Which is your favourite Heavy Metal album of 2024 so far?

As a 55 year old metal head, all these old bands coming out with sensational music has me really excited.

My 14yr old is obessed with Black Sabbath, Paul Diano era Iron Maiden , vintage Megadeth , Motorhead, Kill Em All Metallica & more... great music never dies.

A bunch of 60 and 70 year-old dudes keeping metal alive 🤘

I was raised with metal from the womb quite literally. Instead of Bach and Beethoven, my dad was playing Metallica and Pantera and Ozzy Osbourne among others to me in the womb. Makes me so excited to see metal coming back to the mainstream! Hope it stays!

Saw Priest last night in Minneapolis. Great show. I did notice that the audience overall was younger than I expected. I'm 61 and I saw Priest 4 times in the 80's and I think I saw more women last night than I saw at all 4 of those shows combined. I even talked to one guy about 30, who drove 400 miles, by himself, to see the show. This does have the feel of a last hurrah for many of these bands and I think people sense that. It may partially explain the revival you're talking about

Genre's never "Die", they just get dropped by small-minded labels.

I’m 15 and I’m since my 3th birthday a metalhead. Although, Heavy Metal is not that popular as it in the 80s was, the popularity of Heavy Metal is growing fast again at my school and in my city. TikTok made bands like Papa Roach, Metallica, KoRn, Rammstein and Iron Maiden cool again. And this is just the beginning! Ps: Stay strong my friend! 🇺🇦🔛🔝

New album favorites: Blaze Bayley: Circle of Stones, Bruce Dickinson: Mandrake Project, High On Fire: Cometh the Storm, Judas Priest: Invincible Shield. Looking forward to Kerry King's new one, should be a decent Slayer clone. I'm 50 and my best friend is 26. I've gotten him into some of the older bands I grew up with, like Twisted Sister and AC/DC. He was already into Slayer and Tool, so his education was off to a good start. Metal transcends age!

I’ve seen Judas Priest 35 times since 1979 I own everything they’ve put out and the new album is amazing

Because those are songs. You can sing the instrumental parts, headbang to the rythm, and actually understand what is breing sung. Proper songs!

New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal, one of the best genres ever

All metal is good metal. Who cares about genre? If I like it, I listen, same as I've been doing ever since I first heard Quiet Riot 40 years ago. Metal is forever. \m/

Saw Priest with Sabaton in Indianapolis and they fricking rocked. Heavy metal never dies!!

The latest albums by Helloween, Metallica, Maiden, Bruce Dickinson, Ozzy and Priest are absolutely brilliant IMHO!

I saw Saxon last Sunday. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen and I’ve going to shows for well over 40 years.

AS a 69 year old I'm unfortunate enough to live in the UK, where the BBC control most (if not all) live radio and TV and quite honestly have never wanted Heavy rock. There only concessions to this were "The old grey whistle test" and the odd late night rock show. Even when we had the New wave of British heavy metal which saw British groups playing all over the world, in the UK itself most of those groups were hardly even heard of. The truth is we still have a massive underground rock and punk scene going here that is mostly ignored, so much so that most of the rock concerts in the UK are now in the North of the country where they are still filling stadiums on a regular basis but you really have to search around to find where most of these are advertised (thank god for you tube where this is concerned). And for any brits reading this keep an eye out for the Nordic countries where rock is still going strong, with new groups on a regular basis.

Can you imagine Maiden releasing a surprise album this year, to go along with Saxon, and Priest? I also hear that Testament is releasing an album this year.

I actually noticed this at the Power Trip Festival last year. The crowd was so diverse as far as age goes. It was absolutely awesome to see and made me kinda happy to see. Right now is the perfect opportunity for heavy metal to make a comeback not only for the well established bands but up and coming new acts to carry the torch, so to speak.

Three of the Four Albums you mentioned first were produced by Andy Sneap.

I "discovered" Saxon recently after hearing the Talk Louder podcast rave about the new Saxon album. Shocked I was not into them when I was in my teens and 20's. Awesome band.

