just saw a documentary on thrash metal - about the 80s thrash scene...

The voiceover is in germany, but luckily all the interviewees were done in english. The doco covered metallica, anthrax, kreator, slayer, sepultura...and most of the big names in thrash those days. Damn cool. drool drool...hehe

there were interviews with Hetfield, Scott Ian, Mille Pertrozza and some other big names of the thrash scene...showed lotsa snippets of thrash gigs from these from the era...didnt know that thrash was actually really big back in mid 80s (84, 85)...and i was only in std 1 back then! hehe...and i guess i was really late in knowing Metalica coz i started knowing them only in 88...

and the best part was that most of the bands there got their inspiration from the punk and HC scene! No wonder i feel that's some big connection between thrash, punk and HC...and u guys notice how Metallica were really into the Misfits...

i guess thrash came because the kids those days were too bored of the too glittery glam-rock scene...

Scott Ian even mentioned that Anthrax's gig probably had the first most pit for a thrash gig in their scene - mosh pit was something alien to thrash kids back then. The reason is becoz some of the kids who came to the gigs where their friends from the HC scene...nice one! It showed one of early Anthrax gigs with Joey Belladonna doing 'Metal Thrashing Mad'...

speaking of this - i used to own a vhs concert of anthrax live in london (from their late 80s gig)....awesome awesome gig! wish i could find the same copy now...

cry for the indians..........

This post has been edited by silbii: Mar 6 2007, 03:21 PM

ooops...

those who dig anthax's among the living would know it...its is about red indians in america...has nothing to do with any particular race in asia...

INDIANS - ANTHRAX - AMONG THE LIVING (1987)

We all see black and white
When it comes to someone elses fight
No one ever gets involved
Apathy can never solve

Forced out-brave and mighty
Stolen land-they cant fight it
Hold on-to pride and tradition
Even though they know how much
Their lives are really missin
were dissin them...

On reservations
A hopeless situation
Respect is something that you earn
Our indian brothers getting burned
Original american
Turned into second class citizen

Cry for the indians
Die for the indians
Cry for the indians
Cry, cry, cry for the indians
Love the land and fellow man
Peace is what we strive to have
Some folks have none of this
Hatred and prejudice

Mosh partwardance!!!
Territory, its just the body of the nation
The people that inhabit it make its configuration
Prejudice, something we all can do without
Cause a flag of many colors is
What this land is all about!!!!

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Added on March 6, 2007, 4:38 pmyupp...and i thought everybody here knew anthrax's old stuff...forgot that the age group here is pretty wide...

This post has been edited by silbii: Mar 6 2007, 04:38 PM

i'm old bro...hence the relevance of Anthrax...if you are from my gen, surely you'd have that 'emotional' attachment with this band coz most ppl who dig thrash will always start out with Anthrax or those few big bands those days...

i actually feel weird pasting lyrics here...

older metal guys would probably cite venom, motorhead and the likes...
but hey, it's all rock and roll baby!

young guys with trivum lah whatever lah...hmm...that probably had put me to sleep...mainly coz we've seen it all back in the 80s/90s...

pics? why we wanna see pics of long haired ugly guys here...haha...if female metal chicks maybe lah..

are there good female metal bands out there still by the way?

i've 'organised' some mini jams get together with guys from i-bands last year...we play common metallica only ler...hehe...metalasia tak lepas...sweep picking still fail...been practicing for years but still fail!!

now i'm getting emo - still struggling hard to master the intro for little wing ...oops...it's not metal. wrong forum!

anyways, u guys play what instrument btw? kompang also can...

is kittie hot?

my car cd player is now back playing ol skool metallica...seek and destroy all the way baby! gosh...wasnt mustaine a damn good songwriter? to me - his ol stuff is like rock n roll thrash...genius! soon i'll try to change my car's ambient music to ol skool megadeth i think.

anyways...just saw a documentary VH1 behind the scene on megadeth....that crazy mustaine actually had been to rehab for 15 times...and he made megadeth coz he just want to get back to metallica for kicking him out. He said that megadeth could easily sound like megadeth if he wanted to...but he chose 'speed / thrash metal' with crazy riffs instead. And now i realised that megadeth's music is way way way much complicated than metallica...no wonder in my skool days nobody really jammed megadeth...except for tornado...

someone mentioned nu-metal...haha...where's the metal in nu-metal actually?

so hear out - if u guys wanna show off at jam studios - play megadeth! if u wanna look like you are lost - play nu-metal...

my ambition this year is to nail at least 60% of the solo for tornado...if not, i just hope i could nail it before i turn 40 in like 7 years time. Pretty long solo for that to remember actually...lucky it's just in B minor pentationic - dunno what mode....wish me luck! anyone here holds the guitar like marty? weird finger pickin position aint it? tried that style but it felt weird...wonder how he mutes the picking strings...?

eh...has anyone here mentioned Cromok? U guys dig the song Misty? Awesome solo innit! Listened to it first in 1990...now it's 2007 and i'm never bored of it...some songs are meant to be evergreen...just like rasa sayang and negaraku...hehe...

