Track Of The Day - The Pit Edition
Fuck yeah, Enforced are back.
Yuuup, it's a good one. The larger lean into Crossover Thrash ala Power Trip has made me enjoy this one more off the rip than their previous record, even though that one was very solid as well. It fell off for me throughout the year though, hopefully this can hold up over a lotta listens. Even though some of the riffs on this thing have been done to death, I'm still not tired of the chugging shown on "Nation of Fear" and "War Remains" so they're definitely doing something right.
French speed metal from 1985.
This Norwegian industrial metal band started out as avant-garde progressive/technical thrash that fans of Mekong Delta, Coroner, and late-80s Voivod shouldn't miss out on:
Mid-80's progressive thrash metal from Canada.
A modern revival of crossover thrash, the way it should really sound:
RIP Dark Angel guitarist Jim Durkin. Though he's gone from this world now, the wicked thrash material he's made with Dark Angel shall rise in our hearts.
Just over 3 months later, another Dark Angel member has left this world. Lee Rauch, one of a few drummers the band had before the legendary Gene Hoglan. Rauch was also known for contributing to Megadeth's Last Rites demo. RIP
Thrash aggression with a bit of melody, from the (at the moment) latest album from one of the most well-known American thrash bands besides the Big 4:
Seminal mid-80's death/thrash from the Teutonic scene.
A classy Canadian tech thrash masterpiece that was somewhat of an anthem for me as a teenager.
Lately I've been discovering a few more bands from the Pit clan. From the earlier underground thrash with progressive tendencies...
...to the later modern thrash mixed with melodeath...
...and this young New Zealand band mixing Maori influences with groove/alt-metal:
Some more of this band's blend of Maori influences and nu-ish groove metal in their ultimate moshing highlight:
Anyone who has deemed Slipknot as strictly nu metal probably hasn't heard their thrashier songs like this strong highlight:
A modern thrash/groove/metalcore anthem featuring members of Machine Head, Killswitch Engage, and Annihilator:
Philosophical Christian technical thrash metal from Pennsylvania:
Vicious deathly thrash from Sadus' amazing comeback offering:
Monstrous deathly groove metal:
Fantastic industrial thrash metal that goes f***ing hard:
The perfect wild chaos of tech-thrash while the subgenre was still fresh:
The highlight for this technical thrash offering is this one that shouldn't have been deemed just a bonus track:
An absolute highlight of brutal rage in this tech-thrash offering:
Energetic hard rock/speed metal:
This Celtic Frost cover does proper justice to that band's earlier extreme thrash sound:
The climatic title track of Mutoid Man's second album that has more of the speed/thrash metal of Megadeth, even having former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman pull off wild shredding: