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New EpisodeTop Live Metal Albums!

Do you like live albums?

What are your favs?

He did some interesting ones...Union, Loudness, Racer X etc.

Hear ours here: https://youtu.be/32nFO4K7IBQ?si=fCmc-E1f885wWyq5

Judas Priest - "Hellfire Serenade: Live at the Infernal Cathedral" (1983)
Hawkwind - "Space Odyssey: Live from the Cosmic Nebula" (1977)
Iron Maiden - "Epic Metal Quest: Live at the Dragon's Lair" (1985)
Whitesnake - "Serpentine Seduction: Live from the Snake Pit" (1987)
Metallica - "Thunderous Fury: Live at the Metal Arena" (1996)
Guns N' Roses - "Chaos in Paradise: Live from the Jungle" (1992)

Dokken - Beast from the East

My Top 5:
Slayer - Decade of Agression
Exodus - Another Lesson in Violence
Priest - Unleashed in the East (yeah, I know...)
Pantera - Official Live: 101 Proof
Ozzy - Tribute

Reading Rock/Metal bios soured me on live albums. So few of them are 100 percent live.

Rocker4Real wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:10 am Reading Rock/Metal bios soured me on live albums. So few of them are 100 percent live.

Same. I'll still listen to all the classic live albums just cause they are part of my youth and they still sound great.

My favorite "live" album is probably Wednesday 13's Fuck It, We'll Do It Live. Love the rawness of this. Doesn't try to make the 100 or so people that were proobably there sound like 10,000.

Gimme, Gimme Bloodshed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m18NOjU ... ipknot2008

Black Sabbath - Past Lives
Judas Priest - Priest... Live!
Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon
Accept - Staying A Life
Deep Purple - Made in Japan (if it is metal....)

JinglesTheChristmasMouse - Donington ‘84.

I consider myself a Scorpions fan, and I just recently heard Tokyo Tapes for the first time. It's pretty god dammed great.

sirthx2 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:50 pm I consider myself a Scorpions fan, and I just recently heard Tokyo Tapes for the first time. It's pretty god dammed great.

I dig the Scorps too, but Tokyo Tapes sounds dusty to me compared to World Wide Live.

Psychobolia.com wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:32 am My Top 5:
Slayer - Decade of Agression
Exodus - Another Lesson in Violence
Priest - Unleashed in the East (yeah, I know...)
Pantera - Official Live: 101 Proof
Ozzy - Tribute

Great list.

Tribute, especially. What a great album.

Love_Industry wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:18 am Black Sabbath - Past Lives
Judas Priest - Priest... Live!
Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon
Accept - Staying A Life
Deep Purple - Made in Japan (if it is metal....)

Priest Live is GOLD all time classic

Saxon - Eagle Has Landed (the sequels are all good too, but the original is just a fuckin classic)
Maiden - Live After Death
Ozzy - Tribute
Metallica - Live Shit (also the live shows they've released on the album deluxe box sets are pretty great)
Sabbath - Live at Last
Dio - Holy Diver Live (Evil or Divine also really good)
King Diamond - In Concert 1987 Abigail (Songs for the Dead also really good)

Venom - Eine kleine Nachtmusik

daveg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:44 am

Rocker4Real wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:10 am Reading Rock/Metal bios soured me on live albums. So few of them are 100 percent live.

Same. I'll still listen to all the classic live albums just cause they are part of my youth and they still sound great.

My favorite "live" album is probably Wednesday 13's Fuck It, We'll Do It Live. Love the rawness of this. Doesn't try to make the 100 or so people that were proobably there sound like 10,000.

Gimme, Gimme Bloodshed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m18NOjU ... ipknot2008

Same, naturally. They were all sick as dogs too, Wednesday talked about it in an interview. If video counts, Scream Britian Scream is even better.

I suppose Metallica Seattle '89 would be the gold standard.

Halford Live Insurrection
Bruce Dickinson Scream for Me Brazil
W.A.S.P. Double Live Assassins

☆

Since everyone mentions Tribute, I'm gonna throw in Speak of the Devil. The amount of energy on that album is amazing. Seems as if Ozzy snorted a few bags of coke.

RaceFan3 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:07 pm Maiden - Live After Death
Ozzy - Tribute
Metallica - Live Shit (also the live shows they've released on the album deluxe box sets are pretty great)
Sabbath - Live at Last
Dio - Holy Diver Live (Evil or Divine also really good)
King Diamond - In Concert 1987 Abigail (Songs for the Dead also really good)

These are also great...except for the Holy Diver Live album, he was sick that day I think, it's the weakest of his live albums in my book.

