Who is the Greatest of the Big Four of thrash metal?

you're thinking Bring The Noise with Chuck D. it's hardly a gimmick when you're the first ones to do it though at that point it's generally considered innovative. shocking! i know.
 
yes that was a mistake i actually meant megadeth-metallica-slayer-anthrax, slayer kicks ass but i enjoy metallica's diversity in speed and intensity within the first four albums over slayer's unrelenting lightning fast thrash
 
Just because a band puts out softer stuff, it doesn`t make them more versatile and as said it just makes them more radio friendly and appeal to a wider audience. Hair metal acts got in on this idea before Metallica started doing it. Metallica were more versatile due to prog dabblings on "...And Justice For All" blues rock on "Load" and "Reload" and Nu-Metal on "St.Anger"

When Megadeth started getting more versatile they came out with songs like "Use the Man" from "Cryptic Writings" which featured a sampling of an old Searchers songs and it was just plain erabarrasing. The "Risk" album as the name suggested, was probably the groups attempt at being really versatile and again the whole thing was a sharables.

Slayer no such nonsense, no compromise or very little, which is why I love them so much.
 
Apart from the association with Nuclear Assault (who clearly came from a Hardcore Punk background) I agree that Voivod pissed all over anything released after '88 and are ridiculously under appreciated.

And Justice For all is an over wrought piece of trash that bored me in '88 and still bores me now.

Overkill were a fun band with a punk attitude and Exodus unfortunately suffered through line up changes.

Kreator are a decent band though and sound unlike anyone else, which is no mean feat.

First Death Angel album though is a classic Urbs ;) Still sounRAB good today and full of attitude and fire.
 
I don't think AJFA is trash, but I never understood the fascination with it. For me their first three were better.

Voivod is fantastic and easily the best proggy/techy thrash act - Coroner and Artillery were decent too. And there's a weirdo German band called Mekong Delta which actually managed to do the classical/thrash thing properly.


Here's their version of Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain.
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And one of their early songs.
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I'm guessing you've never heard South of Heaven then. Not all of Slayer's music is "unrelenting lightning fast thrash".
 
from south of heaven i've heard ghosts of war, silent scream, and south of heaven, none of the other ones, those three are pretty fast, maybe you can recommend some of the other ones?
 
Over a decade later.

Anybody could point to any groundbreaking moment in music and say it was bad just because of what it spawned 10 years later.
 
Ah, I love Meshuggah. I only have two of their albums though (Nothing and ObZen). I'll have to give Destroy Erase Improve a listen.
 
Metallica were really only thrash from Kill 'Em All to ...And Justice For All, i do enjoy all of their albums, but they didn't stay thrash their whole career, slayer did, megadeth almost did. not really big on anthrax, exodus should be in a 'big 5'
 
Most Metallica fans that I know of really like AJFA!!! and I also see it as the last great album by the group in their first phase despite its shoddy production. I`d rather listen to this album than the following Metallica album anytime.
 
Don't get me wrong, I like AJFA and it features Metallica at their best in places (Blackened, Dyers Eve and One) but a lot of it just feels too drawn out. Mind you, I haven't listened to it in a few years so perhaps it's due for re-evaluation?
 
I like all four of them, but I chose Metallica. Not because I necessarily listen all that much to Metallica, or because they've had the most commercial succes. But because their music is more varied and they are great musicians technically speaking. (the last part can be said for all four banRAB really). But it seems to me Metallica have a greater nuraber of songs that really stand out.
 
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