Heavy Metal Militia

Per Dave Loves Megadeth’s request.

Alright, here we have the L.A. Caffine Machine, Death Angel. This nickname is quite fitting.

Their 1984 debut, "We Have Arrived", was sort of a lie. While it is a decent (and very NWOBHM influenced) album in it’s own right, it wasn’t anything special.

It was 1986, probably the best year ever for thrash metal (hence why they are underrated; they were overshadowed by much bigger names in thrash metal such as Slayer), that Dark Angel released "Darkness Descends" – an album that inspired the motto "Too fast, my ass!". While Slayer’s "Reign in Blood", released the same year, was hailed by many as the fastest thrash around, it wasn’t. "Darkness Descends" was a much quicker, and in my opinion, far more punishing release. They managed to go insanely fast without losing the other qualities of great thrash metal.

Of course, Dark Angel had no intention of stopping there. Dark Angel still had high-quality thrash left in them, evidenced in "Leave Scars" (which itself may well be Dark Angel’s best album, but suffers from being sandwiched in between Darkness Descends and the next album), and the album with the classic sticker, ""9 songs, 67 minutes, 246 riffs!", Time Does Not Heal.

I’ll quit talking and I’ll let the music talk for me instead.

The Burning of Sodom – from "Darkness Descends"

The Death of Innocence – from “Leave Scars”

Time Does Not Heal – from “Time Does Not Heal”

MQ: Thoughts on the songs, and Dark Angel in general?
MQ2: Had you ever given Dark Angel a serious listen before encountering this question?
BQ: Favorite Dark Angel song/album?
BQ2: The next band in the series is from England, and their name begins with a S…do you know which band it is?
That is Dave.

Yeah, you’re right – it is Sabbat.

The band is called Doom Demon, the most hardcore band in existence. None of the members are human, they are all evil moon creatures that look like gray people. The guitar solos are so extreme that 5% of the audience experiences lethal reactions. If you survive the concert, they take 10 lucky people to the moon to rock hard for eternity.

During the concert, a whale carcass is lowered on stage and the bass player lights it on fire with a flame thrower guitar.

i’d like to listen to "death metal" bands without hearing someone screaming profane/blasphemous slasher movie lyrics…anything like that out there ? some group with the same chainsaw guitars and machine gun drums that jam sans "vocals?"

The band is called "Anacrusis" they’re from Missouri, USA!!
They are really good! they mix Progressive metal and Thrash metal, as I said before "Thrash Metal with a Progressive metal touch"
Here’s some of the songs by them;
Terrified …from Reason: (there’s an awesome scream in the beginning!)

Stop Me …from Reason:(Great lyrics, I think this song shows their "Progressive" side a lot!)

Present Tense: (it’s one Kick@$$ song!! It’s my fave!)

NIB: (this song is freakin insane! I love it! As I said in the link, there’s an awesome Guitar solo after 3:25!)

Fighting Evil: (The Vocalist says an AWESOME "Evil" lol, it’s really Thrashy, lol!)

If You dont have time to listen to all of them, just listen to:
Stop me from reason, Present tense and NIB

Thoughts?

Here’s something for you before i sleep:
~>Egyptian "bad" word of the day:
Khara = $hit , Pronounced like:
"Kh" you know that spitting sound? that’s it lmao XD , then "are" then say "ah"!
So, Khara = Kh-are-ah = $hit =)
lol have fun with that xDDDDD
lmao, Zakk XD
I know Between the buried and me, Thanks a lot though =)

The early death metal bands.
not the newer death metal mixed with hardcore.
Mine is Death.
i also like Arch Enemy which is newer but keeps the classic feel to it.
oh yea Morbid Angel is awesome.
Suffocation is great too.
Suicide Silence is amazing but i would put them as Deathcore. because of the breakdowns. but i dont care. still very good.

I like trivium, i see it in a way as a revival of Thrash Metal (even though it’s more of a melodic metalcore band), it’s seems like most 80’s thrash fans hate anything new. My Favorite Genre is 80’s Thrash.
OK i get it, most thrash metal heads hate metalcore, but Trivium are neither Thrash nor Metalcore the more i think about it, they are like a combination. There must be a connection because throungh Trivium i got my friends into bands lke Slayer, Exodus, Destruction, and even Intruder. I agree that most metalcore is below par with both lyrics and instrumental music, but Trivium’s music is different, you all can think i’m crazy if you want, Listen to the album ‘The Crusade’, and tell me you aren’t impressed.

I just recently found out about Nocturnus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gCjpKsBf44 They were unique death metal in the late 80’s and had songs about science fiction. They are very underrated. What are some (in your opinion) very underrated death metal bands that sound unique as well?

BQ: Song you have stuck in your head right now?

not screaming music, but thrash metallica, megadeth, slayer music.

I’ve got a problem with a format of riff that’s found a lot (almost exclusively) in thrash metal, and I don’t know why.

I’m talking about the riffs that are based around very rapid triplets, normally on the low E string, punctuated with other chords at regular intervals. From what I can tell, Iced Earth uses these the most, and plays them the fastest too.

If you don’t know which ones I’m talking about yet, some examples include:

Metallica – "Battery" main riff
Megadeth – "Holy Wars" intro riff
Iced Earth – "When the Night Falls" main riff (fastest one I’ve heard yet)

Anyhow, I have trouble playing the quick triplet part of these. I’ve been alternate picking for years, and I’m reasonable fast, but everytime I try to move my hand that quickly, I normally accidentally start moving the pick back up before I’ve even hit the string once, or I accidentally jump the string.

I’ve been told that thicker guage strings can help with this. Is this true? What else can I do?