This post has been edited by silbii: Mar 16 2007, 11:08 PM

after reading most of the posts here - why do i think that i'm stuck in the late 80s / early 90s still? haha....

probably once u get older, in music, u won't care less about the new stuff...and you'll stick to whatever u dig fancy when u were in your early teens - and stuck with 'em...

still, it's all rock and roll babeh!

yeah...if we knew, we cud have gone...

last time i saw metallica live (the real one) was in london 96...and that was 12 years ago...how time flies!

anyone see a local band named Nuclear Strikes play? They're 80s metal and the vox a cute chick...they rock!

i think they might be playing Annexxe this sunday...hope to catch them...

i'm still stuck in my ol skool 80s thrash metal...

hope someone could bring back kreator here!!!

if i'm not mistaken, aman is really one malmsteen-ish guitar player......forgot his band's name but he really can shred like crazy...heard one of his songs before...really neo-classical stuff

last time he used to be active in i-bands forum...not sure now

btw - where's metalasia now?? really miss their performance...what i know, the guitarist Ritz now actively plays for AF concerts...7 string ibanez....huhu

This post has been edited by silbii: May 16 2008, 12:23 AM

progressive metal - u should really try Everygrey...awesome awesome band...

should see their dvd live concert...they're a darker dream theater with shorter faster songs...and damn good live!

trivium is the what the 'new' metallica should have become...hehe

i'm very ol skool (not so young either...30++ already...hehe) and over the last 10 years, i was only stuck to my ol skool thrash roots...but i dunno why, recently i'm beginning to appreciate more of all these new bands like A7x and BMFV and trivium...the seem to have revived the spirit of the ol skool...so hell yeah, they have my vote

and i dont think their that nu metal...their guitar works are quite awesome...but hey, who am i to comment rite?

i guess they revived it some of the guitar parts and music composition...but maybe not their singing - coz the singing is still quite nu-metal-ish (whatever that is).

well...i havent really listen to a lot of their songs...so maybe i'm wrong. But just imagine Mille of Kreator becoming their singer, woud you have known the difference of music between them and Kreator?

and if u read their autobiography...they started by playing ol skool thrash covers too (ain't everyone?)...heck the reason for Creeping Death covers in some of their show. So i guess they had their roots correct...and the solos are kinda awesome. To me nu-metal was kinda crap because of the lack of guitar technical skills in most of the nu-metal bands out there...but with these new band - we now have more guitar heroes!

and i read somewhere that Trivium, A7X and BFMV are The New Wave of Heavy Metal...i kinda agree

oh btw - when will they get Kreator back here again?

id BFMV really that bad huh? hehe...coz to me emo bands are bands without great guitar solos but just scream aimlessly...just think, would this band be qualified for Mustaine's Gigantor tour? I guess they could...

teen angst is just a sub-element of metal...sadly, I'm old coz I have passed all those teenage angst period like 16 years ago already. I started with Iron Maiden back in my primary skool years in the 80s, then grew up when thrash, Valentine sound productions and Earache records were dominating the cassette racks in Campbell...and had pogoed in front of the altars of Metallica and The Ramones during their peak (hey, they're the godfathers of rock ok...) ...so heck, maybe i've perceived metal in a wrong manner all these years

but look at the bright side...all least MTv's now playing more good-guitar playing metal-ish bands...there's still hope for metal!

it's all rock n roll babeh!

just got MX400 CS...tried if with my pseudo-audiophiles songs...damn cun...masuk Kreator, sound too treble-ish and cant here bass that much...but i admit, the stereo separation is much better now...so its either my earphone not cun or Kreator's recording just dont have that much bass mixing umpph...

so which senheiser do u recommend mate?

btw - this sounds like a question for the audiophile section...hmm

i got a philips headphone type...good bass, etc...but tiring to wear after a while coz too big...

what mtv is giving is trash

what we're seeking is thrash