Posted by Agilulf on August 2, 2006, 1:52 am The worst thing about thrash is the vocals... whining, snot-nosed snarling, semi-shouting, but rarely ever deep and powerful... sometimes thrash singers even sounded as though they were bored... why didn't they ever get it that low notes are heavier than high notes? The lyrical content was dire as well--nuclear war! World War III! #### the government! The bottom line: people listened to thrash for the speed, the intensity, the heaviness... yet death metal eclipses thrash in these respects. Why bother to listen to thrash when we have dm?
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Thrash riffs sound so thin and powerless after you listen to death metal that's tuned to B or even A. I always found it amusing when thrash bands bragged about tuning down--yet they only tuned down to d!
And that one-two thrash drum beat... thank #### that dm incorporated more involved drumming, much higher velocities, and blasting.
The worst, though, were the 'jokey' thrash bands.
It's akin to choosing to keep driving a Golf when your budget allows for a Ferrari.
Death metal is the alpha male, the apex predator, of metal; thrash, meanwhile, is simply weak, slow, and outmatched. Let it die!
