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Thenamelesssamurai from Atlanta, Georgia Since: Nov, 2010
#326: Mar 31st 2011 at 10:38:59 AM

Thrash: Go for the early records of the Big four. Each offers different things. I'd say start with Megadeth's stuff, but that's just me be being a Droog.

To Start, check out Peace Sells but who's buying then either Killing is my business and Business is good or Rust in Piece, then get Countdown or So Far so good..So what (with countdown, this is where they went from Thrash to a more straight foward style, but it's still a good listen to).

For Anthrax, get the albums Spreading the disease through Persistence of time.

For Slayer, everyone mentions Reign in Blood, but there's also South of Heaven, Seasons in the Abyss and Hell awaits

For stuff that's not the big four: How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today by Suicidal tendencies is a good crossover thrash album. Beneath the Remains, Arise and Schizophrenia by Sepultura are good mixes of thrash and death metal. The Legacy and New world Order by Testament are good records too. Check out the Sadus discography too. There's some overlap with Technical Death metal, but it's all good stuff.

For bands that I don't have albums to recommend for in particular (mostly becuase I haven't gotten around to buying them):

  • Exodus
  • Overkill
  • Nuclear Assault
  • S.O.D and M.O.D for crossover thrash
  • Voivod (becomes more Prog influenced later in their career)
  • Kreator
  • Annihilator
  • Sarcófago

Also, Metal Church's Self titled album has some thrash influences, but also a lot more NWOBHM sound to it.

Edit: Also, check out Coroner's early stuff if you want thrash. Their later stuff is where they started experimenting, so you'd probably enjoy that too, but for just trash, it's their first albums.

Edit 2:Damn, did I get ninja'd.

edited 31st Mar '11 10:44:19 AM by Thenamelesssamurai

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Alichains Since: Aug, 2010
#327: Mar 31st 2011 at 11:14:28 AM

Granted you listen to Noise, so you probably won't need to get used to the aesthetics, but Metallica's self title, aka The Black Album is actually a decent introduction since it's basically a pop-thrash album.*

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#328: Mar 31st 2011 at 5:49:55 PM

Breakcore that isn't Venetian Snares
BLÆRG, perhaps?

Surf rock
The Dead Rocks.

NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#329: Apr 3rd 2011 at 8:10:59 AM

Anybody know of any rock bands with really good bassists?

Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#330: Apr 3rd 2011 at 8:30:18 AM

The Who

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
ExterminatorZed Occupy The World from Steel City Since: Jan, 2011
#331: Apr 3rd 2011 at 8:30:42 AM

Rush.

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NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#332: Apr 3rd 2011 at 8:33:32 AM

An addendum to that request: a rock band that isn't really obvious/famous tongue

edited 3rd Apr '11 8:34:23 AM by NULLcHiLD27

Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#333: Apr 3rd 2011 at 8:34:36 AM

Public Enemy's bassist is also good. tongue

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
ExterminatorZed Occupy The World from Steel City Since: Jan, 2011
#334: Apr 3rd 2011 at 8:34:51 AM

Sorry, following the letter of the law, I suppose.

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Litis from Israel Since: Jul, 2009
#335: Apr 3rd 2011 at 8:38:04 AM

Interpol?

[down] I was suggesting good bassists.

edited 3rd Apr '11 8:41:13 AM by Litis

Zudak Since: Dec, 1969
#336: Apr 3rd 2011 at 8:40:26 AM

Turn On the Bright Lights is their best. Antics is a close second.

Ah, I see.

Anyway... somebody suggest me some World's End Girlfriend. I like what I've heard of him, but his extensive catalogue confounds me.

edited 3rd Apr '11 8:46:06 AM by Zudak

NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#337: Apr 3rd 2011 at 8:46:11 AM

[up][up]I like how loud it is, but I'd kinda like something a little more quick paced. Do they usually play slow like that?

Litis from Israel Since: Jul, 2009
#338: Apr 3rd 2011 at 8:50:31 AM

Depending on their mood, I guess. Post-punk gonna post-punk. The "Obstacle" songs and "PDA" are more energetic than this.

Lordnecronus dOOOOM from Wales Since: Sep, 2009
dOOOOM
#339: Apr 3rd 2011 at 9:10:22 AM

Anybody know of any rock bands with really good bassists?

