The new Metal Church album

I bought it a few days ago at best buy and at first i wasn't that imprest but after a couple days it is definately growing on me and i know at least one song is a new MC classic (Breathe Again). The production is also very good.

yeah, I liked it. Nothing different from the last 2 albums but definetely worth getting.

Want it. It's on my list.

I love it and have so since first spin. It's been in heavy rotation for me in the weight room and in my car. I know it's not the most creative or inventive album they (or anyone else) has come up with, but it;s heavy metal to me and that's what counts. I also really like Ronny Monroe's voice, which, for me, goes a long way towards liking a band. Favorite tracks are:

The Perfect Crime
Crawling To Extinction
Congregation
Monster
Company of Sorrow

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The Perfect Crime
Crawling To Extinction
Congregation
Monster
Company of Sorrow

I also like the song Crawling to Extiction! Cool guitar riff/groove.

Havent got around to getting it yet.Too many on my list

...rocks

it's just classic Metal Church. if you liked them before, they aren't giving you a reason to stop.

They're like Tesla to me, nothing earth shattering but some good rock n roll.

mc666 wrote:

it's just classic Metal Church. if you liked them before, they aren't giving you a reason to stop.

Well said! Love the album, but read on a site ( I think Blabbermouth) that they only sold 960 the first 2 weeks! That is sad, if it is true.

This new album smokes! Ronny's voice has gotten a lot better this time around! I wish there were more fast songs, but I ain't complaining because it is a very solid album!

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Well said! Love the album, but read on a site ( I think Blabbermouth) that they only sold 960 the first 2 weeks! That is sad, if it is true.

That can't include europe because they buy a lot more metal than americans.

It was US sales

Lurideath wrote:

It was US sales

What was the europe sales?

I have a question...I love Metal Church, but I always wondered...why are they considered Thrash Metal? I mean, when compared to Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, etc, I think Metal Church leans more towards Traditional Heavy Metal or Power Metal...maybe it's because of "Ton Of Bricks" or something...but "Watch The Children Pray", "Metal Church", "The Dark", "Beyond The Black", "Gods Of Wrath", "Start The Fire"...none of that is Thrash...

I was playing the s/t yesterday and had the same thought as Shawn. I had always thought of them as thrash because they get labeled that way, but when you really listen to the songs, it's much more traditional metal than thrash.

I never have heard them labeled as thrash. They are traditional power metal if you ask me. Not the "fairy dust and dragon's breath" kind of today.

Maybe "Traditional US Power Metal" ala Jag Panzer and the like?

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

I have a question...I love Metal Church, but I always wondered...why are they considered Thrash Metal? I mean, when compared to Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, etc, I think Metal Church leans more towards Traditional Heavy Metal or Power Metal...maybe it's because of "Ton Of Bricks" or something...but "Watch The Children Pray", "Metal Church", "The Dark", "Beyond The Black", "Gods Of Wrath", "Start The Fire"...none of that is Thrash...

Metal Church defined power metal in the 80's. Back then power metal was bands like Metal Church, Vicious Rumors, Steel Prophet, etc. that were heavier than traditional heavy metal, but weren't quite thrash or speed metal either. Power metal has been redefined over the years to mean something quite different. Because of that I think of Metal Church as Traditional Heavy Metal.

ultmetal wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

I have a question...I love Metal Church, but I always wondered...why are they considered Thrash Metal? I mean, when compared to Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, etc, I think Metal Church leans more towards Traditional Heavy Metal or Power Metal...maybe it's because of "Ton Of Bricks" or something...but "Watch The Children Pray", "Metal Church", "The Dark", "Beyond The Black", "Gods Of Wrath", "Start The Fire"...none of that is Thrash...

Metal Church defined power metal in the 80's. Back then power metal was bands like Metal Church, Vicious Rumors, Steel Prophet, etc. that were heavier than traditional heavy metal, but weren't quite thrash or speed metal either. Power metal has been redefined over the years to mean something quite different. Because of that I think of Metal Church as Traditional Heavy Metal.

I'll go with that...

I just remember that all the people who were into Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer, Testament, Megadeth all loved Metal Church & talked about them as being Thrash...guilty by assiciation at the time, I guess...

Yeah I've never heard them labeled as Thrash.I've always considered them Traditional Power metal.

I have heard to them referred to as thrash. The first album does have some songs that border on thrash metal. On one of their early tours they had Metallica opening for them, so the guilt by association may have stemmed from that as well.

ult

Kerrang released a thrash/speed metal special issue once, and I think the bands featured were Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth and Metal Church. So they have def. been called that. But they are also the epitomy of power metal, in my opinion.

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It was US sales

Which shows how image driven the US is.

Nazgul wrote:

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It was US sales

Which shows how image driven the US is.

Or how much nobody in America knows who Metal Church is aside from people who knew them in the 80s...