Heavy Metal Central

Griffin · Post by **Griffin** » February 7th, 2023, 19:50

I'll start with the album which was inspiration for the name I chose: Griffin's Flight Of The Griffin, I was listening it at the same time I was registering, and I couldn't come up with another name, so I took Griffin and the portrait from the album:

It's a great early-ish American heavy metal album, combines some elements from speed/thrash metal, some influences from NWOBHM and some other stuff, and it's one of the early entries into sub-genre to be later known as US Power Metal, which is greatly exemplified by the first track Hawk the Slayer:

It's a great very energetic high-octane mid 80s heavy metal, they released second album too, Protectors Of The Lair in 1986, but it was more thrash metal, and the mixing was quite shit, it's very tinny and thin sounding album, there's remixed version from 2020 but I haven't heard it.

Dead · Post by **Dead** » February 8th, 2023, 04:49

Good stuff

Griffin · Post by **Griffin** » February 10th, 2023, 07:41

NME could've been good if they had actual singer. Same goes for Finnish thrash metal band Stone, if they would've had proper singer, they would have been a lot better band:

And yeah, Metallica took that opening tiff for Enter The Sandman, as Get Stone was released a few years before Black Album.

And here's something new for a change, Armored Saint's Lone Wolf from their latest album Punching the Sky released in 2020.

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » February 10th, 2023, 21:10

Ratcatcher · Post by **Ratcatcher** » February 10th, 2023, 21:37

Wimps and posers, leave the hall!

Griffin · Post by **Griffin** » February 10th, 2023, 21:43

Ratcatcher wrote: ↑ February 10th, 2023, 21:37
Wimps and posers, leave the hall!

This is cooler, just because they got Orson Welles to do the narration:

fork · Post by **fork** » February 10th, 2023, 21:49

Sub-genres allowed here?

Dead · Post by **Dead** » February 11th, 2023, 06:11

Griffin · Post by **Griffin** » February 11th, 2023, 21:21

fork wrote: ↑ February 10th, 2023, 21:49
Sub-genres allowed here?

Sub-genres are fine by me.

Shame that Andre Matos died so young, he was a great singer:

There's also full life available:

fork · Post by **fork** » February 11th, 2023, 21:44

Great music, but I just don't enjoy clean vocals in most cases, as good as they might be.
A rare exception:

And Marilyn Manson's and Rob Zombie's guitarist:

aweigh · Post by **aweigh** » February 11th, 2023, 21:58

fork · Post by **fork** » February 11th, 2023, 22:16

Dead · Post by **Dead** » February 13th, 2023, 04:14

Fedora Master · Post by **Fedora Master** » February 13th, 2023, 08:50

Ratcatcher · Post by **Ratcatcher** » February 13th, 2023, 09:13

Griffin · Post by **Griffin** » February 13th, 2023, 21:41

Here's more 80s goodness:

Dead · Post by **Dead** » February 17th, 2023, 17:15

aeternalis · Post by **aeternalis** » February 17th, 2023, 18:43

Since Dark Tranquility was posted, which is melodic death metal... I'm just gonna post my favorite metal selections in general and not worry about being specifically "heavy metal". Hope that's okay. I'll start with this, which almost defies genre:

Post by **Nemesis** » February 17th, 2023, 21:31

Dead · Post by **Dead** » February 18th, 2023, 05:59

Dead · Post by **Dead** » February 19th, 2023, 13:31

3:50

Griffin · Post by **Griffin** » March 7th, 2023, 19:53

Just listening to Tesla's The Great Radio Controversy, very good hard rock/borderline heavy metal album from 1989. Afaik they were pretty much unknown here in Finland at the time, only found about them later.

Kalin · Post by **Kalin** » March 9th, 2023, 12:20

Love this track.

Klerik · Post by **Klerik** » March 9th, 2023, 20:31

Dead · Post by **Dead** » March 10th, 2023, 03:29

Grand Belial’s Key - Fiscus Judaicus

Klerik · Post by **Klerik** » March 10th, 2023, 05:29

Klerik · Post by **Klerik** » March 11th, 2023, 19:33

Klerik · Post by **Klerik** » March 12th, 2023, 07:05

Griffin · Post by **Griffin** » March 12th, 2023, 15:26

Quiet Riot's Metal Health had 40th anniversary yesterday, first heavy metal album to chart as #1 on American album charts, but I think it went mostly unnoticed in here and most of Europe.

Dead · Post by **Dead** » March 13th, 2023, 07:03