Wall of Mouths

Glasvegas and The Gutter Twins. Ordinarily Glasvegas would have my vote for best debut in the last 5 years but that’s discounting Arctic Monkeys which established British rock as still amongst the best in the world, bar none. Gutter Twins? Awesome for laying in the middle of the carpet with your headphones on, staring at the ceiling and just going with it…

Been reading some of the slightly more cynical comments on this thread with interest. Here’s my two penneth for what it’s worth: Why would ‘comfortable millionaires’ want to cash in on ANYTHING? The last thing the three of them need is more money. I see it more as them just wanting to keep connected to Richie in some way. I think its easy to forget that above everything else they were mates since being kids and they probably just miss him loads. My father died 7 years ago and I can promise you that if I had some words of his written down somewhere and I could write music as beautifully as James can then you’d better believe that I’d want to use them. I have so little of my father left and I miss him so much every single day. If there was any way on God’s green earth that I keep keep part of him - ANY part of him alive - then I would do it without hesitation. I think it’s a very touching idea to use Richie’s lyrics and The Manics are now at a point where money is only a secondary consideration, so perhaps their only motivation is to try to remember their friend in a fitting way.

p.s. Send Away The Tigers is AMAZING and you’ve probably guessed by now that there’s not much that The Manics can do wrong in my eyes!!

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve got most Megadeth albums actually but forgot to mention those! Just checking out the Testament video to ‘Souls of Black’ on Youtube. Although the start is a bit ‘Bad News’ with them walking towards the camera like that (?!) the song’s excellent. Anthrax seem really worth checking out as well so thanks again. I’ve somehow let a lot of this stuff pass me by and now everybody does the ‘death growl’ and I just can’t get into it. Thank God T? have resisted and actually sing!

Can anyone recommend a good thrash band who don’t do that annoying ‘growly shouty’ thing where you can’t here a bloody word anyone’s saying? I’ve tried valiantly to get into Trivium and the music is really fantastic, just seems that it’s spoilt by the periodic ‘growly shouty’ which they seem to stick in songs at fairly random intervals! Something with Trivium’s musicianship and Metallica’s vocals would be great! In fact, my dream thrash band would be something like: Bonn Scott on vocals (leftfield I know but how good would that be!?), Danny Carey (Tool) on drums (the best rock percussionist in 30 years), James Hetfield on rhythm guitar (riffage master par excellance), MikeHell on bass and someone like Matt Heafy or Dimebag on guitar. But I’m open to offers and any suggestions welcome!

How about something a bit left-field like ‘Californication’ or ‘It’s The End Of The World As We Know It’?