Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Hahahahaha.......hahahahahahahaha...... nee maar nu effe serieus.... jongens, kom op. Kan dit niet gewoon uit de muziekgeschiedenis geschrapt worden? Niemand zou dat missen, toch?
Lollig.
I've never liked Anthrax and this only affirms my dislike of them
I tried really hard to get through this album but I just couldn't make it. Sounded like a machine gun set to auto-fire and gave me a headache.
Of the so-called “Big Four” of thrash metal, I’d say these guys rank 5th.
Couldn’t get through the whole album, drums are excessive and that’s probably intentional and the point but for me it disrupts the rest. Singing is actually quite clean and impressive, sounds a bit like an Ozzy Osbourne impression and probably inspired by Sabbath and tried to put their spin on it.
Not for me
In case you’re planning your next vacation the four cities where Anthrax is most popular are Santiago, Sao Paulo, Mexico and Bogotá. This apparently is the LP that launched them into the Big Four of Thrash Metal elite.
Just not in the mood for 80s metal. There's better genre music before and after this. Pretty dull, uninspired and generic.
Meh…
I'm either far too immature to appreciate this or far to mature to to appreciate this. Either way . . . get off my lawn.
surely got poisoned. first ever poison by audio consumption
Ça fait chuter mon average rating et personne ne veut ça
cf. ma précédente review d'Alice in Chains
More like “Far from Interesting”, am I right? While we’re here and since this is the first thrash record I’m reviewing, I’m gonna lay out where I land with Thrash’s “Big Four”: Metallica: hands down the best of the four in terms of songwriting. They had a gift for writing great compositions that were not only heavy, but with twists and turns that could start and stop on a dime. Not the most technically skilled of the big four, but their knack for songwriting puts them well above the competition. Megadeth: Highly skilled and technical, faster than a meth head on a motocross bike. The thrashiest of the thrashers, perhaps. In terms of songwriting and composition, a notch below Metallica, but their technique and skill is above the rest. Slayer: Just brutal and uncompromising. Beyond extreme. Speed for the sake of speed. Melodicism is nil, but their fans don’t care, they want destruction. Their songwriting and compositions, save a few aberrations here and there, is nearly non-existent - Slayer is audio chaos. And now the star of today’s show… Anthrax: kind of a weird hybrid between the heaviness of Metallica and the speed of Slayer, but with a more lighthearted attitude and willingness to incorporate other genres into their thrash. Of the Big Four, they are the closest to punk and hardcore on the thrash spectrum, due in no small part to their proximity to the NYC scene in the 80’s (also explains their interest in hip-hop. NYC music scene was a veritable melting pot back then). Anthrax was always my least favorite of the four. That hasn’t changed. I made it about halfway through this record before shutting it off. Their songs always felt very stale to me. I think they might be the most “of-their-time” of the four. This record still feels like an 80’s metal record, where some of the records from Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer don’t feel as tied to the era they were released. Long story short, I respect Anthrax, but their music isn’t for me.
I prefer music that doesn't vibrate my teeth.
It hurts me ears. Dad.
Nope nope nope, this is just very bad white noise, it only got 1/5 because I had to give something
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So, I listened and didn't like. Re-listened, still didn't like. Read Luke's review before I was going to write mine and decided to listen AGAIN, at the gym.... Load and fast fast for sure, but obnoxious and repetitive. May be the only time I turned down my music when working out. But it wasn't total disaster. I had a good chest workout! Being a big Rage fan, I thought I'd get into the in your face bands like Pantera and Anthrax, but it jut doesn't do it for me..... Original score 1 Score after last night 1.5 because I gad a good workout.
wow, I extremely hate this
i went to see mogwai last night. that was good, this is not.
crap
I don’t like it. A lot of people do, but I don’t.
Första plattan jag inte tar mig igenom. Kom till Indians men sen gick det inte längre. Ni vet betyget.
I don't like metal.
Like Metallica but really bad
Not into metal really
Thrash metal has never appealed to me. This proves it.
