Which Band Had The Easiest Transition Between Singers?

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

and why is it AC/DC?

 

[Tablet County]

and why is it AC/DC?

Can't get much easier than "he fucking died".

 

[Axiom.]

Iron Maiden got more famous with Bruce than Paul Di'anno, even though most people agree that the D'ianno period had 2 of the best Maiden albums of all time.
People say that Sabbath's Dio period was some of their best ever.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Can't get much easier than "he fucking died".

well i was talking more about how the public received them but I guess I could have made that more clear lol

 

[Calandrino]

Because AC/DC are musical geniuses who effortlessly produced one flawless masterpiece after another for decades on end

 

[The Crack Spiders Bitch]

Joy Division

 

[Gay Joker]

Pink Floyd

 

[Enigmatic Gale]

I personally thought Dragonforce had a decent-ish transition between its lead singers. While ZP Theart's vocals are legendary and set an extremely high bar for anyone to beat, I think Marc Hudson has done well enough so far and I'd say Reaching into Infinity is Hudson at his best vocal wise.

 

[Gay Joker]

Iron Maiden got more famous with Bruce than Paul Di'anno, even though most people agree that the D'ianno period had 2 of the best Maiden albums of all time.
People say that Sabbath's Dio period was some of their best ever.

Blaze Bayley was the best singer Iron Maiden ever had.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Iron Maiden got more famous with Bruce than Paul Di'anno, even though most people agree that the D'ianno period had 2 of the best Maiden albums of all time.
People say that Sabbath's Dio period was some of their best ever.

It helps that Steve Harris was the main song writer and real lead of the brand so the transition was pretty seamless, once you hit powerslave and beyound Bruce's contributions became more apparent and pronounced.

 

[Grub]

People say that Sabbath's Dio period was some of their best ever.

I dunno. Every change in Black Sabbath's singer seems to have led to polarization in the fanbase and drama within the band. Even when they changed back to previous singers. They had to tour and record under the name Heaven and Hell back in the late 2000's because of legal issues around the Black Sabbath name because Ozzy owns it or the name was registered to the Ozzy incarnation at that time or some shit like that when they switched back to Dio for a while at that time. It probably didn't help that their musical style changed fairly drastically with each singer change and that all their singers were fairly different stylistically.

Dio's a good singer and 80's era Sabbath is good but he sounds totally different than Ozzy and the music they played during the 80's might as well have been a totally different band from the 70's version.

 

[Señora Airi]

People say that Sabbath's Dio period was some of their best ever.

Real niggaz know the Tony Martin era was best

 

[BikeLock]

and why is it AC/DC?

Black Sabbath was better with Dio than with Ozzy....

 

[Grub]

Real niggaz know the Tony Martin era was best

>not grouping the Black Sabbath eras by drummer

The version of the Mob Rules from the Heavy Metal soundtrack with Bill Ward on drums is a lot better than the album version with Vinnie Appice on drums. The real Black Sabbath is any incarnation with Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Geezer Butler.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Transition between singers? It would have to be Axis of Awesome.

 

[No-Eyed Square Guy]

People say that Sabbath's Dio period was some of their best ever.

The previous two Ozzy albums were lame, and the Dio ones were great. Huge comeback, like a new band. I was a little kid then, just getting into music, and early Sabbath sounded crazy old to me, like creepy hippie shit. Great, but those were Dad's records. Listening now, Dio era "still holds up" in a kinda timeless way. It's more like Soundgarden (sometimes exactly like Soundgarden, since it's where that sound came from).

 

[Axiom.]

The previous two Ozzy albums were lame, and the Dio ones were great. Huge comeback, like a new band. I was a little kid then, just getting into music, and early Sabbath sounded crazy old to me, like creepy hippie shit. Great, but those were Dad's records. Listening now, Dio era "still holds up" in a kinda timeless way. It's more like Soundgarden (sometimes exactly like Soundgarden, since it's where that sound came from).

Whoever talks shit on Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules isn't to be trusted.

 

[Gay Joker]

Whoever talks shit on Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules isn't to be trusted.

All of the material they released with Dio sounds the same. Ozzy did fuck all for the band creatively, but the songs are way better than anything from the Dio era.

 

[Grub]

I think this thread proves my point that Black Sabbath did not have an easy transition with singers as it has now devolved into an argument about Black Sabbath singers. Many such cases.

 

[Gay Joker]

I think this thread proves my point that Black Sabbath did not have an easy transition with singers as it has now devolved into an argument about Black Sabbath singers. Many such cases.

I agree that Dio is a better singer than Ozzy, but all the songs that he writes sounds the same. Once you've listened to Holy Diver, you've pretty much heard all he has to offer.