Album Rating: 4.0

I'll be checking them out. Any modern thrash? How you feel about Revocation? It's coming off like you're more of an old-school thrash kinda dude.

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if by modern you mean contemporary, I recommend Sinaya's Maze of Madness

> Any modern thrash?

vektor - black future

droid (can) - terrestrial mutations

immaculate (swe) - atheist crusade

fog of war - fog of war

children - hard times hanging at the end of the world


more to come soon ;]


> How you feel about Revocation?

eh


> It's coming off like you're more of an old-school thrash kinda dude.

its not my fault most modern bands are lacking in the creativity and songwriting department. BUT some are great without a doubt

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to be fair, there's only so much you can do with a style before it simply evolves into something else. IMO, thrash has the very real gift and curse of the big 4 who basically dominated the style

disagree, i think coroner and voivod were among the pinnacle of the genre back then

not to mention stuff like anacrusis, depressive age etc.

Album Rating: 4.0

Sweet. Thanks, fellas. I'll be checking those out.

revocation aren't really thrash anymore and their better material is all their newer stuff

imo best modern thrash bands besides vektor are probs warbringer, evil army, fog of war, witchery, maybe deathraiser. hypnosia if they count but they were kinda pre-thrash revival

Album Rating: 4.0

Yea, Revocation has been moving in a different direction, but I still consider them pretty thrashy... it's scattered throughout.



I'll have to give those other bands a look. I thought Fog of War was pretty fun, but it feels dated. idk

Album Rating: 4.0

I haven't seen nearly as much progression with thrash as I have with death and black metal. Maybe that's just what it is, but so many good "modern" thrash albums feel like a throwback.

Yeh I think thrash is somewhat limited as a genre nowadays because of it sort of being a transitional genre into extreme metal. A lot of attempts to progress the genre thus either clearly borrow from a classic band or just end up as death-thrash/blackened-thrash/progressive-thrash in a rather predictable way.
If there is a way I can see life being injected back into it, I think it'd be tech thrash stuff like Watchtower or Mekong Delta because there aren't really bands that imitate it currently

Album Rating: 4.0

I considered Sylosis and Revocation to be two of the main ones to bring some freshness to the genre... I know it's not straight up thrash, but maybe there's really nothing to be done with it, haha.

> to be two of the main ones to bring some freshness to the genre

Vektor... at least on their debut

Album Rating: 4.0

Haven't heard much Vektor, but they seem to lean pretty heavily towards blackened. I'm not often in the mood for that, but I keep hearing their name brought up. May be I'm missing something.

they have a slight black metal influence in their sound, not so much in the production, theme, atmosphere etc.

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I'm just enjoying this way too much not to 5 this. Not a bad song on here and it all just flows so well. Gym staple, for sure!

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okay

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"I'm just enjoying this way too much not to 5 this. Not a bad song on here and it all just flows so well. Gym staple, for sure!"



It really doesn't get enough credit.

Album Rating: 4.0

3.6 average seems fair, actually. I guess the more recent convos made it seem less.

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honestly man, i can't be bothered with what sputnik's consensus on any album is. if people agree with my rating of an album, cool. If they don't, that's cool too. you might find me trolling people about ratings on occasion, but it's all in good fun and truly idgaf



my criteria for a 5 is pretty simple. can i listen to an album in it's entirety without skipping a song and really enjoy it? Do i find myself coming back to the album often?

This is probably their second or third best album tbh, it came out of nowhere