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❝ For over 30 years, Slayer, to quote a fine thinker of our time, have been the best at what they do.
For over 30 years, Slayer, to quote a fine thinker of our time, have been the best at what they do.
❝ The Slayer have broken up.
The Slayer have broken up.
❝ If Metallica in the '80s played with heart, and Megadeth were cerebral, Slayer can only be physical and use muscles.
If Metallica in the '80s played with heart, and Megadeth were cerebral, Slayer can only be physical and use muscles.
❝ “I enjoyed the concert of one of the greatest bands in history at their prime: the Megadeth of “Rust in Peace”.”
❝ “The album in question is a bomb, fast, vicious, with a devastating sound, a complete, dynamic work, among the best Megadeth has ever produced, not just in the recent period.”
❝ “Contrary to its title, “Rust In Peace” proves to be an indestructible work.”
❝ Among the "Big Four" of thrash metal, alongside Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth.
❝ And they’ve written unforgettable pages for crying out loud...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL...
❝ CARVED UPON MY STONE, MY BODY LIE BUT STILL I ROAM.
❝ This album is fun. This album puts you in a good mood. This album is a joke. This album is the last with Joe Belladonna.
❝ The year is 1992; Anthrax, a band of paramount importance in the history of heavy metal, after a few masterpieces and a couple of less fortunate episodes, find themselves at a crossroads.
❝ There is little to add here: this is Anthrax's best album, a cornerstone of thrash metal, as well as one of the best albums.
❝ In our opinion, success is never defined by sales figures. All our albums have been successful simply because we reached the goal we aimed for.
❝ Once upon a time.
❝ The essence of the true Sepultura led by Max Cavalera.
❝ To hell with it, I'm putting on the latest Sodom CD!
❝ Code Red is probably the most direct, genuine, and violent record of the German band.
❝ This is an album that, as they say in technical terms, literally kicks ass.
❝ Say Exodus and, at the same time, you provide the definition (certainly among the best) of thrash metal.
❝ What is thrash metal? Well, if someone were to ask me a similar question, I wouldn't hesitate in answering: Reign In Blood by Slayer and Bonded By Blood by Exodus.
❝ Exodus love violence!
❝ "The Trend Is Dead!!!"
❝ "Far Beyond Driven" is perhaps their masterpiece, their peak of success.
❝ "...Society is looking at this and saying, 'This is heavy metal.' That's not heavy metal, that's an insane act.."
❝ "Grin" is a skull dressed in velvet. It is the essential. It’s a painting to which all colors have been forcefully stripped... all except black.
❝ I absolutely recommend "Mental Vortex" to anyone interested in the genesis of progressive thrash metal: a milestone.
❝ Coroner managed to achieve perfection with their first album.
❝ 9 songs, 67 minutes, 248 riffs...
❝ Majestic, violent, devastating, recorded with a top-level line-up led by the legendary drummer Gene Hoglan, the true driving force of the album, "Time Does Not Heal" is an ideal fusion of Thrash and Death.
❝ The massacre starts immediately: the abrasive riffs of Leave Scars chase each other in long progressions while the sound of the drums overpowers everything,
❝ If I were asked to describe a band like Overkill in one word, the choice would be quite simple. Unstoppable.
❝ Okay, enough now. Maybe I've exaggerated with enthusiasm and have been quite banal, but the truth is that "Ironbound" is everything you want from a Thrash Metal album: ferocious, hellish, and killer rhythms, fast solos without unnecessary technicalities and with a touch of melody that adds to it, and above all a voice (Blitz's, always a mix between Mustaine Udo and maybe a bit of Bon Scott) nastier and more bastardized than ever.
❝ This album, the seventh of their career, should be considered one of their most significant and representative.
❝ I say Voivod and I immediately write PERFECTION!!! Never a wrong album in 35+ years of career. Psychedelic-mutant, evolutionary, space Thrash Metal.
❝ They are Voivod, the flying Canadian masters...THE WORLD TODAY...
❝ Killing Technology” is the third phase of that process of deconstructing the thrash genre that will lead Voivod to the most beautiful pages of their career.
❝ "Forbidden Evil", released in 1988, is one of the most devastating debuts of '80s Thrash for its ferocity, technical skill, and personality,
❝ This "Forbidden Evil" is a Thrash gem too often forgotten; if you like Bay Area Thrash of the '80s, you cannot miss it, it would be a grave mistake.
