Extreme metal

My fave metal bands are Black Sabbath, Metallica and Iron maiden.. But thats classic metal isnt it?? Dont like most heavier metal.

BTW. What type of metal is Slayer?

I think the problem is Slayer were doing semi-death metal before death metal bands were, so it's tempting to reclassify them based on what happened afterwards.

It's best to describe them as crap.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: BTW: Check out Fantomas ...

Yeah, I know Fantômas, and Dave Lombardo is a great drummer. But still, I don't find anything interesting in Slayer's music. Fantômas on the other hand have some fantastic moments, and "Delirium Cordia" is a masterpiece!

MikeEnRegalia wrote: What do you think about Annihilator? Alice in Hell and Never, Neverland are awesome - great mix of Power and Thrash.

Sorry. Don't know them.

Slayer is thrash metal. I wouldn't consider them death metal.  IMO, Paul Bostaph (the 2nd drummer of Slayer) was better than Dave Lombardo. Although Dave was good Paul seems more technical.

Recently I've been into Fear Factory. I may be wrong, and probably am, but I think it's progressive like. Anyone have anything to say on that?

Another great band:

Lamb of God.

Oh and by the way Mike, you should check out Borknagar and Vintersorg. Borknagar has three or four prog metal albums, and their first one is black metal, but a fine one also. I bet you might like them, being a friend of prog metal!  Vintersorg is the vocalist of Borknagar, his solo material is very good!! But not as proggy as Borknagar. A lot of double bass drums and lots of clean vocals by Vintersorg. This guy is probably my fave metal singer after Åkerfeldt. Both have the amazing ability to sing both top notch growls and cleans!

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Another great band: Lamb of God.

.....Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been listening to their Ashes of the Wake cd quite a lot lately.

Actually, I'm more like a metalhead than a progger, my musical taste is much closer to heavy metal than to the prog mammoths. I'd like to mention some classic metal albums mostly from the technical speed/thrash genre

Mekong Delta - Dances of Death, Kaleidoscope
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil, Distortion
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss, Nothingface
Testament - The Gathering
Dyoxen - First Among Equals
Toxik - World Circus, Think This
Realm - Endless War, Suiciety
Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence, Act III
Annihilator - Alice In Hell, Never Neverland
Agent Steel - Omega Conspiracy, Order of the Illuminati
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Mercyful Fate - Melissa, Don't Berak The Oath
Atheist - Piece of Time, Unquestionable Presence, Elements
Death - Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic, The Sound of Perseverance


"I know many obscure metal bands, that's true. But I'm not really an expert on Thrash, because during the time when Thrash had it's peak as a genre, I was already onto something else - Prog Metal. "

To Mike:  I'm 28, so I have also missed the peak of thrash in the late 80s. The same happened to me, discovered bands such as Rush and  Images and Words from a then-new band called Dream Theater and these discoveries completly changed my musical taste. But later I have recognized that the diversity is one of the most importat thing in music and I started to collect things from distinct thrash bands and also some CDs from hair metal bands.
Now I can listen Enchant, Forbidden, Shark Island, Winger, Death, Rush, Mezarkabul/Pentagram, Bruce Dickinson, Candlemass and Ephel Duath in quick succession.



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