Hot takes.

Hair metal is awesome! Nu metal?! No way!

Angelica didn’t get the recognition they deserved. Would love to see Dennis and Drew pull the band together for a show at Immortal Fest.

Dustofyears wrote:

Black Rider wrote:Post your hot takes here.

Whiteheart's Freedom is better than Petra's Beyond Belief.

Whiteheart Freedom puts Petra Beyond Belief in the back of an ambulance on a gurney sucking for oxygen while it's vital signs fade on a Whiteheart monitor.

True! 

And well done!!

CrimsonWarrior wrote:

Pethead wrote:Luke Easter’s voice>Guy Ritter’s, and Vanishing Lessons is the greatest vocal performance on any TQT album.

Better yet, VL > StB!

STB destroys VL musically! 

And I’m not sure Luke’s voice would work on an album like STB (of course I’ve heard his live renditions of select songs). The whole studio album would need to be modified to fit his mid-range voice. 

Guy Ritter had (and sorta still does) a very wide vocal range. His lower (baritone) voice on the POD album was excellent! Just as good as Scott Weiland or “Civil War” Axl Rose.

seth wrote:Pretty much every other hair metal band i’ve heard > Crystavox

Crystavox’s The Bottom Line>As the World Bleeds

Son of Nun wrote:

CrimsonWarrior wrote:Stop the Bleeding is a perfect, medium-well ribeye that the chef urinated all over before serving it to you.

Calling a medium-well steak perfect is a hot take indeed.

Lol, I promise I actually meant to write medium-rare. I grew up being told to order steak and burgers medium-well, and only as an adult did I learn the error of my ways.

Follower of Jesus wrote:Hair metal is awesome! Nu metal?! No way!

I don't mind some nu metal if Project 86 get lumped in there, or even Chevelle but overall I'll take Hair, they have more hooks.

MagnusPrime wrote:With very few exceptions, I'm not a fan of female vocals in rock or metal.

Same here…Nancy Jo Mann of Barnabas and Rosanna from Rosanna’s Raiders are my favorites.
Wendy Kaiser also with her gritty vocals.

StevenCressler wrote:Also, nu metal>>>>>>>>>>>>>hair metal

I dislike this comment wholeheartedly. Lol.

Son of Nun wrote:

CrimsonWarrior wrote:Stop the Bleeding is a perfect, medium-well ribeye that the chef urinated all over before serving it to you.

Calling a medium-well steak perfect is a hot take indeed.

I prefer a rare steak with no urination.

Hostage is a good Rez album and deserves a better reputation.

Living Sacrifice’s debut is their best album BY FAR—even though I like most of their other stuff to some degree.

It's so funny how much further these hot takes are than the things that I say that make some of you so incurably butt-hurt.  Almost like some of you have double standards, but that couldn't be right could it?

Pethead wrote:Hostage is a good Rez album and deserves a better reputation.

Living Sacrifice’s debut is their best album BY FAR—even though I like most of their other stuff to some degree.

Hostage suffers from a somewhat dated sound but I still enjoy it.
I think Ghost Thief is equal to the debut.

Affector’s Harmagedon is kinda boring.

Undeceived is the only truly great Extol album.

Fear Not’s debut is average hair metal but has a killer vocalist.

Faith Hope Love is the worst of King’s X first 5.

FJL is so much better than the self titled.

Hotter than Hell is the best live album in Christian metal.

Hostage has Christian Metal's best song: Attention

scottmitchell74 wrote:Hostage has Christian Metal's best song: Attention

….the best Female fronted Christian Metal song…

Disliking posts in this thread seems odd since these are SUPPOSED to be hot takes…

scottmitchell74 wrote:Hostage has Christian Metal's best song: Attention

Whaaaat?

Paramaecium’s Exhumed of the Earth is a snooze fest.

Haunts of Violence>Testimony of Apocalypse

Gazing at Medusa>Polarized

Triumphant Return is the weakest of Whitecross’s first 5 albums.

Get It is a great album, but Peace Treaty is not.

Black Rider wrote:

scottmitchell74 wrote:Hostage has Christian Metal's best song: Attention

Whaaaat?

I was circling Metal as a child (Queen's heavier stuff, Quiet Riot, Motley Crue...heck Let's Go Crazy) when a camp counselor who happened to be a Christian gave a bunch of us a cassette each from his collection.  I got Hostage. 

Attention blew me away! It's so fast and heavy. Wendy's voice is perfect. That song drew me into the Metal foyer.  Silence Is Madness given to me for Christmas sat me down at the Metal Hearth, where I've been ever since. Maybe Ultimatum can do a follow-up with Hearth of Metal? 


Every year when we do our fitness test I need three songs to get me through:

Here Comes The Bride
40:31
Attention

Pethead wrote:I love female vocals when they’re melodic. But I rarely like the operatic style...

I generally don't care for female vocals (especially operatic - which are the vast majority), though two of my most-listened-to bands are Omegashift and Leonov - both with female vocalists.

To nobody's surprise, here's my hot take: Dooooom >>>>>>> thrash > metalcore

Bonus: As The World Bleeds has more filler than killer.

As the World Bleeds has the most killer songs overall of any Theocracy album, although Mirror and the debut have significantly higher highs