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Okay, I'm honestly not clowning on you when I say this, but you THINK it's a Greek thrash band, and you THINK it's an album from between 2010 and 2018?

Dude...I got to be honest, that's a razor fucking thin amount of information to go on if your not sure about the country or the year. Is there anything else that stands out that you think might help?

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15 hours ago, lazaro1973 said:

Hello,

I'm searching for an album of greck thrash metal (i think) with a crystal skull in the front cover.

its an album between 2010 - 2018 maybe.

If you know what i'm searching, please inlight me

thanks

 

 

 

Let me just round everyone up.

"ALL FORUMITES TO THREAD! 

THAT'S ALL FORUMITES TO THREAD IMMEDIATELY!

CLEAN UP IN ALL THE AISLES!

MUSIC TO BE FOUND PEOPLE!

Listen up, ladies and gentlemen. Our fugitive has been on the run for anything up to 12 years. Average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 4 miles-an-hour. That gives us a radius of the entire internet, multiplied by however many Skittles are in my pocket. What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at 4 years. Your fugitive’s name is Shiny Skull Face. Go get him!

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On 1/18/2022 at 8:30 PM, KillaKukumba said:

Something else that makes it hard to help a person is when they ask a question and then disappear!

It is only 20 hours since they posted but some of us are old and forget what we did yesterday :P

 

 

On 1/18/2022 at 8:30 PM, KillaKukumba said:

Something else that makes it hard to help a person is when they ask a question and then disappear!

It is only 20 hours since they posted but some of us are old and forget what we did yesterday :P

 

 

Descupem a minha ausencia.

Obrigado a todos pela ajuda na procura e ajuda.

estive a trabalhar ininterruptamente num importante evento desportivo que aconteceu hoje em Lisboa.

Infelizmente não consigo encontrar o album. tenho a certeza que é um album de thrash metal grego de 2013 a 2017. Capa azul escura com nuances e uma caveira de cristal em perfil. Obrigado a todos. Ja tentei tudo...lol

Não é dos acid death...

 

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Sorry for my absence. Thank you all for your help in the search and help. I have been working non-stop on an important sporting event that took place today in Lisbon. Unfortunately I can't find the album. I'm sure it's a Greek thrash metal album from 2013 to 2017. Dark blue cover with nuances and a crystal skull in profile. Thank you all. I've tried everything...lol It's not acid death...

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On 1/18/2022 at 4:03 PM, MacabreEternal said:

 

Let me just round everyone up.

"ALL FORUMITES TO THREAD! 

THAT'S ALL FORUMITES TO THREAD IMMEDIATELY!

CLEAN UP IN ALL THE AISLES!

MUSIC TO BE FOUND PEOPLE!

Listen up, ladies and gentlemen. Our fugitive has been on the run for anything up to 12 years. Average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 4 miles-an-hour. That gives us a radius of the entire internet, multiplied by however many Skittles are in my pocket. What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at 4 years. Your fugitive’s name is Shiny Skull Face. Go get him!

LOL

I'm still searching...

 

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Your best bet is to go to Metal Archives...use the advanced search and plug in "thrash" and "Greece" into the criteria and just do it systematically...it will take awhile, but there's only about 400 Greek thrash bands listed in total...you could probably knock it out in a few days...especially since you can ignore any band that didn't release anything between 2010 and 2018

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Putting the years into MA search drops it down to 176 as I pointed out above. Still a high number but doable in an hour or so. I thought about checking out some, however it's been several days now and the OP hasn't suggested they've even tried. Seems like they are just waiting for someone else to do the legwork.

 

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Yeah...but isn't that the years a band is active, not the years a band released an album? In other words, doesn't that just list bands that started in 2010 as opposed to a band that started in say 2005, but released an album in 2010

EDIT: Never mind...was on the wrong search area. I got 479 entries for Greek thrash bands that released albums between 2010 and 2018

 

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Yeah do an album search. Refine it by date, country and full album, but to be fair we don't even know if it's a full album.

The other thing that will change things dramatically is if the OP has the genre wrong, one persons thrash may not always be anothers.

For instance there is an album by Crystal Ball that kind of fits the description, but they aren't thrash, however to someone new to metal they might think it is because it sounds faster than Justine Beiber. The variables here are just too much to make this anything more than a shot in the dark.

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Ahh...full album. That must be where I missed it.

Yeah...I saw the Crystal Ball one myself and wondered about that too...Hell, there's literally a band called Crystal Skull from Italy, which would be in the geographic ballpark. That's why I was wondering if he remembered anything else about the cover

Dammit, I'm almost OCD enough to actually sit down and just do it myself

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If there was a prize I might have considered searching 176 albums but even one click, then back one click then back gets too annoying after a few goes.

It makes it even harder that arguably the most important search criteria, the country, may not be correct given that the OP only 'thinks' they are Greek. As you mention Crystal Skull isn't from Greece but for an album that one knows so little about could it be mistaken for a Greek band. Change the country and suddenly that 176 album search result is so large it's daunting.

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