Posted by Gashmaster Thrash on August 2, 2006, 12:48 pm, in reply to "Death metal rendered thrash obsolete and useless" "Thrash riffs sound so thin and powerless after you listen to death metal that's tuned to B or even A" guitars should sound like guitars with actual treble register and fine detail in the mix rather than sounding like over compressed bass mud, (stunningly prevalent in nu-metal these days) i guess atmosphere is a lost cause then - cannibal corpse/bathory... 2. "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?" i now draw your attention to the cookie monster argument. 3. "The lyrical content was dire as well--nuclear war! World War III! #### the government! i'm not at all into political conscience lyrical themes myself, but singing about satan and war is surely prevalent in pretty much every metal genre. as for parody and satire, each to his own, but i have it on good authority that singing about boobs and beer is pretty much 100% funny. 4. "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?" yeah, like, why do ANYTHING man!!! people listen to thrash for the headbang tempo's and feel of the music, if you want to use the technicality/speed/heavy argument then what about grindcore or noise; raping death metal all up it's technical shitter. 5. "It's akin to choosing to keep driving a Golf when your budget allows for a Ferrari. some people don't like ferrari's, other people don't like alpha males. or perhaps what you think is a ferrari is actually some toyota knock off body with a lawnmower engine underneath, you just DON"T seem to know. but really, it's not a competition. you can't just generalise like that. what about doom. what about pop. just because you don't like something doesn't make it shit. it is sheer unadulterated ignorance, which brings me to the point which i was originally intending to form the entire content of this post; hitherto that inded - "you sir, are a douchebag."
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and i think you missed an important lesson in music - heavy isn't everything.
The worst, though, were the 'jokey' thrash bands."
Death metal is the alpha male, the apex predator, of metal; thrash, meanwhile, is simply weak, slow, and outmatched. Let it die!"
