, sole gems from 4 obscure early metalcore/deathcore stinkers: Nineironspitfire - "Charcoal Drawings / Weapon Of Choice" (from Seventh Soul Sacrificed, 1996) Clear - "Falling Into Ashes" (from Deeper Than Blood, 1999) Reprisal - "The Shadow of Mankind" (from Boundless Human Stupidity, 2000) State Craft - "Season's End" (from To Celebrate the Forlorn Seasons, 2000)

Pretty sure no one played on OM:2, it was Mike Stone and Taint. Maybe Rockenfield. Same with American Soldier. I did like the Hands on that album. Q2K was shit too but the last song on the album Right Side of my Mind was pretty good.

i must be the only guy in the world who actually likes virtual xi , lightning strikes twice is awesome.

Whao....No love for Magica? Its a great album and I was disappointed we never got 2 and 3...

Metal Messiah from Judas Priest's "Demolition" album. One of my favourite JP songs.

I haven't really listened to Alice Cooper for a long time, although I did watch a documentary on him, which was a lot less than glamorous. But, in a previous episode, 'Love it to death' was ranked as one of his best albums, alongside 'Billion Dollar Babies,' whereas the album I remember is 'Killer.' And here comes 'Alice Cooper Goes to He'll as a supposedly crap album. Over to KZfaq. 'Goes to Hell' gets far more listens from Alice Cooper fans generally (and presumably) than 'Billion Dollar Babies,' and rave reviews for the album, as in, "This is my favorite Alice Cooper album," and the music is so much more exploratory and interesting. Classic Alice Cooper is all block chords and attitude, whereas 'Goes to Hell' is playful and explores more interesting themes. But, yes, it is definitely not a heavy metal album, while definitely being an intelligent album. This is why I love SoT: each episode forces you to explore stuff. I might well buy 'Goes to Help' because it has a musical sensibility lacking in Alice's more classic wack-wack-wack tracks. And all because Pete doesn't like it. But that's great: a reaction provokes a counter-reaction, and the whole provokes a greater commitment to magical music.

Dreamline - Roll The Bones(Rush) Fire In The Hole - Van Halen III Under Pressure - Hot Space(Queen) Undercover Of The Night - Undercover Of The Night(Rolling Stones) Show Don’t Tell - Presto(Rush)

Maiden's "No Prayer For The Dying" has "Tailgunner." Great tune (and maybe the last great one they wrote IMO). The rest of the album stinks.

Ugh, I had that Alice Cooper album. I can still remember the title track but can't recall a single song after that.

Gotta throw some love at Scorpions, because I think "Face The Heat" is better than it's often given credit for. Yes, "Alien Nation" is still the best song on the album, but there are some other great rockers on there, like "No Pain No Gain" and "Unholy Alliance", and some quality ballads as well, such as "Under The Same Sun" and "Woman". Some of the midtempo stuff is fun too, like "Someone To Touch", "Taxman Woman" and "Ship Of Fools". The last few tracks kind of trail off, and honestly the album would have been better if they would have trimmed the fat somewhat, but lots of bands fell victim to that in the 90's when cassettes and CDs allowed for much longer albums. But I actually like "Face The Heat" better than "Crazy World". Also, hearing Nick slag "A Night At The Opera" by Blind Guardian hurts my heart a bit. I love that album. It does get a little overblown in the middle, but the 1st 4 tracks are immense, and of course the closer is quite the epic.

