| The main reason pepople call this thrash is maybe cause it reallly have a strong thrash metal sound, the death metal thing, well that thing is relative, I mean the song black metal from Venom is dopes not sound exactly like ehat most people think today as black metal(ex: old Darkthrone,Mayhem, Abruptum, Conqueror, 1349, Watain,etc ), plus for me at least calling something doesn't make it that something, at least for me death metal began with Possessed and Death, there also this problem about "what makes a musical genre that genre?" some prime the lyrical content, other a particular sound, for example death metal have a aprticular sound, a particular kind of drumming, riffs and type of vocals, also the lyrics may vary, bot in essence are about death, suffering, serial killers, murdering, rotting stuff/bodies, and the irony and humour of the mortal nature of men, vikings, battles, anti-religion and philosphical are also popular, but these lates are also popular in black metal lately, so...you see my point??musically speaking Power From Hell have many elements form thrash: drumming, fast pace, palm mutting,etc, also have punkish vocals(the band began as an hardcore punk act I think), so to some extent it's actually kinda difficult to classify, Imean, Metallica use to call themselves a power metal act in the first days isn't it? I tend to classify music to what it sounds to my ears, but I can understand why other people would call this death metal, all in all the lyrics of the album are kinda death metal plus it have that raw vibe of early death metal albums, in the end this came uot in the middle of the 80's when heavy metal sub genres were still undefined, and to some people this was for the best, seriously sometimes I have heard really bad or stupid discussions between metalheads just because some call this band death metal or black metal, hell, there were bands that even played a type of music that had 3 types of subgenres of metal in it, if it is a messured discussion just for the sake of fun, I'm ok, but when people made fucking wars of it between metalheads, it just became silly, may Fenriz got it right about that particular matter.
Now some albums that were called thrash that were almost on the verge of being death metal are Sepultura Bestial Devastation and Vulcano Bloody Vengeance, the first one never called themselves death metal band, the second one it is a really good example of a band that had a song called death metal and actually sound like death metal(at least more than Onslaught I think).
P.S.: Hi to all, maybe no one remembered me form before, I was the peruvian guy who posted here till 2008 I think, anyway, I have comeback(I stopped due to college stuff and other personal shit) so I wish I could post here on a more regular basis.
P.S.to the P.S.: Hey J.D. DIAMOND just for the record I may have accidentally clicked the "denounce this post as offensive" on yor post sorry about that, no ill feelings intended(sorry but I wanted to check out all the buttons at posts).
P.S.to the P.S to the P.S.: Jesus-Swordfighting-Christ!! wtf is wrong with the post sistem?? what did I need to do to avoid to have this highlighting on my words?? eghh!! someone can help me??.
Edited at: Monday, March 12, 2012 12:15:04 AM |
