Vektor, Sylosis,Exxperior ( their latest album) and Dissimulator are literally all the new Thrash bands I need...all the rest just sound like far lesser versions of what I already have. Including the more obscure old bands like Minotaur or Energetic Krusher.There is way too much great music out there to waste my time on retro music.
Take the nostalgia thing out, retro thrash (mid 2000s to early 2010's ) is better than 80's thrash. Unbelievable retro thrash albums : Dekapitator - Storm Before the Calm (best thrash album of all time) Violator - Chemical Assault 100/100 Suicidal Angels - Eternal Domination (RIFFS!) Bonded by Blood - Feed the beast (modern production done right) Mantic Ritual - Executioner (KEA of retro thrash) Toxic Trace - Torment (the most brutal thrash album of all time) Raped God 666 - Executioner ( savage AF) Municipal Waste - Art of Partying ( 100/100, best crossover thrash album ever) Deathchain - Deadmeat Disciples (perfect deathrash carnage from start to finnish) And bunch of great releases by Deathhammer, Nekromantheon, Lich King, Vektor, Toxic Holocaust,Fueled by Fire, Bywar... Also that was period when some OG's released their best work in a long time like Sodom (Code Red, their best imho), Destruction (The Antichrist, their best imho ) Kreator (Violent R.) Metallica (Death Magnetic) , Slayer (Christ Illusion), Tankard (Beauty and the beer)... even Ministry released thrash monster Rio Grande Blood. Some retired bands came out and released better stuff than in 80's like Heathen (Evolution of chaos) , Exumer (every post reunion album), Agent Steel (Bruce Hall era > John Cyriis era), Exodus, Testament (they were never officially disbanded but they were inactive for a while ) ... In my book, retro thrash beats old school. P.S. that era brought internet blogs where many people discovered some forgotten bands like Demolition Hammer, Morbid Saint (both of 'em are reunited mainly because of new fans who discovered them through those bloggs. Let's include Dark Angel also) Cheers
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I got into Metal at the high of the Thrash revival in 2007 with the "Get Thrashed" documentary. It was a great time and brought about many bands that I still love listing to. Havok, Warbringer, Vektor, Municipal Waste, Exmortus, Mantic Ritual, Evile, Bonded By Blood, Angelud Apatrida, Crisix. It revived many of the first generation Thrash bands to this day and I'm pretty sure, that the Big 4 tour would never have happened without it.
I think the Big 4 was probably an inevitability. Bands that classic are never out of style, and they were all at the age where they didn't hate each other as much as they used to, and were realizing that the window of opportunity for a project like that wasn't going to be open forever. It probably wouldn't have done as well though.
Yeaahhhhh, this recording is almost 5 years old at this point. I'd honestly just delete it, but I keep all my old recordings up so that people can hear how much better I've gotten since then.
Thanks for sharing your reaction to a song that gets better & better with each listen, which is something that defines greatness in songwriting. The composer, Tuomas Holopainen, has said that this song is his take against all the fear mongering that plaugues main stream media these days. It's a form of mind control to keep the masses of ordinary people in line with official narratives of the ruling class.
I mean, from the sounds of it, it doesn't seem like Will is all that much of a connoisseur (I'll show him Oceanborn though, and maybe we can change that). But *I* certainly am!!
I was fully prepared to crap all over your video and make some smartass comment as I’ve been known to do, but goddamn if this wasn’t a well thought out and insightful vlog. Bravo sir🤘
I know this has become such a dirty word, but it really is about EXPOSE. By having your music available to stream or listen to for free on RU-vid or Bandcamp, it's very easy to gain new fans and followers and capitalize on that expose by selling them on the idea of seeing you live or paying attention to your next album release. Sure you might not gain immediate profit, but later down the line you will have much more valuable attention for your band that many people are dying to see you in a live setting. Also there is the priceless feeling of knowing a random person in Japan or Chile being a fan of yours and awaiting your next release.
I completely agree. It seems self-evidently the case that selling Staples blank CDs with the track list written in sharpie isn't going to make any amount of money that'll matter.