I mean the New Wave of traditional Heavy Metal scene has been going on for almost two decades now. Bands like Bullet, Enforcer or Grand Magus have been going since the late 90s and early 2000s. Festivals like Keep it true or the Rock Hard festival always focused their line up on traditional Heavy Metal bands. The american and canadian scene is huge, Germany, Sweden and the UK always produced great Heavy Metal Bands and apart for maybe the 90s they never stopped. Just because there are no more giants like Maiden or Priest out there, doesn't mean the scene wasn't active in the underground and is now ready to step up as our old heroes slowly approach their retirement.

I saw saxon one Month ago, they killed it. The Sound was great and all of them were in fire. The Audience was pretty mixed age wise, but dont let it fool you. The Crowd was nuts. Overall 10/10

Judas Priest , Saxon and Accept❤❤❤

The new Saxon stuff is probably the best thing they have ever done!

I'm 16, saw maiden twice on the future past tour and Dave murray smiled and pointed at me and my cousin, we lost our minds. All I want to do is be able to make someone feel like that with music, so as a younger generation I can confirm we are gonna give it our best shot

It'll take something special to beat the new Saxon album for me. Fantastic album.

Will see Priest tomorrow night in Huntsville Al wearing Metal Pilgrim shirt. 💪🤘🏼👍

HammerFall already once revived Traditional Heavy/Power Metal with "Glory to the Brave" in 1997. And they still kept it true ever since, you can find them cheesy or anything, but they did a whole lot for Traditional Heavy/Power Metal!

You're Right about releasing stuff for another 50 years, but these guys are getting older and who knows how much longer they have on earth. We definately want there well being intact.

I think its a bit optimistic. Can new bands actually break out given how the music industry works now? When these big metal bands retire permanently I think people are going to have to resort to CD's. Where is the next generation?

I love thrash metal but it's always good to go back to good ol' times where everything started. So heavy metal is what we all started with. Nostalgia.

I hadn’t noticed any lack of good metal, it just doesn’t get airplay or same. It never did. Word of mouth is the way. Good word is good times. I’m 57 and have over 2000 mp3s on my phone growing every month.

I think it's because of bands working with the right producers who understand the classic sound and the modern production is needed at the same time. Also, with younger bands calling them out as influences and especially ones who would become big from the last 25 years or so out of the nü metal, or new wave of American metal stew, that's not a bad thing to me. I mean, if Slipknot calls out Judas Priest and Avenged Sevenfold and Trivium shamelessly cover Iron Maiden, i'm glad they exist too. As for 2024, it could be a last hurrah type of situation, along with my original thought that they found the right producers and obviously, all these albums are good in their own rights.

LOVEBITES! 🤘🏼🐺🤘🏼

And these bands have been getting no promotion on mainstream media whatsoever.

I watched Bruce Dickinson yesterday and Accept on Wednesday in São Paulo (I'll also watch Accept again in two weeks on their extra concert here), can't wait from Priest and Saxon return also

It's dominating because it's the truest form of the genre.

New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal has been growing strong since the 2010s. Even though mainstream metal media mostly kept ignoring it. Best album of 2024: Morgul Blade - Heavy Metal Wraiths

Unleash the Archers - Phantoma! That should be an incredible album! But yes, there most certainly has been a revival in metal. Some are calling it the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal, but it’s happening in thrash and death metal, too, maybe others as well. Awesome!

It is just amazing and amuse to me to see that people my age made fun of me for liking metal in around 2015-2018, but now they are the ones liking it too.

Looking forward to seeing Priest at WTR in Daytona on Thursday.

Just saw KK priest, Saxon and Uriah heep and styrper recently all kicked ass and had tons of great energy 🤟. I'm 26 and I hope by the time I'm older I'll have the privilege to continue to see killer metal shows. Long may it live on 🤟

Just saw Judas Priest in Albany NY. and they were killing it. Absolutely awesome show.

Don't forget that these artists have a lifetime of perfecting their craft!

I can't wait to add a WHOLE new sound to my Heavy Metal collection.....

Bring back vinyl record players with Volume knobs with an 11 \m/

Exactly. Inertia. What's happening is NOT inertia. It's a refreshing. The timing is perfect and even if it's the last record they do, it's new and fresh and real. There were quite a few really good tunes on Black Sabbath's 13.

I love that album, “The New Gods” by Cauldron that I see behind you. Last year, I picked up the most recent releases of several eighties bands that I hadn’t followed for decades, and I was really impressed with what I heard. It’s like all the struggles and challenges that the eighties bands faced in the nineties and naughties were overcome, and the bands found a way to sound awesome again.

