The Metal Thread Genre • Page 962

For all the LOG fans \m/

After This Album, Metal Music Was Changed Forever: 20 Years Later, and It Still Holds Up!

 

that album has some of my favorite riffs ever

 

My brain still goes to "Laid to Rest" anytime I play my guitar in drop D. I still can't play it as fast as they do, haha.

 

Thought it was a studio recording, but instead looks like they recorded the audio from the performance and released that instead. Still sounds dope

 

was that outro part of the live recording?

 

the riff on “give me the painkiller” on the new nails album has a riff that sounds like “carry me home” by the living end. but on like, a few grams of meth and pcp. insane album so far.

 

Laid to rest and hangar 18 are my go to guitar warm up songs haha


Edit: and that’s a result of both being on guitar hero 2 which I used as inspo for songs to learn when it came out

 

nails record is so sick todd is a madman

 

Give Me the Painkiller main riff lands somewhere between Converge and Exodus to my ears and I love it

 

Whole nails album is really wild. You will never be one of us wore real thin real quick with the hardcore posturing at the center of it all but this one’s back to just no bullshit powergrind

 

Mike from DevilDriver has left the band!! I swear they have had so many line up changes!!

 

Been thinking about my '100 Metal Albums in 100 Days' project I did 8 years ago any my final rankings for the albums gets worse every time I look at it. Gonna show my Whole Ass and post the list as it was in 2016:

9.5/10
Megadeth - Rust In Peace

9/10
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Atheist - Piece of Time
Cynic - Focus
In Flames - The Jester Race
Mastodon - Leviathan
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Rainbow - Rising
Slayer - Reign in Blood

8.5/10
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Anthrax – Among the Living
Behemoth - The Satanist
Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Carcass - Necroticism
Death – Human
Death - Symbolic
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Rush - 2112

8/10
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Carcass - Heartwork
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Dio - Holy Diver
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Gorguts - Obscura
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
Metal Church - Metal Church
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Obituary - The End Complete
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Rush - Moving Pictures
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Testament - The New Order
W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol

7.5/10
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Hammerfall - Legacy of Kings
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Manowar - Kings of Metal
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
Meshuggah - obZen
Motorhead - Overkill
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Pentagram - Pentagram/Relentless
Slayer - South of Heaven
Sodom - Persecution Mania
Ulver - Bergtatt
Voivod - Nothingface

7/10
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Mayhem - De Mysterriis Dom Sathanas
Venom - Black Metal
Witchfinder General - Death Penalty

6.5/10
Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
King Diamond - Abigail
Napalm Death - Scum

6/10
Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Possessed - Seven Churches
Terrorizer - World Downfall

5.5/10
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten

5/10
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Repulsion - Horrified

4.5
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

4/10
Godflesh - Streetcleaner

 

have fun with that

 

I don't even know where to start

 

I'll provide some thoughts lol. Some of these albums I haven't listened to since I did this list and some of them have moved up and down ratings wise. Quick thoughts:

- Rust in Peace too high and for sure not the best one on there
- I don't remember the last time I willingly listened to Opeth or Rainbow. Same goes for Mercyful Fate, Agalloch, Dream Theater, Electric Wizard and countless others
- I don't recall a single note from Mayhem, Emperor, Immortal, Darkthone, or any of the big black metal albums. I came out from this experiment realizing black metal was not very interesting to me (that has since changed) but man these classics just were not memorable at all. Oddly enough with the turning of the weather I found myself wanting to revisit them, starting with Emperor
- grind is still my least favorite/listened to genre. sorry @swboyd :(
- Crystal Logic is a perfect album and should be higher
- some bands have no business being on this list, like Kamelot and Hammerfall
- can't believe I had Motorhead so high, no desire to return to them (for many reasons)
- Sodom is underrated
- still can't stand King Diamond's voice
- Dismember and Suffocation would be WAY higher if I listened to them for the first time today. Hell even then I knew I wasn't in the right headspace for those albums and the ratings suffered for it
- Dimmu Borgir is a joke and I never made it through that album. Someone on this site (or the other one) suggested it and I'm forever mad at them
- Godflesh, man. I've revisited that album many times since then and I was not ready for it at the time. It's a 7.5 at the VERY least
- thrash metal is still best metal

 

Wow… those are some takes for sure!

 

agalloch is great

 

I don't ever remember reading an announcement of someone leaving a band because they don't tour enough, and they want to be on the road more. Kudos for knowing what you want. Wild he waited 5 years to do this. Is Dez a jerk? Feel like I've read that about him in the past.

 

joke response - there are multiple dojos you are shaming here, jordan.

serious response - when work's not so busy, i'll have something to craft, but there's a lottttt to unpack here, namely i have no idea how in the hell you have like an everflowing stream rated so lowly while having jester race so high, but that's my first of many subjective takes.

 

bear in mind that this was 8 years ago !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have since revised my takes a lot. but as far as Dismember is concerned - I had already listened to In Flames for years prior to this experiment and was definitely biased towards them. For some reason I just couldn't get into Dismember at first listen, but that has since changed !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Rust in Peace is the best thrash album of all time behind Reign in Blood

 

1. Rust In Peace
2. Ride The Lightning
3. South Of Heaven