I have a couple of picks: - For the longest time, I never listened to anything Scorpions made after "Love At First Sting", because I heard nothing but bad things about them. Only recently, I decided to go through the grind and listen to everything in preparation for "Rock Believer". "Savage Amusement", "Crazy World", and "Face the Heat" all were kind of meh, and I heard "Pure Instinct" was terrible, but the opening track 'Wild Child' almost got my hopes up. It's surprisingly good, and it's such a catchy song, and while it's not heavy, it's got a good hard rock drive, and it's so fun. Too bad the rest of the album sucks. - One of the first metal bands I ever got into was Sonata Arctica, and I got into them around 2007/2008. I was mostly getting into their early stuff, and from what I heard from their most recent album "Unia" (the single 'Paid in Full'), I didn't really like. Then, come around 2009, when I heard promos for their next album, and when I was hearing 'Flag in the Ground', I got really excited for "The Days of Grays", but when I eventually heard the album, it just sounded so downbeat apart from 'Flag in the Ground'. I've recently come to terms with new-Sonata Arctica, and just accepted that I'm probably not going to like anything after "Reckoning Night", apart from a few songs like 'Flag in the Ground'. - I do like "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell", and while I've always been an Alice Cooper fan and considered him one of my top ten favorite artists, it was actually only within the past eight years that I dove deep into his catalogue. For a while, one of the few albums I owned by Cooper was "Trash", which I remember liking at least a little bit when I first got it, but as I get older the less I like it, and the less it sounds like Alice Cooper to me. I know that some people think his Blackout albums don't sound like him, but I think "Trash" sounds like a Desmond Child Project ft. Alice Cooper and coincidentally the only song I like off of it is, 'Bed of Nails', sounds the most like Alice Cooper to me. It's twisted, has his sense of humor, and it's got a riff with good muscle (partly due to the help of Kane Roberts). The rest of the album I could either do without, or just hate. - I was also diving deep into Accept, and when I got to "Predator", I remember feeling like it lacked energy. So later I listened to it again, and while listening to the opener 'Hard Attack', I thought "hey, maybe this will open up to me". NOPE! The rest of the album brought back that memory of just feeling like it was Accept running out of steam. I can't recall any other song on the album except for 'Primitive' only because it's so terrible and annoying. It definitely sounded like a band about to break up. - Stratovarius' self-titled album is always a really rough listen, and I don't think I dislike it as much as most people do, but the only song I really enjoy %100 is 'United'. It suffers from the same bad production that plagues the rest of the album, but it's got the best chorus on the album, and it's got a tried-and-true formula of the 'Heaven and Hell' bass line driving the song along satisfyingly. - Motörhead is a miraculously consistent band, and while they've had their less-than-spectacular albums like "Iron Fist", "Rock n Roll" and "March or Die", I think their weakest album is easily "Snake Bite Love", with only 'Love For Sale' being a good song (a distant second would be 'Assassin', which is a lesser version of the song 'Sacrifice', which isn't the end of the world). - Nightwish's "Imaginaerum" is mostly bad, but it does contain three good songs, which are 'Storytime', 'I Want My Tears Back' and 'Last Ride of the Day', and one okay song, 'Turn Loose the Mermaids'.

Crush from Anthrax Volume 8: The Threat Is Real is good, but the rest of the album has never grown on me after 8 or 9 listens.

This was such a great episode! I agree with Nick about artists that talk stink about their past. Don't sh*t on an album that was part of your history because some people may actually like that album. It's like they're dismissing their past either because it wasn't a popular era for the band/artist or they've moved onto other things.

iron maiden-fear of the dark....motorhead-snakebite love...acdc-stiff upper lip...megadeth-supercollider...motley crue-theater of pain

The title track from "Inside the Electric Circus". Yeah, the two covers are good, but they don't count. And they needed two of 'em! To make up for how crappy that album is.

I would love to see Ryan on in the prog seat again!!!

J Tull - Under Wraps: “Under Wraps Pt2,” Queen - Hot Space:: “Under Pressure,” BOC - Revolution By Night: “Take Me Away,” ZZ - Recycler:”My Head’s In Mississippi,” Bowie - Tonight: “Blue Jean”

Love the Kate Bush shirt :-)

Before watching the video, my list: 1. Pete Townshend, White City- "Give Blood" 2. REO Speedwagon, Life As We Know It- "Variety Tonight" 3. Helloween, Chameleon- "Giants" 4. Kiss, Music From The Elder- "The Oath" 5. Iron Maiden, Virtual XI- "Futureal" 6. Cheap Trick, Standing On The Edge- "Tonight It's You" 7. Aerosmith, Rock In A Hard Place- "Jailbait" 8. Judas Priest, Nostradamus- "Nostradamus" 9. Phil Collins, Face Value- "In The Air Tonight" 10. Queen, Hot Space- "Under Pressure" 11. The Who, It's Hard- "Eminence Front"

1. Tailgunner-Iron Maiden. 2. In The Evening-Led Zeppelin. 3. Cathedral Spires-Judas Priest. 4. South Station Blues-Joe Perry Project. 5. Paralyzed-Ted Nugent

Risk: Prince of Darkness...saw the tour, Marty jammed on that one! (H.O.B. L.A)

Horror Show is great! Damien is the best song on that album to me. Colony is awesome all the way through. I used to hate Clayman but now I like it. It's like Colony pt 2. All the later albums suck.

