Speed Metal

[Rabid Headbanger]

Helloween's "Walls Of Jericho" is thrash?

News to me!

 

[Vitor]

neither speed... heavy/power is the right option to this album

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

neither speed... heavy/power is the right option to this album

Hmm... check the metal archives.

Speed is like a thrash, power, NWOBHM hybrid.

 

[Vitor]

Hmm... check the metal archives.

Speed is like a thrash, power, NWOBHM hybrid.

i dunno... metal archives sometimes doesn't make sense...

btw, nwobhm isn't a genre either

 

[A1a23]

Helstar

 

[Chairman Kaga]

This is the way i see it.
Venom is to Gorgoroth as Speed Metal is to Thrash Metal.
It's my weird way of seeing it.
Speed metal had a more of rock sound and wasn't as heavy or as refined as thrash.

 

[scoobydude]

call me crazy but i always thought speed metal was just faster metal. ?

 

[anonymousnick2001]

Agreed. Speed metal is just traditional heavy metal played faster. Thrash requires a very specific riffing style, i.e. the "thrash riff" with its palm muting, jagged rawness, and possible punk influence.

Power metal is speed metal with a distinct European, classical, or faux-operatic overtone. Add some thrash riffs, and it becomes power/thrash. Add more punk, more rawness, it becomes thrash. Helloween's Walls of Jericho was a speed metal album. Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt.1 was a power metal album. Helstar is power/thrash, as most American power metal bands tend to be.

More speed metal? Exciter, Accept, Judas Priest, Motorhead, early Agent Steel, early Overkill, Iron Maiden (also NWOBHM), etc.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Good post, I generally agree.

 

[skeptik]

Speed Metal is ambiguous and has not real unifying principles aside from the speed.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Accept, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Iron Maiden (also NWOBHM)

Meh