thegame":3vcrhfag said:Relatively unknown band but crushing. If the riff at 2:00 doesn't get you going, nothing will.
Speeddemon":3sjq7lf5 said:thegame":3sjq7lf5 said:Relatively unknown band but crushing. If the riff at 2:00 doesn't get you going, nothing will.
old band mate was into them...along with Anacrusis and Watchtower. Not entirely my cup of tea...but that 2.00m riff was good yeah.
The really fast stuff around the minute mark shows to me that faster isn't always better...because they're not Vader/Gene Hoglan tight there...and without the utter tightness, it becomes mushy/chaotic.
napalmdeath":2wgl6i6h said:Kinda later, but Jon Shaffer's tone on Something Wicked is one of the best recorded tones I've ever heard.
Most brutal: Malevolent Creation - Retribution
Coroner - Grin
Nuclear Assault - Handle With Care
Anthrax - Among The Living
Overkill - Horrorscope
Testament - Practice What you Preach
Savatage - Gutter Ballet & Streets, (Oliva was amazing)
Ur definitely right dude...ClintN667":1pf8f4v3 said:napalmdeath":1pf8f4v3 said:Kinda later, but Jon Shaffer's tone on Something Wicked is one of the best recorded tones I've ever heard.
Most brutal: Malevolent Creation - Retribution
Coroner - Grin
Nuclear Assault - Handle With Care
Anthrax - Among The Living
Overkill - Horrorscope
Testament - Practice What you Preach
Savatage - Gutter Ballet & Streets, (Oliva was amazing)
I loved that Savatage album. I have a friend that was working with Chris Caffery and Tim Owens. I saw all these bands tour on the albums you listed except for Coroner and Malevolent Creation. Also I saw anthrax a bit later on with Slayer, Megadeth, and AiC.
Overkill's Years Of Decay had a really good tone to it too.
I hate to sound like an old fogey but I miss the days you could tell a band after a couple seconds of guitar,bass, and drums.
I could hear Dan Lilker, Dave Ellefson, DD Verni, and Frank Bello's bass and instantly know who I was listening too.
I saw these guys a million years ago at First Avenue's 7th Street Crossing (shitty little side-bar club to the main stage). Dudes come out with 800s on 4x12s boosted with two SD1s a piece and just destroyed the place. One of the best club tones I ever heard. I was too young to think to ask what they were doing to keep the volume in check in that tiny little dive, because had they been cranked to where they needed to be without some form of attenuation we'd have been blown through the back wall, but dang if it wasn't brutal and tight as hell.thegame":22ia7sfj said:Relatively unknown band but crushing. If the riff at 2:00 doesn't get you going, nothing will.
Thx for this hidden gem! Nice aggressive thrashy tone! Marshalls + boost?nightflameauto":2ppuwm1z said:I saw these guys a million years ago at First Avenue's 7th Street Crossing (shitty little side-bar club to the main stage). Dudes come out with 800s on 4x12s boosted with two SD1s a piece and just destroyed the place. One of the best club tones I ever heard. I was too young to think to ask what they were doing to keep the volume in check in that tiny little dive, because had they been cranked to where they needed to be without some form of attenuation we'd have been blown through the back wall, but dang if it wasn't brutal and tight as hell.thegame":2ppuwm1z said:Relatively unknown band but crushing. If the riff at 2:00 doesn't get you going, nothing will.
Still remember the drummer doing the mid-song four count stick hit right at the cymbal mics during a breakdown and the place just losing it. That was a fun night.
As far as best album tones, I'm old school, and my favorites probably aren't obscure enough to score many cool points or much in the way of ecred, but still, they're the ones that to this day I can listen to and get fully invested in every single time.
Metallica's Master of Puppets. This takes the cake. Fat, thick, articulate, scooped yet still huge sounding. Thrash perfection.
Overkill Years of Decay. As much as I love Horrorscope, changing to two different guitarists from Bobby Gustafson and changing up arrangements gave a fairly different sound. I really dig the sound, but it's not as guttural and deep as Years to me. Skullkrusher may be the heaviest low and slow tone of the eighties. Damn I love that tune.
Testament's New Order. It's not perfect, but it has that tone that just says, "fuck you and get out of the way" in the perfect way for a thrash band.
Exodus's Fabulous Disaster. Big and raw facial destruction personified.
Anthrax's Persistence of Time. Pretty much lines up with Master of Puppets on the tone scale for me. Big, thick, fat and articulate. I'd be happy to get my guitars matching either of those albums.
Death. No album stated because 8100 fer lyfe. Chuck is the reason I owned and recorded with an 8100 for over a decade. I'd still have it if the gain channel hadn't given out on me. I'll likely own one again some day. There's something about that 8100 tone that nothing else can replicate. And it's not like they're expensive to pick up.
There's a million more, but those are favorites that never fail to impress me.
Don't know if that's what they recorded with, but live back in 91 it was 800s boosted with SD1s. I think one of the guys had a DS-1 on his board too. The "stage" I saw them on was only like a foot tall, so it was pretty easy to see all the equipment, but my memory seems to have focused on the SD-1s, amps and wah on the lead dudes board.sotosprince":3e53ow2b said:Thx for this hidden gem! Nice aggressive thrashy tone! Marshalls + boost?
sotosprince":2w15b4go said:Thx for this hidden gem! Nice aggressive thrashy tone! Marshalls + boost?
nightflameauto":2l1w87oz said:Don't know if that's what they recorded with, but live back in 91 it was 800s boosted with SD1s. I think one of the guys had a DS-1 on his board too. The "stage" I saw them on was only like a foot tall, so it was pretty easy to see all the equipment, but my memory seems to have focused on the SD-1s, amps and wah on the lead dudes board.sotosprince":2l1w87oz said:Thx for this hidden gem! Nice aggressive thrashy tone! Marshalls + boost?