Originally published at: Testament's curse of Osiris video hits all the right notes | Boing Boing
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If I remember correctly their “Trial by Fire” was used as bumper music in and out of commercials on the original MTV Headbangers Ball.
The thing I like about metal is the riffage. So the shredding solos, the vocals/lyrics, whatever minimal melody there is-- they’re not so important. But weirdly angular, or rhythmic chugging along riffs are what electric guitar is all about. Riding that low E string as a pedal point.
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Hey boingboing tagger, this is not Death Metal.
Testament was, originally, one of the 2nd wave thrash bands that followed the breakthrough of the Big 4 (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax). This new stuff is “blackened thrash”, i.e. thrash that has taken on some black metal elements (particularly the vocal stylings - classic thrash didn’t do the guttural thing).
I saw Testament just a few years ago and they were killing it.
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I’m not that into this style of metal but I can see how it would sound great to headbang to. The Ancient Egypt theme made me think of one of the classics, Iron Maiden’s “Powerslave”, about a pharaoh who’s about to die and not too happy about it:
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Not really a big metal fan, but dang, the drums here are outrageously fast. (Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s sort of common for the genre though.)
the riffage
Amen, brother. And the super-distorted guitar that is still incredibly tightly controlled.
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No wonder they sound so angry.
Metal has more schisms than the Christian faith. I love how genres clave sub-genres.
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Drum and bass has even more.
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