I was going to suggest Primus, but they might be too famous for you.

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Litis from Israel Since: Jul, 2009
NULLcHiLD27 Since: Oct, 2010
#341: Apr 3rd 2011 at 9:13:59 AM

[up][up]Yeah, I already know Primus [lol] Although I haven't listened to enough of them to figure out how I feel about them.

TheGloomer Since: Sep, 2010
#342: Apr 3rd 2011 at 9:31:23 AM

Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Norman Watt-Roy was a pretty good bassist ("Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" is the best example).

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#343: Apr 3rd 2011 at 9:37:23 AM

Mike Watt is a pretty cool bassist, so maybe The Minutemen?

See also fIREHOSE (not to be confused with Firehouse, who are a completely unrelated Hair Metal band that get listed as performing the song at the start of the video for some reason)

edited 3rd Apr '11 9:51:26 AM by MikeK

ExterminatorZed Occupy The World from Steel City Since: Jan, 2011
#344: Apr 3rd 2011 at 9:48:41 AM

I was going to mention Primus, but I figured that was flamebait.

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Thenamelesssamurai from Atlanta, Georgia Since: Nov, 2010
#345: Apr 3rd 2011 at 12:51:05 PM

Looking for recommendations in:

  • Impressionism (That's not Debussy)
  • Contemporary Classical from the 70s onwards (doesn't have to be avant-garde though)
  • Minimalism
  • Expressionism
  • Neoclassicism that isn't Stravinsky
  • 21st century classical
  • Spectralism
  • Noise
  • Stockhausen
  • Drum and Bass
  • Paul Hindemith
  • Trip Hop
  • Ska
  • Sludge Metal
  • Third Wave Ska Revival
  • Math Rock/Math Metal
  • Post-hardcore
  • Chicago Blues
  • Avant-prog
  • Doom Metal
  • Black metal
  • Symphonic black Metal
  • Folk Metal
  • Bela Fleck (Whoever recommended that live album, I got that, but I want more)
  • Grindcore
  • Post Metal (I know about Pelican and Russian Circles and that's about it).
  • Bossa Nova
  • Jazz (I know a lot of the regulars, but if you know of more obscure jazz, I'd love to hear it)
  • Jazz Fusion
  • Rap (The onyl thing I really listen to is Public Enemy)

I guess that's enough for now. Some of what I listed I'm somewhat familiar with, but not enough to really know the genre.

Did the Thrash recommendations help, JHM?

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KitsuneInferno Jackass Detector from East Tennessee Since: Apr, 2009
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#346: Apr 3rd 2011 at 1:07:29 PM

Rap:

  • The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury
  • Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
  • Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
  • Nas - Illmatic
  • Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
  • Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
  • The Roots - Phrenology
  • Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
  • OutKast - Stankonia
  • Sadistik - The Balancing Act

Trip-Hop:

  • Unkle - Psyence Fiction
  • Gorillaz - Demon Days
  • Aim - Cold Water Music

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Alichains Since: Aug, 2010
#347: Apr 3rd 2011 at 1:13:39 PM

I don't know all that much about Chicago Blues. But I do like Howlin Wolf

NEO from Qrrbrbirlbel Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
#348: Apr 3rd 2011 at 1:17:41 PM

Hell yeah, I'm going to try it again, since it absolutely didn't work on the Electronic thread tongue

I listened to Pendulum's Hold Your Colour and liked.. around half of it. I wasn't hooked on "mean" souding stuff like Slam and Fasten Your Seatbelt, but the more melodic material like Plasticworld and the title song hit the spot.

Also noteworthy is that my interest on the genre came from certain VGM that caught my attention; this, this (although not really electronic until 1:54) and even this come to mind.

Recommendations anyone?

