THE BIG 4 poll

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

OK here's an important question.

get ready

please give this this proper attention

new dimensions of watchmaking vs. new planetary systems?

you ready?

ahem

Of all the members of the Big 4, who is the most WS?

my wife always seems very charmed by scott ian anytime he's doing an interview or talking head bit on tv

picturing them all Porky Pig style now thx Whiney

80s or now.

mustaine looks pretty great for 50. i don't think that asshole has lost a hair off his head.

Scott Ian = Meatloaf's son-in-law, btw

when i saw megadeth the bassist was james lomenzo of white lion, that band was p cute except for vito bratta

80s or now.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, September 16, 2011 5:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

whenever

waiting to see who stumps for Kerry King on this one

is hammett a heartthrob? i mean he's so sweet and sensitive!

also whiney it get really tiresome when you play Thrash Metal High School Football Coach for kids that were born in like 1988

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, September 16, 2011 11:45 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

actually, it owns and he should do it all the time.

I had to have this explained to me at Yankee Stadium. After Metallica did "Enter Sandman" some guys in the press room started chanting "FUCK YOU BOSTON (clap clap clapclapclap), FUCK YOU BOSTON (clap clap clapclapclap)." And I was like "What, did Aerosmith just walk in the room or something?"

― James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, September 16, 2011 12:04 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

smh

Mustaine does look alarmingly well-preserved, it's uncanny

otoh he probably sneers/grimaces a lot during teh sexing

o god

GIS for Slayer brings up a bunch of Sarah Michelle Geller pix, so I'm leaning that way.

i asked an IRL girl and she said Frank Bello

I don't think I've ever met a girl IRL who knew who Frank Bello was. Kudos.

what was the gender makeup like at the show? and were most of the women there like wives/girlfriends who didn't seem that into it?

+"kirk hammett" +gay


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answer is Tom Araya, obv. Somebody upthread called Slayer "humorless" ? Araya is funny as fuck

my wife's into metal but I don't think even she knows who Frank Bello is... (I've passed this question on to her btw)

I chose Metallica without even thinking about it yesterday, but reading this thread just now and seeing crap like "Slayer is a band to admire not love" and especially "people enjoy saying how much they love slayer more than they actually love slayer" -- which is just total bullshit -- I kinda wish I could go back and vote Slayer. Nobody fucking "pretended" to love Slayer, they were on a whole nother plane during 'Reign' -> 'Seasons'. 'South of Heaven' and 'Seasons of the Abyss' were total OMG can't wait go to the mall and buy it on the first day records. HUGE anticipation

you know there are a lot bands with male members where i can admit there's some ws material in there but this crew is one heap of hair and pale and oof.

that said, they all clean up much nicer now than in the heyday.

Ha, that was me that called them humorless. They're all pretty funny outside the context of the music. I just meant that Slayer's music is humorless.

I interviewed Jeff from Slayer (I think?) not long after 9/11, about how so-called extreme metal bands were reacting to it, whether they were toning anything down, etc. This is when someone called on Anthrax to change their name and Scott Ian made news, briefly, by claiming Anthrax was changing its name to Basketful of Puppies. Anyway, I asked if the band felt weird with Slayer posters all over NYC that said "God Hates Us All," dripping in blood - the album came out on 9/11 - and he was all, "no, because god does hate us all." I thought that was funny.

it's funny cuz its true

that said, they all clean up much nicer now than in the heyday.

yeah, back in the day they would have been all b.o. and stds. a little male pattern baldness is preferable.

I guess my answer would be Dave Mustaine.

http://blogs.cocoondev.org/michaelm/archives/images/Tori%20Amos.jpg

Meanwhile:

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2009/11/anvil-snubbed.jpg

"We coulda been contenders, eh."

actually, for the metalhead dudes I hung out it with in the late 80s, it was really more like the "Big 2" --> Metallica and Anthrax. Anthrax were just huge around 'Among the Living', we probably listened to that album as much as any Metallica album.

Megadeth never really even entered the discussion. They almost seemed like a novelty band, *especially* after that total garbage Sex Pistols cover. That was so laughable, I totally could not take them seriously, stopped listening to them altogether. So I missed albums like 'Rust in Peace', my loss I guess. I went to that Heaven and Hell tour too, and I didn't even bother showing up for the Megadeth set. It also hurt that they always were less a "band" and more Dave Mustaine + whoever could stand to be around him for a few months.