They are. I'm not knocking one off over their skill or anything, but they sound dece.

Lev - Pulverizer wrote:Finally listened to BBB, and I think they're well good.

but you have a star wars toy as your avatar and no bouncy boobs/sexually fondling etc, so you dont count

It ain't no toy fool.

Lev - Pulverizer wrote:They are. I'm not knocking one off over their skill or anything, but they sound dece.

I don't know what dece means but I think I agree. They're pretty good. Fairly good mix of the old and the new. I'm pretty sure people were happy with them until this thread. Some people just seem to jump on the shit-talk.

STD_Caps wrote:

Lev - Pulverizer wrote:They are. I'm not knocking one off over their skill or anything, but they sound dece.

I don't know what dece means

Decent.

Lev - Pulverizer wrote:It ain't no toy fool.

PLEEEEEEEEZZZE tell me you did say that in a Mr T voice

Sorry.

Cool didn't know who these guys were but i talked to the singer at the Earache xmas party saw them play Turtles with Gama Bomb. Checked out their myspace if their Demo is like this then i really cant wait to see the outcome of the CD. Riffage reminds me a bit of Forbidden. I actually think this band out of the new bands coming out of california actually sound more like bay area thrash as opposed to Merciless death with a more german thrash appeal and fueled by fire which im not very fond of. All in all dont know why there is so much people saying its rubbish. i actually found it to rage. wont be quick to judge i have to see the debut.


I also checked out other forum topics liek the one about the BBB EP and people like boovidge where saying how much it raged and On here all of a sudden its a different opinion i guess people change their mind.


from what i heard sounded very good.

A little more technical than your standard thrash band.


have you heard the leads on this guy? forbidden meets testament.




thats my point ill just agree to disagree.


cheers mates.

boove got learned

I don't care how technical or talented a band are, if they can't write good music there's no point. And as nice a man Aladdin may be (and I'm sure the other chaps are nice chaps too), their music is uninspired, unoriginal and tedious. I'm not jumping on any sort of bandwagon when I say I don't like Bonded By Blood very much because musically speaking they are a very average band and shouldn't have been signed, and they shouldn't have this much fuss being made about them. And that is my very own opinion.

Are you reading these?

- Am I what?!

Thats a fair answer Johnny, but being realistic you yourself are barely getting into Thrash. You said it yourself on another topic in this forum that you barely got the legacy and you were a bit of a thrash Noob. Me following the genre and growing up with it in the 80's can see some sort of difference between them and lets say another thrash band i can see why they got signed. I don't really think you play thrash for the originality or else you wouldn't be playing thrash right?!?!

I don't wanna give these guys too much credit. I liked what i heard they had some sort of groove to them that kinda kept me interested for more instead of the same rehash riffs over and over.


I myself wanna hear what they have up their sleeves. Ill check the debut and see what comes out of it.

a thing i did find odd was their name, but then again..

overkill took their name from a motorhead album
merciless death is a dark angel song
machine head is a deep purple album
exciter a judas priest song.


its been happening for years so i can live with it.



cheers

Agreed. Few play thrash for the sake of originality. I don't think they're sound is 'uninspired', either. Wouldn't go as far as Testament/Forbidden comparisons. I'd go for Evildead.

I think Fueled by Fire are better than BBB.

I didn't mean to say, Jon, that YOU were jumping on the band wagon but it seems some are.

kingthrash wrote:Thats a fair answer Johnny, but being realistic you yourself are barely getting into Thrash. You said it yourself on another topic in this forum that you barely got the legacy and you were a bit of a thrash Noob. Me following the genre and growing up with it in the 80's can see some sort of difference between them and lets say another thrash band i can see why they got signed. I don't really think you play thrash for the originality or else you wouldn't be playing thrash right?!?!

I don't wanna give these guys too much credit. I liked what i heard they had some sort of groove to them that kinda kept me interested for more instead of the same rehash riffs over and over.


I myself wanna hear what they have up their sleeves. Ill check the debut and see what comes out of it.

I wouldn't say I'm barely getting into thrash, I've been getting into thrash for years, I've just never been into it at the same sort of deep level most of these people on here have been until recently, which is why I jokingly called myself a 'thrash n00b'. The Legacy is just one album I've been meaning to get for ages and have only just got round to it. But that's besides the point. I can still tell what's good and bad. The originality debate can go on for ages regarding thrash, because everyone has their own opinion about what thrash is. But as far as i see it, there's a difference between writing your own music based around the conventions of thrash, and just ripping off the same typical riffs that have been heard a million times before. What I heard on Bonded By Blood's Myspace were songs that to my ears could've been written by any average thrash band, and I've listened to enough thrash metal to be able to say that. By-the-numbers bog standard formulaic riffs - in fact each song was just a slight variation on the other, and I can't be bothered with such lazy song-writing. Not everyone has to reinvent the genre, but for good lords, I just wish people would try and be a bit more creative! Take Doctor Death for a very good example. They certainly stick to the conventions of thrash in terms of drumming style and speed, but they take it to a new level by being hilarious and injecting their own personality into it, and being a bit more creative with the songwriting. And they don't use the same combination of notes in every single riff.

I can see why Bonded By Blood got signed, it's well-produced conventional generic thrash which will sell well if they're given the right image by Earache. Perhaps I would call it pop-thrash. I just don't think they should have been signed. I suppose I'll give their album a chance, that'd only be fair, but I just don't like them.

Another fair statement. I love fbf's music playing but lyrics don't do it for me. Spread the fire was no big thing. the cover was pretty cheesy and i like cheesy but this was over the top. Evildead ain't a bad comparison. I still believe i hear some forbidden riffs in there somewhere not vocals wize Russ Anderson is a superb vocalist.I still have to see their debut it can go both ways for me.