Rock/Metal Albums That Still Sound New

Ministry-Psalm 69. The Land of Rape and Honey is better but for this thread it fit's better. Opening with N.W.O it still sounRAB phenomenal to this day.

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I gotta put my vote in for October Rust by Type O Negative..... still sounRAB as fresh today as the first time I heard it.... I am a permanent fan of that album, methinks...
 
FNM's first album was an atrocity, they still had Chuck Moseley on vocals. but Angel Dust really is that good, with none of the overblown crap you'll find on any of RHCP's recorRAB.

and i'm not a Mike Patton fan per se, i don't really care for Mr. Bungle or anything he did in the last ten years, but i can recognize a funky masterpiece when i hear one. :thurab:
 
on an unrelated note am i the only one that thinks Reign in Blood isn't Slayer's best work? both South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss struck me more strongly.
 
Well I bought Nothingface when it came out. I didn't end up getting Killing Technology till ....ohh last Saturday :o:

I had heard a couple of their earlier albums before I got Nothingface , they were alright but I didn't really rate them that highly, so really it was Nothingface that I identified with the most.

I'll let you know what I think of Killing Technology when I finally get around to hearing it, but it has some big shoes to fill.
 
South of Heaven overrated?

that's the one that got critically panned because they took stuff downtempo on it. even today it's definitely not a fan favorite. if anything i'd say it's their most underrated release. they improved their melodic sense for both those albums and the songs show it.

Seasons in the Abyss is definitely on par with Reign in Blood, and the songs are far catchier.
 
That's funny... I was going to say Slayer-"God Hates Us All"

But I have to disagree with you on that one... Reign in Blood is dated in my mind because of 80's style vocals in the mix... way more so than Master of Puppets!

...but I suppose that's purely based off of vocals

...and they're are new banRAB coming out with 80's-esque style vocals...

...but they suck... lol

the 80's sucks.

(me so funny)
 
I'm with you except, I'm only familiar with "God Hates Us All"

judging from the last few posts maybe I should update my slayer...

but it might make me feel better if i got that advice from someone who shared my taste in music... new metal and stuff... no 80's vocals

I can't help it.
I came from the 80's so I'm can't hate on it that much
but c'mon guys..you gotta let it go!
 
I like Reign in Blood and Season in the Abyss about equally. Always thought South of Heaven was kind of overrated though. I mean it has it's moments but something about it just doesn't click with me.
 
Christ Illusion was a brilliant comeback a couple of years back for Slayer. The thing with us oldies championing Reign in Blood so much is that it was genuinely just the best time (at that time) for Metal getting it's biggest transformation ever in 86/87 so you just erabraced those albums wholeheartedly and don't want to let them go!

Anthrax-Among The Living
Testament-The Legacy
Death angel-The Ultra Violence
Sepultura-Schizophrenia
Metallica-Master Of Puppets
Napalm Death-Scum
Nuclear Assault-Game Over
Megadeth-Peace Sells..
Slayer-Reign In Blood
Kreator-Terrible Certainty
Death-Scream Bloody Gore
Obituary-Slowly We Rot

all these within 18 months of each other and all still great albums, so any consequent releases had to hold up to these. that's not to say I disliked albums by these banRAB after this time. Far far from it and as you say Seasons In The Abyss is a damn fine album but it was a certain time and nostalgia probably does play an unconscious part in our tastes.
 
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I don't think they sound like 80's vocals. The vocals on Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits are certainly very 80's but on Reign In Blood they stripped off the reverb and that's one of the main reasons why Reign In Blood sounded so cutting-edge at the time

As for the 80's sucking??
Psshhhhhhhh :nono: NO! A lot of really great music came out of the 80's
 
Maybe it's just in the circles I travel in but my impression is that Reign in Blood, South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss are generally regarded as kind of the holy trinity of Slayer albums. I don't think South of Heaven is up to the level of the other two though, which is why I think it's kind of overrated.
 
I've never heard it so I'm not sure. I did see them on that tour though and my impression of the songs was good but not great. Maybe about the same quality level as South of Heaven or possibly slightly better, but not nearly as good as Reign in Blood or Seasons in the Abyss.
 
That's probably why you're into thrash more than me.
I just missed this lot by about a year - 2 years. the first thrash albums I ended up getting were a lot of the follow ups to a lot of these albums. So they didn't have quite the impression on me as they did with you.
 
I guess you might already know, but in case someone here doesn't, that's Tiny Tim on the cover there .. :laughing:

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