New York, NYC, USA’s sludgy crossover thrash band from the 80’s released this banger of an album in 87. Lots of tongue in cheek attitude with social commentary as is customary for the genre. Linked is this heavy stomper with some melodic elements which completely stand out from the album. Album art is from one of the many reissues, the original is here.

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  • B-TR3E@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    28 days ago

    Next to Carnivore might be VoiVod, but IIRC you already know them. Hellhammer/Celtic Frost were somewhat in that direction, maybe a little extreme but also weirdly famous nowadays. There’s certainly more in the field of early hardcore (back then people used to dispute if they were metal or -gasp!- punk, because, you know, metal and punk just don’t mix!) but next to nothing made it to CD and the vinyl has long been sold out. So there theoretically is a lot of similar stuff between '87 and '9? but you’d have to spend a lot of time on second hand record sales and probably spend insane money for some questionable insight. But, back to the original question, similar to Carnivore - hard. Really hard. Can’t think of any other band that uncompromizingly brutal and tongue in cheek at the same time.

    • Myr@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      28 days ago

      Appreciate the nuggets, but let me broaden the query and make it a little more personal by asking for your specific recommendations in the subgenres of hardcore, punk, thrash or any mixture of them? I’ve always considered myself an outsider even among metalheads, so I’m definitely separate from the cultures that bred these in the first place - I have no misgivings about mixing oil and water or fucking nitroglycerin and alchohol lol.

      I can think of a lot of crust punk and black metal mixtures that came out sorta fairly recently, I’m definitely on the hunt for faster sludge metal especially infused with thrash, so this Carnivore album was a nice little treat with some of the sludge style shining through here and there. I’ve found a few punk and hardcore bands that lean towards thrash in some cases but do not teeter towards crossover, like they’ve taken the base elements of both and smashed em together like rocks, which kinda works but doesn’t seem to stimulate growth I guess? Also found out stenchcore is a thing that fuckin rules.

      Idk whichever way, this past year of uploads has been such an expansion of my music library and taste hah.

      • flabbergast@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        27 days ago

        Some personal favs:

        Die Kreuzen • Die Kreuzen
        Corrosion Of Conformity • Animosity
        Corrosion Of Conformity • Technocracy
        Corrosion Of Conformity • Blind
        Détente • Recognize No Authority
        Cro-Mags • The Age Of Quarrel
        Cro-Mags • Best Wishes
        Cro-Mags • Alpha Omega
        Discharge • Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
        Spazztic Blurr • Spazztic Blurr
        No Mercy • Widespread Bloodshed / Love Runs Red
        Bad Brains • Bad Brains
        Minor Threat • Minor Threat
        D.B.C. • Dead Brain Cells
        Leeway • Born To Expire
        Leeway • Desperate Measures
        Leeway • Adult Crash
        Ludichrist • Immaculate Deception
        Ludichrist • Powertrip
        Crumbsuckers • Life Of Dreams
        Crumbsuckers • Beast On My Back
        Neurosis • Souls At Zero
        Neurosis • Enemy Of The Sun
        Excel • Split Image
        Excel • The Joke’s On You
        Nomeansno • Wrong
        Nomeansno • 0 + 2 = 1
        Killdozer • Twelve Point Buck / Little Baby Buntin’
        Victims Family • White Bread Blues
        The Beyond • Crawl
        The Accüsed • Martha Splatterhead’s Maddest Stories Ever Told
        The Accüsed • Grinning Like An Undertaker
        Hot Snakes • Audit In Progress
        Hot Snakes • Jericho Sirens
        Life Of Agony • River Runs Red
        Life Of Agony • Ugly
        Orange 9mm • Orange 9mm
        Orange 9mm • Driver Not Included
        Into Another • Ignaurus
        Into Another • Seemless
        Quicksand • Quicksand
        Gang Green • You Got It
        Merauder • Master Killer
        Prong • Force Fed
        Prong • Beg To Differ
        Dead Horse • Peaceful Death And Pretty Flowers
        Bomb Disneyland • Why Not?
        Bomb Everything • Guess What
        Harter Attack • Human Hell

        I’m guessing D.R.I. is already known

      • B-TR3E@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        28 days ago

        Agnostic Front (“One Voice”, first of all), D.R.I., Napalm Death (maybe the first, definitely the longest existing HC band), early Suicidal Tendencies, GBH (however strongly on the punk side), Crowbar, Black Flag for the beginning. Ah… Possessed’s debut *Seven Churches" had a certain punk vibe, too, even if it’s generally considered the first death metal album.

        • Myr@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          28 days ago

          Hell yea, I had heard of AF but I’ll actually get around to trying them out. Never heard of Crowbar or GBH tho, so, nice! Thank you man :D

            • Myr@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              2·
              27 days ago

              It’s funny cuz I’ve heard of eyehategod, but not Crowbar, wtf? Lookin forward to it!