Havok new release March 28

[Bryant]

I just caught this on the web...... The Denver thrash quartet is going to release their second studio release "Time is Up" on March 28. For the most part, I think I graduated from thrash about 15 years ago, but these guys have rekindled my interest in it with their 2009 release "burn." I didn't discover them until 2010, but that was a good thing because only a year has passed and they have a new release coming out. Ha ha.. They are on the more technical side of thrash and are amazing musicians, if anyone here is interested.





Bryant

edit....... actually, I was off on the day. It is 3/29/2011. >:

 

[Palabra de Dios]

Great live band, and totally cool dudes. The new tracks fucking owned live, looking way forward to the new album.

 

[Bryant]

Great live band, and totally cool dudes. The new tracks fucking owned live, looking way forward to the new album.

I was worried about them for a while because their guitarists walked out on them in mid-tour or something last year or maybe in 09. Glad they found a quality replacement. Those guys are insane musicians. Candlelight records has a CD/T-shirt pre-order for $20. I think I am going to get that.

Bryant

 

[VenomGA]

the new album is VERY good!!!!!!! Candlelight sent it to our site to preview and I enjoyed it

 

[MYSTIC1]

"Graduated " from thrash???? Are you saying that it's immature??

 

[Bryant]

"Graduated " from thrash???? Are you saying that it's immature??

No I don't think it is immature, but I think it sort of burned itself out for a while. The "hair band explosion" of the mid/late 80's also included a thrash explosion in the late 80s - early 90s and labels were signing bands left and right. It made the scene get saturated and I just burned out on it. Many bands just gave up on metal because the music scene changed. it certainly did for thrash, so by the time my interest was rekindled there were few bands out there playing it.


Bryant

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

This band kicks all sorts of ass. LOVE THEM!

 

[Bryant]

This band kicks all sorts of ass. LOVE THEM!

I was impatiently awaiting your reply. I remember us talking about them last year. I pre-ordered the special edition disc that comes with a t-shirt. I think I will wear it Wednesday night at PPUSA whatever number it is this year. Get yourself one as well from candlelightusa and we can be twins. Of course, I am the more handsomer and more intelligenter twin..... but..... >~


Bryant

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

Of course, I am the more handsomer and more intelligenter twin..... but..... >~


Bryant

Damndongdangitboy, that's it, I'm bring my bigger shotgun to progpower and you and I are gonna have us a mexican standoff in the parking lot, ya hear?!

 

[Bryant]

Damndongdangitboy, that's it, I'm bring my bigger shotgun to progpower and you and I are gonna have us a mexican standoff in the parking lot, ya hear?!

I hear you Sam, but remember...... you have to close your eyes while I put my Havok shirt on. (Of course while you do that, I {bugs} put a cork in your shotgun .) After that, we will count to ten, turn and fire, right Doc ?


Bryant

 

[Fire breath]

Holy Crap! Who lit the fire up these guy's asses then? The new album is light years ahead of the previous cd. The first album is good but just pretty average in the end. The new album is fucking MONSTROUS!!! It is the best thrash record I've heard this year by far. Better than Destruction, better than Artillery, better than Onslaught by a trillion million miles. Granted the competition in thrash so far this year is minimal at the moment, but this album is going to be very hard to beat this year as far as thrash goes. The riffage on this beast melts my fat face!

 

[TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER]

Thrash was a fad that died out quickly. It's back now in various pastiche efforts but something else will replace it.

 

[MYSTIC1]

This album totally slays!!! Gets my vote for thrash album of the year!! THRASH TIL DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

Thrash was a fad that died out quickly. It's back now in various pastiche efforts but something else will replace it.

I'm pretty sure that thrash never died out on it's own, it died out with the rest of metal with the surge of grunge and so on. Thrash is arguably the most popular form of metal (at least until nu-metal came around and fucked it up for everyone).

 

[nomisofsiman]

This album totally slays!!! Gets my vote for thrash album of the year!! THRASH TIL DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't doubt that it's a great album. It's on my to-buy list, but seriously? In March we're saying that?

 

[nomisofsiman]

Thrash was a fad that died out quickly. It's back now in various pastiche efforts but something else will replace it.

What's your definition of quickly? It was pretty popular for a good portion of the 80s and early 90s. That's a good run and now it's popular again.

 

[TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER]

Creatively it died around 1991. It was never particularly popular to the extent of a Maiden or Priest. Metallica saw the writing on the wall and became mainstream. Slayer etc need package tours to book arenas. Nu Metal came and also died a quick death.

I'm pretty sure that thrash never died out on it's own, it died out with the rest of metal with the surge of grunge and so on. Thrash is arguably the most popular form of metal (at least until nu-metal came around and fucked it up for everyone).

 

[TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER]

About 3.5 years. Thrash didn't really take off until the late 80s. It burned bright then faded.

What's your definition of quickly? It was pretty popular for a good portion of the 80s and early 90s. That's a good run and now it's popular again.

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

Creatively it died around 1991. It was never particularly popular to the extent of a Maiden or Priest. Metallica saw the writing on the wall and became mainstream. Slayer etc need package tours to book arenas. Nu Metal came and also died a quick death.

We are going to have to agree to disagree here. While sure, there isn't a thrash band out there that enjoyed the success of Iron Maiden or Judas Priest (save for Metallica), the sheer volume of tickets and albums sold by the top thrash bands have far eclipsed the top bands of other metal genres. I implore you to find me 5-10 bands from each sub-genre of metal that have outsold the likes of a combination of Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, Exodus, Megadeth, Kreator, Suicidal Tendencies, Sepultura, etc... I'd put those bands sales up against the sales of any group of metal bands from the same genre (save for Nu-Metal, as I already mentioned, but has since, not completely died, but definitely dwindled.)

Brent

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

Before anyone else says it, I would like to further amend my post and say that Hair/Glam Metal could definitely beat Thrash in the record/ticket sales war, that is if you consider them metal. I don't consider Motley Crue, Poison, Cinderella, Bulletboys, etc... to be metal bands. Hard rock yes, metal no. So, if you consider them such, then sure, they would probably trump Thrash in this sense, but personally, I don't consider them to be metal.