Texas Boy

For me it's doom metal all the way.
I always found thrash metal to be a bit generic and overrated as a subgenre of metal, although I dig some stuff. And doom metal is totally underrated and overlooked and it derserves much more attention from metal fans.

What you say?

MicShazam

I don't listen to any doom metal except Cathedral, so it's gonna have to be thrash.

I agree thrash is overrated and usually generic, but I can't exactly say that doom metal bands tend to light my fire either.

Frownland

Doom because I smoke weed.

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OccultHawk

This

But good thrash gives me the weed creepies like crazy

and that’s a good thing

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Both are good and bad in their own way.

Janszoon

I listen to more doom but thrash was the foundation of my entire interest in metal in the first place so it’s hard to pick one.

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Blarobbarg

I love both genres, but I have to go doom. It’s more flexible, and right now there are SO many options for doom albums. They can easily fuse with other genres for something new and exciting. I love thrash, but it doesn’t really do that well.

windsock

Actually kinda my sentiments. Nicely worded.

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Blarobbarg

Thanks.

From blackened doom to funeral doom to sludge metal to drone metal to stoner to whatever Om is... doom can go in a million different directions, and each of those directions has something interesting and groundbreaking.

Thrash, while enjoyable, doesn't do that. Thrash is thrash. Sure, it can work in a little black metal, a little death metal, or maybe hardcore punk... but the lines get blurry. At what point is thrash metal no longer thrash metal? Usually when it gets hardcore breakdowns, or screechy vocals and tremolo picking, or death metal vocals. It's narrow.

Here are some examples of doom doing different things very well.

Unitron

I guess for me, music doesn't have to be creative to be enjoyable. As long as there's energy and a certain amount of excitement in the performance, as in the music sounds like it comes from the heart, I think it has merit. I'd take an amateurish self-released thrash album with heart over a big experimental but boring album any day.

For example, Airdash sounds a lot like Anthrax with an 80's Testament production sound, but the way they play makes it not matter at all. Plus, I see nothing to be upset about seeing as I love Anthrax and Testament. I still absolutely love this album. It's energetic and exciting, more so then many experimental metal albums I've heard:

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