❝ "Distortion" is a post-thrash album (or modern thrash, if you prefer, in any case different from what real thrash is) that has absorbed a lot of sounds, vocal and rhythmic patterns typical of a monotonous, repetitive, and cold alternative-industrial sound.
❝ Jeff Waters is a big joker.
❝ This album is exceptional.
❝ Old School Thrash is still alive and well in 2013.
❝ "Control And Resistance" is a techno-metal album, or rather it is the starting station of techno-metal.
❝ For lovers of early technical thrash metal, this EP is an incredible delight: same lineup as Control and Resistance, same verve, same themes, same pyrotechnic guitar work:
❝ long before them, exactly in 1982, in Austin (Texas), WatchTower was born.
❝ “Act III” is a timeless album, never banal in its arrangements, with at least 7 high-level tracks, the result of the enthusiasm of five guys who, in three years, play what bands take 20 years of career to put together.
❝ I give it the highest rating because I consider it one of the masterpieces of Thrash metal, so the score is based on the genre of which this album is a testament!
❝ Death Angel seems to have a compositional urgency they haven’t shown in years, which, despite the classical setup, maintains a force and quality level that doesn’t clash with the repetitiveness of the formula.
❝ ...Democracy at all costs/The methods of freedom clear/The radicals of the right, abusing control/The choice will be the democracy of death/Taken by force/Controlled by fear/Death squad-law police must eliminate subversion/Dissent, riots/Those who oppose will meet their death...
❝ Belonging to what is known as the second wave of American thrash metal, Sacred Reich have always stood out for their music style close to hardcore and for their protest and anti-militarist lyrics, as the group's ironic name already suggests.
❝ If there's a band that has never changed its sound by a fraction over the years, it’s Destruction.
❝ An album that every fan of good Thrash Metal should at least try to listen to
❝ This is Pure Fucking Thrash Metal, without hardcore influences like in Slayer's new albums, without style changes like in Kreator's new albums.
❝ A major success, then, but it would be wrong to think of "Ahia, ma sei scemo?" as a simple blockbuster.
❝ What can I say, the film is truly sensational!
❝ The film aims to spark a debate: was the world of 1999 really better than the current one, or, defying the rhetoric of "things were better when they were worse," is the world we are living in truly better, if not the best?
❝ Artillery were the most creative and seminal Danish thrash metal band of the '80s, the first to challenge the power of the sacred Teutonic triad Sodom-Kreator-Destruction in Continental Europe.
❝ ''Terror Squad'' is one of those works that, hand in hand with its masterful and even more refined successor ''By Inheritance'', should have entered the annals of the genre, for a band that in those years, in Europe, was among the first to impart certain stylistic coordinates, yet had a different fate compared to their overseas peers.
❝ What can I say, my metalheads (with a special eye on the metal ladettes)... The artillery is back, more destructive than ever!
❝ Nothing, or almost nothing, is simple in this album. Nothing, or almost nothing, is predictable.
❝ "Raging Steel" is the classic average album, not a masterpiece, but capable of making you headbang without a doubt.
❝ The "lash" is precisely Whiplash's music: raw and fierce thrash, suitable to regenerate in your ears like the morning work siren.
❝ A truly "noisy" record (excuse the term) and "showy" that makes you think of leather jackets with metal spikes!
❝ With this live show, you could cut iron. 100% True Thrash Metal. Essential for fans of U.S.A.-made Heavy Metal.
❝ When it comes to hard-hitting, no-frills music, when you feel like making a racket, when the motto is to go wild in the name of "good friendly violent fun," few bands can rival Nuclear Assault.
❝ “Survive” is a slap in the face lasting half an hour, a smack that aims to shake spirits.
❝ Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast!!!
❝ In conclusion, the album also features good tracks and electrifying moments, nonetheless its predecessor "Through The Ashes of Empires" had convinced much more and it's worth noting that between "Master of Puppets" and "The Blackening" there's a sea.
❝ In conclusion, this album is a must for all fans of bands like Pantera, Sepultura, and Fear Factory.
❝ An underrated American Thrash Metal band that originated in San Francisco in 1984 and quickly released their first self-produced demo tape in 1986, allowing the band, plagued by ongoing lineup changes, to join the metal scene of the Frisco Bay Area.
❝ Straight answer: this record is a blow, a real one.
