NOT!

M: DIMMU BORGIR Frontman Launches 'The Wrath Of Shag - from the comments: "what a fuckin joke. look at this fool. oh you look so tuff with those spikes on that i think im gonna go buy the cd NOT."
scott ian posts on blabbermouth? NOT! ;D

J: i heard danny lilker posts on there.... NOT!

M: injuns :)

J: you secretly love the fact anthrax are kinda goofy ;) :P


M: yeah i do :) but only then, not now. not in the past 20 years, give or take. but i do like their goofyness, that's part of thrash :)

J: they don't goof off now - i liked their image before - from the Armed and Dangerous EP cover, though i don't mind all the surf shorts and NOTisms, but that was during when they sucked for me :/

M: umm they looked badass on the armed and dangerous thingy but i secretly like their stupid shorts and hats and whatever - thats what i associate with anthrax. i don't like when they took it too far, but for a while they had a good look with that, i think.

J: yeah, when they decided to look like run dmc XD

M: yeah, way too hip hop, not thrash enough

J: they kinda went like that when they did the song for judgement night with public enemy

M: ahh but thats an awesome film :D but yeah, that whole moving over to rap thing - i like it with some bands, but not thrash and rap. i like gothy rap LOL like korn, kinda. but not with thrash, noooooooooo way

J: gothy rap?! wtf?! :|

M: like korn....is a bit like chavvy, gothy rap :D

J: you mean nu-metal ;)

M: yes, that :) think sinister off daisy of love :D



J: yeah, a total fagwad XD

M: hey!

Time machines are for the pursuit of thrash

(Originally sent 6th march 2008)

M: wish we had nights like that here

J: If we did it'd be full of cunts :) there's a vid on youtube of some dudes dancing to nuclear assault at rock city, i think, from 89. It's pretty cool :)

M: i wish we had a time machine :D*

J: so do i. I'd go and see gg :) :) :)

M: no, thrash! times machines are for the pursuit of thrash!!!

i might get that tattooed somewhere :D

J: I'd rather go back and save el duce. Real man's music

M: nooooooooo its all about thrash

J: You'll be wanting an armless denim jacket next

M: umm no.

*This was before we had even heard of Metal Inquisition** or their time machine. But I'm pretty sure that considering the state of music today, there's a lot of us out there who've dreamt about developing a time machine simply to go and see awesome gigs to hang out at L'amour or with the Old Bridge Militia or whatever...

**I'd provide a kindly link but their stupid site killed the browser window. Also, you all fucking know who they are; they don't need my help (or want it, I imagine)

Massive Aggressive

M: Massive Aggressive has leaked!

J: it's not bad actually

M: yeah, not bad at all. altho i've only heard the first song still; i'm watching hollyoaks :O

J: wolves is a cool song, but it's all pretty much standard municipal waste.

tony is trying to sound like mike muir in places, which annoys me. if the music was shit then it'd be a massive dissapointment (not massive aggressive).
Upsidedown church is the worst so far, just sounds like a Suicidal song.

M: music sounds pretty good to me. not much has changed tho. kinda slower, fewer lyrics about "beer and puking" as JA put it. or P. or whoever said that

J: it's probably because they're turning into Suicidal :)

M: the picture i used of him today he's wearing a suicidal t-shirt

J: listened to it all now, wolves is the best track easily.
the first half of the album is good, the rest kinda sounds like one song which is why when it ended i was like.... oh.

M: wolves is a good song. it's because it has the spirit of those dogs of metal in it :D :D
umm yeah i think it might take a few listens. but i think their catalogue would have been fine without this record.

J: they should have released this as an ep or just trimmed the tracks down
i'm now on the 2nd part of the album, it's all sounding the same :)
good, but forgettable. i was right, art of partying was their peak

M: yep :(

J: the thing that's annoying me is that upside down church is gonna be one of them songs they play live for the value that we're down with black metal and because landphil has BM patches :)

M: yeah i'd thought about that :( what they fucking around with bm for? fuck off!

J: because they know everyone loves Venom ;)

First recommendation evaaaaaa

It's not often I recommend anything on here - in fact, I've never recommended anything so far. Not as far as I'm aware (unless you consider the porn slots as being creepy recommendations of a kind) (which they are).

So I'm proud to present to you today: Evil Army!
(Warning: the moral of this story is that it's not always best to check a band on metal archives before you listen to them).

I'm not going to write a review, I suck at that. So I'll just do what I always do and stick to what I know best.

M: http://metal-madness666.blogspot.com/2009/08/evil-army-evil-army.html hey, this is totally worth it

J: that just killed my browser that page.
i hate some blog music sites, they usually have too much shit going on on one page too

M: LOL the burzum site killed my browser earlier ;)

J: it's for true believers only :)

Some emails later...

M: you download that evil army album i sent you the link for ?

J: that site killed my browser!!
send me the download link, then i will

M: DESCARGAR!!!! http://www.mediafire.com/?fnohnye00ye no pass :D

J: no pass :)
they should add that to the Portuguese language :)

M: :D

J: i love no pass :D
2 minutes to go, did you get it?

M: yeah i did. its good! well, i think so

J: have you seen them on marchives? they look like they should be playing with hank 3

M: yeah, seen. i know, i wasn't sure that was even the right band, but when you hear it it kinda makes sense

J: it sounds ok, but the mental image of hank 3 keeps appearing in my head ;/

M: just think of something else :p

J: the solos in it are ace :)

M: they are aren't they?? :D

J: i seriously wish i never looked up this band before hearing them as i like this

M: i know, they're good!!! i only downloaded it on the basis of the review on marchives so i'm glad at least i looked them up. just keep listening and thinking of something else, they're ace

J: i like two other thrash bands called Armed Forces and Evildead (one word!).
their name appears to have come about if these two bands collided :)

M: hehe yeah :) armed forces is a cool thrash band name haha

J: i was gonna say "anything to do with artillery", but since there's a thrash band called Artillery, then you can't really top that in terms of weapon names.

