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The resurgence of cassettes is definitely my least favourite music trend of the 21st century. That and bands who insist on referring to their live shows as "rituals". 🤮

NP: Funeral Chant - Dawn of Annihilation 

Agreed.  I hated cassettes as a kid.  I brought them cause I was too poor to buy CDs.  In fact most of my cassettes were blank ones that I have rerecorded stuff from friends.

 

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Speedböozer - Speedböozer   - probably the weakest of the lot.  It sounds a bit amateurish in a bad way.

Wraith/Bastardizer - Speed Armageddon Split - very good

Bastardizer - Dawn of Domination - very good

Slaughtered Priest - Confess Your Sins - very good

 

Interesting you say you don't like thrash anymore yet some of these were quite thrashy - albeit more in an early Sodom kind of way.

 

And then back to usual listening:

 

Entombed - Left Hand Path

Pestilence - Consuming Impulse

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Speedböozer - Speedböozer   - probably the weakest of the lot.  It sounds a bit amateurish in a bad way.

 

On THE QUIETUS site there is an new article about the 'metal umlaut'. It's a bit over-intellectual and wanky as many or their articles are, but it was also kind of interesting. 

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Helloween - Keeper II

 

Great choice!  Although I don't listen to power metal much anymore, I'll always have a soft spot for Helloween (along with DragonForce and Orden Ogan).  Rock on!

Worm Shepherd - "In the Wake Ov Sol" (album)

 

Newer deathcore band with some blackened influence.  Killer tunes so far.  Just released their debut earlier this year (or possibly late last year) and already have a second album set for release in January.  Great atmosphere and killer vocals.  I'd encourage everyone to give them a shot!

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Thanks you Goatmaster General:

Speedböozer - Speedböozer   - probably the weakest of the lot.  It sounds a bit amateurish in a bad way.

Wraith/Bastardizer - Speed Armageddon Split - very good

Bastardizer - Dawn of Domination - very good

Slaughtered Priest - Confess Your Sins - very good

 

Interesting you say you don't like thrash anymore yet some of these were quite thrashy - albeit more in an early Sodom kind of way.

 

 

Of course I like thrash, I was out there banging my head and thrashing it up from the very beginning. While it is true that afaic most everything I loved about thrash in the 80's and 90's has been superceded and done better and heavier by death and black metal, I do still enjoy some thrash. But the thing is with a handful of very specific nostalgic exceptions, I rarely feel the desire to listen to any of the old 80's style thrash these days, and that's mainly because of the yelpy clean(ish) vocals. Not never but rarely. Somewhere along the line I've lost the ability to appreciate or enjoy most of those 80's style thrash vocals anymore, I find them really irritating. Same thing goes for Iron Maiden and a lot of non-thrash shit like that from the 80's, I loved it back in the day but I just can't stomach the high clean vocals anymore in my old age. So any of those newer modern young thrash bands that choose to employ the retro 80's style cleanish vocals like Havok or Power Trip or Warbringer are going to be a hard pass for me, I'm just not interested in any of that shit.

But see when you "blacken" the thrash or speed metal and harshen up the vocals a little bit then I'm on board 100%. I prefer it to be "evil" sounding and if it's raw, punky, rough around the edges and "amateurish" as you call it then so much the better. That raw sloppiness and amateurity that put you off are huge plusses in my book, I love that shit, it's exactly what I'm always on the lookout for. I will almost always click on a black/thrash or blackened speed metal band I've never heard before in case they turn out to be good. While straight thrash almost always gets skipped over. So it might be more accurate to say I like things that are "thrashy" than to say I like thrash. 

 

NP: Hellish Crossfire - Slaves of the Burning Pentagram, (2006) best German thrash album ever made.

 

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Goatmaster, I agree that it does help to blacken/"speeden" the thrash.  I still appreciate the Bay Area/East Coast/crossover stuff but it has to be done well.    But it does seem easier to get away with blackened speed/thrash.

 

 

 

Speaking of thrash, checking out these comps of 2021 thrash.  There's some interesting stuff ala Bonehunter and Anvilhammer.

 

 

 

 

Even one for the goat lovers:

 

 

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Running Wild - Blood On Blood

I decided to give this another go before making up my mind whether I wanted to fork out the cash. It's very melodic, it's catchy in parts, although I think Rolf has been doing some recycling. When he breaks into the chorus of Wild And Free I swear he's about to break into another lyric that I can't pick right now. Still the album has grown on me a bit after only two listens and I kind of like how melodic it is.

I'm actually thinking of ordering it from Japan given the three bonus tracks, it's not that they are exceptional but it's three extra tracks for about the same price as I can get it for here in Oz. Ol' Rolf doesn't do a bad job of KISS with his Strutter cover, not sure if it's a new version or recycled from the past. The other two bonus tracks fit quite well with the rest of the album, in fact Ride On The Wildside might even be a little heavier than the rest of the album but it still has a very melodic chorus.

 

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