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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle
Eternal Dirge just sounds like extreme Vio-Lence but also takes all the ideas and expands them so it's only natural I like it better.
also you're technically the pleb in this instance
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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle
Vio-Lence is just slightly marred by that thrash riff that's been rehashed 8.63x10^39 times over the years. But even then it still sounds cool.
The album also starts out stronger than a lot of other thrash albums.
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This is why you are the pleb. You look to further ideas and assume that they are necessarily superior simply by being more stylistically advanced. Vio-lence are
Bonded By Blood perfected and that is all that you need for thrash since thrash is a genre defined by immediacy and virulence.
Clever riffs are neat if they can be integrated into that immediacy in a way that pushes the assault forward, but if all it does is make it more "interesting" then it is a losing proposition. What matters is the ultimate brutality and Eternal Dirge, Watchtower, and Testament simply do not deliver on that front when you have Vio-lence to blow them away. The simple fact is that I'd rather punch someone in the face to Vio-lence than I would to Eternal Dirge and that is the last word.