Baroque
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Thrash metal has the worst fanbase in the entire metal scene. Who the hell cares about the big four anymore?
Ask the sold out Rose Bowl crowd seeing Metallica with me last night. 70k fans right there.
Thrash metal has the worst fanbase in the entire metal scene. Who the hell cares about the big four anymore?
Wtf is Anthrax doing over Dark Angel in a power ranking. Maybe popularity ranking
... my ears hurt just reading that post.
... because i would have loved to be there(Rose Bowl is about 2 miles from my house), but i'm not sure what it would have done to my tinnitus.
Thrash metal has the worst fanbase in the entire metal scene. Who the hell cares about the big four anymore?
I would have put The Years of Decay on there as well but of those three, Horrorscope is definitely my favorite.Overkill only has two eternal classics for me, Feel the Fire and Horrorscope
Wtf is Anthrax doing over Dark Angel in a power ranking. Maybe popularity ranking
I'd reorder most of this list but don't feel like it atm
I just would like to know what the fuck Heathen is doing third from last? Three classic records, one of those nearly 30 years after their supposed prime, and they're at the bottom of the food chain? I don't think so. I'm not sure Exodus should be above Sodom either.
I would have put The Years of Decay on there as well but of those three, Horrorscope is definitely my favorite.
but I think it would be difficult to say that Dark Angel was much more influential, if at all more.
Heathen .....At the very least, they certainly don't deserve to be placed above bands like Death Angel, Sacred Reich, Annihilator, or Bulldozer.
Lmfao! Keep going bro, just keep going. How many thrash albums do you own again? Now go open them up and read through the album inserts. stupid fuckin' pleb.
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Anthrax's sound can be heard all over the East Coast sound as well as in crossover bands. I guess I should add that I consider SOD to basically belong to Anthrax even though it was basically just a brief side project. Dark Angel was very influential too, but Slayer kind of usurped a lot of that. I'd say that Dark Angel's primary musical innovation was in their use of indistinct, speed-over-everything riffs with minimal pedal-point chugging. I perhaps hear more direct Dark Angel ideas in bands like Incantation than I do Slayer, but overall Dark Angel just had a rarer, harder-to-imitate sound.
Death Angel has basically everything Heathen has and more by any objective standards. Same scene but earlier, better selling, and on a major label. Sacred Reich sold many more copies and were on a major label. My dad owned Sacred Reich albums before I started downloading more obscure stuff, he didn't own any Heathen. Annihilator wins on the popularity of the first two albums alone, even if it took longer for them to be signed (note that their first demos predate Heathen's). Bulldozer is among the earliest European thrash bands and a notable influence on the early black metal scene. All of those bands clearly beat Heathen in an objective power ranking.
You have a weird definition of power ranking, you seem to mean just influence ranking. Power ranking I'm thinking of like football, the strongest teams or the bands with the strongest albums.
yeah. They consistently pumped out crap after crap from the 90's(post Horrorscope) all the way up to 2010, where they finally released a good album again.
Heathen are far better band that have far better albums than every other band mentioned there. Deathrow is the only one that comes close.