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Originally Posted by Trollheart
It's a good idea. "The State of Metal"? Geddit? Yeah I'll think of a better title. But yeah, assuming I can get a bit of help on something like that it could definitely fly.
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You've done Slayer, and I'm sure listened to plenty Metallica and Megadeth during your many decades of pointless existence, but there's plenty of Bay Area thrash to educate you on. You did that one Morbid Angel album, but it was one of their worst, but otherwise I'm pretty sure you're a Florida death metal n00b. A decent idea would be a Top 5, or most "relevant" 5 of the best albums from a scene. Just an idea of how you could do it...
Spoiler for lotta ****:
San Francisco/LA Thrash (they were linked)
1. Exodus - Bonded by Blood
2. Testament - New Order (or The Legacy)
3. Dark Angel - Time Does not Heal (or Darkness Descends)
4. Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
5. Blind Illusion - The Sane Asylum (debatable as to whether they should be in the top five, but they're prog thrash, so you might dig them more than other albums)
New York Thrash Metal
1. Anthrax - Among the Living (or Spreading the Disease if you've already heard that"
2. Stormtroopers of Death - Speak English or Die
3. Overkill - Taking Over (since I know you've already heard The Years of Decay)
4. Nuclear Assault - Survive (or Game Over)
5. Carnivore - Carnivore
(If you've already heard "too much" Anthrax, then I'd replace them with Whiplash's Power and Pain.)
German Thrash Metal
1. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
2. Sodom - Agent Orange
3. Destruction - Infernal Overkill
4. Tankard - Beast of Bourbon (debatable as to whether they merit inclusion, but they'd be a bit of fun after Kreator, Sodom, and Destruction)
5. Coroner (technically from Switzerland, but close enough, and they're prog thrash, so you'd probably get more from them than the above bands) - Mental Vortex (or No More Color)
Florida Death Metal
1. Death - Human (I think you might actually have heard this before, so Scream Bloody Gore if so)
2. Obituary - Cause of Death
3. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (or Covenant)
4. Deicide - Legion
5. Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Swedish Death Metal
1. Entombed - Left Hand Path (or Clandestine)
2. Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells
3. Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
4. Grave - Into the Grave
5. Carnage - Dark Recollections
New York Death Metal
1. Suffocation - Pierced from Within (you might get more from that than Effigy of the Forgotten, which would otherwise be my rec)
2. Immolation - Dawn of Possession
3. Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding (maybe not quite the logical choice, but if you're going to like any CC album, I'd say it would be this one)
4. Malevolent Creation - Retribution
5. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence
Finnish Death Metal
1. Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
2. Convulse - World Without God
3. Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation
4. Demilich - Nespithe
5. Unholy - The Second Ring of Power
Gothenburg Melodic Death Metal
1. At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
2. In Flames - The Jester Race (or maybe Colony)
3. Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
4. Hypocrisy - Abducted
5. Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Norwegian Black Metal
1. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
2. Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
3. Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
4. Enslaved - Isa (I guess this one, since it's sort of inbetween their black metal and prog metal phases)
5. Dodheimsgard - 666 International
(Leaving out a bunch of essentials, but you've already familiarized yourself with Burzum, Darkthrone, and Ulver, so...)
Obviously that's more **** than I would ever expect you to do, but even covering
some of this in one form or another would give you a pretty excellent crash course in a lot of sub-genres you're pretty uneducated in (no offense). I know I'm leaving out plenty of sub-genres, but you don't really need to familiarize yourself with the NWOBHM or power metal, do you?
I also know you've already done albums by Entombed and In Flames, but they really weren't the albums I would have suggested for you to introduce yourself to them. The ones you've heard from Burzum, Darkthrone, and Ulver, however,
were the albums to listen to.
And you might call it, "Trollheart's Metal World Tour"... or something less ****ty.