BAY AREA THRASH
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Since the genre of Thrash metal feels so finite and boring (so many bands sounds like the other. The same for Black Metal) I have never found the real passion in the genre. But still, 2 first POSSESSED LPs are great and the same with METALLICA. If i Listen to Thrash I mainly go for more genuin stuff like MORBID SAINT or early INQUISITION.
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Easily the most overrated Metal scene of the 80's...
Having said that - Death Angel's Ultraviolence , Exodus' Bonded by Blood & Sadus' first two are all masterpieces.
And Dan I agree about Seemingly Endless Time being a killer track - they used to play that clip all the time on late night Oz TV back in the early 90's ,but the rest of that album is very average and I can't believe someone who hates Anthrax as much as you likes it -because to me Belladonna era Anthrax is what that album reminds me of the most -particularly State of Euphoria (although admittedly 100x better)
Having said that - Death Angel's Ultraviolence , Exodus' Bonded by Blood & Sadus' first two are all masterpieces.
And Dan I agree about Seemingly Endless Time being a killer track - they used to play that clip all the time on late night Oz TV back in the early 90's ,but the rest of that album is very average and I can't believe someone who hates Anthrax as much as you likes it -because to me Belladonna era Anthrax is what that album reminds me of the most -particularly State of Euphoria (although admittedly 100x better)
About non BA bands / albums with BA sound, I'd definitely pick Artillery's By Inheritance as my favorite! (Of course after the Forbidden and Metallica's masterpieces).Noisenik wrote: But if I'd have to consider Apocalypse' debut as Bay Area thrash, than I declare it the best Bay Area thrash album ever recorded.
So considered as a scene has some absolute musts and some pretty drowsy stuff. Every band treated separately ...
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I like Artillery because I thought they sounded different and not very Bay Area...
It must be one of the most overrated scenes in 80's metal I prefer other American thrash like Whiplash and Overkill much more than anything those Bay Area bands mentioned above released. I do like Forbidden, Laaz Rockit, Vio-lence, Exodus etc but none of those bands have released any truly amazing albums. It's so monotonous, good taken in small does...
The European Thrash scene however give me Sabbat, Artillery, Deathrow and Destruction any day over those bay area bands.
I like Artillery because I thought they sounded different and not very Bay Area...
It must be one of the most overrated scenes in 80's metal I prefer other American thrash like Whiplash and Overkill much more than anything those Bay Area bands mentioned above released. I do like Forbidden, Laaz Rockit, Vio-lence, Exodus etc but none of those bands have released any truly amazing albums. It's so monotonous, good taken in small does...
The European Thrash scene however give me Sabbat, Artillery, Deathrow and Destruction any day over those bay area bands.
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At the end of 80's a lot of bands were BA influenced. Beneath The Remains has some influences and - I dare to say - even Agent Orange. And I also dare to say Apocalypse is more BA influenced than By Inheritance. Of course, By Inheritance is an excellent album as well.
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hm but aren't they a Kreator clone at that point? I mean I like the early stuff to a degree but I think we can talk about Inquisition being original more when they debuted the Popeye rolling monophononic black metal thing they did later on. Still nobody else out there that sounds like them in that guise.Rock Beast wrote: early INQUISITION.
But Kreator clones?... dime a dozen.
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Early INQUISITION (EP + DEMO) were influenced heavily by KREATOR (esp. Terrible Certainty + Extreme Aggression era), i wouldn't call them clones though. Not very original either. There's some really good inspired and technical riffing in their early stuff, the complexity of the songstructures differentiates from the rest of the clones.
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Yeah I was led towards Inquisition when I was asking here about technothrash, and whereas they're not, I kept the music and returned to it quite often for a while. There's a lot to like in the early material but love it or hate it, their later black metal style is inimitable whereas there were a lot of bands playing in their early style, that was my whole point.