That CD was my intro to Maiden so it holds a special place for me, but regardless of nostalgia I do think that's one of the coolest Eddies.

As far as the singles go I've always liked The Trooper-Eddie charging with the flag.

Also the ones from Seventh Son of a Seventh Son all had crazy art. I'm thinking The Evil That Men Do, Can I Play With Madness and The Clairvoyant.

Eddie canonically only had hair for like three years (with the lone exception of Live After Death) but Eddie with hair is still what most people picture when they think of him. So yeah, Killers Eddie is best Eddie.

The Number of the Beast (album) Eddie was the one I learned to draw (and still occasionally draw somewhere), so it holds a special place for me. But just for the coolest look I’d nominate 2 Minutes to Midnight, Aces High, Live After Death, and Stranger in a Strange Land. I don’t know if it’s just being more used to see the full-length album covers than the singles, or some of the singles really do have better artwork.

Can't blame you for forgetting No Prayer for the Dying.

I don't know, but I think we can all agree not the s/t.

Ehhh... Never really been a big Iron Maiden fan, but I have always thought the album art on Number of the Beast was pretty sick.

Man, George Kollias without hesitation. Although, that dude from Infant Annihilator seems pretty insane, but I know nothing of the ins and outs of percussion, so he could be pretty unremarkable in the eyes of a seasoned drummer.

What's your favorite live song ever played? It could be anything by anyone. Although pretty mainstream, mine's gotta be Pantera playing Domination at Moscow in 1991. Probably a common answer.



Just that solo at 3:08 leading up to my favorite breakdown of all time... Woof.

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The best song to experience live in person is without a doubt The Bard's Song (by Blind Guardian if any newbies are watching). It's kind of notorious because every recording I've heard of it is a total fucking trainwreck, lol. The crowd is always way off the beat when they clap in the intro and Hansi doesn't bother singing basically anything beyond the first line of the verses and the outro because he knows damn well that the crowd will sing it for him. So the end result is always this total mess of overlapping crowd jabber where thousands of drunken fools who can't actually sing try to replicate one of metal's most talented vocalists for three minutes straight. However being in that crowd of drunken idiots and participating in the singalong is one of the closest things to a religious experience I've ever experienced. For a few minutes, you are best friends with hundreds-to-thousands of strangers, all singing the same song that brings all of you the same joy, Hansi isn't singing because he's too busy smiling, everything is at peace, everything is right, there is no war or suffering, just all of you, all of us, singing our fucking hearts out.

100%

It's funny because even though Creeping Death is not a Jason Newsted song it feels totally his own because of the great performance he gave every time they played it, one of those rare times where I'd rather listen to the live version than the studio version and it's only because of him.

What are the greatest breakdowns of all time?

2:50 is probably the most imitated riff in brutal death metal.


If you're just talking about traditional metalcore/deathcore breakdowns, I think Suicide Silence definitely pulled it off the best. This one's at 1:34... then at 1:50.

Yeah this is the only correct answer. That one riff practically invented the slam scene.

I'm glad it did. Slam bands can be dumb as fuck but a lot of them are really fun too. That reminds me, does anyone know off the top of their head what come of the earliest slam bands were?

Devourment is the earliest I know of to make predominantly "slamming" songs that were clearly descendants of that one Suffocation riff. Other bands had sorta slammy riffs before but Devourment went full on slam.

Devourment?

That certainly is one weenie-wagglin' beat.

Sick, thanks

Also, try Internal Bleeding, which is also regarded as a slam pioneer.

This is a legendary performance. Same with the live versions of "Primal Concrete Sledge" and "Cowboys from Hell".



This song live is a borderline spiritual experience. Even watching it online still gives me shivers.

That is my initial reaction as well but A) on closer inspection the alien doesn't seem very Eddie-like to me from some reason and B) Eddie often appears quite skeleton-like so the skeleton astronauts seem like they could be Eddie here.

I'm probably overthinking it and it probably is the Alien, but the Alien is the least Eddie-looking Eddie of them all imo.



Stranger in a Strange Land, which is just the Somewhere in Time version of Eddie but with a badass cyberpunk bounty hunter outfit on.



Eddie has hair in No Prayer for the Dying as well. Could also make an argument for Fear of the Dark.

Flight of Icarus Eddie with the bat wings and flamethrower is pretty rad

Which colors do you associate metal genres with? Like, red for Thrash, white for Power Metal, blue for prog, etc.

Black and various shades of red work fine for just about all of them.

Black for Black Metal

Purple for doom metal. Probably because of the Black Sabbath logo.

Death = red
Thrash = dark grey
Black = black
Power = bright yellow or blue
Doom = deep shade of purple/black

I actually do associate colors pretty strongly with each of the major subgenres. Intensity and vividness varies from song to song, but I definitely do see colors in my head when listening to music.

Power metal to me is a sort of gradation from teal to white. Kinda like lightning I guess but with teal instead of bright blue.
Black metal I actually get more of a white/grey color. Think slightly dirty snow.
Heavy metal is like a chrome color or brushed steel. Occasional orange tint like flame reflecting off of that metal.
Thrash gives me a lot of urban colors. Pavement, dirty brick, neon red.
Doom I get sort of a dark yellow with patches of black. Basically the colors of Necrophagist's Epitaph cover art, but not as much black. The colors are also all in the form of fog for the most part.
Death metal kinda gives me two different colors schemes depending on the particular flavor of death metal. One is gold and maroon, and the other is like stained glass green blue white with solid black connecting it all.

Black and white, for the basics. Red, for blood, bloodshed, sacrifice, cannibalism, etcetera. Green and brown, for the natural scenery, purple, for some variety. All other colors are for falses.

Red and/or black for most of them. I can be a little more specific with bands.

black/grey for death, orange for sludge, black for doom, yellow for progressive, red for black (yes, red. fuck you), orange for grind.

Looking at other releases around the same time (El Dorado single and En Vivo!), it's clearly the alien. And the fact that he is the least traditional looking Eddie could be related to him being.... well, alien.

white = black metal for the corpsepaint/frost/snow

bright green = (crossover) thrash, eg. https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/M ... ste/339786

purple & orange = doom & sludge as already mentioned, and darker greens = stoner metal for the weed

grey = post-metal, atmospheric sludge, funeral doom

black then seems to be in the direction of drone/doom, or the ØØ Void if you will. Other subgenres can fight over the remaining colours.

Mostly red and black. Sometimes an orange or rusty color.

My hipstermeter is going crazy.