[J.D. DIAMOND] Thursday, December 30, 2010 3:17:29 PM
Maiden is still a great band although I don't care for thier later stuff,they are anything but traditional heavy metal these days as The Final Frontier is so far progressed that it doesn't have a shot at old school heavy metal. Neither does the Nostradamus album. But with Saxon,at least thier last 7 albums sounds british heavy metal traditionaly which easily makes Saxon the "New Kings Of British Heavy Metal"! from 2010 onwards.
Judas Priest represents "Nostradamus" from here on out as that is the last album K.K. wanted fans to remember Judas Priest by ,its sad but K.K. wants it this way so if he wants it this way then he can't have his cake and eat it too. Judas Priest "used" to represent british heavy metal but obviously they don't want that title anymore.
And with Maiden so progressed its only Saxon that is left as any other band can't hold a flame to Saxon these days. If The Final Frontier and Nostradamus are people's idea of true british heavy metal then maybe its a good thing that Judas Priest in hanging up the leathers and its a good thing that Steve Harris said that The Final Frontier is Maiden's last album as he only wanted 15 studio albums. Those 2 albums are a watered down poor representation of "true" british Heavy metal. You can't say that about any of the last 7 studio albums by Saxon,no way it just ain't valid and any true metal fan will be able to "see straight through this".
Well I didn't exactly create this thread just to try and get your atteniton but if you want to think that then ok. I do want your opinion though and just wanted to get an idea of what everyone here on the site thought. Now I already know what some are going to say (lol) but I'm sure some newer members to the sight will have a fresh opinion. I know you've already proclaimed Saxon as the "new kings of british heavy metal" but I'm sure many will disagree with that just like I do. The title of this thread is "Maiden or Saxon" but if anyone wants to include Priest also then thats fine with me. In my opinioin Judas Priest are still easily the" kings" of metal followed closly by Iron Maiden and then there's the rest of the pack. The gap between Priest-Maiden and the rest is quite staggering and I don't see anyone ever catching up.
(Quoting Message by J.D. DIAMOND from Thursday, December 30, 2010 3:47:45 AM)
J.D. DIAMOND wrote:
HAHA good one Brian!(lol!) Ok Brian obviously created the thread to grab my attention so yeah here it goes: I like 80's Maiden better than 80's Saxon,but the last 15 years Saxon totally blows Maiden into another realm,Saxon is so far ahead of Maiden and Judas Priest these days that Saxon are the new Metal Kings now that Priest decided to call it quits!
(Quoting Message by running wild from Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:37:12 PM)
running wild wrote:
I saw Saxon warm up on Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil/Crusader tour in May of '84 atVets Memorial in Columbus Ohio
Saxon ripped em' a new A**hole Nuff Said.
Edited at: Thursday, December 30, 2010 3:48:47 AM
Edited at: Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:20:04 PM
