Brahm_K wrote:
Sobered wrote:
Take that chugging palm muted verse/intro riff, add some distortion, speed it up a bit... what do you get?
But then you can say that about anything. "Take this Simple Plan riff, add a lot more distortion, speed it up a lot, and what do you get?"
Not really, take any of the riffs from "Sultans of Swing" (a favorite on this site
) , add some distortion, speed it up, and what do you get? Certainly not thrash, but in the case of Whole Lotta Love, you do.
Also, the "Simple Plan riff"? No offense to thrash music, I like it as much as the next guy, but you don't have to be a virtuoso to play 95% of it. I was playing pre-Black Album Metallica riffs within a month of getting my first guitar.
Back to my original point. That Whole Lotta Love riff has all the hallmarks of what most people consider thrash. It's short, simple, to the point, features some well done palm muting for continuity and basically gets you (or at least me) pumped up.
Celtic Frost imo sounds nothing like the bands/genres everyone says they inspired or started, but I guess those genres would be pretty boring if they still sounded like they did back in 1985. Same would go for thrash, if it still sounded like 70's Zeppelin
