actually, i agree. iron maiden and the other older metal bands dont have to work on being hard core. they are the so-called fathers of metal and i agree with that! although i do like slipknot and in flames, they have to work to be harder and you can tell in their music, while, lets say... metallica just has the more origional feel to them. am i making any sense to you? < _ _ >
actually no, Cus Ozzy is the father of metal ^__^
main reason why I stopped listening Iron Maiden and why I don't like metallica is because they're too light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PtfyRjkn40
http://www.youtubecom/watch?v=oqdZpxkzNvc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j47OMBfl-3A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CgtCqzN0gY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boEypavY46w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BG0oJD2Nic
now after those songs
let's jump to some Iron Maiden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9dWsSYStRM
yeea......
Thinned down for space.
Metal is about the riffs. Iommi wrote the riffs, not Ozzy. Not to say Ozzy didn't help with it lyrically, but it wouldn't be "metal" without Iommi. One of the first bands to be overtly Satanic in lyrics was Black Widow. Their singer also played flute.
The C.O.B. song in that list; it's a cover of The Ramones.
Iron Maiden started "galloping" riffs. Look at interviews with alomost all of the guitarists in the bands you listed, and they most likely would list Dave Murray & Adrian Smith(the guitarists in Iron Maiden) as influences. The hard-edged sound that defines metal wouldn't be what it is witout bands like them.
I don't want to come off as sounding attacking, I'm honestly really sorry if I seem that way, just, you've gotta have some respect for the history of the genre you love. And, Metallica, soft? The newer stuff, definitely, but give their first album, "Kill 'Em All" a spin. Absolutely great the whole way through. They had it in them to be absolutely amazing at some point. Too bad it died around "Master Of Puppets."
Back on thread, I've always loved Death, Johnny Winter, Ablert King, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Kraftwerk, Manowar, and lately I've been really getting into Spor and Ghost. Yea, death metal, blues, old-school metal, techno-pop, and d'n'b.