Thrashman

Mantar - Ode To The Flame

Will have to revisit it...

Tombs - Savage Gold

You hit the nail on the head there - Death are one of the few bands where my taste seems to be forever evolving. even though he died 15 years ago! Guess it does make sense though, given that Death are something of an acquired taste. I never used to like The Sound Of Perseverance much, for example, but now I listen to it a lot. I based my list on the number of tracks I really like on each album, at the moment - from SBG which I enjoy from beginning to end (loving the recent remaster btw), to Human which is the only album I'm yet to really like at all. But that probably has as much to do with the fact it's the only album I don't own as anything else

THink this would be the order I'd rank the albums in: Scream Bloody Gore Symbolic The Sound Of Perseverance Individual Thought Patterns Leprosy Spiritual Healing Human

Global Metal is perhaps my favourite, and on a similar tip: Witchdoctor Productions In South Africa (also Sam Dunn) Heavy Metal In Baghdad (Vice) Death Metal Angola

Some good ones there, seen most of them. Not Det Svarte Alvor or the Belgian one though, will give those a try More from me... Slayer - Still Reigning The Big 4 Documentary Iron Maiden - The Early Days Megadeth - Behind The Music Cannibal Corpse - Centuries Of Torment

Yeah, One Man Metal is decent. And Until The Light Takes Us. Will check the Cradle of Filth one

I like nothing more than watching a good heavy metal documentary, regardless of whether I care about the band really, so any recommendations would be most welcome. A few from me, for what they're worth... Headbanger's Journey, Metal Evolution, Global Metal - Sam Dunn's pretty great I reckon. Get Thrashed: The Story Of Thrash Metal - A thrash nerd's delight. Anvil! The Story Of Anvil - Funny, and quite moving. Feel free to mention any you didn't like too!

I thought Choosing Death was excellent. And yeah, didn't really like Lords Of Chaos. Nergal's book bored me quite a lot as I recall. Enjoyed the Scott Ian autobiography. And Mustaine's. Would avoid anything by Joel McIver, his Slayer book is bad.

Thanks for the info

Excellent, thanks for the info

Yeah, I'm quite fussy when it comes to vocals.

I'm somewhat familiar with Onslaught but not the others, will have to investigate...

I shall, thanks

Me too. All I have is: Sodom - Agent Orange, M-16, Sodom, Decision Day Kreator - Extreme Aggression, Coma Of Souls, Enemy Of God Could definitely do with expanding my knowledge of German thrash!

Same here I think.

I quite like the title track from the last album (Dark Roots), More Than Meets the Eye (from the album before), that Electric Crown track... But in general I'll vote 'bad', because I think they're a bit mediocre.

Agreed. Just make sure you don't miss this track really, aside from Alice In Hell.

Yeah, I've listened to both albums a couple of times on YouTube now and they're already wearing a little thin, so doubt I'll bother buying them either.

I'm thinking of going for the first time next year, possibly on my own since none of my friends are that into metal. What's the atmosphere like? How friendly is it? How does it compare to other festivals you've been to in general? Thinking I'd probably stay in a cheap hotel nearby, rather than camping like a weirdo. Don't like camping anyway.

Ha!

Excellent

I was about 9 years old when I discovered thrash (1989ish), and there wasn't any internet back then so my knowledge of the scene as a whole was somewhat limited. That's probably why my top ten choices are a bit, well, obvious - those were the albums that really hit me during that 89-91 period. Towards the end of it I bought Nevermind by Nirvana, and pretty much went off down that road for a while like so many other people. Got quite into death metal for a while too, and black metal, but definitely lots of non-metal music as well. It was only around 2009 that I really got back into thrash, much as I'd never stopped paying attention completely. And we obviously do have the internet now, so I've spent the past 7ish years investigating the genre fairly extensively. What's great is that I'm still discovering good bands from back in the day, and there are no doubt plenty more to discover. But whether anything I come across now is going to cut as deeply as the albums I loved back then is another matter. And I do kind of stand by my choices - they're classic albums for a reason.