'Night of the Wolf' by Uriah Heep from Equator is a great song

My Crappy Albums That Have One Really Good Song 1)Kix album Blow My Fuse song (Don't Close Your Eye's) 2)Enuff Z'Nuff self title album song (Fly High Michelle) 3)Til Tuesday album Voices Carry song (Voices Carry) 4)Martika self title album song (Toy Soldiers) 5(Rem album Document song (The One I Love) 6)Motley Crue album Saints of Los Angeles song (The Animal In Me) 7)Seether album Disclaimer II song (Broken featuring Amy Lee)

Well, Revolution is my name... Death Rattle, Uplift, Grind that Axe, Hellbound..., couldn't disagree more..., cheers

What's wrong with Metallica's Hardwired album?

The one song to pick off of Load is The Outlaw Torn. Amazing song. Probably one of the better album closing tracks out there.

Great show chaps. Aww Chris, always agree with you on everything, but you broke my heart with Magic, mate! It's no classic Dio, but Lord of the Last Day, Fever Dreams, Turn To Stone, Losing My Insanity and Feed My Head are great tracks IMO! But there we go. Respect all the same, mate! ;) Also, you guys are spot on about artists who disrespect fans and their old works. Moving on is fine, but as Nick said, there's a way to go about it. Don't shit on the stuff and the people that got you where you are. Great episode again, fellas!

Ryan and Chris are always the best.

Nick & Ryan.... I think you might give Blind Guardians "At the Edge of Time (2010)" another try. I think it balances the symphonic vs metal elements well, I am biased being that its my favorite BG album. 2015's "Beyond the Red Mirror" wades too deep into smothering lushness and ends up being sleep inducing.

Upcoming vid: Bands you love with a crappy album but has one amazing song that you never want to hear again

Jugulator is a great album !!, yeah great to see you guys again, greetings from Mexico City

Oh, I forgot one: Adrenalize {Def Leppard} - Tear it Down (See PJ & Whitesnake)

I think about half of the Cheap Trick albums fit that bill... most of them are lackluster but have one REALLY good track that is just fantastic. For example, "Stop this Game" off of "All Shook Up" is KILLER. The rest of the album is meh. Same with "If you Want my Love" on "One on One."

Wow, Chris's pantera take. Okay, so I'm not really the biggest fan of this band, but power metal is one of the albums that I like! But that song? I don't know. There's a lot of other good stuff on that album like over and out! Maybe one of my favorite songs from that band. As for me, this is kind of out of the usual wheelhouse but no more so then one of the pics tonight. Oasis, morning glory, off the what's the story morning glory album! Came out around the time I started high school. Bob the album because of the song morning glory, which I still think is a terrific rock tune with real attitude and a good riff and extremely catching, and hey, it doesn't rip off the beatles! The rest of the album though? Damn does it ever suck.

The Pantera slander!!

I disagree on most of the choices but that's exactly what makes these videos interesting. For example Bleeding Me is for me easily the best song on Load and probably in my top-10 best Metallica songs ever. The House Jack Built is my second favorite on that album. And Death Rattle (with Uplift) on the contrary is the only track that I don't care for on Reinventing the Steel. Otherwise it's an amazing album and almost on par with the previous ones. Speaking of Pantera, I love "Pussy Tight" but Over and Out is also a great track from Power Metal, it's actually really close to what they became with Cowboys from Hell. Oh and I love Dreamline and the title track on Roll the Bones.

Laughing on Judgement Day Thunder. Their debut Back Street Symphony is one of my all time favourites, lots of fun, very tongue in cheek and IMO the last great Hard Rock album. I was really looking forward to the follow up but I found this so serious and plodding. There was no fun in LOJD. It seemed they were taking themselves too seriously. I never played it again except for one song A Better Man. It was acoustic but the only decent track on the album

*brain dead* in *jugulator* hits too, 'though *cathedral spires* might be the better choice because of tim ripper ownes' great vocal performance on the one hand and the epic intro on the other... I recommend *Creatures Watching over the Dead by Charred Walls of the Damned* as one of the metal albums that will be discovered years later on by metalfans...

Very cool episode. Speaking of 'shitting on' Metallica, I discovered them in 1983, when I saw and bought Kill 'Em All at Rock en Stock in Montreal. After Master of Puppet (which I felt was a copy of Ride of the Lightning), Metallica was already off my radar (i.e., too commercial for me). Their first album remains the top album from theirs followed by their sophomore release.