Triple Thrash Treat

After an absence of the TTT last week I humbly apologise, and am on my knees begging for forgiveness. In return, I present you with a trio of vids that should leave you begging for forgiveness....

This week's selection has been mainly inspired by Terrrorizer Magazines newly released "Secret History of Death Metal" (Order your copy nowHERE ). Being a kid growing up and the internet not being the treasure trove of info it is today (let alone not available almost ANYWHERE opposed to EVERYWHERE like it is now) I missed out on a lot of good bands. Most modern DM (and so called 'death core' bands like) bores me silly with its sterile production and over reliance on musical complexity making something that was primal and fierce into a chin stroking exercise. A lot of the time it plain isn't catchy enough neither. so when I'm introduced to 'new' bands I am disappointed. Although these bands aren't 'new' in the literal sense, it's the first time I've checked them out. Enjoy.

Tim Bennett's Triple Thrash Treat

Tim Bennett from London band Bun Dem Out and resident Saturday night DJ at the Soho Arts bar chooses this week's TTT. He's written a nice intro for them all. Bless 'im.

Enjoy kiddos

The videos for my Triple Thrash Treat selection comes from the German record label 'Noise
International' promotional video; 'Doomsday News, The video compilation - Volume 1' which featured several German and Swiss metal bands as well as the Canadian band Voivod. I stumbled across this dusty VHS in a charity shop a few years ago, on sale for a humble £1. Undoubtedly the best £1 I've ever spent in my life so far. Here are my three personal favourites from this excellent video.

First off we have one of my favourite ever thrash metal bands; Kreator, with 'Toxic Trace' from their 1987 album 'Terrible Certainty'. The song is a pure thrash beast and the video is so wonderfully gritty and lo-fi and bares all the typical thrash hallmarks in unashamed glory: plenty of headbanging; metal stances; cut-off sleeves; tight jeans; studded belts; hair obscuring vocalist's face and a completely spastic solo. Enjoy.




Next up - Coroner with 'Masked Jackal' from the 1988 album 'Punishment for Decadence'. This Swiss band gained some notoriety by their links to fellow Swiss band Celtic Frost. The Guitarist and drummer were reputedly roadies on Celtic Frost's "Tragic Serenades" tour and Tom G. Warrior provided guest vocals for their 1986 demo 'Death Cult'. This song is a fine example of Coroner's eclectic talents. It's got thrash, groove, technicality and an awesome solo.




Right, to round things up and leave on a high note (though, no less brutal) we have Germany's premiere exponents of 'good-time beer-themed party-thrash' - Tankard. This track - 'The Morning After' from 1988's album of the same name tells of a drunken night's antics and the inevitable resulting hangover. A theme which is fairly common throughout the majority of their songs (there's even a song on the album entitled 'Shit-faced', so you know what to expect from these guys!). They may be comical in presentation and lyrics but they take their thrash utterly seriously. Just watch the video and see for yourself. (I also couldn't resist posting the lyrics, which are pure genius)




Can this be or am I dreaming?
What a mess!
Woke up drunk lying on the floor
This cannot be, my place is trashed
Broken bottles everywhere
Vomit oozing down the stairs
I asked myself how did this happen
Don't recall
Why the nasty, pounding headache?
I need relief, where's the Tylenol?

Refrain:
Lying in my bed! With a swollen head!
What did I do? I always regret
the morning after!

Morning's passed, now I think I remember
Holy shit!
Ugly bitch playing with my member
Mutated sow with an extra tit
Senseless ruckus late at night
That's when we began to fight
Four a.m. and we were hungry
Cooked some food
Ate until the fridge was empty
Then they left, all their bellies full

Refrain

Solo: Axel, Andy

Now my brain feels like mashed potatoes
Getting sick
I swear to kick this nasty habit
And never drink for ever more
Headache ceases, all is fine
Getting thirsty, where's the wine?
I cannot stop though I'm seeing double
Sloshed again
I know it's sad but I really need it
Cause alcohol is my only friend

Refrain

Lying in my bed! With a swollen head!
What did I do?
Lying in my bed! With a swollen head!
What did I do? I always regret
the morning after!

Triple Thrash Treat Talita/Earache edition

Long time friend and french-speaker Talita Militia from Earache records chooses this week's trio of thrashing goodness with a (un)surprisingly modern era Earache influence so watch and enjoy!

Evile - 'Infected Nations'

Municipal Waste - 'Wrong Answer'

Gama Bomb - 'Slam Anthem'

Louise Brown's Triple Thrash Treat

This week I'm very pleased and honoured to bring you a trio of videos chosen by Miss Louise Brown, the editor of Terrorizer. She obviously knows her stuff, if you haven't heard of Terrorizer magazine for whatever reason, please take a gander here : http://www.terrorizer.com/frontpage_mmx

Anyway Lousie is a professional writer, and I'm not. So I'll let her introduce the videos herself!

