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20 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

Oh you'll love the new Destruction then, at times it sounds like the dude is trying out for a metalcore band!

 

Empty musical calories. I listened to some of this the other night, and I've put it on again now starting where I left off, track 4 Repent Your Sins. I wouldn't say the vox sound metalcorish really, but they're not particularly good either. He kinda sounds like that dude Gallagher from Raven to me here with all the little high squeals. I'm sure an old guy like you must be familiar. But looking beyond the vox even the underlying music is just kind of there. It's fast and zippy I guess, but it's just so generic, it's not doing much of anything for me. They probably play 2 bars of each tune and then digitally loop it for 4 minutes. 

This is my problem with most of these old legacy bands from 30+ years ago, they phone it in thinking they'll sell albums on name recogntion alone - and it fucking works! The Youtube comments are full of nothing but praise for this shit. You'd think these people had never heard a decent metal album before or something. I don't understand this. I don't maintain loyalty for a band for decades on end unless they earn it at least a little bit by putting out some halfway decent shit. I understand that most of these older bands will never manage to put out anything rivaling their glory days. But at least make some kind of an effort to give us something that's not a complete piece of crap. If this was a new unknown band putting this generic shit out no one would even look twice at it. You've wasted your money Kuke. when it comes to German thrash I generally stick with Sodom. They have actually put out some decent later stuff.

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The thing is it's not constant. It was either the third or fourth song, I don't remember now, where the guys vocals change about four times during the song. I'm not talking clean to growls, he changes from high pitched to metalcore to thrash to scream. It's fucking atrocious. There is a backing vocalist that gets a go occasionally but the main guy is terrible. It's thrash by numbers.

I usually do stick with Sodom and Kreator (expect for that really shitty industrial phase), and for a bit of fun Tankard, and while everything they've done is not perfect it's closer to lsitenable than Destruction.

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4 hours ago, navybsn said:

Quite stoked to see them in May

They played MDF back in 2015 I want to say it was and it was a near religious experience for me. I'm not one given to hero worship, I tend to think of metal musicians as just regular dudes like you or me. But I was fucking starstruck when Tom G Warrior stepped onto the stage in the flesh right in front of me. I had seen CF before back in the late 80's at the Ritz in NYC and I was starstruck that time too. But even 30 years later the effect had not worn off even one little bit.

Personally I have no use for your metal trinity of Dickenson, Halford or Dio. My unholy Trinity of metal would look more like: Tom G Warrior, Lemmy, and Nocturno Culto. Should probably find a way to slip Iommi in there too somewhere.

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7 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

They played MDF back in 2015 I want to say it was and it was a near religious experience for me. I'm not one given to hero worship, I tend to think of metal musicians as just regular dudes like you or me. But I was fucking starstruck when Tom G Warrior stepped onto the stage in the flesh right in front of me. I had seen CF before back in the late 80's at the Ritz in NYC and I was starstruck that time too. But even 30 years later the effect had not worn off even one little bit.

Personally I have no use for your metal trinity of Dickenson, Halford or Dio. My unholy Trinity of metal would look more like: Tom G Warrior, Lemmy, and Nocturno Culto. Should probably find a way to slip Iommi in there too somewhere.

....WhiteNoise.....I had a similar reaction to what you had for TG Warrior, except mine was with Nocturno Culto at MDF several years ago when SARKE played and they ended the show with two DARKTHRONE songs.....that was one of the highlights for me ever at MDF....

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