Your way in
Teutonic thrash 1984
The German version: dirtier, faster and much closer to what would become death and black metal.
- Heaviness
- 9
- Speed
- 9
- Melody
- 4
- Where from
- Germany
- Tempo
- 190-260 bpm
- Song length
- 3.5-5 min
- Written about
- War, Blasphemy, Violence, Beer, on the Tankard wing
- Vocals
- Shouted
Why this one
| You said | Teutonic thrash | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shouting, but I can still hear the words When someone is singing, what should come out? | shouted | 100% | ×3 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1984 | 76% | ×1 |
| The dark What should the words be about? | War, Blasphemy, Violence, Beer, on the Tankard wing | 50% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 85% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, era 1, about 1 out of 5. Teutonic thrash leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Slayer, Reign in Blood 1986
Slayer - Reign in Blood. Twenty-nine minutes that redefined the word extreme.
- 2The one to put on first
Kreator, Pleasure to Kill 1986
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill. The point where thrash becomes death metal without announcing it.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Thrash metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Teutonic thrash's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Gothic metal 78%
Death-doom that adds keyboards, romance and female vocals. It popularised the beauty-and-the-beast formula.
4 steps from Teutonic thrash, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Gothic metal -
Youth crew / straight edge 77%
Hardcore with a code: no alcohol, no drugs, gang vocals and breakdowns. The ethics of the scene became the subject of the songs.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Teutonic thrash.
The way into Youth crew / straight edge
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 5.
- The dark put 119 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 5.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.