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A+ name and cover art combo

 

THRASH METAL THVRSDAY YOU CLOWNS AND FOOLS

Been sitting on this for a few days, we have a new EP of covers from Belgian death/thrash band Schizophrenia. Came out two days ago. We have a Slayer cover, a Morbid Angel cover, and my personal favorite - a fkin Judas Priest cover:

Next we have a 2008 release I stumbled across in Spotify. Archives lists them as 'melodic thrash with progressive elements' but you really only need to look at the cover art to know it's good. From LA:

And lastly we have a 2021 release that I should have paid more attention to, a band from @riotspray 's neck of the woods. Death/thrash goodness from good old Texas:

 

maze of torment may be the sickest song ever written, really good cover and another great edition of thrash metal fucking thvrsday.

 

Steel Bearing Hand kicks so much ass.

 

Listening to the new In Flames. It's for the most part decent. Nothing mindblowing but I appreciate that the guitar work is more inspired and leans more towards their melodeath roots than it has in a long time. Anders and his vocaloid generated sounding voice take me out of it a lot. It bothers me how many times a song will have a promising start then inevitably build up to the same kind of lame alt metal choruses they've been doing for way too long. Despite its faults, it's the most I've enjoyed an In Flames album since A Sense Of Purpose. It's just... it would be so much better with 75% less clean vocals.

 

i forgot in flames was a thing

 

I was listening to Clayman the other day, still slaps.

 

What happened to this band :(

 

They had a whole album written/recorded a few years ago, but then scrapped the whole thing because of label issues or something. So yeah it's taken forever to get a new album from these guys.

 

i also forgot about veil of maya. besides like the cynic song.

 

I know it gets redundant playing the same style after so long, but their first few albums are ridiculously good. Too good for me to be able to enjoy anything past Eclipse. Mark Okubo and Sam Applebaum are capable of much better but settle for generic.

 

I remember liking Eclipse, haven't listened to it in years

 

what happened to after the burial

 

both bands' first album or two are great, but they totally lost me after that

 

The Common Man’s Collapse to this day is an all time favorite metal album of mine. Mark, Sam and Higler went off. Even love the eerie instrumentals.

 

Been listening to High Command. Solid shtuff

 

such a good album.

Happy In Flames day (I guess) to all that celebrate.

 

I'm slightly intrigued by it based on singles

 

My band shares a practice space building with High Command (or used to, we've had burst pipes). Good dudes. Singer always brings a sword on stage.

 

Checks out

 

Vocals for this track were supposed to be done by Riley Gale, but unfortunately he passed before they got a chance to record them. Proceeds from this recording are going to Dallas Hope Charities in his name.

KREATOR And LAMB OF GOD Release Collaborative Song 'State Of Unrest'

 

I'm the kind of person who absolutely needs clean vocals at some point or I lose interest, because I feel like a lot of unclean vocalists don't do it in any musical kind of way and I also like to understand the lyrics I'm hearing. It gets exhausting.

There's maybe one or two bands that I'm willing to accept unclean vocals all the way through from, because they know how to write songs in a way that they remain interesting or scream in a way that still makes them intelligible.

For example, I've never been able to get into Arch Enemy for these reasons, despite multiple attempts.

That being said, and I'm only saying this as a casual In Flames fan, but I don't think clean vocals are their problem so much as an inability to write interesting songs.

I also have had trouble getting into their work post-Purpose, but I think that's more on their songwriting abilities than anything else.

 

Completely unrelated I wonder what Slugdge are up to