REQUIEM METAL PODCAST - Crucial Years in Metal: 1988

Crucial Years in Metal: 1988

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04/17/10 • 87 min

REQUIEM METAL PODCAST

Continuing our countdown of Crucial Years in Metal, we arrive at 1988. A year when thrash was approaching it's zenith and grindcore and death metal were beginning their rise. The rapidly approaching reign of Earache Records was only a few years away and the tent pole bands of Carcass and Napalm Death were changing as quickly as they released records. Within a few short years we'd see the rise of Swedish Death Metal scene, black metal's second coming and the apparent decline of the whole genre. Turbulent years are on the horizon, but 1988 marked a year of beginnings and endings in the various genres and sub-genres of the metal umbrella.

Metallica, "Blackened", ...and Justice For All

Talkset #1

Queensrÿche, "Spreading the Disease", Operation: Mindcrime

Voivod, "Tribal Convictions", Dimensional Hatross

Napalm Death, "Lucid Fairytale", From Enslavement to Obliteration

Carcass, "Burnt to a Crisp", Reek of Putrefaction

Bolt Thrower, "Concession of Pain", In Battle There is No Law

Talkset #2

Slayer, "Read Between the Lies", South of Heaven

Testament, "Trial by Fire", A New Order

Death, "Born Dead", Leprosy

Bathory, "For All Those Who Died", Blood Fire Death

Ministry, "The Missing", Land of Rape and Honey

Talkset #3

Soundgarden, "Beyond The Wheel", Ultramega OK

Danzig, "Mother", Danzig

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Metallica, "Blackened", ...and Justice For All

Talkset #1

Queensrÿche, "Spreading the Disease", Operation: Mindcrime

Voivod, "Tribal Convictions", Dimensional Hatross

Napalm Death, "Lucid Fairytale", From Enslavement to Obliteration

Carcass, "Burnt to a Crisp", Reek of Putrefaction

Bolt Thrower, "Concession of Pain", In Battle There is No Law

Talkset #2

Slayer, "Read Between the Lies", South of Heaven

Testament, "Trial by Fire", A New Order

Death, "Born Dead", Leprosy

Bathory, "For All Those Who Died", Blood Fire Death

Ministry, "The Missing", Land of Rape and Honey

Talkset #3

Soundgarden, "Beyond The Wheel", Ultramega OK

Danzig, "Mother", Danzig

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Crucial Years in Metal: 1985

Yes. Everyone has a top list of something it seems, and we're no different. Our approach to this cliche of journalism is highlighting landmark years in metal, with an emphasis on years that had an abundant of seminal releases. This also means that we're dealing in volume of records released in certain years, so we're missing some crucial LPs in our lists, but most of those we've covered or will cover in upcoming shows. So now it begins... number 10 in our list: 1985. (Disclaimer: we're trying to approach this from an extreme metal standpoint, not just metal in general. If that were the case, we'd be starting back in the 70s.)

Iron Maiden , "Aces High", Live After Death

Talkset #1

Megadeth, "Mechanix", Killing is My Business... and Business is Good!

Kreator, "Endless Pain", Endless Pain

Trouble, "Fear No Evil", Psalm 9 (formerly 'Trouble')

Anthrax, "A.I.R.", Spreading the Disease

Talkset #2

Possessed, "Pentagram", Seven Churches

DRI, "I'd Rather Be Sleeping", Dealing With It!

Celtic Frost, "Jewel Throne", To Mega Therion

Slayer, "Necrophilliac", Hell Awaits

Exodus, "And Then There Where None", Bonded by Blood

Talkset #3

S.O.D., "Pussy-Whipped", Speak English or Die

Distruction, "Bestial Invasion", Infernal Overkill

Bathory, "The Return of Darkness and Evil", The Return...

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Crucial Years in Metal: 2001

Continuing our countdown of Crucial Years in Metal, we arrive at 2001.

It was a year of reinventions and innovation that the metal world greatly needed to maintain relevance in critics circles. Bands like Cathedral came back with a fusion of all their various styles consolidated into a stripped down, crushingly heavy magnum opus, Pig Destroyer had refreshed grind, Enslaved had taken their songwriting to the next level and Katatonia refined their style into a perfect amalgam of indie rock, metal and everything in between. Add to that Converge’s Jane Doe and 2001 stands out in the annals of metal history as a banner year.

Children of Bodom, "Kissing the Shadows", Follow the Reaper

Talkset #1

Opeth, "Bleak", Blackwater Park

Cathedral, "Melancholy Emperor", Endtyme

Enslaved, "Vision: Sphere of the Elements – A Monument Part II", Monumension

Pig Destroyer, "Trojan Whore", Prowler in the Yard

Talkset #2

Converge, "The Broken Vow", Jane Doe

Katatonia, "Passing Bird", Last Fair Deal Gone Down

Rapture, "This is Where I Am", Futile

Neurosis, "From Where Its Roots Run", A Sun That Never Sets

Thorns, "Stellar Master Elite", Thorns