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Best thrash / death hybrid bands from the old days

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:50 pm
by Heathen
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?

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:53 pm
by DMR
Possessed - Seven Churches
Grotesque - In the Embrace of Evil

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:55 pm
by The Knell
massacra, hellwitch, inquisitor, bloodbath (yug) etc

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:26 pm
by anthares
Protector

Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:49 pm
by Nathaniel
MORBID SAINT, MERCILESS, PROTECTOR, SACRIFICE

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:33 am
by Cochino
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.

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:25 am
by MEXDefenderOfSteel
the real Merciless Death anyone?

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:08 am
by Avenger
Borderline bands, but I'm not much of a Death Metal fan.

Solstice
Death
Gladiator
Magnus
Silent Scream
Death Strike
Blood Feast
Obliveon

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:18 am
by Nathaniel
Also american bands like ENGRAVE, INSANITY, and french acts like early MASSACRA and MUTILATOR

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:19 am
by Ernest Thesiger
Nathaniel wrote:MUTILATOR
AKA Mutilated? The Psycho Death Lunatics demo tore my head clean off.

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:32 am
by Heathen
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.

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:07 pm
by The Knell
Avenger wrote: Magnus
Achtung!!

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:25 pm
by Heathen
Infected - Dark Century

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

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:46 pm
by omen of hate
DEMOLITION HAMMER, early-MALEVOLENT CREATION, FCDN TORMENTOR, RECIPIENTS OF DEATH.

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:20 am
by MetalizeR
Leviathan, Xecutioner, Amon, Pentagram (Chl) for name a few.