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Alice in Hell/Never Neverland

CD-Charts > Music > Speed Metal and Thrash
by: Annihilator

Release Date September 08, 2003

CD-Charts Position 122
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Leaders Not Followers, Pt. 2

CD-Charts > Music > Speed Metal and Thrash
by: Napalm Death

Release Date October 05, 2004
As with the original 'Leaders Not Followers' EP this release is comprised entirely of cover songs, as Napalm Death take a trawl through the 80's bands that inspired them. The material is about an equal mix of hardcore punk bands and very early death metal bands ranging from such famous names as Sepultura and Agnostic Front to more obscure artists. Inevitably most of these songs are a lot more simplistic than Napalm's own output, but their primitive raw power gives them their own charm, and Napalm themselves blast through the material in typically mayhemic fashion. The CD sleeve contains some helpful and occasionally amusing liner notes on the history behind these songs, and the disc contains a CD-ROM extra live video performance of 'Low Life'.

CD-Charts Position 123
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Enemy of God

CD-Charts > Music > Speed Metal and Thrash
by: Kreator

Release Date January 17, 2005
Classic riff tastic Kreator fodder. There's some properly heavy stuff going on in this album, serious riffing, and by god Mille's voice even sounds great. Violent Revolution was a lovely little tempter, giving us the hope that Kreator were returning to Coma/Extreme days. Well here it is my heavy metal hamsters, back to the glory days.
There are some very melodic pieces in this album, but it just enhances the heaviness. Murder Fantasies is not one of my wife's favourite songs....we were lying in a hotel room in Amsterdam late at night, I was listening to this on my headphones, and all my wife could hear in the darkness was the constant mantra, "I want to kill you, I want to kill you, I want to kill you."
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CD-Charts Position 124
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Wake Up and Smell the Carcass

CD-Charts > Music > Speed Metal and Thrash
by: Carcass

Release Date September 01, 1999
Carcass started out as a slightly sloppy but ground-breakingly extreme goregrind band, and ended up a neutered whimpish version of their old selves, but between those extremes they produced some of the best extreme metal ever made. This worthy compilation is stuffed with non-album obscurities from all eras of the band, chronologically:

1989 - ‘Exhume to Consume’ is taken from the original Grindcrusher compilation album, and is almost identical to the version from Symphonies of Sickness, just with the addition of a spooky feedback intro. From the Pathological compilation album comes ‘Genital Grinder II’, a superior recording of the opener from their debut album, and the frankly brilliant epic ‘Hepatic Tissue Grinder’, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 125
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Requiem

CD-Charts > Music > Speed Metal and Thrash
by: Bathory

Release Date July 18, 2004
This might have been a surprise to most in 1994 due to the previous albums progressively becoming more epic and slower. I was marginally disappointed at the time because I felt Quorthon had already accomplished what he needed in this area but the fact is there is some very good and powerful material on here. The guitar work is good but in my opinion what let the album down was the drum sound, which appears artificial and doesn't blend with the general sound. The other thing against the album is that some of this material could have been developed further to create something more than just hard thrash, for example there was plenty of speed and power on Blood Fire Death but the songs often went through tempo changes and various evolutionary phases, making the album as a whole much ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 126
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Risk

CD-Charts > Music > Speed Metal and Thrash
by: Megadeth

Release Date September 06, 1999
no,no,no,no,no and no i did not think it worked! it sure is something daves tried to do different because to me this is not the band i grew up with and learned to love.from the first song i never got into it.buy the earlier cds and you wont step a foot wrong.again, oooh that was bad.

CD-Charts Position 127
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Relix IV

CD-Charts > Music > Speed Metal and Thrash
by: Overkill

Release Date March 21, 2005
FROM THE OPENING POUNDING RIFFS, YOU JUST KNOW OVERKILL HAVE GOT A TWISTED TREAT IN STORE FOR YOUR UNSUSPECTING EAR LOBES...RELIX IV IS AN OUTSTANDING PIECE OF THRASH CLASH !!!!! FROM THE FIRST TRACK "WITHIN YOUR EYES" TO THE HEAVY "BATS IN THE BELFRY" TO THE FINAL TRACK "OLD SCHOOL", THIS IS OVERKILL AT THEIR VERY BEST...DON'T JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT...GIVE IT A WELL EARNED SPIN !!!!!!ONE LAST THING..PLAY IT VERY LOUD !!!!!!

CD-Charts Position 128
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Hypnotize

CD-Charts > Music > Speed Metal and Thrash
by: System of a Down

Release Date November 21, 2005
This is the best album which has come out in the year 2005. This definitely is not for the faint hearted. Definitely not for oasis fans... definitely not for robbie williams fans... musically perfect... in fact mesmmerize and hypnotize are the albums where the drummer shines... and the vocals harmonize perfectly... musically very very mature... and worth all your money...

CD-Charts Position 129
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The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code

CD-Charts > Music > Speed Metal and Thrash
by: Napalm Death

Release Date April 25, 2005
napalm know the score,they know metal,they know grind.they know what we the fans want,this is a great album,it isnt a return to form as they never left their excellent form,this album wont suit everyone,i guess it is a bit more commercial than enemy of the music business but it aint what your granny will want to hear and thats why napalm death still have it and you should have this

CD-Charts Position 130
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God Hates Us All: Collector's Edition

CD-Charts > Music > Speed Metal and Thrash
by: Slayer

Release Date July 15, 2002
It has to be tough for slayer. This is the band who defined what a certain brand of metal sounded like, even what it could sound like. Reign in Blood was the record I wanted to hear in 1986. It was the yard stick by which I measured not just metal, but all extreme/noise music. I spent years trying to find another record that would give me that same hit. Now here is that record.

Nothing inbetween has offered that same visceral brutality. Like Reign in Blood this is an album that takes my breath away, I find myself listening to a track, then replaying it, just to relive the sensation. It somehow leaves me feeling clean, in the same way that you feel purged after a fist fight, not clever, but in touch with something elemental.

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