BATTLE OF THE THRASH METAL BANDS (ROUND OF SWEET 16 VOTING THREAD)

[Dak]

Disappointed in the people taking Slayer over Coroner. Slayer isn't terrible but that's nostalgia talking.

 

[Slammed]

Or it could be because....well because....some people prefer Slayer to Coroner.

 

[no country for old wainds]

by absolutely fucking miles lol

and yeah i just meant dark angel > sodom's thrash but that was pretty incompetently worded

 

[Dak]

Or it could be because....well because....some people prefer Slayer to Coroner.

Well obviously. But why? Coroner has consistently been highly rated and mentioned otherwise.

 

[Sirjack]

Metallica
Dark Angel
Nuclear Assault
Exodus
Mekong Delta
Overkill
Coroner
Sepultura

 

[Sirjack]

Coroner for me all day long

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

by far the hardest one here is Sepultura vs Testament. Sodom vs Dark Angel comes second. The rest are pretty easy.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Coroner is a band with five albums, Slayer is a band with five albums worth mentioning, and Coroner's five generally wipe the floor with Slayer's. The only counter argument one could reasonably make is that RIP and Grin aren't thrash albums and therefore aren't valid for discussion.

 

[Sirjack]

l think for me.. RIP (is very much thrash), Punishment For Decadence, No More Colour and Mental Vortex are a stronger string of albums than the first 5 Slayer albums. That's my ear's you fuckers - not your's. Grin was a disappointment.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

cant argue with someone picking one over the other for that one. Two of the greatest thrash bands of all time

 

[CiG]

Slayer isn't terrible but that's nostalgia talking.

That's stupidity talking.

 

[Dak]

That's stupidity talking.

Get gud at Thrash.

 

[CiG]

Get gud at Thrash.

I'm sure nostalgia had nothing to do with you picking Metallica a bunch of times.

 

[Dak]

I'm sure nostalgia had nothing to do with you picking Metallica a bunch of times.

I have only done one round, and didn't like Metallica until the band was 20+ years old. I got into metal late due to puritanic parents.

 

[CiG]

I have only done one round, and didn't like Metallica until the band was 20+ years old. I got into metal late due to puritanic parents.

How many people here got into Slayer in the 80's? I have no idea, but I'm sure you can have nostalgia even though you didn't get into a band until the early/mid 2000's.

 

[Dak]

How many people here got into Slayer in the 80's? I have no idea, but I'm sure you can have nostalgia even though you didn't get into a band until the early/mid 2000's.

Fair point. I still see HB as being correct about Slayer vs Coroner. Slayer would beat most other counters but should not beat Coroner, and I say that not based on just my personal opinion but on how much respect demonstrated towards Coroner by comparison in many threads.

 

[CiG]

Fair point. I still see HB as being correct about Slayer vs Coroner. Slayer would beat most other counters but should not beat Coroner, and I say that not based on just my personal opinion but on how much respect demonstrated towards Coroner by comparison in many threads.

By comparison to Slayer, one of the most beloved metal bands of all time? Coroner are amazing but the respect and love they get pales by comparison, if that's the qualifier you're going with.

For me Slayer has a few things over Coroner (though it was still somewhat a hard choice). Seniority (might be cliche but Slayer did "extreme metal" while most bands were still twiddling their thumbs), Slayer's influence impacted the development of the kind of metal I value more than what Coroner influenced (tech and prog bands), Slayer are catchier and way the fuck more memorable IMO, contrary to ContrarianburgerBoy's views I don't think RIP touches anything from Slayer's first 5 albums and Grin doesn't touch most in that 5 either.

This is what Coroner were doing (and the following year was RIP which doesn't come close to Slayer either) while Slayer were doing Reign in Blood, one of the most intense and brutal thrash albums of all time:

 

[Slammed]

I just like Slayer more than I like Coroner, but I live life on the jagged edge!

 

[Allfader]

Coroner has a flawless discography. It's probably the only band on the list that can say that.

 

[CiG]

That's definitely true. I was about to say Anacrusis but I've never heard whatever that 2010 album is.