Thrash Letters

M: Nebukadnezza - There is no Revolution (2009) - this band used to play at the turks (a bar in Reading) allll the time

J: their album cover is lame and they have a name that's complex :D

M: nebukadnezza was a king in the bible. in the good bits of the bible, too. all the stuff with daniel and that shit i think.
but yeah, the album cover is BAD D:

J: that being said, it's too much of a mouthful to ask for tickets for
and since when do thrash bands use biblical references? a simple
reference to toxic and death is fine.
it's another example of getting album art done and then seeing that
and going "yeah, thats's cool". No it ain't!

M: i dunno, its got z's in it, i think it's an okay name :)
but still, the cover is an atrocity, not in the good way :)

J: how do z's make a name good :? :)

M: its all spiky. the letters x and z are the thrash letters of the alphabet* :)))

J: i can't think of any thrash bands that have z :/

x, yes, z, now

M: neither can i but i bet there's loads :D

*On further reflection, I have decided that x and k are the thrash letters. Z can look good, but it's been misappropriated by youths: boyz, hoodz etc.

SYLOSIS Interviewed At U.K.'s SONISPHERE Festival; Video Available

M: SYLOSIS Interviewed At U.K.'s SONISPHERE Festival; Video Available - i hate it when they say they're thrash. they're not thrash :(

J: they sound like an STD!

M: haha they do a bit :) remember, we saw them play supporting testament?

J: oh god, was that them?! ;/

M: yeah, they were that awful metalcorey (LOL metalcorey haha) shit when we saw them at islington. they're from reading or slough i think. TM's ex housemate had a hoodie of theirs :/

J: maybe that's the sound of new thrash. i've seen that term thrown about recently, new thrash, or modern day thrash. bands don't sound like thrash as we know, so if that's the future progression of thrash, then i'll stick to 1986 thanks.

M: nu-thrash :((((

yeah fuck this, i'll stay with THE ORIGINAL AND THE BEST. i hope that's not what thrash has become though, that would be sad :(

J: yeah, but then the modern bands playing old thrash get ripped on for being posers, i think a lot of people are getting sick on the thrash revivial, too. i prefer it to the sleaze bands tho, the gays that behave like nikki sixx, etc. I don't include crashdiet in this, but they're sorta in that boat :/

M: poor crashdiet :( but i guess with thrash or sleaze revival, there's good and bad bands in each, it's just a shame there's more bad than good

J: i think people are just sick of bands wearing denim cut-offs with patches, tight jeans and hi-tops like it's the 80's again. kinda like how hellyeah is formed mainly of nu metal bands, one of which being mudvayne, who wore makeup on stage, but now in hellyeah behave like they've been cowboys all their lives.

M: yeah, it's just conforming to an imagine in the same way as any other band or type of music. i think people are tired of people just turning up in some kind of expected uniform and people are pretty wise to that kind of shit now. if machine head turned up in spikes, greaves, leather trousers etc it wouldn't make them behemoth but so many bands seem to think that's a good move. people don't wear what they want, they're wearing what they feel they're expected to and it just looks as manufactured as boyzone or some other horror

J: i think you can only get away wearing the shit i mentioned if you're from south america or related countries. other than that, if you're from the UK, America, then you just come across as a chump in 2009. Or you look like you're on your way to a fancy dress party.

> people don't wear what they want, they're wearing what they feel they're expected to and it just looks as manufactured as boyzone or some other horror
it's true, that's why i hate it when metal fans claim to be individuals, when they all look like the next man

M: same with a lot of subcultures tho :( same with goths and all that shit - trying to be so different, but just creating another uniform

J: individualism isn't rife in metal :)

M: no, not at all! annoying though, because they do go on about how important it is in metal, shit like that. but if you're not the same as everyone else, you won't fit in, simple as

J: you wonder why i hate most metal fans :) :)

M: no, i get it, i'm just more tolerant of wankers than you. plus i own both a slipknot and a korn t-shirt, so i understand that looking like a wanker can sometimes happen by accident ;D

J: and i own a ramones tee shirt, though not by choice, nor is it mine :)

M: HA!!! that's WAYYYYY worse than all of my bad t-shirts put together, even with the dragonforce t-shirt taken into account ;P

J: i've never worn it tho :P

M: yeah, but it's still there, tainting the rest of your clothes with its awfulness ;)

Endgame

M: http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/megadeth-new-album-cover-spoofed/ - it's fucking JULY thats the worst shop ever. if it was december it'd make sense, but that's shit, it doesn't make any sense*

J: it's shit anyway, it's made a shit album cover still shit and unfunny

M: exactly. i hope that dude's photoshop explodes and destroys his computer from within. its all he deserves

J: pig destroyer have a song called endgame, i always thought it was a
cool title... but megadeth have kinda shit all over that with that
album over

M: rem have a song called endgame, i always thought it was cool too. it still does sound cool, it's just a REALLY BAD cover

J: 1) ed repka
2) vic rattlehead
3) nuclear stuff
4) ??????
5) rick profit!

M: My thoughts exactly, it's not hard to make a good thrash cover (attached picture)


J: :D :D :D :D

the two pictures top right and bottom left look like the dri dude
being electrocuted :)

M: if i ever release an album, that is so top choice as the cover



*In hindsight, I realise he did it because the normal cover looks a bit like it has a wreath around it. But it's still shit.