Traditional Metal, NWoBHM and Power Metal fans

New Iced Earth album!!

Raff wrote: Yes, I definitely am! I love many of the bands listed in the above post. I am actually much more of a fan of classic Hard Rock/Heavy Metal than of any of the more extreme variations.

I agree! Van Halen, Whitesnake, Mr. Big, Rainbow, Nazareth and Aerosmith. These bands have joined my list of recent months.

MAVIIIVAM wrote: Jeez! All 3 are good! But I'm very picky with all 3 . . . This list is gonna' be updated every day! (Some are in the Prog Metal genre as well): Trouble Deep Purple Rainbow Dio (was a fan at the start but really only know his 1st 5 albums ) Kingdom Come (1st) Blue Murder (1st) Sykes is a freakin' Incredible Guitarist. Black Sabbath (especially all of the post-Ozzy, but Ozzie is Ozzy ) Ozzy Osborne (all of the Randy Rhodes albums and "Speak of the Devil" with the underated "Brad Gillis" on Guitar!) Iron Maiden Queensryche Warrior ("Fighting for the Earth" needs to be re-issued!) Judas Priest Helloween (I really only like the "Michael Kiske" era) Vandenburg (1st) Accept Loudness (Before they signed a major contract with an Amercan Label) Savatage Budgie Warlock Saxon ("Power and the Glory" and "Crusader" are Classic!) Scorpions (Finally just getting into the Uli Jon Roth era) TNT Y&T (The 1st 4 only) Blind Guardian Stone Fury (Singer Lenny Wolf for Kingdom Come 1st Band) Bodine (Arjen Luccasen of Ayreon, Star One, Guilt Machine and Stream of Passion was Lead Guitarist in this and one of many Metal Bands in the 80's) Dokken (1st 3) Whitesnake (All era's) UFO (How could I foget, even the early post-Michael Schienker era is good!) I need to get a CD copy of Vicious Rumours "Digital Dictator", I only have the LP. Warlord (Mark Zonder of Fates Warning and current Band Slaviour, on Drums 1st major Band! "Thunderchild" as he was known ) I only have this on LP too. I'll add more soon I just know i'll slap my head when I see more of you guys list stuff, but i'm too sleepy to remember my stash stored in boxes .

Very good list! Power!

Time Signature wrote: I must say, I love these three "genres" - after all, Iron Maiden is my fave band of all time

Ahhh, certainly, it is clear LOL

I personally would give four Judas Priest albums (Sad Wings through Stained Class and Painkiller) and the first five Dickinson fronted Maiden albums 4.5 stars or higher. 80s, 90s, and even some 2000s power metal albums are among my favorites.

Unitron wrote: Judas Priest and Iron Maiden are obviously favorites of mine  As far as other trad goes, I enjoy W.A.S.P.'s 'Headless Children', don't like their early shock-rock though  Accept and Battle Beast are also some favorites of mine. I love a lot of power metal.  Gamma Ray, Kamelot, Crystal Viper, Kobra and the Lotus, Hammerfall, just to name a few.

Without counting neo-classical metal bands, Dio-fronted Rainbow would be my favorite traditional metal band. I'd like Dio-Sabbath more than Ozzy-Sabbath if it wasn't for their first three albums, and Dio's first four solo albums are priceless listens anytime.

That's my favorite Rainbow song as well, and Dream Theater did it justice for sure five years ago.