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What is the most extreme thrash/death or blackened deathrash you have heard?


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To me the most extreme, aggressive metal there is, is thrash/death and blackened death thrash. Other genres just don't have that kick in the teeth as far as riffs go.

I haven't seen any new bands to have that same spirit/attitude of we're going to play the fastest, heaviest, most aggressive stuff humanly possible. I only come across the old bands which most of them I already know from the 80s to early 90s. Are there any new bands playing like this? Only Summon (US) comes to mind as far as newer stuff. I'm talking about stuff like Possessed, early Death, Necrovore, Incubus/Opprobrium, early Sadus, early Pestilence, Sacrifice, Hellwitch, Demolition Hammer, Dark Angel, Solstice, Massacra etc

Does anyone have any hidden gem recommendations for me?

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Check out Witchery. Specifically the album "Symphony for the Devil". It's a blackthrash album I got as a teenager, so it's older, but it's so damn good. Particularly the album openers "The Storm" and "Unholy Wars" along with the later instrumental "Bone Mill".

I'm actually searching for a vinyl copy of it as I type this out, that's how good of an album it is.

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When I was much younger I was always keenly interested in what was the heaviest and most extreme music of the time. Searching for the heaviest shit out there is what drove me in the 70's & 80's, it was my life's mission. When things really got extreme though and went underground at the end of the 80's I didn't get the memo, and then in the 90's I missed out on a lot of good shit. I've long since caught up with the state of the art of musical extremity, but at this point I've listened to so much of it every day it doesn't seem all that extreme to me anymore. Everything else just sounds weak and watered down by comparison. I think it's futile to try to single out the one most extreme thing I have ever heard in any particular sub-genre because I've heard boatloads of it and it's all similarly extreme.

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1 hour ago, Serpentboi1992 said:

probably already heard of them. but i'd say macabre. they're thrash, death metal and grindcore. the grind elements in their sound i feel adds an intensity other death thrash groups don't have

Meh.

Their cover art fits your usual preference though. Fugly.😉

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This is your winner:

Annihilation | Rebaelliun (bandcamp.com)

Flat out one of the 1. Most extreme metal albums ever made. 2. One of the BEST extreme metal albums ever made. 

Everyone's opinion of extreme is going to vary. To some its how satanic can you be, others for some dumb reason like pig squeals and slams (that's not death/thrash though).

To me, Annihilation epitomizes what you should be looking for, that is unrelenting tempo, aggression, and non-stop riffs that sound like the very sundering of space-time fabric with pure hell-fire. Eschew any sense of melody. Clean vocals, break-downs or slow sections are violations.

If you are new to the sub-sub-sub genre of extreme blackened death/thrash, here's the place to start, IMO:

Tara (REMIX version) | ABSU | Osmose Productions (bandcamp.com)

Of course just look at early Kreator, Sepultura, Sodom, Dark Angel and Slayer's Reign in Blood and you basically have plenty of proto-death thrash extremity. Merciless, Death Hammer, Hellish Crossfire, The Furor.. and of course Destroyer 666 and all of their disciples that drift a little more into speed metal and away from DM.

 

Here are some others off the top on my head:

 

Profanation Of The Gods | Necrochakal | Weird Face Productions (bandcamp.com)

Visions of Trismegistos | NEKROMANTHEON (bandcamp.com)

Disapotheosis | TANATOR (bandcamp.com)

Paroxysm Of Hatred | Rapture (bandcamp.com)

Angelic Encounters | THANATOS (bandcamp.com)

Luckily this is a well-traversed metal landscape. Many more in this universe and basically my favorite music.

 

 

 

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