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Ride the Review: The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden

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  Ride the Review: The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden Stats: Band: Iron Maiden Album: The Number of the Beast Year: 1982 Performance: Number 1 in UK, In the Top 10 in Australia, Austria, Finland and Sweden Units Sold: 14,000,000 Track Listing: Invaders Children of the Damned The Prisoner 22 Acacia Avenue The Number of the Beast Run to the Hills Gangland Hallowed Be Thy Name Summary As Paul Di'Anno left the fray, in came Bruce Dickinson to join Iron Maiden as vocalist. Which is one of the best decisions they ever made to pick Dickinson. And the album they miraculously managed to write and record only one year after the last one with Paul, perfectly showcases why Bruce is by far the best vocalist to have been in Iron Maiden. This album blew the band up bigger than any other album and caused so many more people to take notice to this great group. The band took notes from Killers and Iron Maiden , the two prior albums, and put more and more focus on writing songs that had more memor
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The Top 10 Temple: Thrash Metal Bands

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Top 10 Thrash Metal Bands Hello everybody! Welcome to my first Top 10. Now, one of my all time favorite metal genres is thrash metal. And for those that don't know what it is, it is a type of heavy metal that is generally very fast, heavy, extremely riff oriented, and has a lot of really fast and skilled guitar solos. Now this list, will determine some of my favorite bands that possess this specific genre. Now, if a band you don't think counts as thrash metal is on here, I don't care because they are thrash to me. I will also list a bunch of honorable mentions because usually 10 is too small of a number to say all the ones I want so I hope you see those too. So now, let's begin!!! Number 10.                                       Band: Anthrax Current Lineup: Joey Belladonna (Vocals) Scott Ian (Guitars) Frank Bello (Bass) Charlie Benante (Drums) Jonathon Donais (Guitars) Discography: Fistful of Metal (1984) Spreading The Disease (1985) Among the Living (1987) State of Eu
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Run to the Rankings: Megadeth

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  Run to the Rankings: Megadeth Hello everybody! Welcome back to The Metal Cafe! My first ranking of a band's albums begins now with my second favorite thrash metal band, Megadeth! I am very excited for this one because among 15 albums, Megadeth have sold 20 million records and have had several, several lineups. For each album, I will list the lineup, the track listing, and other stuff like that! Now, Megadeth fans, let's start it off!!! Number 15.  Album: Super Collider Year: 2013 Lineup: Dave Mustaine David Ellefson Chris Broderick Shawn Drover Track Listing: Kingmaker Super Collider Burn! Built for War Off the Edge Dance in the Rain Beginning of Sorrow The Blackest Crow Forget to Remember Don't Turn Your Back... Cold Sweat Now, the main reason this is rock bottom for me instead of RIsk, it is because Risk is bad, but it is also at least musically interesting because of how bad it is. This album however, has no artistic or musical merit. The only semi decent song on this
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