The Thrash, Grindcore, Doom, and the likes Thread

Well i see many threads of certain prog specific genres and when i start to hear (again) Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness i decide to start a thread of this wonderful, great music.

Maybe the mayority of PA fellow members will dislike this kind of music, but that's the reason to be here in General Music  Discussions.

So, i will start with mi first Thrash and recently rename maybe prog metal, album and that is Metallica, Ride The Lighting, a great album by all means.

The tracks that use to hear in those days (1984-88) was the fastest ones like Fight fire with fire and Trapped under Ice, with special mention to Creeping Death.

And then a whole world open when, along with Prog (my main music like), i found many heavy as hell bands, like Nuclear Assault, Venom, Sodom, Kreator, Destruction, Overkill, Anthrax, Slayer,Megadeth, Acid Reign, Sacred Reich, Exodus, Testament, Suicidal Tendencies, Death Angel, Dark Angel, Morbid Angel, etc.

So, please opinions and share of this kind of music.

I agree with Hughes, much better to call it the extreme metal thread. Most "heavy metal" fans don't dig these genres too much except the more accessible side of thrash and doom.  I am a big fan of thrash metal and late 80s- mid 90s death metal. There may be others here who can put me to shame with how much they have explored these genres but for all it's worth, here are some thrash gems that anybody who likes thrash should check out if they haven't already:

So many favourites to include in one thread.

top gems that come into mind are:

1. Testament - The Gathering
2. Metal Church - Same
3. Arch Enemy - Black Earth
4. Dark Tranquillity - Mind's I
5. At the Gates - Slaughter of The Soul
6. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
7. The Haunted - ...Made me Do it
8. Nevermore - All discs...
9. Annihilator - Never , Neverland

and the best 00's metal release IMHO

Machine Head - The Blackening

well, thats pretty much my watering hole right there, I've never really took to calling anything "extreme Metal", to me its all just Metal, be it Heavy, Thrash, Death, Black, Doom whatever,

 I love Black Metal, and that along with Doom Metal are pretty much my favorite subgenres of Metal, I do love Death Metal but I've really had very little interest with it since about  93, I still love and listen to frequently the old great DM bands like Autopsy, Rottrevore, Nuclear Death, Nihilist, Incantation, Sadistic Intent, etc...I really just prefer my DM basic rugged and to the point,

I don't find as many interesting bands in BM anymore either though, the newer bands that I find interesting (like Circle of Ouroborus and Nuit Noire) you would probably bare even consider them BM, but I still love and listen to frequently old bands such as Venom, Hellhammer, Bathory, Profanatica, Blasphemy, early Samael, Burzum,  Root, Graveland, Belketre, Torgeist, etc
...I guess I do like some newer bands like Proclamation, Morbosidad and Blasphemophager just because they all do that Blasphemy style of BM so well

and Doom Metal of course, from the Traditional Doom Metal of Saint Vitus, Candlemass and Trouble, to the other styles of Doom hybrids out there Death/Doom, Funeral, Sludge, whatever, if anything I probably find the current Traditional Doom Metal scene draws out my excitement the most, Reverend Bizarre, Warning, The Lamp of Thoth, Hour of 13, Blood Ceremony, Reino Ermintano, The River, Jex Thoth, the mighty Pagan Altar, etc

mithrandir wrote: and Doom Metal of course, from the Traditional Doom Metal of Saint Vitus, Candlemass and Trouble, to the other styles of Doom hybrids out there Death/Doom, Funeral, Sludge, whatever, if anything I probably find the current Traditional Doom Metal scene draws out my excitement the most, Reverend Bizarre, Warning, The Lamp of Thoth, Hour of 13, Blood Ceremony, Reino Ermintano, The River, Jex Thoth, the mighty Pagan Altar, etc

That reminds me: Am I the only one who thinks Pagan Altar sound like what Jethro Tull eventually would have turned into if Tony Iommi had stayed in that band?

Looks like great minds think alike! 

Actually, I'd go a step further and say that Pagan Altar seem thoroughly unaffected by any music trends after the early 70s...

mithrandir wrote: well, thats pretty much my watering hole right there, I've never really took to calling anything "extreme Metal", to me its all just Metal, be it Heavy, Thrash, Death, Black, Doom whatever,  I love Black Metal, and that along with Doom Metal are pretty much my favorite subgenres of Metal, I do love Death Metal but I've really had very little interest with it since about  93, I still love and listen to frequently the old great DM bands like Autopsy, Rottrevore, Nuclear Death, Nihilist, Incantation, Sadistic Intent, etc...I really just prefer my DM basic rugged and to the point, I don't find as many interesting bands in BM anymore either though, the newer bands that I find interesting (like Circle of Ouroborus and Nuit Noire) you would probably bare even consider them BM, but I still love and listen to frequently old bands such as Venom, Hellhammer, Bathory, Profanatica, Blasphemy, early Samael, Burzum,  Root, Graveland, Belketre, Torgeist, etc ...I guess I do like some newer bands like Proclamation, Morbosidad and Blasphemophager just because they all do that Blasphemy style of BM so well and Doom Metal of course, from the Traditional Doom Metal of Saint Vitus, Candlemass and Trouble, to the other styles of Doom hybrids out there Death/Doom, Funeral, Sludge, whatever, if anything I probably find the current Traditional Doom Metal scene draws out my excitement the most, Reverend Bizarre, Warning, The Lamp of Thoth, Hour of 13, Blood Ceremony, Reino Ermintano, The River, Jex Thoth, the mighty Pagan Altar, etc

new black metal that you might not hate. . . - wolves in the throne room. raw, emotive, good. might want to try them out.

keiser willhelm wrote: new black metal that you might not hate. . . - wolves in the throne room. raw, emotive, good. might want to try them out.

yeah, I've got both their albums, they get a lot of praise from outsiders, I never quite figured out if I like them or not...I just know I spend way too much money on CDs and thats got to stop, they're not bad (I thought Weakling was better), still not sure how they got into the Prog Archives they're tight musicians but they play a pretty standard Northern style of BM that many other bands have perfected long before they...

ha ha id kill to see the locust live. talk about a fun show. 

we'll see if Cretin will continue after Marissa's transformation, I hope they do, that would be awesome!