I haven't heard any of these. I'll give Middle Earth a try

Written by Ball Fondlers on 18.02.2022 at 15:34

I haven't heard any of these. I'll give Middle Earth a try

I would recommend The Tower as the first one. Very Magnum-ish with Gary Hughes great writing, and as the second When Empires Burn which is at times a heavy metal album. After those probably Middle-Earth.
The Tower, Legends and Middle-Earth are basically the band Ten with Bob Catley on vocals, all songs on those albums are written by Gary Hughes and performed by Ten.

Written by majormalfunction on 19.02.2022 at 04:52


I would recommend The Tower as the first one. Very Magnum-ish with Gary Hughes great writing, and as the second When Empires Burn which is at times a heavy metal album. After those probably Middle-Earth.
The Tower, Legends and Middle-Earth are basically the band Ten with Bob Catley on vocals, all songs on those albums are written by Gary Hughes and performed by Ten.

This is awesome info, and I didn't know this was the case with Ten (although I think I read that you or somebody else mentioned that there was a cross over on another thread)

I'm a big fan of Ten's early albums, it was some of the first Hard Rock/metal that I heard when I first started listening to Metal at all... this was around 1998. I only really discovered Magnum fairly recently, which was about 4 years ago when they released Lost On The Road To Eternity, which I really loved. I've since listened to a lot of Magnum and really love Catley's vocals.

As for these albums. I did already listed to The Tower before seeing your comment, and I really liked it. I'll go back and listen in the order you mentioned. Thanks!!

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Written by Ball Fondlers on 21.02.2022 at 09:22

I'm a big fan of Ten's early albums, it was some of the first Hard Rock/metal that I heard when I first started listening to Metal at all... this was around 1998. I only really discovered Magnum fairly recently, which was about 4 years ago when they released Lost On The Road To Eternity, which I really loved. I've since listened to a lot of Magnum and really love Catley's vocals.

I think for me it was the other way around. Started listening to Magnum when I was quite young and then I stumbled upon Ten... remember hearing The Robe the first time, still to this day one of my favourite songs

Always nice to find people who likes Ten, criminially underrated band. In their early days when Vinny was on guitar and Greg Morgan was on drums they were the top melodic rock act.