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"Seasons..." was the first Slayer album I owned and the title track is one of their best tracks for me in terms of it's structure and build. A few folks I know bash "Seasons..." as the start of the downwards spiral of albums but it retains props from me.
I would be one of those people. Seasons in the Abyss is just a more detached and less passionate South of Heaven, but without most of the atmosphere that made that album great (except on the title track).
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Don't get me wrong - it's a nautical mile away from the depth of S.O.H. but it struck a chord with me largely because I had no other experience of the group at the time. Working my way backwards from that record was a great journey of discovery. Plus being 14 and hearing "Dead Skin Mask" appealed to me like few other songs I had heard up until that point.

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My 1st slayer cd was Diabolus in Musica, and my all time fave slayer song is Bitter Peace cause that's what really got me into slayer, but after time and getting into all their CDs, I just love Seasons, every thing about that cd is awesome to me, love every song, especially Blood Red, Spirit In Black, Hallowed Point and Skeletons Of Society

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I have a more mainstream list than a lot of people here so please no one hate me.

It changes from time to time but overall I'd say

Slipknot self titled

Hatebreed - satisfaction is the death of desire

System of a Down self titled

Slayer - reign in blood

The new cattle decapitation is amazing as well

White chapel has a few albums that make it tough too.

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THRASH:

Megadeth - Rust In Peace

Slayer - South Of Heaven

Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Metallica - And Justice For All

Metallica - Ride The Lightning

 

DEATH ETC:

Sepultura - Arise

Death - Scream Bloody Gore

Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

Carcass - Surgical Steel

Evoken - Antithesis Of Light

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11 minutes ago, Thrashman said:

Ok, I should have put 'other'. I did say 'etc' though.

Perhaps more importantly I missed Reign In Blood. would probably drop Ride The Lightning from my list on that basis.

Arise doesn't fit neatly into the thrash box for me somehow, maybe it's the vocals...

Thrash is all over the spectrum with vocals. I love Max's voice from that era, but I don't find him particularly extreme or in any way outside the paradigm that bands like Kreator had established in the mid-80s. If you want a great example of death/thrash, check out the self-titled from Solstice (Florida).

I used to really get into Slayer, particularly RIB and Seasons, but for some reason, any time I've put them on over the past few years, I've barely been able to get through a song. I've gradually come to accept that I'm just not a fan anymore. Metallica's old stuff still rules for me, even though I rarely play it.

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Ok, I should have put 'other'. I did say 'etc' though.

Perhaps more importantly I missed Reign In Blood. would probably drop Ride The Lightning from my list on that basis.

Arise doesn't fit neatly into the thrash box for me somehow, maybe it's the vocals...

The only thing death metal about Arise is the Morrisound production, but obviously the recording studio doesn't determine the genre. Their first album was definitely pioneering extreme metal, but from Schizophrenia through Arise, they were thrash. Great thrash at that.

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50 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

It's FatherAlabaster not Beer Advocate.

Like you are Thrashman not Neophyte.?

Yes, thank you, "Horns for Teeth". :D

BTW, concerning your issue with emoticons, looks like the buttons here are linking to the wrong things - emoticons come up when you press the "brackets" button on the far right of that box. If you hover over the icons, you'll see what they actually link to. I'll ask Tait to look into it, or we can just accept it as a quirk of the forum that only the cool kids are hip to.

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16 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Yes, thank you, "Horns for Teeth". :D

BTW, concerning your issue with emoticons, looks like the buttons here are linking to the wrong things - emoticons come up when you press the "brackets" button on the far right of that box. If you hover over the icons, you'll see what they actually link to. I'll ask Tait to look into it, or we can just accept it as a quirk of the forum that only the cool kids are hip to.

It is hard but with the forum's support I will try and make it through this difficult time.:twisted:

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2 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

It's FatherAlabaster not Beer Advocate.

Like you are Thrashman not Neophyte.?

:)

I'm liking that Solstice album by the way, thanks for the recommendation. Funnily enough I looked it up just the other day, having heard someone mention it/them on a Cannibal Corpse documentary. I'm liking it a lot more on second listen though, might have to buy it.

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2 hours ago, MacabreEternal said: It's FatherAlabaster not Beer Advocate.

Like you are Thrashman not Neophyte.?

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I'm liking that Solstice album by the way, thanks for the recommendation. Funnily enough I looked it up just the other day, having heard someone mention it/them on a Cannibal Corpse documentary. I'm liking it a lot more on second listen, might have to buy it.

Rob Barrett joined Cannibal Corpse some time after the first two Solstice albums, so that's probably why they were mentioned. Rob's contributions to CC were nowhere near his output with Solstice though, those two albums have riffs for days and some of the sharpest transitions you'll hear in death/thrash.

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