So, like many of you, I grew up on heavy metal. (YOU CAN'T LISTEN TO HEAVY METAL)
However, I have to admit, most current artists do nothing for me, and my non-Dev taste pretty much ends when the Swedish Melo-Death bubble burst all over my face when In Flames and Soilwork went super mediocre. So I listen to a lot of older stuff.
As I do prior to every Iron Maiden release, I'm currently going through every studio album from start to finish (Yesterday were some dark times going from No Prayer for the Dying through Virtual XI), but in addition to that I've been giving some artists that I normally overlooked some fair attention (Like Running Wild and Queensryche up through Operation: Mindcrime) and I feel like perhaps my knowledge isn't as deep as I've suspected. Oh, and I'm not talking about thrash, because I have enough of that to last through inevitable nuclear winter.
Bands I love:
Iron Maiden (Especially Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son)
Judas Priest
Dio (Holy Diver and The Last in Line, and his Sabbath stuff)
Bruce Dickinson's solo material
Kyuss
Bands I like:
Everything of Queensryche up through Operation: Mindcrime
Running Wild (mostly Port Royal and Blazon Stone)
Early Danzig
Y & T
Some Fight and Halford
Ozzy Sabbath
Early-ass Scorpions
Stuff I just tolerate and really only see some partial appeal to
Ozzy's solo material (outside of Mr. Crowley, that song's awesome)
Diamondhead
Saxon
oh and I love Rush, Boston, and Thin Lizzy but they don't really apply as much to this, now do they.
Another thing I'm really looking for are bands that were able to do the concept prog thing in the vein of Operation: Mindcrime and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, you know still very 80s and rockin'.
I've been told I should look into Fates Warning, but that's the only lead I've gotten thus far.
Also, let's just talk in general about old-school metal here. I think it's separate enough from the djenty-o'-plenty discussion that occurs in What are you Listening to thread.
However, I have to admit, most current artists do nothing for me, and my non-Dev taste pretty much ends when the Swedish Melo-Death bubble burst all over my face when In Flames and Soilwork went super mediocre. So I listen to a lot of older stuff.
As I do prior to every Iron Maiden release, I'm currently going through every studio album from start to finish (Yesterday were some dark times going from No Prayer for the Dying through Virtual XI), but in addition to that I've been giving some artists that I normally overlooked some fair attention (Like Running Wild and Queensryche up through Operation: Mindcrime) and I feel like perhaps my knowledge isn't as deep as I've suspected. Oh, and I'm not talking about thrash, because I have enough of that to last through inevitable nuclear winter.
Bands I love:
Iron Maiden (Especially Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son)
Judas Priest
Dio (Holy Diver and The Last in Line, and his Sabbath stuff)
Bruce Dickinson's solo material
Kyuss
Bands I like:
Everything of Queensryche up through Operation: Mindcrime
Running Wild (mostly Port Royal and Blazon Stone)
Early Danzig
Y & T
Some Fight and Halford
Ozzy Sabbath
Early-ass Scorpions
Stuff I just tolerate and really only see some partial appeal to
Ozzy's solo material (outside of Mr. Crowley, that song's awesome)
Diamondhead
Saxon
oh and I love Rush, Boston, and Thin Lizzy but they don't really apply as much to this, now do they.
Another thing I'm really looking for are bands that were able to do the concept prog thing in the vein of Operation: Mindcrime and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, you know still very 80s and rockin'.
I've been told I should look into Fates Warning, but that's the only lead I've gotten thus far.
Also, let's just talk in general about old-school metal here. I think it's separate enough from the djenty-o'-plenty discussion that occurs in What are you Listening to thread.
if you like this guys then you'll love the rest of "hall of the mountain king" and probly "gutter ballet" as well 
