UM Hall of Fame April '16 Edition

[Atomic Tide]

Voivod
Mercyful Fate
Saxon
Accept
Celtic Frost
Dio
Venom
Deep Purple
AC/DC
Cannibal Corpse
Kiss
Alice Cooper
Ozzy Osbourne
Scorpions
Thin Lizzy
Van Halen
Rainbow
Hellhammer

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

AC/DC and Thin Lizzy aren't metal. Never were, never will be, they're good ole fashioned hard rock like Ted Nugent. It's not like they crossed over into metal later on like KISS and Deep Purple either.

 

[Atomic Tide]

Neither is Deep Purple or Rainbow, but they certainly influenced countless metal bands. \m/

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Deep Purple crossed into metal later on in their career, and Rainbow are definitely metal.

 

[Atomic Tide]

I see your point on Thin Lizzy, but if Rainbow and Purple are metal, I feel you should consider AC/DC metal, as well.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Not really. AC/DC are far too grounded in 12 bar blues to be metal, they're basically a much louder, crunchier, rawer version of Chuck Berry in a lot of ways. They're hard rock through and through. If they were metal there'd probably be more acceleration on the tempo, the percussion would be much different, they'd incorporate some jazz and classical influences, etc.

 

[Atomic Tide]

I'm feelin' you, HP. Sabbath was pretty bluesy, as well. I'm not even that huge an AC/DC fan, but I still feel that considering they started in the early 70's and the sheer heaviness of their sound for the time, it seems a no-brainer they should be mentioned.

 

[Draehl]

If you have to ask yourself or debate it, it's probably not metal.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

I'm feelin' you, HP. Sabbath was pretty bluesy, as well. I'm not even that huge an AC/DC fan, but I still feel that considering they started in the early 70's and the sheer heaviness of their sound for the time, it seems a no-brainer they should be mentioned.

Sabbath were bluesy, but they were also very jazzy and classical, and had that extra acceleration and percussive difference. They were also marginally heavier, and they formed five years before AC/DC, and released their first two albums also five years prior to AC/DC. By your logic, we should be voting in The Stooges. I say this as a long-time AC/DC diehard.

 

[Atomic Tide]

Ok, you got me on AC/DC. I'm curious, though... why didn't you call me out my pick for Alice Cooper? Aside from the imagery and maybe the lyrical content, he/they wouldn't really be considered metal, either. I guess I was merely going for the influence on metal with some of my picks.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Ok, you got me on AC/DC. I'm curious, though... why didn't you call me out my pick for Alice Cooper? Aside from the imagery and maybe the lyrical content, he/they wouldn't really be considered metal, either. I guess I was merely going for the influence on metal with some of my picks.

Because Alice is most definitely metal. With his solo career, you can't listen to 12 seconds of Raise Your Fist And Yell! and say he isn't metal. Killer bordered on Sabbath levels of heaviness in certain sections, and the original Alice band had the technical approach of an early trad metal band, plus a lot of bizarre proggy affectations. Like you said too, the visuals and lyrics were insanely macabre and explicit (Dead Babies, I Love The Dead, Raped and Freezin', etc.).

 

[Atomic Tide]

I'm glad I omitted Queen from my list.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

I love Queen, and they come damn close to being metal at times, but never quite go that far. I recommend you switch out the non-metal stuff with metal stuff on your list.

 

[Atomic Tide]

Damn, I just noticed you had Alice on your list.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Damn, I just noticed you had Alice on your list.

He's my profile picture too. \m/

 

[suckerleaf]

Dio ( for fucks sake)
Immortal
Death
King Diamond
Celtic Frost
Neurosis
Morbid Angel
Pantera
Acid Bath
Mastodon
Cynic
Opeth
Katatonia
Entombed

 

[RedStorm]

Death
Mercyful Fate
Nocturnus
Sabbat
Benediction
Morbid Angel
Desaster
Nocturnal

 

[Omni]

AC/DC and Thin Lizzy aren't metal. Never were, never will be, they're good ole fashioned hard rock like Ted Nugent. It's not like they crossed over into metal later on like KISS and Deep Purple either.

Thin Lizzy definitely has music that could be considered heavy metal, even if you don't think so.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Thunder and Lightning I guess, but beyond that I can't recall much.

 

[EspaDa]

Thunder and Lightning is their only entirely metal album.