Metal Reviews

if you are not open to different approcaches then might aswell listen to radio music cos that doesn't change much
i mean seriously metal musicians have been trying to expand metal music for years
all it takes is a few idiots to say it's stupid to ruin the whole process of experimentation

I wouldn't say it's ruined. It's not like Faust is going to casually browse the internet, click on this thread then have a nervous breakdown and randomly go out and stab a few gays, before locking himself in the rehearsal room until the others in Blood Sue Nammy agree to perfectly replicate Slayer circa 1985. Seriously, from what I've heard of the new one it's not so bad. If I end up reviewing it I might even listen to the first one, too. I mean, Thrash Metal got an 85 here and much rimming from the forumites. Be cool, brother.

ha be cool !?
for me metal is a music of passion i have to stand up for my beliefs no matter what !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blood Tsunami are hardly on the cutting edge of musical experimentation!

i know but they are not in the mold of....
let's say the thousands of bands who wanna sound like slayer reign in blood era but dumber

I don't really see your problem. As I said, Thrash Metal got an 85 on this site, and all the Slayeriggas didn't. You're going to let a few sillies mess you up, when chances are that they're pulling your plonker over this anyways? Note that we are actually talking about BT on de forum instead of the Slayeriggas.

Has thrash ever been on the cutting edge of musical experimentation?


This isn't sarcasm, I'm seriously interested in innovative thrash bands if there are some, as I can currently think of none

oh really umm how bout
VOIVOID
WATCHTOWER
CELTIC THROST ( YES THEY ARE THRASH)
EXHORDER
VICIOUS RUMOURS
METALLICA ( THEY STARTED THE MOVEMENT PRETTY MUCH)
GWAR ( AND YES THEY ARE THRASH ASWELL)

Oh, come on. Might as well mention Slayer, then, mixing Priest and Mercyful Fate on their debut. And Sepultura. And Meshuggah. And Volbeat.

exactly the list is endless and compare metal to anythin else and we have the greatest amount of subgenres and all have evolved to an unbelievable extent i mean from led zeppelin to cryptopsy all in such a short time

Well, clearly there was a time before thrash existed, and clearly therefore the first thrash bands must have been on the cutting edge of something.

"Experimental" is different to "innovative", though... there are very few experimental thrash bands, but various innovative ones. I can't see how anyone would think Megadeth, for example, back in the day weren't an innovative band. That's to say nothing at all of Voivod, Coroner, Watchtower, etc.

Nowadays obviously the vast majority of thrash bands aren't innovative, but then there are always some. Aura Noir, for example, I would consider a thrash band, and they are often considered to be pretty innovative by a lot of people.

From those bands the ones I know are Celtic Frost, Metallica and Gwar, and of those I consider only Metallica to be thrash. Admittedly, thrash is not my area of expertise, but I think I know enough to say that Celtic Frost are more early BM than thrash (and that whole pseudo-glam thing they did) and that whatever the fuck Gwar are it isn't thrash.

Ok, but then if you don't consider Voivod, f.ex, to be thrash then isn't it you as a listener that is making it a non-innovative genre, rather than the genre itself being inherently limiting? Voivod certainly contain thrash elements, but according to you not enough.

What I mean is, maybe what is non-innovative is the way in which we, the audience, define thrash narrowly, rather than the musicians in thrash themselves.

I was being sarcastic.

Why does everyone ignore my posts? That's three in a row, now.

Aw, poor old Goatie.

I don't think anybody's ignoring your posts on purpose. Just I had something to say about what Frigid said, but merely nodded sagely at my computer screen to what you did.

the point is thrash is limitless and fucking amazing and everythin else can go fuck itself except for king diamond cos he is awesome aswell

Have you heard of comma and period/dot? Awesome stuff

hahahaha funny
not

The_Voice: I couldn't help but notice that you were more or less positive to Blood Tsunami in the review thread. What made you turn?

I've never heard any Voivod, but I've read positive reviews. I was trying to avoid judging bands I didn't know by first saying which bands I did know and was going to say something about. My definition if thrash isn't solid, I have kind of a vague, hard-to-describe notion of what makes something thrash and what doesn't, but maybe if I listened to more bands and thought a bit I'd come up with something.
As it is, I've always found thrash to be too mono-thematic and undynamic, never really did it for me.