Just got home from buying the recent Violator CD, and it fucking jams. Great energy, Great sound, but most of all, great RIFFS. Violator CHOP. Which got me thinking about the state of thrash at the moment. It seems to me that every man and his dog has a strong hatred towards the new thrash "trend" if you wanna call it that. Its almost become the new nu-metal, if you will. Which makes me kinda sad, because ive always loved thrash first, since '99 (hardly a popular time for thrash), and now its become a bit of a joke. I personally think its due to the popularity of certain new thrash bands that suck. For example, Bonded by blood, who stole the title from arguably the best album in thrash history, and labeled their amazinly boring band after it. Or Evile or Blood Tsunami, claiming to be oh-so old school and oh-so thrash who also suck. There seems to be a hundred of these bands popping up a week. But amonst the new thrash ranks, there are quite a few really shredding bands, and its quite refreshing to hear some raging thrash breathing new life into my beloved genre. Bands like Violator, Toxic Holocaust, Witchtrap, Adrenicide and... wait for it.... the dreaded Municipal Waste (seriously, great guitars and good fun), are producing some top quality jams at the moment. So, while i prefer the REAL old school, i am quite glad for the new wave, for giving me some sweet new thrash to mosh my house to. Let the haters hate, what do they know anyway. Theres always been shitty thrash, it just seems like theres more of it nowadays... at least its not like black metal is today, how lame... Sweating on the new Slayer and Heathen Albums by the way...
heres some Violator. Its the demo from 02. You should BUY the cd or vinyl. Its not as good as their CD "Chemical Assault" But it still rips a fair bit.
Thrash or be Thrashed.
http://rapidshare.com/files/112193537/Violator_-_Killer_Instinct__Demo__-_2002.rar
I agree wholeheartedly. Municipal Waste is fun but most other "retro-thrash" bands are a bit silly, apparently "reliving" days that they never "lived" in the first place. Whatever.
ReplyDeleteI do think you should give Evile another chance, though. There's this song about gladiators and shit on their last album that would make Manowar proud.
aha true i think there is one about robots too actually, maybe ill give it another crack. i remember picking it up after all the hype i was hearing about it and expected it to be the best most raging thing ever, and it kind of wasnt... let youknow how it goes haha..
ReplyDeleteEvile still suck, shelby. its the singer. hes terrible.
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