Best Pop Metal
1 Ikons
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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."
![Pandora's Box [Clean]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Kb3PCXXnL._SS600_.jpg)
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Unreleased live tracks, rarities, well-known favorites and not-so-well-known album tracks...this is how a box set SHOULD be done!"
"classic rock from a classic band!"
"fast delivery, product was as discribed."
"Aerosmith the Scream of Rock and Roll."
"Great cd more songs than expected.. A must have for all Aerosmith fans."
"One of the most RAW rock albums ever!"
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Perhaps the fans have been unfair to Machine Head....I thought that their follow-up to their initial album "The More Things Change..." was a very solid metal platter, and other subsequent releases, such as "Burning Red" and "Supercharger" were still decent, just flirting with other styles such as rap-metal and industrial, which didn't really gel with the bands' super-heavy, aggresssive neo-thrash metal. One listen to "The Aesthetics Of Hate" was enough for me...classic metal nihilism and agression, super heavy riffing, and a huge, intense crescendo of almost neo-classical-style guitar harmony combined with a modern "metalcore" sensibility building to a huge climax."
"When done right fast happens and helps tell the story or create the proper emotion that the writer intends."
"i have been a Head fan since 94-95 when BME blew my head away, loved TMTC, and then everything came down... until TTAOE, amazing album, i played it all the time (still do) and when i heard about The Blackening i was excited but also at the expectation because they might as well not match TTAOE. every song is amazing, really technical and complex, showing great musicianship and balance, great lyrics, robb shows a very strong and adaptable voice, great solos and complementing guitars, and bass & drums hard as stone."
"Machine Head put themselves back on the map for me personally with this exquisite and timeless album."
"It's just as brutal with very focused anger in all the right places,there's also excellent guitar riffing between Robb & Phil on this one.As for the product itself You get a bonus track of Metallica's Battery and some cool behind the scenes making of the album and them on the Blackening tour!"
"Machine Head is great metal band and this Cd is outstanding."
"Great band What else can I say?"
"This collection is fantastic and Includes 2 bonus tracks of classic tracks "Hallowed be thy name" by Iron Maiden and Battery" by Metallica."
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 British Metal
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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 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 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."
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 Hard Rock
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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 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."