You mean more punky Metal/Thrash as opposed to more traditional US Crossover? If BLACK VIRGIN qualifies they're the top of the crop.
The Corroseum wrote:BLACK VIRGIN - "MOST LIKELY TO EXCEED"
In a way this is the strangest release of the label. Why? It's fucking brilliant. Tight and well-produced? No, but here all the rough edges and beauty-spots associated with an early ME-platter makes perfect sense. They do the VENOM / WARFARE / CARNIVORE thing based on a True Metal-foundation rather than Thrash and songs like "Night Riders", "Heavy Metal Mad" and "Hand Over Fist" fuckin destroy. Hell, they all do. Even the typical, over-simple design looks great on this the one and only ME-masterpiece.
I quite like MACE (us) as well. Mean & manic stuff! Both "Process Of Elimination" and "The Evil In Good" is great, punkish Speed Metal without sounding too much "core".
US MAYHEM's "Burned Alive" is another must-buy. Really underrated, dirty but well-made Speed with a punk vibe. And THE BEAST from NJ! And... lots more.
Yes I mean that
Thank you ...if you have more please let me know
I have Mace second album,love it!
DaN wrote:You mean more punky Metal/Thrash as opposed to more traditional US Crossover? If BLACK VIRGIN qualifies they're the top of the crop.
The Corroseum wrote:BLACK VIRGIN - "MOST LIKELY TO EXCEED"
In a way this is the strangest release of the label. Why? It's fucking brilliant. Tight and well-produced? No, but here all the rough edges and beauty-spots associated with an early ME-platter makes perfect sense. They do the VENOM / WARFARE / CARNIVORE thing based on a True Metal-foundation rather than Thrash and songs like "Night Riders", "Heavy Metal Mad" and "Hand Over Fist" fuckin destroy. Hell, they all do. Even the typical, over-simple design looks great on this the one and only ME-masterpiece.
I quite like MACE (us) as well. Mean & manic stuff! Both "Process Of Elimination" and "The Evil In Good" is great, punkish Speed Metal without sounding too much "core".
US MAYHEM's "Burned Alive" is another must-buy. Really underrated, dirty but well-made Speed with a punk vibe. And THE BEAST from NJ! And... lots more.
There are still few good THRASH hardcore/PUNK metal bands around and with zero trendy "metalcore" tendencies. Also, not in the vein of old US crossover thing, but something different.
FORCA MACABRA from Finland is amongst my favorites there.
If about something like thrash with easygoing kind of punk, then BLUDWULF for me.
Cochino wrote:There's already this topic discussing the subject. Just move over there and continue the discussion
That thread is more about traditional crossover from the HC end of things as I understand it. Let's leave this one open for a while since it seems to be about a slightly different sort of bands. I think. Un*click*d
Well, I had locked it because some of the bands were already mentioned in the other thread and all of the band mentioned would be on topic in the crossover thread. I really fail to see the difference but I guess that comes with the territory with a term so ambiguous like "crossover"