❝ Victims Of Deception is not at all a canonical and traditional Thrash Metal album; it's not just sound violence for its own sake, but a complex, intricate, highly technical and damn engaging album.
❝ A must-have album at any cost, Black Future; deadly and complex, it is one of the best modern Thrash Metal albums, which invents nothing but captivates with its genuineness and freshness.
❝ THE FEELING THAT THIS ALBUM WILL BE A GEM FOR A FEW FANS IS A SHAME
❝ "STOP THE CHEMICAL INVASION! German beer is always the best/Pure is free from chemical agents/A standard of which we are proud/A standard never encountered in other lands/Purity laws free from chemical agents/No pollutants - no change"
❝ "We have a contract with Satan/A contract signed in Hell/We sacrifice a virgin/He makes our record sell/SATAN!- We worship the Antichrist/EVIL-To hit the charts one day/666 Packs - Seven days of death and pain/Satan - Eleven hours of blood rain/666 Packs - Nine black bats will eat your brain/Satan - Good with numbers? Join our cult/We have evil even more evil/Come buy our merchandise"
❝ "Land of the free - if you're able to pay/Land of the free - if you're righteous to stay/Land of the free - better bring some good luck/Land of the free - but we don't give a fuck/Land of the free - but without me, land of the free."
❝ In 1983, the hardcore world was shaken by an earthquake of unprecedented proportions.
❝ The shift to Thrash Metal here is clear, perhaps too foundational, putting them on a path that doesn’t fully identify them.
❝ They made music for thrashers who skateboard.
❝ Toxik's debut work is something truly incredible from every point of view.
❝ I proceed with GREAT caution to describe for you, doing my best, the masterpiece that the five New Yorkers have created.
❝ “The most avant-garde metal album that will ever be made”
❝ A suicide.
❝ “Innovative. Avant garde. Brave. Brutal. Bizarre. Electrifying. Unique.”
❝ This is the first album by Exhorder, a rather unlucky American band.
❝ Following up a surprising debut is a daunting task for any band.
❝ This is an album that should not be missing from the shelf of anyone who defines themselves as a metalhead, but unfortunately, it didn’t get the public and critical recognition it fully deserved and it gets placed, with all honors, at the top of the “Misunderstood Masterpieces” chart.
❝ Flotsam And Jetsam are among the most overlooked bands (the fact that this review was missing from the 28,000 and counting confirms it) in Metal history; it is quite evident that they were harmed and bypassed by the early '90s musical revolution but it is equally undeniable that the first two albums, this one in particular, are to be listed in the Thrash archives under the ''milestone'' category.
❝ These 4 jesters from Oakland made one last attempt at musical continuity, probably creating the swan song of Bay Area thrash.
❝ The album, taken as a whole, is more than decent, mainly due to producer John Cuniberti...
❝ what doesn’t elevate the album to the level of other Bay Area releases is the songwriting.
❝ This album is the most FEROCIOUS thing I've ever heard in the Thrash scene!
❝ Every Thrasher cannot not know 'Officer Nice', which in my humble opinion is one of the most beautiful songs in the entire genre, as well as their best song ever.
❝ The only gripe about the album is that it is purged of the song "Torture Tactics", victim of an unhealthy record censorship which led to the maceration of twenty thousand copies of the aforementioned unreleased work.
❝ An incredible band, the Sadus (from Antioch, California); they emerged in the mid-eighties and immediately established themselves as one of the most furious and "damaging" acts.
❝ This album does not seek innovation, but finds it in its sincerity.
❝ Sadus literally switch between a time and a rhythm, varying the dynamism, violence, and complexity present in an album that is as technical as it is deadly, to be listened to in one breath.
❝ "You stand before this court, accused of heresy and witch craft. How do you plead?" "Not guilty!" "Guilty! Guilty!"
❝ "Dreamweaver" is a masterpiece:
❝ and then everything explodes... and the Metal Church flings its doors wide open.
❝ Metal Church emerged with one of their angriest records, much more thrash-oriented with elements of hardcore in the sound and politicized lyrics.
❝ In my opinion, this is one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time.
❝ The Evile are 5 big guys who were born musically at the wrong time in the wrong place.
❝ In summary: recommended? Don’t be ridiculous.
❝ This ballad in the style of "Nothing Else Matters" is a true masterpiece, and we are given the opportunity to hear Matt's voice when he's not screaming (which happens quite rarely).
❝ "The Force" is a marble block that cannot be scratched.
