as far as the OP question, yes and no.
as mentioned here, many early bands had terrible producers, thin bass, tinny treble, try jamming Bathory- blood, fire, death or slayer - reign in blood in your car stereo LOUD, its an onslaught (namedrop!!) to the ears.
anyway, yes a good system will make a metal album sound amazing or bad, depending on the producer, and engineer.
some early cd editions are so bass thin, its really bad, some sound really darn good, a great album, is kill em all, yeah poptallicas initial debut, the bass is very tight, guitars crunchy, a great album played loud. peace sells is also great!
metal church's "the dark" is amazing on LP or CD!!
many of the early NWOBHM stuff is also somewhat thin, Samson has some great early stuff, as does satan jokers, kreator, accept, Riot is great, annihilator still has great production, lets not mention the travesty of Malmsteen producing all his great albums in a what seems FLAT EQ, drums are hollow, they are just all the same, almost uninvolving, if any of you remember the scorpions remasters of years back, i bought 3 of the Japanese versions with extra tracks, oh my god,......the first 10 seconds i was going to the next song, i think i picked up tokyo tapes, taken by force, and blackout,....the treble/high end is SOOO in your face, they are UNLISTENABLE, if you have a extremely warm speaker, etc, you may like them, but even my warm RC-70's are too bright, and these 3 cds are THE ONLY ONES to do this.
there i go rambling again.
i love talking rock/metal! i can talk metal all the time, hangout have a few cold ones, play some rare rock/metal, and just chat about bands, members, LP, CD, versions, artwork (which i miss from the LP recorded)
if you disagree with me, cool, please reply, would love to bs with any metalhead, or metalhead in the making!
remember, we are a family of outcasts (namedrop) i hung out with Todd from The Outcasts for many years, great dude!
and Pete Monstswillo from Zoetrope, we worked at jones inter cable for a while as well. good guy as well.
met thousands of band/members over the years, all pretty good guys/gals. Jo Bench from bolthrower is hotter in person for sure! so is Sabina Classen from Holy Moses (yum) Sabina i believe is one of the very first female singers to sing metal on the 1982 demo "satans angel" she still sings, and is still friendly and approachable!
Kate De Lombaert from the mighty "Acid" another founding metal female vocalist. lest not forget The Runaways also !!
see, rock/metal, can go on for hours just, love chatting rock/metal!
g'night y'all!
as mentioned here, many early bands had terrible producers, thin bass, tinny treble, try jamming Bathory- blood, fire, death or slayer - reign in blood in your car stereo LOUD, its an onslaught (namedrop!!) to the ears.
anyway, yes a good system will make a metal album sound amazing or bad, depending on the producer, and engineer.
some early cd editions are so bass thin, its really bad, some sound really darn good, a great album, is kill em all, yeah poptallicas initial debut, the bass is very tight, guitars crunchy, a great album played loud. peace sells is also great!
metal church's "the dark" is amazing on LP or CD!!
many of the early NWOBHM stuff is also somewhat thin, Samson has some great early stuff, as does satan jokers, kreator, accept, Riot is great, annihilator still has great production, lets not mention the travesty of Malmsteen producing all his great albums in a what seems FLAT EQ, drums are hollow, they are just all the same, almost uninvolving, if any of you remember the scorpions remasters of years back, i bought 3 of the Japanese versions with extra tracks, oh my god,......the first 10 seconds i was going to the next song, i think i picked up tokyo tapes, taken by force, and blackout,....the treble/high end is SOOO in your face, they are UNLISTENABLE, if you have a extremely warm speaker, etc, you may like them, but even my warm RC-70's are too bright, and these 3 cds are THE ONLY ONES to do this.
there i go rambling again.
i love talking rock/metal! i can talk metal all the time, hangout have a few cold ones, play some rare rock/metal, and just chat about bands, members, LP, CD, versions, artwork (which i miss from the LP recorded)
if you disagree with me, cool, please reply, would love to bs with any metalhead, or metalhead in the making!
remember, we are a family of outcasts (namedrop) i hung out with Todd from The Outcasts for many years, great dude!
and Pete Monstswillo from Zoetrope, we worked at jones inter cable for a while as well. good guy as well.
met thousands of band/members over the years, all pretty good guys/gals. Jo Bench from bolthrower is hotter in person for sure! so is Sabina Classen from Holy Moses (yum) Sabina i believe is one of the very first female singers to sing metal on the 1982 demo "satans angel" she still sings, and is still friendly and approachable!
Kate De Lombaert from the mighty "Acid" another founding metal female vocalist. lest not forget The Runaways also !!
see, rock/metal, can go on for hours just, love chatting rock/metal!
g'night y'all!