The amount of idiocy in this thread is just too much sometimes ... and this is definitely one of those times.
You have been frequently posting in it these last few pages - so yeah I can definitely sense that it has been cranked up a bit.
"death metal" as we know the sound now.
Even though this entire debate is so retarded that it doesn't even merit serious discussion, I'll offer my two cents anyways. Can anyone honestly explain how Megadeth's early albums AREN'T thrash metal? People think that just because something doesn't sound like Reign in Blood or Darkness Descends it automatically isn't thrash metal. You can have slow to mid paced songs with intro/verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus structures or balad type songs as well. People think thrash metal is old school death metal minus the growling and more distinguishable guitar riffs.
Just because Megadeth doesn't follow the typical straight forward skank beats + tremolo guitars formula doesn't exclude them from the thrash metal umbrella. A thrash metal band can still be heavy/thrashy without moshpit inducing instrumentation, rhythms, time signatures or whatever. People always trying making the claim that their favorite lesser known non big 4 band is superior in someway for the sake of going against the grain. It's actually become a cliche' in and of itself.
Oh and HB that Exodus track and most of that album is the definition of generic mid-paced 80's thrash ... reject tracks that wouldn't have even made it onto any of the albums from the bands we're talking about.
Weird that out of all the places in the world, this forum would be the place that i'd be hearing the nonsense that i've come across in the last few days. I'm going to quote and sig a bunch of you tossers, just to make you guys feel stupid as fuck later on when you come to your senses.
Go ahead, it's just entertaining that you cry over this. Can't really see anyone talking shit about Megadeth, only that we do not agree with you that they're Thrash. Interesting that someone can go bananas over that...
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Go ahead, it's just entertaining that you cry over this. Can't really see anyone talking shit about Megadeth, only that we do not agree with you that they're Thrash. Interesting that someone can go bananas over that...
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I stand by it. Death was more than just "death metal" and I think if they'd been called something different people wouldn't be so adamant in saying that they're THE DEATH METAL BAND. Chuck was an amazing musician and I don't think it's an insult to the guy to say that his project had a lot more going on than the tickboxes that we associate with "death metal".
If you had to come up with a checklist of what makes up death metal, you'd have a list that's maybe half of what Death had to offer. They planted the seeds, obviously, but where other bands distilled it down to its component parts (Deicide, Morbid Angel, Autopsy), Death kept expanding and growing outward. You want a prototypical example of death metal, throw on Legion or Altars of Madness. That's the sound exemplified. Scream Bloody Gore was how it started, but Death wasn't content to go "yep, we got this sound, let's stick with that."
Someone asks "what kinda band was Death?" and if you go "oh they were death metal" you're REALLY selling the band short.