Best Live Albums
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is a really great album."
"One of my all-time favorite David Gilmour performances!"
"Awesome."
"Gilmour ended his On An Island Tour with this show which features the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner. The disc also features a making of featurette called Gdansk Diary which also covers some background on the Solidarity movement in Poland. These performances include highlights from the Island tour recorded at the Mermaid Theatre in London, The AOL Sessions in New York and Live at Abbey Road."
"I absolutely love it."
"Love Love Love David Gilmour."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Motorhrad rocks!"
"Awesome period, turn it up louder for lemmy,just may be top 3 in sound quality for all the live stuff."
"Classic concert of Motörhead."
"Includes two songs from their (then) latest studio effort 'Snake Bite Love' which are "Take The Blame" and the ass-kicking "Love For Sale". Like "Iron Fist", "Metropolis", "No Class", "Capricorn", "Bomber", "Overkill" and their signature anthem "Ace Of Spades"."
"In the continuing saga of live Motorhead releases, this is probably the most massive of the set. This is obviously so because of the fact that it's a double CD of nothing but the best of Motorhead's raucous and ferocious live tunes. In all honestly, for all of my many, many years as a fan of rock, metal, and all things extreme, I've never particularly liked live releases."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Through the numerous times I've watched the DVD and listened to the CD I've noticed that they've definitely done a fair amount of touching up the sound on the CD and some of the riffs sound a bit different from DVD to CD, but that's not really a big deal to me as they've still kept their "sound.""
"Ever went to your favorite artist's concert and was disappointed to find out they don't sound well live as they do on CD? Watching this concert will definitely show how much energy they have, although unfortunately, some of the slower songs tend to get boring."
"Although I've never been that impressed with MUSE's studio recordings, I was blown away by the live music video included in the special features section of the Twilight DVD."
"Even though their music is very accesible and they've become a huge success selling millions of records, the music is still original, inventive, a real delight."
"The DVD says "Region 2" but I had no difficulty playing it in a region 1 player."
"The intro, Knights of Cydonia, with the solo and people singing along.. it just really gets you pumped up!"
"One great band, one great live recording (DVD-CD combo pack)."
"The insurmountable talent in this band is blatantly and galantly displayed in the live performance DVD. It makes me wish I'd have discovered this band sooner so I could have seen them live last time they were in my town."
Best Alternative Metal
![The Sickness [Explicit]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51tYHEhhoFL._SS600_.jpg)
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Now what I don't like about this CD is that the songs sometimes sound too similar, it's not neccesarily a bad thing but if you have it in shuffle with other artists it wont seem repetetive."
"This is a good album to rock out to if you like hard driving music."
"I was about to go on a short trip with a lot of driving, and I love listening to Disturbed while I drive, so I bought the entire CD from Amazon so I could burn it right before the trip."
Best Pop Metal
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Come on, it's KISS... No way to go wrong buying anything they've done..."
"When the set first came out I was very uneasy about purchasing it mostly b/c the members have nothing to do w/ the set at all as far as packaging, art work, remastering, etc.... track selection is great and it has a few songs that are not on the orig albums."
"Exactly what I was looking for!"
"This is an awesome set of 4 CD's."
"Song choices are subjective."
"Great career retrospective in an interesting format."
