I voted for Roots. I fucking love that album.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 17 April 2021 01:31 (three years ago) link
but incubus was New York.
Pretty sure this was the Incubus from Louisiana.
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 17 April 2021 11:35 (three years ago) link
aka Oppobrium?
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 April 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
voted Arise, but really could have gone for any of the last four here.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Saturday, 17 April 2021 15:40 (three years ago) link
Sepultura were really easily influenced. First stuff sounds like Sodom/Vulcano, then it’s a mix of Metallica/Slayer, then by the time of Chaos AD it’s the groove metal of tourmates Pantera and Biohazard, then they hopped on the nu-metal bandwagon with Ross Robinson, etc.
At some point I started noticing this (around Arise) and young me lost a lot of respect for them and that coloured my opinion of the later records. In retrospect, Chaos AD is probably the best groove metal album ever (maybe that’s faint praise, but still).
Has to be Beneath The Remains though, all-out agression works better for them than pent up anger.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 17 April 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
― Siegbran, Saturday, 17 April 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 18 April 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
Really surprised by these results. I was expecting either Arise > Chaos > Beneath > Roots or Arise > Chaos > Roots > Beneath.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 18 April 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
As good as Arise is it just doesn't quite reach the height of BTR for me. Tremendously exciting record at the time and within a year of BTR coming out it seemed like there were dozens of new death/thrash bands in the SoCal scene (where I grew up), it really set a fire there.
Yup!
― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 18 April 2021 04:51 (three years ago) link
I'm surprised by the results too, I always thought Arise was the favourite of thrash metal fans, while the others championed Chaos A.D. and/or Roots. Maybe it's partially an age thing? I was too young for Arise but a teenager when Chaos A.D. and Roots were released and I loved them both. Everyone who complained about groove/nu metal were just old. and still are tbh.
― braised cod, Sunday, 18 April 2021 10:46 (three years ago) link
WHOHAS WON?WHO HAS DIED?
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Sunday, 30 January 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link
BENEATH THE REMAAAAINS
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 31 January 2022 02:02 (two years ago) link
completely forgot i made this poll, wow i'm so cool
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 31 January 2022 02:17 (two years ago) link
Wish I'd seen it sooner!I didn't get a chance to write about them 'til '06, the line-up that made (and most of them toured behind) Dante XXI, which really impressed me---also squeezed a bare minimum of older albums into the word count of my Charlotte Creative Loafing show preview-feature, archived here: https://myloaf.blogspot.com/2017/02/symptoms-of-life-sepultura-still-digs.html
― dow, Monday, 31 January 2022 02:24 (two years ago) link
Really surprised by these results. I was expecting either Arise > Chaos > Beneath > Roots or Arise > Chaos > Roots > Beneath
I think it would be more surprising if BTR wasn’t in the top 2 of either configuration
― Master of Treacle, Monday, 31 January 2022 02:36 (two years ago) link
yeah Arise was basically BTR with the more extreme edges sanded off, essentially
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 January 2022 02:37 (two years ago) link
I expect most people who have BTR or Chaos AD as their #1 have Arise as their #2 album?
― Siegbran, Monday, 31 January 2022 11:49 (two years ago) link
I could never get into Arise. Always preferred BTR by far.
― charlie rex, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 10:21 (two years ago) link
Walking these dirty streetsWith hate in my mindFeeling the scorn of the worldI won't follow rules
― Toonie Orlando (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 August 2022 03:31 (one year ago) link
new Soulfly album is solid.
― braised cod, Saturday, 20 August 2022 06:15 (one year ago) link
^it is! kind of hilarious to me how they started out as the second-wave of nu-metal and are now just basically traditional metal with elements of thrash and other stuff, with little to no nu-metal left.
listening to Chaos now. "Territory" fuckin rules.
― and the worms, they entered his ass (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 August 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
lots of economical riffs all over this thing. one thing that I think makes me like this better than other purveyors of this style is that other groove/post-thrash act didn't create atmospheres, they just kinda stuck staccato riffs together and hoped for the best.
still not better than Beneath though, by a long shot, but i enjoy it.
― and the worms, they entered his ass (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 August 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
It's crazy that they have almost twice as many albums with Derrick Green (10) as with Max (6), and some of them are even kinda good, but nobody's favorite Sepultura album is a Derrick album.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 25 August 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
at least 3 or 4 of them are really quite good.
i'm sure there's someone out there who thinks Against is the best, but they probably aren't into thrash.
― and the worms, they entered his ass (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 August 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link