Best thrash / death hybrid bands from the old days

Heathen · Post by **Heathen** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:50 pm

What do you think were the best bands that had a perfect blend of:
- thrash metal speed and dynamic, technical, blistering precision riffing
- death metal elements like heaviness, intensity and growls?

Something along the lines of the two Messiah (Switzerland) albums - Choir Of Horrors and Rotten Perish, No Return - Contamination Rises, Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients and similar.

What were the best albums in this vein out there?

DMR · Post by **DMR** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:53 pm

Possessed - Seven Churches
Grotesque - In the Embrace of Evil

The Knell · Post by **The Knell** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:55 pm

massacra, hellwitch, inquisitor, bloodbath (yug) etc

anthares · Post by **anthares** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:26 pm

Protector

Nathaniel · Post by **Nathaniel** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:49 pm

MORBID SAINT, MERCILESS, PROTECTOR, SACRIFICE

Cochino · Post by **Cochino** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:33 am

Devastation from Chicago are pretty good. Also Toxic Shock and The Unsane are not quite Death but pretty extreme Thrash, I reccomend both EP's.

MEXDefenderOfSteel · Post by **MEXDefenderOfSteel** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:25 am

the real Merciless Death anyone?

Avenger · Post by **Avenger** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:08 am

Borderline bands, but I'm not much of a Death Metal fan.

Solstice
Death
Gladiator
Magnus
Silent Scream
Death Strike
Blood Feast
Obliveon

Nathaniel · Post by **Nathaniel** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:18 am

Also american bands like ENGRAVE, INSANITY, and french acts like early MASSACRA and MUTILATOR

Ernest Thesiger · Post by **Ernest Thesiger** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:19 am

Nathaniel wrote:MUTILATOR

AKA Mutilated? The Psycho Death Lunatics demo tore my head clean off.

Heathen · Post by **Heathen** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:32 am

Dutch THANATOS is worth mentioning, pretty extreme sounding death/thrash. The guys have pulled it off yet again with their latest album Justified Genocide. They haven't really changed since Emerging From The Netherworlds.

The Knell · Post by **The Knell** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:07 pm

Avenger wrote: Magnus

Achtung!!

Heathen · Post by **Heathen** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:25 pm

Infected - Dark Century

The bass lines are a little too exposed, but the speed and riffs are overwhelming.

omen of hate · Post by **omen of hate** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:46 pm

DEMOLITION HAMMER, early-MALEVOLENT CREATION, FCDN TORMENTOR, RECIPIENTS OF DEATH.

MetalizeR · Post by **MetalizeR** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:20 am

Leviathan, Xecutioner, Amon, Pentagram (Chl) for name a few.