I've been listen to n been a huge fan of metal since I was 6 in 1975. I've witness it evolved. And what a pleasure it has been to witness n experience it. 🤘😈🤘

Seen Priest multiple times in the 80s. Would Love to see them now.

🤘🏼 *Thanks, Vlad!* 🤘🏼

I see a revival happening starting around 2020 more or less and yeah, we're seeing it gain momentum into this year. Like in the early 2000s the thrash revival started, now we're seeing it reboot again with more speed metal influences and a slew of blackened thrash bands. I think 2023 was one of the best years for metal releases in many many years and 2024 is off to a hot start as well. Something is brewing! Especially now that those bands from the 2000s are the veterans in the scene now. That said, of the 'classic' bands releasing stuff this year, only Priest has mattered to me.

Vlad my friend, you’re the best! Super nice vid! Metal Forever!

This is great news, as a 62 year old metal fan since the mis 70's I've seen bands come and go, many styles come and go, but I could not get past Metal-Core at any price, I hated it. I zoned out, this exites me again.

This july judas priest, bruce dickinson and accept are performing together in greece. It's one of the things that keep me alive

went to sepultura/sacred reich in manchester uk last year, and the crowd could hardly headbang, most of the people who i used to hang about with in the pub were propped up against walls or had walking aids, by the end of the night i was in a worse state than my first concert in 1990, headbanging like a true thrasher, even after a break of about 12 years since my last concert

Invincible Shield🤘

I think a big part of it that the "heaviness war" is finally coming to a head where you can't much heavier/abrasive without getting into noise music territory after 30 years of constantly pushing the boundary. So people are re-evaluating and considering that maybe what defines the quality of metal isn't who can downtune the most or make the most intelligible growl. That gives all the legacy acts and the modern revival acts doing more traditional and melodic forms of metal time to shine as people start exploring that side of the genre. Which, I have no problem with that resurgence because I'm someone rarely goes heavier than thrash and some metalcore/nu metal.

I think one of the driving factors of younger people getting into these bands is the instant access to all kinds of music. I had to get my ass to a record store to buy a physical copy if I wanted to hear something. Now my kids just have to ask “Alexa” and it comes on, and if they like a song they’ll use Pandora to find similar music. I would’ve killed for that ability when I was a kid.

It never went away.

I am the first Fan of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal 😅 (i started at the Age of 14) and in these Days i was a RiffRaff (as AC DC sang). I had Problems with my Parents, Teachers, Neighbors and the BarbieGirls ( witch i didn't mind because in the Metalscene we didn't need Girls - for Talking 😊) Now Heavy Metal is Mainstream. On the one Hand i embrace and like it to see so many different People and young Folks. But for the young Folk it's TikTok or Amazon. Available at any Time. Very fast forgotten afterwards because they are on the Way to the next Event. To me Heavy Metal is my Life and Soul. I life for it. Keep on Rockin'

I'm not really a fan of Priest or Accept. But I listened to each new album and was very impressed! (Special shout out to Pearl Jam as their new one is phenomenal)

The younger crowd came for Sabaton... We stayed for Judas Priest, they got the Legacy Act right😅 But we wanted more Sabaton for at least 1 hour and 20-40 minutes

Considering that most people listen to Taylor Swift and I listened to some pop country music in my friends car a couple days ago, I'd say that mostly people over the age of fifty listen to metal, minus my nephew of course who likes my classic rock iPod a lot

Yes, I have been seeing a lot of younger people at the shows i've been going to. Honestly I love see all the young people at the show 🖤🦇💀💣⚡️🤘

We 70s-80s Metalheads grew up, had kids, and turned our kids on to METAL! As they grew up, they realized a lot of "their" music was crap, and went back into our old music collections, and found what they needed.

My daughters (6 and 3) ask me to put on rock and roll music every day when i get home from work. The first song they ask for is Breaking the Law!

Great reporting , love your channel. Thank you

At 21/7 I will see three legends here in Athens,Greece Judas priest, Bruce Dickinson, Accept!I couldn't be happier!

I remember going to Ozzfest 99 in Vancouver At Thunderbird Stadium Black Sabbath System Of A Down Godsmack Deftones Slayer Fear Factory SlipKnot Static X Rob Zombie Primus and others all In one day for under 100 dollars. Was privileged and honoured to be there.