I also forgot about Halford's Live Insurrection, once again that's Halford in the studio but the final product is kickass and Metal Mike shreds all over it. Priest could have totally called him up instead of using Andy Snip.

Psychobolia.com wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:04 pm

sirthx2 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:50 pm I consider myself a Scorpions fan, and I just recently heard Tokyo Tapes for the first time. It's pretty god dammed great.

I dig the Scorps too, but Tokyo Tapes sounds dusty to me compared to World Wide Live.

Tokyo Tapes is Uli trash.

Psychobolia.com wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:24 am

RaceFan3 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:07 pm Maiden - Live After Death
Ozzy - Tribute
Metallica - Live Shit (also the live shows they've released on the album deluxe box sets are pretty great)
Sabbath - Live at Last
Dio - Holy Diver Live (Evil or Divine also really good)
King Diamond - In Concert 1987 Abigail (Songs for the Dead also really good)

These are also great...except for the Holy Diver Live album, he was sick that day I think, it's the weakest of his live albums in my book.

I also forgot about Halford's Live Insurrection, once again that's Halford in the studio but the final product is kickass and Metal Mike shreds all over it. Priest could have totally called him up instead of using Andy Snip.

I had Halford’s Live album on my list. That kills. Cool that he did Fight songs too

Psychobolia.com wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:32 am My Top 5:
Slayer - Decade of Agression
Exodus - Another Lesson in Violence
Priest - Unleashed in the East (yeah, I know...)
Pantera - Official Live: 101 Proof
Ozzy - Tribute

Before I scrolled down, I knew Psycho would have me covered on Another Lesson in Violence, so here's another vote.. Sounds absolutely phenomenal, especially for 1995, which is how Andy Sneap got on my radar.

For thrash, the Seattle show from Metallica's Live Shit: Binge and Purge always has to be mentioned.

Also a huge fan of Beast in the East.

I'm not sure if this counts, because even though you'd call it "hair metal" or "glam metal" it's really just good ol' rock and roll, but Britny Fox - Live at Froggy's is SUPER under the radar and very very good.

Dio - Last in Live is also underrated as is the whole Tracy G era of Dio, IMO.

Love_Industry wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:18 am Black Sabbath - Past Lives
Judas Priest - Priest... Live!
Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon
Accept - Staying A Life
Deep Purple - Made in Japan (if it is metal....)

Metal or not, MiJ may be the best live album ever.

Malmsteen: Trial by Fire

Triumph: Stages

aznsquirt wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:06 pm
Dio - Last in Live is also underrated as is the whole Tracy G era of Dio, IMO.

I've never really listened to those TG-Dio albums aside from the live ones, which I do enjoy.

His solos are a bit weird though, not bad, but a bit strange. I remember reading that he left the band because Dio wanted to have Craig Goldy come back as a 2nd guitarist, who would handle ALL of the guitar solos, and TG wasn't having that haha

Psychobolia.com wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:47 am

aznsquirt wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:06 pm
Dio - Last in Live is also underrated as is the whole Tracy G era of Dio, IMO.

I've never really listened to those TG-Dio albums aside from the live ones, which I do enjoy.

His solos are a bit weird though, not bad, but a bit strange. I remember reading that he left the band because Dio wanted to have Craig Goldy come back as a 2nd guitarist, who would handle ALL of the guitar solos, and TG wasn't having that haha

Yeah, that's true. I was pretty active in the Dio fan club back then and there was always that perception that Tracy's rhythm playing/riffing was killer but his lead playing was whack.

I remember when the Goldy news filtered into the group and everyone was all excited and then kind of WTF when Tracy didn't want to do it. Kind of a strange call on his part, IMO., but it's his choice.

It would've been neat to hear, anyway.

DemonFilth2001 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:11 am Malmsteen: Trial by Fire

YES! A fave. Yngy shouldve kept JLT around longer.

Bono Nettencourt wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:11 pm

DemonFilth2001 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:11 am Malmsteen: Trial by Fire

YES! A fave. Yngy shouldve kept JLT around longer.

Made my list, cool hearing him do the Trilogy stuff

Agree, he did a solid job on the Trilogy stuff.