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Originally Posted by blackdragon123
This song has a decent vibe, but to me it all sounds like a poor man's Maiden. What they do is done better by others.
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I can get where you're coming from, as I think Maiden built on that proto-speed metal part of Priest's sound and developed it beyond what they had previously, but Priest were the ultimate metalhead's metal band (Manowar being too much of a self-parody to appeal to all but the most unself-aware headbangers). They perfected the schtick, created the sound template of what metal would become forever after, and were better able than 99% of other bands at shifting their sound without losing quality. Black Sabbath might have created metal, but the real zero hour for metal's evolution has to be the arrival of Priest.