Previously on OPIUM HUM:
Holy Moses - Walpurgisnight (1986)
Classic German thrash. Tight, ripping, and weird. The German thrash scene in the 80s was unmatched, and Finished with the Dogs is one of the best albums it produced. And thanks everyone for your thoughts re: modern thrash. Looks like I'm finally gonna have to check out Vektor.
Track listing:
1. Finished with the Dogs
2. Current of Death
3. Criminal Assault
4. In the Slaughterhouse
5. Fortress of Desperation
6. Six Fat Women
7. Corroded Dreams
8. Life's Destroyer
9. Rest in Pain
10. Military Service
On that prickly cactus there
Two mosquitos makin' love
In the heat, a man in sight
His teeth are shining - they kiss his heinie
You should also listen to:
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| Assassin - Interstellar Experience (1988) |
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| Grinder - Dawn for the Living (1988) |
lol, dude....I'm oft intrigued by your links which are literally clickable sentences. Could comment on so many of them :) So I have to ask, what on earth is this one from? Them there love-makin skeeters I'm talking about.....
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Pretty good right? Those are lyrics from track 6, “Six Fat Women”
DeleteOn a related note, I'm more interested to hear what your readers thought was the best grind of this year.
ReplyDeleteForgot about my query - haha yes very good ;) Going to have to listen carefully!
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holy moses rules! ok, so i'd like to add my two cents to the modern thrash debate... i don't really care for it. believe me, i tried getting into evile, municipal waste, fueled by fire, bonded by bloord, diamond plate, et al... it just reminded me that i'm almost 47 and in love with krautock more than anything. i guess the difference between the metal i was listening to more than 30 years ago and the new crop is just that i'm old, but nah, back then, those bands were pioneers, thus they listened to other types of music. now young metalheads sort of have to 'out-metal' everybody, so they devote no time to other styles. that's sad, because in 85, reading an interview with tom g warrior /celtic frost, i finally accepted that bowie and roxy music HAD a place in my collection, voivod introduced me, in 87, to the likes of killing joke, pil, van der graaf generator and even rudimentary peni! anthrax and metallica were gateways to hadcore, i.e., septic death, discharge, early coc, the NY scene, etc.. metallica confirmed my own love of classic hard rock (budgie, sabbath!), death angel prepared me for jane's addiction and lots of late 80s/early 90s 'alt metal'; 80s thrash band were listening to danzig's first album, the cult, TROUBLE, the masters of reality... and, well, you had writers like chuck eddy working for metal mags, writing columns on pre-grunge loud, hard rock: mudhoney, bad brains, dinosaur jr, early flaming lips, rollins band... if you liked nuclear assault, you surely had to dig the hell out of punk, mainly black flag, and if you liked black flag you were paving the way for the the light of freaky free jazz to enter your life.. everybody worshipped thin lizzy, the alice cooper band, early kiss and hendrix; exodus were keen on classical music, kreator were anti-fascist, venom were g.b.h. with long hair, but added a touch of trash (not thrash) rock to their first two albums; if you read fanzines, you'd be intrigued by amebix, deviated instinct, antisect, even crass- which directed you to wire or gang of four...should i go on? i'm sure there's a lot of open-minded younger thrashers nowadays, and i know a lot of these bands master a superb technique, BUT i still think they have to live up to what they believe their elders are expecting of 'em. and their elders are busier listening to other styles or paying mortgages or supporting drug habits or counting the hairs still left on their scalps! but hell, though every newer thrash band's nothing more than a tribute to a by-gone era, i did find enjoyment in the likes of vuil, vohl, condor, apokalyptic raids, ranger and some others! so... in the words of ozzy: i don't know! but in the words of steven tyler: when you grow older, you wanna do someting other than masturbate!
ReplyDeleteLooks like I'm kinda late, but have you checked out Vektor? If so, what did you think?
ReplyDeleteI did, and I liked them, but it honestly couldn't have made much of an impression because I haven't listened to them since. Maybe I'll try again? I dunno, everyone seems to love that band but I just can't get stoked on them.
DeleteI see, it took me some time to really apreciate them as I do now. The 2016 concept album has a really nice story to it, but I feel like their debut "Black Future" was overall better executed.
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