Sounds just like any other speed/trash metall band. Its fairly difficult to be unique and creative in metall and this album is no exception. It is a well produced album by talented musicians but you would not find me llsteting to this ever again.
Trash Metal, aber leider langweilig mit nerviger Stimme
Hated this. The song "Indians" was so wrong. Good drums though.
Music that doesn’t speak to me at all
Oh literally just fuck off. I can't even be arsed to write something about this in great detail. I struggled through this and tried to be open minded but cba
Trash.
Hvað get ég sagt? Mér finnst óþægilegt að hlusta á Trash metal, beinlínis líkamlega óþægilegt. Get dáðst að hröðum trommuslætti og ágætum og skýrum söng. En þetta er ekki fyrir mig.
Not my vibe.
Not fo me.
I’m giving this a 1 cause I’m tired of this list giving us this type of music over and over and over again and I’m in a bad mood today and I’d rather listen to the next album on the list which is Joan Armatrading which I haven’t heard but I already know it’s better than this sorry not sorry.
1987. Caught In A Mosh
Ugh, that was was a slog. I did not like it. It does make me curious about what kind of musical attributes are prized by people who love this band. Maybe there’s an article about thrash metal and what it does for people who like it.
Not my kind
yuck
Nah.
I listened to a little bit of Metallica recently. These albums have led me to question whether I remember stuff I loved back in the day through rose-colored glasses, or however that metaphor goes. How much is nostalgia impacting how I review something I liked as a teenager? Well, listening to Metallica again, I realized I don't like it as much as I did in the late 90s (not a huge fan, but like them enough to own a few albums). Still some damn-impressive guitar playing and drumming, but the vocals and the whole package just doesn't do it for me anymore. Anthrax is worse Metallica. Much worse. The only question remaining is if Anthrax is worse than Venom... (If I had hair long enough to whip it around when headbanging, would I like this more?) Of the "big four" metal bands of the 80s (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax), Anthrax is the only one to never win a Grammy for Best Metal Performance. They even lost out to Tenacious D once, and Tenacious D is at least 1/2 loving parody. We'll see when the other metal bands come up on the list, but I think Anthrax just isn't that good.
I can handle the music for a couple songs, I can’t handle the “singing”. I just can’t get sit through more than a couple tracks, so it’s a hard pass from me.
hate hate hate this. 1 star is an affront to the other albums ive given it to
Tried playing Anthrax in a glass house on the Oregon coast and the ocean disapproved. Anthrax is a serious infectious disease caused by gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria known as Bacillus anthracis. Anthrax can be found naturally in soil and commonly affects domestic and wild animals around the world. Although it is rare in the United States, people can get sick with anthrax if they come in contact with infected animals or contaminated animal products. Anthrax can cause severe illness in both humans and animals.
With the first strum of a bad guitar effect I was like, “I’m going to hate this.” But once the pounding double kick came in I was open to it being cool. It’s very heavy, which is what I found Metallica lacking. The band is definitely talented, at least technically. I like the punk rock chanting. I heard a lot of influences, Rush, Prague, Punk. I could see a direct line leasing from Anthrax to Rage Against the Machine. But overall, I found that after the effect of the driving metal wore off, my toes stopped tapping, I found it repetitive and boring. I also found the singer pretty lack luster—except for his wild banshee like screams—he doesn’t seem up to snuff compared to the technical skill of the band, his voice was just sort of bland/flat. I started out thinking it might top Metallica, but eventually I realized this album lacked the song craft of Metallica. But my toes were tapping the whole time and I was pumped. I’m thinking barely a two or a 1.
It's heavy in a way Metallica wishes they were. I was excited and hopeful when I clicked play, but that heaviness came at a cost of variety. I pretty quickly lost interest to the repetitiveness. Made for an interesting soundtrack as I sat in on a DE&I meeting.
Bad. Unlistenable.
This album gave me anxiety!
That's a nope from me.
thrash metal, nope.
No me gusta
Not into it