jonny_boy34 wrote:

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.

Clare wrote:I have never heard them before, but after reading this thread I decided to give them a chance and check them out on myspace. I think that they aren't THAT bad as some of you wrote! Maybe not great, but not THAT bad at all! If I listen more their stuff, maybe I will like them more. It's hard to tell something after hearing only three songs. 6/10 for me.

Speaking if they should have been signed a deal or not is a matter of argument. For some people they are great, for others they are just an average thrash band. Personally I am not impressed by their music (it's good but not superb + I don't like vocals very much), but I think they deserved a deal if they can make quite good music and there are people who like it.

Bangover wrote:i found some Dave Mustaine in my toast today /metulz/.

Atom wrote:Dave Mustaine found god in his near death experience.

Immortalicide wrote:

please tell me that czarny jak noc is an insult, cuz if it isnt, it really should be !!

kingthrash wrote:I also found a bit of Dave Mustaine in his vocals that was pretty cool.