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Technical thrash 1988
Thrash with dissonant chords, odd meters and bass up front. The bridge between thrash and progressive metal.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 9
- Melody
- 5
- Where from
- USA / Canada
- Tempo
- 160-240 bpm
- Song length
- 4-8 min
- Written about
- Dystopia and technology, Paranoia, Language and perception, Science fiction
- Vocals
- Shouted
Why this one
| You said | Technical thrash | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shouting, but I can still hear the words When someone is singing, what should come out? | shouted | 100% | ×3 |
| As heavy as it gets How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 80% | ×2 |
| Somewhere else entirely What should the words be about? | Dystopia and technology, Paranoia, Language and perception, Science fiction | 50% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 85% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, about 1 out of 6. Technical thrash leads the next by 2 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Slayer, Reign in Blood 1986
Slayer - Reign in Blood. Twenty-nine minutes that redefined the word extreme.
- 2The one to put on first
Voivod, Nothingface 1989
Voivod - Nothingface. It includes a Pink Floyd cover that makes perfect sense.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Thrash metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Technical thrash's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Post-metal / atmospheric sludge 83%
Sludge with post-rock logic: long songs, crescendos and instrumental passages. Neurosis invented the form.
5 steps from Technical thrash, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Post-metal / atmospheric sludge -
Celtic metal 80%
Irish melodies and traditional instruments over black or heavy metal.
4 steps from Technical thrash, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Celtic metal
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- As heavy as it gets put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Rock and roll, Folk rock, Country rock. Worth 2 of 6.
- Somewhere else entirely put 106 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 6.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.