❝ It is certainly a great 80s thrash/death album (a definition to be taken, in any case, with all the caution in the world), raw, fast, and dark
❝ Scandinavia can be considered the cradle of extreme European metal, and today, in particular, the Finnish scene is very vibrant and has reached the popularity of neighboring Sweden and Norway.
❝ The band ready to invade the market with "Cicatriz Black" is dirty, furious, and eager to reclaim the throne occupied in the distant 1989, the year when "Main Frame Collapse" appeared on store shelves.
❝ Ladies and Gentlemen, we are talking about the history of Italian Thrash here.
❝ The Motorhead, you either love them or hate them.
❝ We usually get drunk, play, and fall off the stage. Not necessarily in that order.
❝ We are Motörhead, and we play Rock 'N' Roll!
❝ Among the collection of thrash metal bands from the Bay Area in California, Possessed are probably the rawest and filthiest.
❝ “Seven Churches” is their first album, released in 1985, definitely their best work, given the youthful genuineness and charisma...
❝ Overall, “Seven Churches” is an excellent album that I highly recommend to fans of extreme metal...
❝ Attention!The album in question is a BOMB!
❝ D E A D L Y !!!
❝ Fear is the mind-killer.
❝ Venom came from the trash, became famous by mixing punk nonsense with formulas extracted from the little satanist's manual, and created great turmoil without really knowing much, but expressed through their ramblings more than they intended to.
❝ What are you waiting for? Make it yours along with the previous 3 albums: Possessed is Venom 100%.
❝ Venom have the privilege and merit of having marked an entire genre, a stylistic current, with the title of their album, ("Black Metal").
❝ They are the perfect soundtrack for journeys along the roads of post-nuclear, or post-pandemic hell.
❝ "No more killings, NO MORE WAR, no more weapons, no more. STANDS UP FOR LOVE!"
❝ Go see them and you'll live!
❝ Do you know what perfection in music is? It's that work that has no defects, no downturns; it's that work that makes you enjoy it from the first to the last track even when you listen to it again after years.
❝ I just wanted a Pepsi, and she wouldn’t give it to me!! Just a Pepsi!!
❝ You may end up loving this group or hating it, but surely the work of Cyco and his companions will not leave you indifferent.
❝ Solid and fiercely angry... I'LL HATE YOU BETTER...
❝ There are remarkable and underrated albums, but there are also bands like Mordred, virtually unknown to the general public, marked by misfortune, misunderstood as riff-producing machines, without a precise identity yet recognizable like an old friend we haven't seen in years, whom we respect: at one time in our life they were close to us and we are forever grateful.
❝ …Bullshit, lies, it’s what you saw/Censorship on the screen/This is your window to the world/You work - you spend/This trend will never end/Why not open your eyes?/The truth - hides/No doubt the news is false/Why not open your mind?…
❝ The small crumbs of melody combined with the desire to 'move on' that we feel in the branches of the guitars, in Holderby's pleading voice, and in Art Liboon's bass lines, are the true essence of the record,
❝ To this day, I am utterly in love with these crazy Americans.
❝ "THE NEW AGE OF THRASH HAS BEGUN... PREPARE FOR COMBAT SHOCK!"
❝ It's been since my last year of high school (1991) that I haven't come across albums of such magnitude.
❝ "Tortured Existence" is destructive, it is one of the most brutal Thrash Metal albums, comparable to a steamroller: Death Metal-like rhythms, heavy and substantial riffs, very fitting vocals, because they are damn dirty, almost a growl.
❝ Recommended with all my (still bleeding) heart to all thrashers.
❝ As for the aforementioned modifications, they mainly concern the direction that the quartet has now settled on: brutal and violent thrash metal, with clear leanings towards death metal
❝ THRASH ZONE: EPISODE IV
❝ These are the Mekong Delta, a Teutonic band formed in 1985 by bassist, composer, and producer Ralph Hubert, aka Bjorn Eklund, owner of the label “AAARGH”.
❝ One thing should be specified right away: the Mekong Delta are insane.
❝ Unconventional, atypical, and alienating.
❝ Listening to Dutch death metal bands, you immediately notice that the guitars sound very dry and abrasive, a constant grinding that goes za-za-za-za za-za-za-za za-za-za-za without mercy or prisoners, all the bands that come to mind: Pestilence (woe to not mention them first), Gorefest, Sinister, and Asphyx, especially Asphyx!
