The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued

@johnnotkathi Re pure HC punk: Canal Terror, Upright Citizens, Razzia's Tag Ohne Schatten, One Way System, Lard as some of the lesser known ones, I really like. I still like it (Dividing lines, Ötzi, Arctic Flowers ...), but gravitate these days a bit more towards post-punk, darkwave, cold wave, neofolk, and weird "pop" (e.g., felte label out of Los Angeles; Hackedepicciotto, Mission to the Sun, Svesor Bhrater). Got away from Flipper, Conflict, GBH, and similar stuff.

Rush - Moving Pictures - first CD print from West Germany, as a DDD CD the production is phenomenal. This was one of the very early Rock CD’s demoed in many audio stores to show off the introduction of the Compact Disc to the rock crowd.

Metallica - Black album, a lot went into this album, a noticible bump in quality from anything from the heavy metal bands before it, rumored is $1M was spent on production.

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell - beginning to end, synthesizers and guitar work are the standout, very dynamic album.

Queensryche - Empire, great production, very clean, I have the early release CD, the later prints seem to have the gain over annenuated.

Seether - Disclaimer, I also have Karma and Effect, I find the production to be solid on Disclaimer, my Karma and Effect album I tend to hear distortion in some peak areas.

Pat Benetar - Crimes of Passion, I have all of her albums, but I find this early print to be a standout album on production, you notice it right away with the opening track Treat me Right.

Def Leppard - Pyromania, I like the 2 albums before this one more, but the production of this album is off the chart for 1983, the first print CD from West Germany does not dissappoint.

Linkin Park - Meteora, I noticed a slight jump in production quality from Hybrid Theory, the Minutes to Midnight album the gain is turned up too high. My go to is the Meteora ablum.

Many other good Hard Rock and Heavy Metal genre albums out there, I could keep going, these above come to mind to me for sound quality and dynamics.

Always listened to Sabbath, Motörhead, Metallica, Disturbed, Living Color +

@oberoniaomnia Cool, I have SNFU vinyl of.... In the Meantime and in Between Time, Something Green and Leafy this Way Comes, The One Most Likely to Succeed, And No One Else Wanted to Play, ...And Yet Another Pair of Lost Suspenders and If you Swear You’ll catch No Fish. All good stuff. Love that band.

Aside from that, I was in the SF/Bay Area scene heavily from 77-85 and most of my music is from that timeframe, although I do try to stay connected to more current punk/hc. That said, thanks for the suggestions above!!

ps. As for Lard, my band played several gigs with the DK’s....was a blast!

@johnnotkathi Have those as well plus "Fyulaba" and "If you swear, you'll catch no fish" all on vinyl. My HC stuff is European biased, as I grew up on Switzerland. US band "Artless" was a fun show I caught in a club in Basel. Exploited turned out to be a bunch of a-holes. Toten Hosen (with the true Heino!) at Rote Fabrik was equally fun; live much more of a steamroller than on recordings. 

Having been in SF, did you get into Flipper from SD? There is a great record by Shatter from Basel, a tribute band to Flipper/Will Shatter. Recently re-listened to it, and the tribute for once is better than the original! I am sure you are aware of Rudimentary Peni, a bit out there, towards Die Kreuzen.