THE BIG 4 poll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUraxKNxCm4&feature=related

hahaha

I think the fact that Slayer is the only band in the Big 4 listed in the Spin Alternative Record Guide says a little something about their appeal on ILX.

any metal community would vote slayer, megadeth, metallica, anthrax in that order & would then spend most of the thread arguing about whether there ought to be a fifth option for metallica with cliff, and then side-track into how Testament really ought to be here instead of Anthrax

lol aero much love

I will put on an Anthrax album before Metallica and Megadeth any day of the week.

which one

I will put on an Anthrax album before Metallica and Megadeth any day of the week.

well, then you're kind of silly imo, because Anthrax doesn't have any albums as good as Metallica's & Megadeth's best albums. they're a great band. but you're kinda repping for EPMD over PE here. fuck anybody who isn't down with EPMD but over PE? come on now.

By the way, the t-shirts at the big four were all ugly as fuck.

Someone should have really commissioned one of those faux-experimental jetset

METALLICA&
SLAYER&
MEGADETH&
ANTHRAX.

all helevitica shirts because some of us aren't 15 anymore.

aero, i'm just saying that's personal preference man. i'm sure some people like EPMD over PE

Does Pushead still roam the earth?

actually I would challop EPMD over PE all day for lols and would argue in earnest that if you want chill grooves PE never found any as deep as EPMD's

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2503/4031770862_acffa97ea9_b.jpg

xp

they could have at least had the band names in each other's logo styles or something

when i said "peak" i was thinking "peak of their talents", not sales

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Friday, September 16, 2011 6:34 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark

can't fucking believe it took you guys 30 posts to understand this was jordan's point in the first place

it didn't, really

more obtuse than a blind fucking samurai in this bitch sometimes i swear to god

Metallica's peak, that's where I'm a viking.

lol

why are these bands the big 4?

Interesting that there was a Clash of the Titans tour in 1991 with this line-up, except swapping Alice in Chains for Metallica.

responding to this:
I was at the Big 4 and thought to myself that it really does make sense that the two biggest bands from this are the most extreme and the most unrepentantly wussy
with this:
might also be the fact that during their peak metallica was completely incapable of writing something that wasn't a hook.

implies that their commercial and creative peaks are related, which is not the case with Metallica imho

but whatever HOOS, let's move on...

xp

why are these bands the big 4?

― Lamp, Friday, September 16, 2011 7:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

it was the name of a tour they did (are doing?) together

http://www.metallicatickets.org/metallica-tour-schedule

um, no.

shakey, i wasn't responding to whiney, i was responding to YOU! specifically this, where you were saying that metallica's success was by default:

it's funny to look at this list - the reasons Metallica became the breakout/crossover act are readily apparent (Slayer = too extreme/Satanic/evil, Megadeth = too political, Anthrax = not decent enough songwriters/too goofy) I mean I think Metallica's better than Anthrax but that isn't saying a whole lot.

are you gonna be pedantic to me everywhere now or just in this thread xp

they were called the Big Four way before that tour tho!

i will stan for Among the Living forever and ever and ever

basically albumwise for me this is:

Among The Living
Reign In Blood
Master of Puppets
Peace Sells

all of which are shit hot awesome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(audit_firms)

and Chaos AD

and The Legacy

they were called the Big Four way before that tour tho!

― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, September 16, 2011 7:54 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

sure but ime it lead to a mass popularization of said term

it is possible that my world of young people is not composed of metalheads

The staying power of 1980s metal has been amply demonstrated of late, with a number of bands garnering well-attended tours and briskly selling albums. One of the speed metal Big Four (along with Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth), Anthrax has a good shot at being a band that survives to rock into middle age.

from the Hollywood Reporter, 1998. Earliest citation in Nexis.

and Immaculate Deception

ok not really

i can't compare the four. each is amazing in their own way. one thing i'll say is that Rust In Peace is maybe better than any Metallica record.

and also that this Safe Home such a great fun track and was ace when I caught Anthrax last year. such a well constructed track. it's also one of the best 'love songs that pretend to be about a person but are actually about metal and we'll all realise that but not say it when we sing along at the show' tracks EVAH:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8SM_Hr1Ldk

as to why these guys are actually called the Big Four - well, afaict it's just because they were the first + biggest bands of the genre. the designation's been around for quite awhile, I would guess before '98 even but I dunno.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_of_Thrash

yeah this is impossible

slayer, really, probably, but it's like choosing between one of your really ugly, surly children

^^

if nothing else, slayer have probably been the band i've listened to most consistently over the last 20 years or so. it took a long time to return to the others, probably because i overplayed the classics when i was 11 to 14 or so.

somewhere the dudes in Testament and Exodus are just staring at this thread, stewing with hate

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you know what's really OFF THE CHAIN???

dan spitz from anthrax now does repair and restoration of high end vintage swiss watches!

http://www.spitzwatch.com/

\m/

lol xp

sometimes u can even hear the air being let out of a hardman

A multiple Grammy nominated Platinum recording artist and Swiss Certified Master Watchmaker of Complications Specialist takes you through another dimension.

!!!

is this like that thing aero did the other day where you just insert one total fabrication into a press release

it's ALL REAL TALK SWISS TIME PIECE LUXURY FIXIN DOGG