TS: Sepultura - Roots Vs Metallica - Black Album Vs Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise vs Megadeth - Countdown To extinction. The So Called "Sell-Out" albums

if i were ranking them best to worst

roots
countdown to extinction
black album
sound of white noise

sound of white noise is most likely my favourite anthrax record. unlike many, i don't think thrash benefited particularly from a "good old dose of humour" and i found the early to mid-year anthrax releases to be tedious and irksome to the core. SoWN struck me as a much more mature and focused affair than anything they'd coughed out previously, and i think it was unfairly maligned for being different and a byproduct of the grunge era, when in retrospect it was a logical and inspired step forward.

sound of white noise is the only anthrax album i can stand

This thread makes me want to listen to more Sepultura

Countdown >> Black > White Noise >> Roots

I've done a bit of a 180 on Roots. hated what I heard of it when I came out (and I honestly hate Max's vocals, because he turned his pretty unique bellow into a generic nu-metal scream), but mere generic nu-metal this isn't. percussively, it's interesting, but there are a lot of interesting sounds on the album.

the riffs aren't particularly memorable like classic Sepultura but they aren't meant to be.

some interesting chat on FB where some nutters said chaos ad was the sellout album where they got off the bus.

no, not siegbran lol

the black album is definitely my least favorite of these. sound of white noise is amazing

Its a great record unlike their others

Who is the singer in Anthrax now?

Joey Belladonna.

And yeah it's funny to look back on Sepultura jumping on two consecutive bandwagons - first the groove metal/hardcore thing, and then nu-metal.

it's really cool that they worked with carlinhos brown and brought in batucada percussion, wish i liked the music better.

some interesting chat on FB where some nutters said chaos ad was the sellout album where they got off the bus.

It's edging towards sellout a bit but it rules and I would've stayed on that bus for a couple more stops.

I saw Joey Belladonna sing the National Anthem at a Vikings game not bragging just saying

through broad stripes and bright stars
through the perilous fight
He's coming, corrupting
Aaaa-mong the liii-iii-viing