A Lesson in Power/Thrash

I just acquired an album called aftermath by warning sf, a band I had never heard of before.

Great cd. Not sure if it is easy to find.

Certainly valid points from the anti-sub genre committee...but yeah, like Witchfinder said, there is too little time to look into every band.

On this board alone, not counting suggestions from anywhere else, I see tons of bands daily listed that I've never heard of. I'm not going to go and listen to all of them. Just not. But when people throw a little category at me, then I'll check out the ones I think I might like.

Or, like Corplhicks said, a direct band comparison.band mash-up works too.

And again, I like metal. But not all metal. So...sub genres make the whole thing easier.

You ought to check these guys.

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

I would argue that people do the subgenre stuff more these days because listeners have become wusses and aren't allowed to listen to something that has X or Y element... so they too need the tags to know what to blindly avoid.

Yup, that's the one!

I don't mind all of the sub genre's all that much, as an indicator to people who haven't heard the records. It's when it descends into pointless arguments about what band fits what sub genre by people who already know what the band sounds like.

Once you get too many sub genres the original genre basically ceases to exist. These days you can't just say a band plays "heavy metal", that term has almost no meaning because of all the sub genres.

Subgenres are just there to make everything easier.

I don't approve of those one band genres though. But if it's something that instantly gives me an idea of the band's influences, like US Power Metal, it does help me a lot. If the band is called Nu-Metal or Electronica or Hardore, I will probably know it's safe to skip it. It doesn't mean all those bands suck. Just that I'm less likely to find music I will enjoy in that bin.

How would you like it if in record stores they'd just pile everything in one big section? Alphabetical order... Abba, A Perfect Circle, Ayreon, Alanis Morrisette, AC/DC, Paula Abdul, Alphaville, Alter Bridge, Clay Aiken, Avenged Sevenfold, Martin Agricola, Annihilator...

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Well, Mystic Prophecy goes well in this thread too.

Anyone mention Heretic yet? Great stuff that fit the genre in question.

Looks like I stumped most of the forum!

Anyways, here's my list so far:

Iced Earth- Night of the Stormrider
Meliah Rage- Kill to Survive
Metal Church- The Dark
Angel Dust- To Dust You Will Decay
Rage- Black in Mind/Execution Guaranteed
Heretic- Breaking Point
Reverend- Play God/World Won't Miss You
Liege Lord- Master Control
Forte- Stranger than Fiction
Heathen- Breaking the Silence
Manilla Road- Mystification
HavocHate- Cycle of Pain
Core Device- Our Fellowship Eternal
Savage Grace- Master of Disguise
Laaz Rockit- Annihilation Principle
Powermad- Absolute Power
Agent Steel- Skeptics Apocalypse
Forbidden- Forbidden Evil
Last Descendants- One Nation Under God
Paradox- Heresy
Mystic Prophecy- Regressus

I'd listen to that.

About half that stuff is good IMHO. Let us know what you think after you listen to it all.

Alrighty, I'll throw a few more out there. I'd suggest:

Dead On - Dead On
Ritual - Trials Of Torment
Manilla Road - Out Of The Abyss
Apocrypha - Area 54
Su Ta Gar - Hortzak Estuturik (this one depends on how you feel about lyrics in a foreign language)
Darklin Reach - Where Evil Dwells
Atom God - History Re-written
Form - I Choose My Own
Boixos Nois - Boixos Nois
Damien Breed - Ave Satani
End Amen - Your Last Orison
Ritual Misery - World Of Hate
Kinetic Dissent - I Will Fight No More Forever
Nasty Savage - Penetration Point
Omnitron - Masterpeace
Redeemer - The Light Is Struck
Savage Steel - Do Or Die
Tortoise Corpse - Standard Of Misery
Squealer - Wrong Time, Wrong Place
Unleashed Power - Quintet Of Spheres

That outta keep ya busy for a while.

Ah bugger, just realized I forgot one. Throw in:

Toranaga - God's Gift

I think of this with Power/Thrash:

Temple of Blood wrote:

About half that stuff is good IMHO.  Let us know what you think after you listen to it all.

I know, this is some amazing stuff!

These are the one's I'm particularly fond of:

Forte- Stranger than Fiction
Powermad- Absolute Power
Agent Steel- Skeptics Apocalypse
Fates Warning- No Exit

Gilbert wrote:

I just acquired an album called aftermath by warning sf, a band I had never heard of before.

Great cd. Not sure if it is easy to find.

Luckily it's not too rare, because what I've hear from it thus far is incredible.  

I have no idea how I have not heard of these guys before until just now, especially when they're from the US.

Some good stuff you mentioned Coram.That After All album is really good.

DakotaRogers wrote:

Forte- Stranger than Fiction
Powermad- Absolute Power
Agent Steel- Skeptics Apocalypse
Fates Warning- No Exit

I am just so alone with my opinion of No Exit. To me it does not belong in that list at all. My brain is twisted in a painful knot as to why that album is so revered. I don't get it.

corplhicks wrote:

I am just so alone with my opinion of No Exit. To me it does not belong in that list at all. My brain is twisted in a painful knot as to why that album is so revered. I don't get it.

It's not as good as people say but not as bad as you said it was.

Temple of Blood wrote:

corplhicks wrote:

I am just so alone with my opinion of No Exit. To me it does not belong in that list at all. My brain is twisted in a painful knot as to why that album is so revered. I don't get it.

It's not as good as people say but not as bad as you said it was.

Lol at least there's someone in the middle!

Thrasher73 wrote:

Some good stuff you mentioned Coram.That After All album is really good.

   Yes it is quite good.  

I listened to this today while on the treadmill and thought it fits as well:

U definitely need:

Exodus - tempo of the damned
Havok - time is up
Toxik (both albums)

That After All is pretty cool...