Exodus...Big Four?

[eddie_maiden]

Why isnt Exodus a part of the Big Four of Thrash? The've been there since it started. Just a question that bugs me because they are like the thrash that never comes to mind when the subject comes up

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Because the term "Big Four" describes success/popularity, not quality.

 

[sixxswine]

Here we go again...
Great band though. I think they were never a popular choice and that's what made them appeal more to me was the underdog status...

 

[DeadlySinners]

I always wondered that aswell.
But its true, Success/Money over Quality.
Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth
were way more succesful, thus, the "Big" four.
I would take Exodus over Slayer anyday.

 

[Evil?]

Exodus over Anthrax is more like it.

 

[SickBoy]

I happen to think that any of the "Big 4" is better than Exodus in many ways, but "Big 4" is a pointless term after all, everybody has his/her own big four, so "this over that" debate has no sense really...

 

[Wyvern]

I happen to think that any of the "Big 4" is better than Exodus in many ways, but "Big 4" is a pointless term after all, everybody has his/her own big four, so "this over that" debate has no sense really...

Exactly! The famous (or infamous) Big 4 moniker was coined as a marketing thing for a series of concerts time ago. Like Darko said, everybody has its own big 4 of whatever sub-genre of heavy metal you like, if it's thrash mine can be right now:

Coroner
Abandoned
Testament
Xentrix

wno knows tomorrow...

 

[desert_demon]

... because then they would be the "big five" instead of "the big four". But seriously, nobody's ever agreed about Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax being those "big four" and of those four, the only ones that are still big are Metallica and Megadeth. My two cents: I would put Testament instead of Anthrax or Slayer.

 

[delize]

Get the DVD "Get Thrashed"!!!

 

[Alteredmindeath]

It should be the big 5 TESTAMENT MEGADETH EXODUS SLAYER METALLICA refering to the bay area thrash metal scene.

 

[eddie_maiden]

Because the term "Big Four" describes success/popularity, not quality.

this is why when you ask someone about metal, genarally they just answer metallica or slayer

 

[poundingmetal74]

the only ones that are still big are Metallica and Megadeth.

Slayer had the #8 album in the country last year (or was that two years ago?). Either way, they're still a major band.

 

[DeadlySinners]

Get the DVD "Get Thrashed"!!!

Fucking great DVD!

 

[Priest of Evil]

Bonded by Blood is untouchable but after that we got Pleasures of the Flesh which never kept my interest for long. Depending on who you spoke to Fabulous Disaster was a great album but they bombed out again after that one.

Kudos to them to come back trying to thrash it up and although I personally enjoyed Tempo "as the album they should've made after FD" I really don't get the link with past Exodus and the Dukes stuff...

 

[MrGlam999Metal]

well yea i think Exodus rock but i like all the big four bands more

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

Exodus over Anthrax is more like it.

Exactly...

But seriously, nobody's ever agreed about Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax being those "big four" and of those four, the only ones that are still big are Metallica and Megadeth.

Seriously, I don't think u grew up in the 80's when the Thrash scene was in full swing. Because everyone then has always agreed that those 4 bands were considered the "Big Four". And as for "still big". I would say Slayer is bigger then Megadeth nowadays.

 

[kuier]

The "Big 4" term was a snapshop in histry when Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax were at their peaks. If it was a running label, that picutre would have changed a brazillion times since the 80s.

MY Big 4 always were:

Testament
Megadeth
Metallica
Exodus

 

[Marco Spain]

IMO, the big 4 isn´t bad at all ´cause, for me:

SLAYER: Best live act
MEGADETH: Skillest musicians
ANTHRAX: Best studio career (I love more or less every Anthrax album)

The fourth one? Difficult. Personal pick among:
TESTAMENT
SABBAT
DEATH ANGEL
SODOM

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

ANTHRAX: Best studio career (I love more or less every Anthrax album)

ewwwwww the horror... uke: best studio career? hell no...

 

[mdmatt4ever]

lets not forget flotsam and jetsam