Thanks again Louise x

Sacrilege - The Captive (Live in Birmingham 1988)

I've decided to base my three videos around women who seriously kick ass. None of this corset warbling bullshit (which I must admit I'm slightly partial too) and definitely reinforcing the belief that women have positive role models in this very male-centred world. Certainly beats that Fuel Girl/Steel Panther groupie bullshit that seems to be infiltrating every facet of my beloved music scene at the moment. Let's start with Tam Simpson from Sacrilege. Basically Birmingham in the late '80s must have been a seriously exciting place to live in you were into heavy metal. Look! This is a Candlemass show. Fuck! And Sacrilege are opening. If I'd lived there Tam would have been my hero. She is anyway. Xtreem Records just put out a compilation of their demos - get it!

Arkona - Pokrovi Nebesnogo Startsa

I grew up with folk music so as you can imagine I'm pretty much at my happiest around folk metal. I was raised on a heady diet of strong, female voices from Sandy Denny, Melanie, Maddy Prior, Jacqui McShee and folk metal seems to be the one sub-genre of metal where women are most accepted. From the more acoustic fare of Jex Thoth through to this blackened outpouring of menstual mayhem courtesy of Russia's Arkona. Vocalist Masha Scream is a true matriarch - I can imagine her ancestral sisters ruling the tribe and putting the warrior men firmly in their place.

The Runaways - Rock N Roll

I can't fucking wait for the biopic based on the lives of Joan Jett, Cherrie Currie, Sandy West, Micky Steele, Lita Ford and Jackie Fox. The Runaways did what they wanted. They were punk rock incarnate. The boys wanted to be with them and the girls wanted to be them. They paved the way and girls, we love you for it.

Triple Thrash Treat BADMAN edition

I'm slowly running out of metal experts in my address book to harass for video selections. However, this week the selection is by a man I should have asked near the beginning of all this craziness. Sam 'Badman' Thredder (Don't ask how he got his nickname, it'll give you nightmares) is someone heavily involved in heavy music. He has a lovely studio setup (http://www.myspace.com/thecrosneststudio) where a LOT of bands record their albums and also plays in innumerable projects ranging from Hench Beast(http://www.myspace.com/henchbeast), HellBent Diehard (http://www.myspace.com/hellbentdiehard) and Destron to his newest, SlabDragger (http://www.myspace.com/slabdragger). He's chosen some tunes that will make your soul shit itself.

Broken Hope - 'Into the Necrosphere'

Good, solid death metal. I remember this band had a song title 'She Came Out in Chunks'.

Napalm Death - "World Keeps Turning"

Grrriiiizzzziiiinnndddd!

Possessed - "Heretic"

One of the earliest dm bands! Frantic shit, I think Larry Lalonde played guitar for them for a little bit. Can an internerd please verify my claim? I'm all wikipedia'd out thanks

That's it for this week. Thrash on!

TRIPLE THRASH TREAT SWOZIFIED

Woo hoo!

So this week has been chosen by Swoz of the rather splendid Milton Keynes band Hard Target (go here for the band's myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/hardtargethc, get their ep here: http://www.rucktionmusic.com/default.aspx?Search=hard%20target&SearchIn=*&PageNumber=1&ProductsOnPage=20),

rather sweet sounds coming your way!

1.Vio-Lence "Bodies on Bodies"

For those not in the know, Vio-lence was the band Robb Flynn used to be in before deciding to start a band with cringeworthy lyrical refrains like 'Let Freedom Ring with a Shotgun Blast'. Nice metal thrashing madness!

2.D.R.I - 'Thrashard'

The Dirty Rotten Imbeciles themselves with some tight, tight crossover. 'Suit and Tie Guy' is my personal favourite but this is SWOZ'S TTT not mine!

3. Holy Terror - 'A fool's Gold'

Another band I'm totally embarassed to know nothing about! Good tune!

That's it for this week.

Thrash out.

Triple Thrash Treat via Khaled!

Khaled Lowe is a brother in metal and booze. He has a great knowledge of and taste in metal bands. He also directs some pretty sick vids for people, with Ninebar and TRC but 2 videos in his resume (go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anz_kVX3KGk and here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHE3T3Z6ieQ for these treats).

Any I asked Khaled for 3 video choices for his own TTT, and here is the result. Pretty Awesome choices!

MORBID ANGEL - 'Rapture'

Also one of my fave videos, this shows the 'Angel with one of their most furious jams. Are they actually going to do a new album with Dave Vincent or not? Someone let me know please. Thanx

FORBIDDEN - 'Step by Step'

Forbidden are totally a band I drastically need to educate myself about. Banging shit.

CARCASS - 'Heartwork'

One of THE reasons I got into Death Metal, this song and video is great. This comes from a time that Sony/Columbia did a distribution deal with Earache (around '93/'94 I think) and as such some of the videos from this time had a high budget sheen to them. Longtime fans of Carcass seemed to hate this era of their output, I remember reading someone from Autopsy saying that Heartwork 'sounds like fucking Queensryche'. I still love it regardless, and their earlier stuff too.

