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And about japanese bands, I think no one mentioned Zadkiel. I love their stuff, even though is an absolute Motörhead-Venom worship with no pretentions (maybe instead of "even though" I should have said "because").

VOIVOD - Killing Technology IS compulsory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also, not really thrash but brilliant thrash-like metallic riffing & drumming:
SATAN-Suspended Sentence!!!!!!
ESSENTIAL & INTELLIGENT music, gang-vocals & all...
Just about anything STEVE RAMSEY lays riffs on (PARIAH, SKYCLAD)

and, the first few RISK albums are quite good too...

and VALOR-Fight For Your Life is excellent...

INFERNAL MAJESTY-NONE SHALL DEFY!!!

thats all folks, no more to say,close the thread now ....oh and yeah, i would recommend you to buy them instead of downloading them....

Cochino wrote:And about japanese bands, I think no one mentioned Zadkiel. I love their stuff, even though is an absolute Motörhead-Venom worship with no pretentions (maybe instead of "even though" I should have said "because").

Well I left them out because I think it's more in the realm of dirty speed metal (like bulldozer's first one the bands you mentioned) and because they didn't have a "classic album". Isn't this thread really about those? Their only "full-lenght" is the new compilation/best of. Anyway Zadkiel is recommended by me also. I own that Hell's Bomber EP and it's fucking great thing to listen when drinking

Oh, yes, reading the first post again I realize that this was supposed to be about classics. Things got distorted and I forgot the actual issue of the post.

Can I be the one to suggest the technothrash?


Watchtower - 'Energetic Disassembly' and 'Control and Resistance', along with Sieges Even - Lifecycle' these are mandatory even from a historical point of view on how thrash became progressive metal via technocracy. You might want to check out Metallica's 'And Justice For All...' through the technocratic lens after all this.

Deathrow - amazing raging german thrash in the first two records: 'Riders of Doom' and 'Raging Steel' (apt name) who then turned technothrash for their third release "Deception Ignored". They put out a fourth record 'Life Beyond' after it which is a bit of a step back. Can't really go wrong here, even if you don't like technical stuff, the first two records, get.

Living Death - Protected from Reality. German speed with odd technical tendencies. Again on an evolutionary path from their earlier days, worth checking out definitely.

Aftermath - US band with a very Coroneresque style, sound really pissed off and convincing. I love their 'Eyes of Tomorrow' release, and their demo is worth checking out too.

Mekong Delta - everything, really. Nobody like them even still (Target are mentioned in this thread before Mekong Delta, it breaks my heart).

Rosicrucian - 'No Cause for Celebration'. Flash thrash of the highest order. Testament and the like can eat their heart out over this release. Only prime Annihilator makes more of a playful spectacle of thrash.

everything by Coroner, Voivod up to Nothingface, so on, some of these have been mentioned so I won't go into details.

Depressive Age - 'First Depression' and 'Lying in Wait'. Moody, existentialist technothrash with some of the most potent lyrics behind it I've ever read. Convincing in ways HM doesn't often get. A punch in the gut.

If you find you have a taste for the technocratic, I can suggest tens of more bands, but this is some of the prime stuff.

Listened to Whiplash - Power & Pain and Exumer's Possessed By Fire today. AARGH what a power trip. It's been too long since I listened to these masterpieces. Exactly the kind of thrash that I live for and doesn't bore me at all!

Hobb's Angel of Death - same
Sodom - In the Sign of Evil / Obsessed by Cruelty
Primal Scream - Volume One
Quick Change - Circus of Death
Witchhammer - 1487
Angel Dust - Into the Dark Past
Impaler - Charnel Deity
Onslaught - Power from Hell / The Force
Stone Vengeance - Here Lies... Stone Vengeance

what I don't really like are those over technical bands like Mekong Delta, Coroner or Believer, just too many breaks that destroys the whole aggression in the music.

Zadkiel Hell's Bomber is awesome. I need to get the live flexi but it's a tough find

Sgt. Kuntz wrote:Impaler - Charnel Deity

I used to write to them back in their demo days, when they were still called Carnage.

Fast speed hell:

Sadus - Illusions (the ultimate favourite of mine)
Aggression - The Full Treatment (just read the band's name)
Wehrmacht - Shark Attack / Biermächt (crazy crossover)
Cryptic Slaughter - Convicted (even crazier crossover)

Out of the new ones I'd recommend
Terror Squad - The Wild Stream of Eternal Sin (not for everybody though!)

Never liked Terror Squad...

'The Wild Stream of Eternal Sin' is absolutely insane. Amazing Thrash. I like it much better than 'Chaosdragon Rising'.

Chaosdragon Rising does include some of their best material to date but when listening I can't help but skip tracks like Helldozer or Hellbound Deathboogie.

I've heard both The Wild Stream and Chaosdragon Rising and I have to say they didn't really get into me. I thought they lack something in the songwriting department. The songs could be a little more catchy.. It's been few years since I heard them though so maybe it's a time for a revisit.