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Originally Posted by Trollheart
I'm not quite sure how to take Kreator. At least on the basis of this album they seem more almost doom metal than thrash; certainly few of their songs hit the kind of speed even Maiden practice, and I always thought (correct me if I'm wrong Batlord) that thrash metal was traditionally played as fast as possible?
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Kreator have never been one of my favorite bands so I'm not familiar with a lot of their stuff and almost none of their nineties material, but I do know that they didn't really play thrash at that time in their career. I've heard "Phobia" off that album, so I'm guessing they were trying to follow Metallica and Megadeth. But back in the day they were as vicious a thrash band as has ever existed. This right here is pretty much what they were about...
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Seven churches --- Possessed --- 1985 (Relativity)
Normally a band with a name like Possessed would have me running in the opposite direction, but I'm reliably, I think, informed this band is not Black Metal but Death Metal. Oh joy! Thank Satan for small mercies, eh? But since I've already heard a few Death Metal records this can join them. It's also said to be one of the most influential on the genre, and the band are credited with, whether intentionally or not, coining the very phrase "death metal", perhaps in the same way that Venom unleashed the idea of "black metal" some years prior.
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Another band that I can't say is my favorite, but I've had a burned copy of this for dogs years so I'm a lot more familiar with Possessed. Honestly I think they're more of a first wave black metal band than an honest-to-god death metal band. Obviously they're not black metal in the same way Darkthrone are black metal, but back in the eighties before the genre lines became solidified the line between thrash, black, and death metal could be very blurry. When I think of eighties black metal I think of the chaotic noisiness of bands like Hellhammer and Bathory and in my opinion
Seven Churches has more in common with them than Death or Obituary. Of course
those bands certainly have more in common with Hellhammer and Bathory than they do Cryptopsy or Suffocation, at least at first, but that's another story.