Heavy Metal Bastard wrote:but I for one would like to see Thrashist Regime (absolutely owned FTA '11)

Fuck man, thanks for that! Makes the long journey worth it when people enjoy say stuff like that... I should say that I hardly think we owned it and we certainly aren't anywhere near as tight as many of the bands who played (including your good selves!). Great that you liked us though!

This is the kind of thing we'd love to do, but £400 is out of our league at the moment. As you say, that's a whole lot of money, too much for your average unsigned band to get together (unless they have rich mummies and daddies, in which case they've probably never done any hard work in their lives and don't deserve to be in terrorizer anyway!). We aren't the sort of band who spend any of our gig earnings on drink, and indeed we all put a bit into the band fund every week, but we'll be paying off our album for a good while yet, and that's before we've even thought about duplication or proper pressing or any of that stuff. I'm sure the exposure would be great, but it's too much money!

As for the argument that if it was free for the bands then Terrorizer would be swamped with every Tom, Dick and Harry's half-arsed thrash demos, perhaps the people at the magazine should actually do some research and pick or approach the bands they deem worthy themselves instead of letting any bugger with £400 buy themselves a place as one of the UK's up-and-coming bands. As someone already said, that ain't gonna be a truly representative cd is it? You should instead call the article the 'richest 15 Underground Thrash Acts' or somesuch...

It also seems a lot when you consider that mags such as Zero Tolerance put bands on their cover cd (many unsigned) and don't ask a penny for it...

Time for Bangers and Thrash part 2? maybe

Has anyone considered how stupid the idea of cover mount CDs is these days anyway? Even if the £400 from each band goes straight into making the CDs, why bother with the CDs anyway!? Why not just put a link in the mag to somewhere you can download the same tracks? I really have no idea why they do covermount CDs. Does anyone actually listen to them? The only purpose they supposedly serve is to get a promo track off your album/EP out there, but it's always the same one bands have up on their website or something anyway. So why not just say forget the CD, then they can pick bands they want to cover and not waste everyone's money.

I'll happily start a new UK Thrash compilation if the bands are willing to chip in towards the costs of making it happen.

I said this awhile back, so I'm in agreement h'nyar. New UK Gash comp. would be a jar of awesomepickles.

H.O.D. Feemo wrote:I'll happily start a new UK Thrash compilation if the bands are willing to chip in towards the costs of making it happen.

Great idea! I'd be up for helping in any way I can, sleeve notes perhaps?

brilliant idea, rager would defintaley be up for that... should actually have some new recordings this year!

we would up for helping out in any way we can for sure!

Raging Paul wrote:Has anyone considered how stupid the idea of cover mount CDs is these days anyway? Even if the £400 from each band goes straight into making the CDs, why bother with the CDs anyway!? Why not just put a link in the mag to somewhere you can download the same tracks? I really have no idea why they do covermount CDs. Does anyone actually listen to them? The only purpose they supposedly serve is to get a promo track off your album/EP out there, but it's always the same one bands have up on their website or something anyway. So why not just say forget the CD, then they can pick bands they want to cover and not waste everyone's money.

This is the best post of this thread so far, and a FANTASTIC solution to the money issue. I know a lot of E-zines and such do this instead of putting out CDs, and it works to great effect! This way, people download the tracks if they want them, and if they don't want to listen, they don't end up with a shiny new coaster that all of the bands have spent their hard money producing. To think that our £400 will go towards making a lot of CDs that might not even get listened to, well that's just depressing!

This solution means that Terrorizer can hand select whichever bands they want (and if they ARE "True Cult Heavy Metal" they should already know exactly who they want in it) and we will get a representative feature, which is what we all want!

I'm all for being involved in an independent UK thrash compilation as long as we can keep costs relatively low, and if Ian can secure some support from Terrorizer then maybe we could get somewhere with it. UK thrash is a great community, and this is a great way to show it. Kemakil are planning on recording a new EP in the coming months as well, so we should have something juicy to contribute to it!

Ian, is any of this likely to be fed back to the powers that be in Terrorizer land? I think you've got some good opinions here from some great bands that I think need to be fed back to the people in control of things. More than anything, its just nice to be having this lovely discussion on here! The forum has been a bit quiet lately, I was getting worried about "the scene"!

Of course, the other thing nobody has really mentioned is that this is an international feature, so I'm guessing there's not any bias towards the UK bands, there's a whole world of thrash bands out there that I for one hadn't even thought about being in this feature!

Now that the deadline has passed, any news on when we'll know who is gonna be in it?

Not started the ball rolling with it yet, they're on the case this week.

Ok, time for a new thread.

I spotted this on another forum, an interesting perspective from the Stormspell Records owner about a similar Terrorizer deal in the past:

We were offered the same shit, but on "sale" for 300 GBP.

The sad thing is, once I told em to beat it, they frequented every single band on our roster and lured two of them to bite. I ended up splitting the cost with one of the bands as they were very enthusiastic to try it out. As expected, this feature had ZERO impact on our sales whatsoever...

Well I'll be damned