❝ The style proposed by the group alternates classic European thrash with mid-80s speed (like "Walls of Jericho" for instance) throughout the tracklist, with the balance leaning towards one of the two (sub)genres depending on the individual songs.
❝ Realm... Or: "With talent, conviction, and originality, you surely can't buy bread".
❝ We were a handful of sixteen-year-olds with long hair, patchy beards, and black T-shirts.
❝ This is and remains a great album.
❝ Riders on the Storm is one of the band's compositional peaks,
❝ Unpredictable, manic, and brilliant, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter is a band that probably every extreme genre lover would like to have known.
❝ Recommended!
❝ A door that creaks open. Slow, proud, almost rhythmic footsteps. A gloomy, distressing atmosphere. In the background, you can hear a voice that seems uneasy, as it weakly recites its last prayers. Then something slams shut, one after the other, its shutters. The music makes its greedy and lethargic appearance when piercing screams, as if aware of their fate, tear through the atmosphere: the games begin.
❝ There are grounds to speak of a true forgotten gem of thrash metal, buried under the dust of more than twenty years.
❝ The record set a new standard of violence and speed not only for Italy but also for Europe.
❝ It is an intense and powerful work, with much more personal lyrics and a sound that could rival the bands of the Bay Area.
❝ A very original group and, in a way, ahead of their time, and the proof is this “Neurodeliri” which I am about to review.
❝ And once again, it’s a masterpiece.
❝ Helstar strike hard but do so imparting lessons with their own weapons: technique at the service of ferocity, melody intertwining with ultra-metal sequences while ethereal acoustic parts aim straight at the heart, allowing us a moment to breathe.
❝ A welcome return that has, in fact, marked the beginning of a second youth for the five Texans, who from that moment on have returned definitively to activity, both in the studio and live...
❝ They are considered a legendary progressive thrash-metal band from the Bay Area of San Francisco, although at the time of their formation in 1978 by guitarist and singer Mark Beidermann, their musical identity was merely progressive rock-oriented.
❝ India is not exactly the homeland of thrash-metal, yet these Sceptre have nothing to envy from many American or German bands.
❝ Thrash Metal is not dead. It NEVER was and NEVER will be.
❝ The title says it all!
❝ I use Exciter in the morning to start the day off great, instead of cookies.
❝ The usual Exciter album? Exactly what we wanted!
❝ No one sounds like them: unique, formidable, and daunting.
❝ I consists of a single track that exceeds 20 minutes.
❝ If Warhol wanted to "become a machine," Meshuggah have come very close to fulfilling that wish, indeed, they sound like a machine.
❝ "\"Heresy\" is what you need. For many reasons. Not the least of which is the fact that, within its genre, it\u2019s a little forgotten gem."
❝ "The new \"Electrify\" is no exception to the rule, a broadly scoped heavy metal work, fundamentally melodic as well, where such a feature does not derive from mere catchiness but from the choice of appreciable instrumental solutions."
❝ Black, dreamlike, fast, deadly: an authentic vision.
❝ The Necrodeath are an incredibly great band: powerful, brutal, evil.
❝ Necrodeath is truly a piece of history of Italian metal
❝ 1991. The best thrash album of the year came out and no one noticed.
❝ Formed in 1986 by five thrashers from Wisconsin, the Morbid Saint were one of the most underrated and unfortunately semi-forgotten metal bands of their time, during the golden age of thrash when countless bands in America and Europe played as hard and fast as possible.
❝ Skip the tracks of this Deathrace King to the 10th, turn up your stereo volume to the maximum, and get ready because in the next four minutes, your brain and ears will be subjected to the torture inflicted by the death/thrash assault of these five Swedes.
❝ A real punch in the ass, and if you want to hear a good album of pure death metal, go buy it!!!
❝ The production quality has definitely increased compared to the original CinT from 2002, but the thing that definitely raises the album’s value is Johan’s singing presence.
❝ We are on techno-thrash shores: the technique performing acrobatics without a net above a musical ground made in Alemannia, produced by Kalle Trapp (already working with Violent Force and Pestilence).
❝ Therefore, approved without the slightest remorse, with joy in the heart of having been able to listen to a truly top-quality product, where there’s never the slightest drop in tension.
❝ This album is truly surprising, definitely worth purchasing... but then make sure to listen to the previous one!
❝ Mantic Ritual is a thrash metal quartet from Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania).
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