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New Testament Streaming!
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anyone else notice since the mid to late 90's basically the big 4 of thrash (slayer, metallica, megadeth, anthrax) have been letting us down and the underrated thrash bands (exodus, testament, flotsam and jetsam, overkill) have been releasing the better and more thrash oriented albums?
Oblivious Maximus
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Plus, with the exception of "The Ritual", Testament never softened, they just got heavier and heavier. Low, Demonic, The Gathering, and now Formation. Slayer never really softened, but Diablous and GHUA were a major shift in style. Exodus just kept on fucking ruling like they always did.
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exactly but demonic was actually recorded to be released under a different name (as a side project) and the label decieded to call it testament anyways. thats why it sounds so different compared to all the other albums. i see you didn't say anything about flotsam and jetsam
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I love all the albums up to "Drift". I haven't heard the stuff they put out after. The first two smoke, with "Doomsday" being my favorite.
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i hear "my god" is the best one that came out after "drift" and "dreams of death" is pretty good
Metallica has let us down since they released the Black album.
Anthrax personally went to shit when they made Sound of White Noise. I know alot of people like the newer stuff and this is an Anthrax forum so i don't mean to completely discredit that. But I liked the AnTHRASH era. Persistence of Time is one of my favorite albums of all time. I was crushed when Sound of White Noise came out.
Slayer has never let me down except for the Diablous record was not very good. But I love the new album I listen to it every day it rips.
Megadeth I guess I was just never really a fan after RIP. They were never that brutal of a band as they seem to advertise. they have always been kind of a watered down thrash band. (except in the really early days)
Testament had a little let down with The Ritual but still it no shape or form was it a blatent sell out attemps like Metallica has done.
Anthrax never sold out, Slayer never Sold out, Megadeth never sold out, and Testament never sold out.
Metallica blatently changed their music and their image to appeal to a new mainstream audience and the mtv generation and to me you can't sell out any worse than that. I don't care if they ever make another Thrash album again, if they do I won't buy it and will NEVER go see them live ever again.
If they come here on the tour this summer with DOWN I will go see DOWN and leave before Metallica comes on stage. They can lick my nuts off. DOWN is one of my favorite bands of all time so I would have to go just to support them.
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first off megadeth, slayer and anthrax all changed styles for a few albums and have never gone back and made a whole album of thrash since the early 90's.
anyways i couldn't find the new testament album anywhere today. every store was sold out and best buy said they wouldn't have it until wednesday
anyways i couldn't find the new testament album anywhere today. every store was sold out and best buy said they wouldn't have it until wednesday
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Slayer's Christ Illusion not entirely thrash???? Whaaaat??? You could probably say that about Seasons in the Abyss or South of Heaven too if you wanted to get that technical!! CI is as thrash as either of those 2 records, and they're both considered classic thrash records. Not to say that it's necessarily as good though!
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Am I the only person here seriously disappointed with the bonus DVD for the record??? The record itself is awesome, but I am pissed that the Making of ........ was just 13 minutes of crap boring home video footage of pretty much nothing in the studio. And I mean nothing. Anyone else got it yet?
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sigh.
Sound of White Noise came out and Anthrax went from being just a band that I happened to like alot, to becoming my very favorite band.
I think went to shit is a little much there, saying it wasn't your taste is one thing, but went to shit?!?!?
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These comments are from so way back, I think Testament has paved their own way since then, they've released great albums and the new one sounds killer too. I'll be buying it day one. I think if you re-interview all of these guys now they'll have a new-found respect for Testament. They went from a "Metallica copy" to something original and great. Much respect to Testament, they are truly great.
Sounds like territorial pissings to me...three guys feeling a bit threatened that Testament was within a stone's throw of turning the "Big Four" of thrash into the "Big Five".
Particularly funny is Mustaine's concern that Testament has stolen his "moves". Classic!
That's about right. "High" was pretty good, if a bit generic, and "Unnatural Selection" was good too - brutal and heavy, but fairly chromatic, with a bit less melody than you'd generally expect from F&J. "My God" was great, and I keep hoping that "Dreams of Death" will start to grow on me - it does have some good songs, but overall I found it to be nothing spectacular.
Flotz fans should take note that they are writing their 10th album as we speak.