Best Death Metal
![Kingdoms Disdained [Explicit]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61vK5siduXL._SS600_.jpg)
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I was one of many who wrote a scathing review of Illud on Amazon back when it came out. I stand by each and every word of that review years later. I’ve been a fan since Altars came out way back when and after an eight year wait Illud was like a kick to the head it was so bad. Well, Trey gave Vincent, Destructhor and Tim the boot. It’s got the speed, the riffs and a great lead at the end. but it’s still a straight ahead blast off to what is a great album. This song has been universally praised by just about every website and I don’t understand why. One of the longer songs but it has a ton of twists and turns that held my attention. Sludgy with insanely fast double bass. Tucker’s an accomplished bassist so it’s nice to hear more of him in this song. The Earth was supposed to sound like originally lol. Declaring New Law. The song starts out monstrous but sort of fizzles. The Fall of Idols. Tucker is on FIRE on this song. In this day and age where every underground recording has crystal clear production, Kingdom’s Disdained is VERY old school sounding. It sounds muddy but once I played around with the settings on my phone (Hint, ease up on the drums a little) it sounds awesome now. It’s raw, dirty and clear if that makes any sense. I had it turned all the way up to max on my headphones and it’s still not as painfully loud as most modern releases. Scotty on drums……finding a replacement for Pete was not easy but he’s got the power, the technique and most importantly the swing and groove Pete had. Steve….a lot of people side with Vincent since he was on the bands classic albums. Hopefully we won’t have to wait ten years for the “L” album. (Favorite Songs). Piles Of Little Arms. D.E.A.D. Righteous Voice. For No Master. Fall of Idols. Songs I didn’t care for but still aren’t bad. Kingdom’s Disdained, Raw, brutal, brilliant and a true return to form from the masters themselves."
"With the return of Steve Tucker, Morbid Angel has made a return to the pure death metal at which they've always excelled."
"Trey Azagthoth is back with some of the most evil and menacing sounding riffs and some of the most slime ridden spaced out solos from another dimension you will swear you opened up a gateway from Hp Lovecrafts Necronomicon. If you are curious if Morbid Angel are phoning it in or doing an industrial electronic dance album I'm here to inform you HELL Fu@ng No! This album will one day be mentioned with the band's greatest works and will have you banging your head and roaring with approval and celebration that the gods of extreme metal have truly returned!"
Best Compilations
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Find Best Price at Amazon"but the same way I would go to see him in concert at Jones Beach and then at Radio City the following year... and probably hear the same material... it was / is certainly worth it."
"Love it very good sound and songs I never heard before."
"Never knew he sang bluegrass."
"He did covers of songs that were not on albums, so it gave the listener, some songs that the title Something, Old, New, Borrowed and Some Blues truly captured. This is a CD for Fogelberg fans and those who appreciated the LA Rock music of Jackson Browne, Eagles, Poco, Stephen Stills, etc."
"I was mesmerized by "Don't Let That Sun Go Down"--the sheer grittiness, power and bluezy quality in his voice was incredible."
"I don't think Dan has ever released a song that wasn't a hit."
Best British Metal
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Sound wise, this lp sounds great, but not a whole lot different than the original CD."
"Great album, Sounds good!"
"It has great songs, great drums, great guitars and great vocals."
"This review is from a fan who does like the no prayer for the dying album so maybe my maiden tastes aren't quite in line with others."
"One of maiden's best."
"Very cohesive album."
"Excellent & Awesome for Iron Maiden Fans!"
Best Hard Rock
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This album transitions smoothly from track to track."
"The vocals and solos blend and twist these fabulous hard edged songs into a frenzy!"
"Love the album, love the band."
"Awesome!"
"Great band (BCC - may they long live), great album."
"This supergroup continues to deliver!"
"Not the best of the four albums but c'mon, still awesome."
Best Thrash & Speed Metal
![The Way Of The Fist [Explicit]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2BNAZ13vlL._SS600_.jpg)
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great but Edited BS!"
"The album is just great all around metal and like the concert if I had to pay money to see them, I got my money's worth with the album. Most new metal out there nowadays is a few kids still in high school screaming about problems that only impact teens and I can't relate to that crap."
"Cant go wrong with 5 Finger Death Punch!"
"The only bad thing about this disc is that I can't imagine the band ever surpassing the quality of the music herein. Bathory writes some excellent and memorable riffs, and Ivan Moody's vocals are beyond reproach. Moody lifts those other outfits, but it's his pairing with Bathory that creates the heavy metal holyland."
"I just looked into FFDP because I was looking another bands website and there was the FFDP logo and I was like well they seem pretty cool."