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Litis from Israel Since: Jul, 2009
#349: Apr 3rd 2011 at 1:18:29 PM

  • Post-metal: I think Streetcleaner by Godflesh is the Ur-Example, Through Silver in Blood and Times of Grace by Neurosis are the Trope Makers, and Oceanic and Panopticon by Isis are the Trope Codifiers. All are recommended strongly.
  • Sludge metal: Mostly overlaps with post-metal (which is occasionally referred to as atmospheric sludge metal). Check out Acid Bath, Down and Eyehategod; other than that, I'm out of suggestions.
  • Math metal: Destroy Erase Improve and Chaosphere by Meshuggah. If that may include mathcore, Miss Machine by The Dillinger Escape Plan and We Are the Romans by Botch.
  • Grindcore: From Enslavement to Obliteration by Napalm Death, Terrifyer by Pig Destroyer.
  • Post-hardcore: I would recommend Thrice's Vheissu for a more modern vision of the genre; not knowledgeable of the originals yet.
  • Black metal: Filosofem by Burzum, In the Nightside Eclipse by Emperor.
  • Trip-hop: Kitsune forgot Massive Attack. Their first three albums are classic. I guess Portishead's Dummy should be also recommended, but I've hardly listened to it myself.

edited 3rd Apr '11 1:21:50 PM by Litis

Lordnecronus dOOOOM from Wales Since: Sep, 2009
dOOOOM
#350: Apr 3rd 2011 at 1:42:17 PM

Doom Metal

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Doom has quite a few sub-subgenres that sound completely different to each-other, so rather than painstakingly sort out each genre individually I'll just post this big list:

  • Saint Vitus — self-titled, Hallows Victim and Born Too Late.
  • Trouble — Psalm 9. I'd recommend more, but this is the only Trouble album I'm all that familiar with.
  • Cathedral — Forest of Equilibrium, The Ethereal Mirror and The Carnival Bizarre.
  • Candlemass — Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, Nightfall and Ancient Dreams.
  • Pagan Altar — Volume 1 and The Lords of Hypocrisy.
  • Solitude Aeturnus — Into the Depths of Sorrow and Beyond the Crimson Horizon.
  • Reverend Bizarre — In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend and II: Crush the Insects.
  • Electric Wizard — Dopethrone, Come My Fanatics... and Witchcult Today.
  • Paradise Lost — Lost Paradise and Gothic.
  • My Dying Bride — Turn Loose the Swans, The Angel and the Dark River, Like Gods of the Sun and A Line of Deathless Kings.
  • Anathema — Serenades and The Silent Enigma.
  • Sleep — Sleep's Holy Mountain and Dopesmoker.
  • Katatonia — Dance of December Souls and Brave Murder Day.
  • Bethlehem — Dark Metal.
  • Warning — Watching from a Distance.
  • Winter — Into Darkness.
  • diSEMBOWELMENT — Transcendence into the Peripheral.
  • Thergothon — Stream from the Heavens.
  • Skepticism — Stormcrowfleet and Alloy.
  • Funeral — Tragedies, In Fields of Pestilent Grief and From These Wounds.
  • Ahab — The Call of the Wretched Sea.
  • Earth — Earth 2 - Special Low Frequency Version. HEX: Or Printing in the Infernal Method and The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull are also great, but they're not doom (or even metal).
  • Sunn O))) — Black One and Monoliths and Dimensions.

There's a shitload of other albums I could recommend, but it's best to stop here before this list becomes any more monstrous.

Sludge Metal

Sludge is a spinoff from doom metal, so a lot of these could go on the above doom list:

  • Melvins — Bullhead, Houdini
  • Crowbar — self-titled, Odd Fellows Rest and Sonic Excess in its Purest Form.
  • Eyehategod — Dopesick and Take as Needed for Pain.
  • Acid Bath — When the Kite String Pops and Paegan Terrorism Tactics.
  • Buzzov*en — To a Frown. (Only Buzzov*en album I've checked out.)
  • Grief — Come to Grief and Miserably Ever After.
  • Down — ''NOLA'.
  • Dystopia — Human = Garbage. (There are two release by this name, an EP and a compilation album that contains the EP and a bunch of other stuff.)
  • Soilent Green — Pussy Soul, Sewn Mouth Secrets and Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction.
  • High on Fire — Death is This Communion and Snakes for the Divine.
  • Iron Monkey — Our Problem.
  • Burning Witch — Crippled Lucifer.
  • Bongzilla — Gateway and Amerijuanican.
  • Weedeater — ...And Justice for Y'all and Jason...the Dragon.
  • YOB — The Illusion of Motion and The Unreal Never Lived.
  • Corrupted — El Mundo Frio.

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