1) I don't care about the WHY as to it coming back, I'm just 100% all in for it! 2) I hope like hell it's here for the long term again 3) New Saxon, Dickinson and Priest not even a third of the way into the year could only be topped by discovery of previously unreleased DIO work.

Metal is Forever 🤘

Japan has been playing metal, hard rock for years now. Nemophila, Lovebites, Band Maid, Galneryus, Bridear, Unlucky Morpheus, Babymetal, etc. all these bands heavily influenced by Maiden, Metallica, Arch EnemyGnR, Slipknot, etc. many female bands there, as music is taught heavily in schools there.

🤘🏽NWOTHM RULES!🤘🏽

maiden and priest never stopped :) i mean halfords voice is just as good at 70 as when he was 30. bruce lost his air raid, but continued on with a still pretty awesome voice

As much as I agree with you, I'll go one step further. The most untapped potential in metal isn't with Thrash/Death/Black Metal acts, it's with the NWOBHM acts and their progeny. A band like Midnight would not have been popular in the early 2000s but here we are and the younger acts who want to study the discography of Tank, Tygers of Pan Tang (Jon Sykes, great guitarist), and Cirith Ungol among many others, will find fertile ground to see the experiment out. Thanks Metal Pilgrim!

This is the sound of real metal, those were classic bands, often imitated but nothing beats real classic metal.

I stayed true, and tastes are slowly swinging back around to where I have stayed. I'm 50, and a huge Judas Priest fan. I just saw them in Indianapolis and it was a great show. My 24 year old step son is going to see the same show for Sabaton in Evansville soon. I really enjoyed Sabaton as an opener and would go to see them as a headliner. Metal endures. Rock on!

53y/o metal head, married 34 years, father of 2, on his way to see Judas Priest and Sabaton in Charlotte, NC. METAL WILL NEVER DIE !!!

Love the new JP album ….. decent SAXON album : I just saw them last night

I am a diehard lapsed metal fan. I still listen to the old stuff but havent bought anything new in a decade. I may have to check these albums out. Its great to hear the scene is still thriving.

Just saw Priest....Helluva show....absolutely BLISTERING! Took my son.....we jammed. Killer show!

Seems like a lot of older bands are out on the road a lot this year

Age will not weary our metal warriors, they just keep banging

Heavy Metal for Eternity!

I really hope there is a revival of metal. I'm gearing up to release my debut in a couple months! If, like, 3 people listen to it, I'll be stoked. Doesn't matter if they hate it, haha. But man, I got into metal around 2000 and following bands like Cauldron, Holy Grail, Enforcer, Hammerfall, etc, has been great. Not to mention the "modern" era of Iron Maiden!

I think we are seeing a split happen in metal, and two very separate scenes emerge. I was a teen in the 2000s and we loved metal raging from Sabbath, to Thrash and Death metal. When metalcore and Deathcore was becoming big it felt very differnet and i would dabble but could never get into it. Now metal and metalcore genres seem to have deviated from one another and for the kost part have very seperate fan bases. I think that separation has given traditional metal room to grow again.

Great video as always, thank you

Metal will never die🤘🤘🤘

Without new fans and bands any type of music will die.

Hammerfall ❤ you're not wrong there. 😊

I would love to hear your opinion on the band ANVIL and the history behind them, as well as your thoughts of why they were never able to break through as a major player in the metal scene

There is a hunger for something that isn't rap or the polished 'pop star du jour' from Big Music. There is so much social engineering going on in the media and pop culture and little in form of a rebellious movement. Punk and Metal both need a comeback.

Great talk, Vlad!

Morbid Saint relessed an awesome new album as well. They should have been much bigger than they are. Highly underrated band

As Jack Black said "You can't kill the metal. The metal will live on"

In my opinion, i think...being metal its not about the lyrics or obout the music, in my opinion, its obout keep the soul of "metal"....have fun, and being diferent arround all the bullshit that we have on the radio on tv. Greetings from Chile.

I saw Judas Priest last Saturday in Alpharetta GA Halford was , is and it will be the best singer ever !!!

Love Hammerfall!!! Can’t believe they are not as big as other metal bands. They have been around a long time and they are excellent live or recorded.