DeadbyDawn
19th September 2007 - 07:02 AM
QUOTE (Rotting Decrepit Corpse+Sep 18 2007, 07:55 AM)
QUOTE (DeadbyDawn+Sep 18 2007, 06:00 AM)
I won't (or actually can't) rank them 'in order' and in any case, naming just ten is near-impossible. Anyway, here's an automatic thrashing ten from my all-time A-list:
Hell Awaits------Slayer
Reign in Blood-----Slayer
Bonded by Blood-----Exodus
Darkness Descends-------Dark Angel
Eternal Nightmare----Vio-lence
Peace Sells.....But Who's Buying?-----Megadeth
The Years of Decay------Overkill
Fistful of Metal-----Anthrax
Arise-----Sepultura
The Legacy-----Testament
exodus were great weren't they >? what do you make of the new material MR dawn ?
Oh yea, you can say that again RDC. To me, Exodus were a
supergroup, much before supposed "supergroups" even became
cool. Paul Baloff (RIP forever) was a helluva unique, one-off, irreplaceable voice (and personality) in thrash, a genre that is hardly famed for their vocalists, though I, for one, love to bits, quite a lot of thrash vocal hell-raisers. I had to say this about Paul straight away cos it helps me to answer you question about what I think of post-Baloff, post-Bonded by Blood, Exodus material. To be totally honest, I continued to love and revel in Exodus albums, but I had a terrible time taking Zetro, i.e, Steve Souza to heart. Initially he disgusted me with his sickeningly pretentious, wussy, almost cartoonish vocal style and vibes. Naturally, I mourned Baloff's exit from the band even more because of that. Gradually, I came around to self-hatingly having to accept Zetro's place and tenure in the band, mainly because I couldn't bring myself to ditch the band I had loved cos their 'music' mercifully remained (for many years, at least) hard-drivin' hellishly awesome.
I mean Gary Holt/Rick Hunolt remain inside my all-time Top Five fave 'guitar-duos' in all classic thrash metal I have had the privilege to experience so far. Tom Hunting was a terrific, yet routinely, under-rated drumming dynamo that lent so much ballast, velocity and heavy tonnage fury to the band's sound. I absolutely love records like 'Pleasures of the Flesh', 'Fabulous Disaster', 'Impact is Imminent'. The only one I still have a hard time embracing is 'Force of Habit' that seems rather plodding, seemingly slow for the sake of being slow, and just overall dull, a sort of musical experiment gone awfully awry.
Then comes my bitter, final desertion of the band I had once loved so hugely. Rick was gone, Tom left not much later, then Gary exited, and of course, Paul tragically passed away, leaving me deeply depressed. I still recall how thrilled I was at seeing and hearing Paul blaze away boisterously, like the bad old boy of thrash, with his band during the 'Another Lesson in Violence' shows, that were searingly intense and yet unforgettably fun at once for all lucky enough to have experienced it at the time. I have only a sense of immense regret, and an even greater sense of sheer contempt, for 'modern' Exodus albums like 'Tempo the Damned' and 'Shovel Headed Kill Machine'. How I wish Exodus had disbanded after Paul left us for good, instead of tarnishing their magnificent legacy, by doing what they did with the last two albums. From 'classic' thrash in every sense of the term, to what I can charitably call 'groove-
trash' of today. Sorry for rambling mate. I couldn't say it any other way to tell you truthfully about my feelings for the band and answer what you had originally asked me.