Thrash, death, or black metal?

Temple of Blood wrote:Black metal, well I only like 1 album and hate the vast majority of it.

I am very curious what the one black metal album you like is!

Thrash by a decent margin, followed by old school Death Metal. 

I’m not into black metal. Only AHTDU (and they are a hybrid).

I never realized we had so many Black Death fans here.

Pethead wrote:I never realized we had so many Black Death fans here.

The founding fathers of true black metal. All else is false.

I prefer thrash in general, but I agree with what was said before - good Christian thrash bands are few and far between. I'm probably more into melodic thrash, too.

I like melodic death metal. Or maybe old school. I'm not as into it, so I don't have a good handle on the differences. I liked Burial Extraction when I listened to them recently.

I don't think I like much black metal.

# 1 THRASH because of
 1 Martyr / Betrayal
 2 Tourniquet
 3 Seventh Angel
 4 Vengeance Rising
 5 Believer
 (6 Deliverance / The Crucified)

# 2nd Death because of
  old Mortification
  new Seventh Angel ...


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then Black Metal because of Horde, Lengsel and Extol


But the most of all I like the bands that are not focused on their style but on songwriting and mix things up 
(add classical, dark or medieval influences...), like
Betrayal, Tourniquet, Seventh Angel, Believer and Extol also did

Pethead wrote:I never realized we had so many Black Death fans here.

Black Death >>>>>>>>   Black/Death

Kerrick wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:Black metal, well I only like 1 album and hate the vast majority of it.

I am very curious what the one black metal album you like is!

Welkyn at Dusk

Temple of Blood wrote:

Kerrick wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:Black metal, well I only like 1 album and hate the vast majority of it.

I am very curious what the one black metal album you like is!

Welkyn at Dusk

Funny, I had a hunch it'd be Emperor for some reason.

Bah humbug!  

Death Metal > Doom Metal > Black Metal > Heavy/Trad Metal > Thrash

Death Metal is my favorite sub-genre today. It's very active and diverse. I think Death Metal has reached a place where it's become as artistically diverse as Black Metal. Some Black Metal can reach really transcendent heights which boosts it overall for me, but Death Metal is now doing that as well. Trad/Epic Doom is my other favorite, but it's not a very active style anymore. I don't listen to much outside of the above. I like some classic Heavy Metal bands and modern ones that do the style well. Thrash is my least favorite sub-genre outside of some some big names and a few Christian bands.

For all 3 of those genres, I really only like the more melodic examples (like Adorned Graves or Tourniquet for thrash, Antestor or Epta Astera for black, and Hilastherion for death). My favorite of the three in general is probably thrash

Yeah I was watching the Notre Dame vs. Louisville game and Louisville was the underdog, but this guy named "Thrash" kept making all these tough catches, keeping them in the game, and eventually Louisville won the game.  Then I thought "I wonder if this guy has his jersey picture on-line" and after much searching I found the one and only pic of the back of his jersey and thought you guys would dig it.

So, yeah, Thrash >> Notre Dame

Black Metal, Death Metal, Thrash, from favorite to least favorite, but I like them all.

I feel like I've been largely dissatisfied with Christian releases the past few years, mostly due to production.  

There's new secular black metal releases that frequently have an old and cold sound, and more traditional sonics for the genre.  Meanwhile the Christian scene still polishes their releases so much, it sounds like they used the same studio as contemporary or pop artists.

I’ve never really understood the appeal of “raw” production in black metal. In my opinion it, like all other genres, sounds best with high-quality production. As long as it isn’t over-produced to the point of sounding artificial (that also goes for any genre)

I don't really have a favorite, it depends on my mood.
However I will always prefer classic metal or USPM over these.

seth wrote:I’ve never really understood the appeal of “raw” production in black metal. In my opinion it, like all other genres, sounds best with high-quality production. As long as it isn’t over-produced to the point of sounding artificial (that also goes for any genre)

Yeah, I'm not grim, brootal or kvlt enough. I like beautiful atmospheric Black Metal.

Tend to lean somewhere between that thrash one step away from death metal style and death metal/doom. Am super fussy though with every genre and only enjoy a big handful from each genre of metal, usually the top shelf stuff too.

Sort of like that with bands too and tend to like albums rather than bands if that makes sense, like Mortifications first five and Deicide's first three etc so on and so forth and don't buy stuff like a completest (bar a few bands). Am a fuss pot.

Son of Nun wrote:Death Metal > Doom Metal > Black Metal > Heavy/Trad Metal > Thrash

Death Metal is my favorite sub-genre today. It's very active and diverse. I think Death Metal has reached a place where it's become as artistically diverse as Black Metal. Some Black Metal can reach really transcendent heights which boosts it overall for me, but Death Metal is now doing that as well. Trad/Epic Doom is my other favorite, but it's not a very active style anymore. I don't listen to much outside of the above. I like some classic Heavy Metal bands and modern ones that do the style well. Thrash is my least favorite sub-genre outside of some some big names and a few Christian bands.

So many branches of Deathmetal now like black metal. Most modern Deathmetal I find hard to get into like the drummers are more triggered than guns in a war and the tech stuff like Obscura is all  notes and soulless and all the guts ripped out of it, to my ears anyway. And let's not even start with deathcore!!!

Dustofyears wrote:

Son of Nun wrote:Death Metal > Doom Metal > Black Metal > Heavy/Trad Metal > Thrash

Death Metal is my favorite sub-genre today. It's very active and diverse. I think Death Metal has reached a place where it's become as artistically diverse as Black Metal. Some Black Metal can reach really transcendent heights which boosts it overall for me, but Death Metal is now doing that as well. Trad/Epic Doom is my other favorite, but it's not a very active style anymore. I don't listen to much outside of the above. I like some classic Heavy Metal bands and modern ones that do the style well. Thrash is my least favorite sub-genre outside of some some big names and a few Christian bands.

So many branches of Deathmetal now like black metal. Most modern Deathmetal I find hard to get into like the drummers are more triggered than guns in a war and the tech stuff like Obscura is all  notes and soulless and all the guts ripped out of it, to my ears anyway. And let's not even start with deathcore!!!

Any genres that end with “core” tend to be bad (although for me there’s one exception, the “symphonic deathcore” band A Secret Ending)

There is something so enticing to me about lo-fi black metal and I wouldn't have it any other way. I would never want a remastered version of The Return of the Black Death, for example. It has such a great grittiness to its sound that would be totally lost with sleek production. I feel the same way about some other releases too, like Dormant's one EP, and all of Vaakevandring.

That's not to say that high-production black metal is always bad. Sometimes it fits. I like having both options.

New to the boards and late to this conversation, but figured I’d chime in. I like all 3 genres, but for me the order would definitely be: death metal, thrash, black metal. I got into thrash metal first, but found death metal in the early 90’s and have been hooked ever since. I especially love the first and second waves. Basically everything from ‘87 - ‘96ish is kind of the “golden age” for me.