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 Originally Posted by supa
but Rentons point of faster tracks on later albums isn't really true. Listen to Whiplash on Kill em All. Nuff said?
I won't argue too hard since you're obviously coming from a superior position, but Whiplash (and Metal Militia) wasn't really that fast. It was certainly fast for its day and by Metallica standards but the Damage Inc esque stuff later was faster.
Honestly Metallica was always limited by having The Worst Metal Drummer Of All Time (tm) so that might have just been as fast as they could make it. Listening to the earliest Slayer records, I seem to recall them sounding VERY like Kill em All, but they quickly went in a much different direction than Metallica after that.
Interesting semi-unrelated: I find it funny how Metallica was so hardcore about forging this genre in the early days but their music was really just louder/harder blues-Sabbath-Lizzy-influenced rock. Other bands (like Slayer) actually carved new niche subgenres of metal and remained largely in obscurity because of it.
Anyway I kind of hate both of the bands now, but it is fun to have warm reminiscences of my former musical tastes.
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