Peace out thrashsters. Cheers again to Khaled.

TRIPLE THRASH TREAT Stevie Loftin Edition!

TTT time again! This time my friend Stevie has chosen the videos, including a band I hadn't heard before, a Testament track I hadn't heard before and an all time Fave by ANTHRAX. So let's get to it biizzatch

1.WARBRINGER - 'Combat Shock'

A contemporary band I hadn't perused before, after a cursory listen I decree Steve has made a pretty solid choice!

2.TESTAMENT - 'Souls of Black'

Unfortunately, embedding was disabled by request, so you're gonna have to follow the link for this. Sorry Kids!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqiTNHJVp9E

3.ANTHRAX - 'MADHOUSE'

This makes me metal thrashin mad yooooooo!

Cheers again to Steve, if you have any choices comment/send me a message bloooood x

Triple Thrash Treat Vol 4. Skill Wizard Edition

After an extended hiatus the Triple Thrash Treat is back with a vengence. This selection is courtesy of dj/movie mogul/thrash head Marek 'SkillWizard' Steven. The man plays tunes at decent metal gigs and represents the thrash 24-7. Blog here: http://skillwizard.blogspot.com/, myspace here: http://www.myspace.com/skillwizard.

Enjoy.

Sacred Reich- The American Way

Fresh from the California Man soundtrack here's the 'Reich with their stomptastic Reagan fuelled hit "The American Way". Brandan Frasier MOSH

Nuclear Assault - Critical Mass

The first in a Dan Lilker double bill NA leads the way in a trend that didn't quite take off, thrash karaoke.

Brutal Truth - 'Ill Neglect'

Griiiiiinnnnnnndddddddddddd!

The Great Katt is GOD

I can't believe I totally forgot about the Great Katt. BEETHOVEN ON SPEED!

Triple Thrash Treat Vol 3.

Keex's band Comanechi are releasing their debut album in early December. She has a blog post (on http:\\exceedinglygoodkeex.blogspot.com) linking to an interview, where she gives a track by track rundown. Now, the significance here is that she mentions bands like Celtic Frost(!) and even Bolt Thrower(!!!) and its stoked me enough to do a triple thrash treat post as I haven't heard either of those bands in ages.

Celtic Frost - "Circle of Tyrants" - Fantastic, grimy metal. Tom G Warrior!!!! Celtic Frost did a couple of dogy prog-esque albums after the first ones. If you like Celtic Frost check out HellHammer too.

Bolt Thrower - "Cenotaph" - Catchiest main riff ever. Bolt Thrower used to have some pretty cool album covers.

Grave - "Soulless" - Keeping in theme with Celtic Frost this is grrirriiiiiiimmmmyyyy, check the guitar sound! I managed to see Grave play a few years ago with Cryptopsy, they killed it.

Triple Thrash Treat vol 2

I'm a day late with the triple thrash treat. Sorry dudes. This week we have Dark Angel live in London, Sepultura's video for 'Arise' and a bit of Annihilator with 'Alison Hell' which has the best chorus vocals ever from guitarist Jeff Waters, surely. Thats even without the part at 3:11 with the funkiest vox in this universe.

Peace.

Dark Angel - "WE have Arrived" Dark Angel are a good solid LA thrash band, if you like Slayer you should investigate more of their stuff. I'm pretty sure their back catalogue was re-issued by Century Media so it shouldn't be too hard for you guys.

Sepultura - "Arise" - The Seps with their last truly thrashy anthem Arise from the album of the same name. Although I do like Chaos AD as equally unlike some thrash purists.

Annihilator - "Alsion hell" - This was a fun video! I'll let it speak for itself.

THE TRIPLE THRASH TREAT vol1.

Back in the early 90s when MTV Europe was half decent, there was a metal show called Headbanger's Ball presented by some woman called Vanessa Warwick. They used to have some sick bands and was how I found out about metal back in the days before the internet and when Death Metal was still new and exciting.

Every week there was a slot called the 'Triple Thrash Treat' where viewers would send in a request for 3 death metal or thrash videos. It was the hi light of the week for me, I'd tape it on the Sunday night and watch it in the morning before shitty school, I'd normally fast forward through all the other stuff and watch it first as that's what I was into more than anything at the time - Death Metal. Anyway I decided to bring back the triple thrash treat every week to my blog. Here are my first three vids:

At the Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease

ATG are so passe now (Everyone claims to be influenced by them) but when this vid came out their sound was so fresh and awesome.

Death - Lack of Comprehension

This song is soooo good from the guitar intro to the fast bit in the middle to the breakdowny guitar part during the chorus. The singer Chuck Schuldiner died some years ago from a brain tumor. R I P x

Dismember - Dreaming in Red

First death metal song I ever heard. Heaviest thing I had heard before this was Metallica. This blew me away.