How do I take the certainty and me to form the audacity of this judgment? Well, after I heard over the weekend alternately 'Blackening', 'Master of Puppets' and 'Ride the Lightning', I can come to no other conclusion.
The sound can not and should not be compared, except that listen to the Metallicasachen still quite good even after 20 years you.
First, MH are around corners faster, and compare in terms of speed and fury rather with Slayer, the riffing rather with early Megadeth and Anthrax. In MoP there only 2 pieces that could keep up: 'Battery' and 'Damage Inc.'.
Secondly, 'The Blackening' of highly complex numbers with countless riffs, and is therefore more likely, if one wants to use a metallic album for comparison, a '... And Justice For All'. And ever is lagging the whole Vergleicherei because this album can stand alone by itself in space without having hardly freshly squeezed, the same with a 20-year-old classic poses, on a balance scale.
Thirdly, and this is now the quintessence of my personal comparison, this album is most of all to compare with Pantera - the similar sound, the fury of 'Vulgar Display' and the tune of 'cowboys' lurking behind every corner.
Yet MH bring with 'The Blackening' a certain modernity in the thrash metal, which of course will encounter some purists on the head. With modernity I mean the crossover traditional brute force with thrashy nu metal elements and 'System of a down' like Melodizität who manages the boys won. It is true that roared neat, sometimes almost sung, but at full throttle there is always, of acoustic parts aside times (And now please tell no one who gabs on MoP also ...). The length of the song is not filled with endless repetition of riffs, but they are developing in all directions, are faster and slower, louder or softer - and ready is the progressive melodic Emo Thrash Metal. (Yes, I invented the name!)
As Anspieltips in any event, the opener is mentioned, but the beads extend in any case over the complete works. To make yet another confrontation: I am convinced that this disc is also a long time do not get bored as 'Burn My Eyes'.
The DVD offers even 10 minutes excerpts from the tour (unexciting) and 25-minute 'making of', where the individual steps are shown pickup (for example was long taken as the very first 4 days only the drums).
Well, accommodate 5 points for trying, glasnost and perestroika in the Thrash Metal.
