Extreme metal

Mnemosyne wrote: My fav. Extreme metal band are from the "Avant-metal" kind of movement: Solefald, Borknagar, Vintersorg, Ulver, Manes, Arcturus, Seth, Blut aus Nord,...And oceans, Lunaris, Ephel Duath, Carnival in Coal, Dødheimsgard, Meat Marionette, Pelican

Those bands rule!

Kristoffer "Garm" Rygg, Jan Axel "Hellhammer" von Blomberg and Andreas "Vintersorg" Hedlund is actually like a Holy Trinity of metal to me.

Wolf Spider wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: it's called Thrash Metal!!!!!!!!!!!!!! True, true WHO CARES?

People from English speaking countries do ... and I also, because trash means garbage. So whenever someone says trash instead of thrash, it sounds like an insult.

Wolf Spider wrote: You guys realize of course that the rest of the world calls it Trash metal?

Not true:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrash_Metal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrash_metal

 

Wolf Spider wrote: You guys realize of course that the rest of the world calls it Trash metal?

Seriously - that is NOT TRUE.

Wolf Spider wrote: Google: Trash metal - 1,830,000 results          &n bs p;  Thrash metal - 761,000 results Hm... What do you guys think of that?

Have a look at this page:

http://www.tribe13.de/trash-metal.php

The title is Trash Metal, but throughout the text "Thrash Metal" is used.

IT IS JUST A TYPO!

BTW: I think that the album Tormato should be renamed to Tomato ... 36,900 vs. 7,500,000.

Before you go on with this, you might want to consider that Trash Metal is not only used (wrongly) as a label for a music genre, but also for scrap metal, metal trash cans etc. ... and generally "Trash" is a more often used word than "Thrash", so it's obvious that the word will produce more results in search engines.

Immortal
Immolation
Nile
Gorguts
In Flames (extreme?)
Thyrfing
Decapitated
Bolt Thrower
Depresy
Disincarnate
Kataklysm
Heathen
Malevolant Creation
Covenant
Susperia
Morbid Angel
Lykathea Aflame
Converge

Logos wrote: Also; if you are interested in the roots of extreme metal, I strongly suggest you to check Venom's "Black Metal". It's from 1982, and you can tell. But still, considering their satanic lyrics combined with the soaring guitars and the fuzzy sound, these guys were surely seen as very extreme in the 80's. Edit. They're Britons by the way, not Norwegians, although Norway is the home of black metal these days.

These days? More like, 10*365 days ago.

Gentle Ronnie wrote: These days? More like, 10*365 days ago.

Yeah, nowadays the underground is surprisingly the strongest in the east, Russia and Ukraine have a lot of great bands, like Hate Forest, Drudkh and also in France and Germany, with Deathspell Omega, Katharsis etc. Black metal is still going strong.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Slayer are difficult to describe - I'd call it Thrash Metal, but their music also has many attibutes of Death Metal. It's Thrash with more brutal vocals and at a faster pace. What are your favorite Prog Metal bands?

Please do not consider this a troll post but... How is it possibel to label every single band? Some groups reinvented themselves every single album.  Sometimes people say a band with 10 albums is not prog because they have heard one of their albums. 

Slayer is a speed metal band or a thrash metal band or both. There vocalist does not sound like the singer of Opeth or Cannibal Corpse so no, they are not death metal. And I say that with Divine Intervention being the last Slayer I have heard. Look I am a hypocrite.

I think my favorite thrash band is Sodom. From Better Off Dead - Code Red they have been awesome thrash.

Forget In Flames, Dark Tranqulity, and Gothenberg in General. Coroner were the best technical death thrash band ever. I like Grin, Mental Vortex and No More Color.

Rage was speed and thrash but maybe (depending on opinion) at one point in their career became symphonic prog metal, see Lingua Mortis, XIII and Ghosts. I do like Black in Mind, Perfect Man, Secrets in a Weird World, The Missing Link and Trapped. I do think these fit more in the speed thrash label.

Mekong Delta started out as speed and thrash with progressive touches, but eventually became almost prog rock. Maybe they were just metal, but their last two release were not speed thrash.

I hope I do not seem like a jerk, but can you see my point about labeling?