The singer is Native American “Joey Belladonna” He’s singing aboot equality of man, all races, creeds and color. I’ve always respected Anthrax for that! One of my all time favorite bands
Absolutely, among the living far surpasses their later stuff in my opinion. Back when Metallica was still a good underground band. Just gotta throw this in there.....fuck Lars Ulrich!!!!!
The other band that often is included is Exodus, because of their relevance to the genre and also their origins, sharing members with other big 4 bands (Kirk from Metallica actually founded Exodus with Tom Hunting in their high school days and taught Gary Holt how to play his first licks, then he left to Metallica after Mustaine was fired)
Australian band Midnight Oil did a similar themed song called 'Beds are Burning' for the Australian Aborigines that was massive within Oz around the same sorta time, tho they aren't thrash...more rock. Exactly the same thing happened here with the British invading and stealing the land while enslaving the natives.
@@craighenry2351 It's hard putting Midnight Oil into a music category... take their song (my fave) Redneck Wonderland. It's as rock as you can get... but then the next song might be Mountains of Burma, which could almost qualify as a folk ballad. Maybe I class them as rock coz I prefer their harder quicker songs, not sure... but yeh trying to slot them into a genre is pretty bloody difficult.
Amazing song from an amazing album. When Ian screams “WAR DANCE!!!” the concert erupts into madness. Love these guys. The singer Joey is part Native (before it was cool)
Finally, I usually prefer studio versions of songs for reactions, but I have a live version of this on CD. Back in 2009, the Big 4 did several shows together, across Europe. They filmed the concert in Sophia, Bulgaria and Anthrax did this live. First, seeing Joey Belladonna run around the stage during the Wardance part in a full Indian headdress was awesome, but even better was what happened immediately before that. Ronnie James Dio had just died about 2 months before and the band jumped into a little bit of Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath in the middle of Indians. It was a great moment and it made the song just that much better.
The thing with Thanksgiving is that the winter in question was roughly 50 years before any genocide occurred. That's why I still believe Thanksgiving is a good holiday to celebrate. It just gets lumped in with the events that happened later due to the historical time lense.
You guys gotta do “I Am the Law”! All about the Judge Dredd comic…it’s classic. Also “ADI/Horror of it All” is EPIC, and “In the End” is a modern metal classic …also older Anthrax is the bomb, “Lone Justice” “The Enemy” “Medusa” “Metal Thrashing Mad” …Anthrax doesn’t get enough love that they deserve…and don’t even get me started about Testament ! Be the first and react to them, “Trial By Fire” and “Into the Pit” is where you should start…then “Alone in the Dark”, “Electric Crown”…and for the love of God someone give Sepultura some love on these reaction channels…”Desperate Cry”, “Refuse/Resist” and “Inner Self” is a WHOLE new level of thrash that you have to experience! YOU’RE WELCOME brothers!
Anthrax covered alot of ground in their subject matter, they have lots of fun songs like Startin Up A Possy, or I'm the Man, or get deep with songs like Keep it in the Family or In My Workd. They are still going and just had their 40th anniversary. The made a great history series for RUclips.
The Big 4 were named that way because they were probably the four first bands who became huge with thrash, the other bands that you always tend to forget who come right after it are Testament, Exodus, Overkill and Death Angel, often also called the 2nd Big 4. And there's also the Big 4 of German Thrash (sometimes referred to as The Big Teutonic Four) which are Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Tankard.
My great aunt was full crow Indian. I only knew her for a few years before she passed away. Also, I've been to the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina and its absolutely beautiful! The scenery with the smokey mountains and the native culture is really beautiful!
It was the French, Spanish, and English. There is so much misinformation about things. Its nice to go back and read about the things that really happened. Not all Indians were Peace, Love, and Woodstock lol. There were so many bad things done on both sides. But I remember when this song came out. We would blast this album all the time. Its crazy to think that at the time of The Big 4. They all put out their ground breaking albums. Metallica : Master of Puppets, Megadeth : Peace Sells but Who's Buying, Slayer : Reign in Blood, and Anthrax : Among the Living. Anthrax are the ones who got me into reading. Among the living about The Stand by Stephen King and its the first novel I read. Been reading books ever since. (Damn I read to much stuff lol History, Science, Sci-Fi) Great reaction as always. Keep up the Fantastic work.
Anthrax 'Caught in a mosh' is another that's complete fire, or their cover of 'Got the time' (which most fans jokingly call chicken in my head!)...but really there is so many songs of theirs worth checking it's hard picking faves. And am I wrong but wasn't that Anthrax in the mail around 9/11 being sent by some of your own within America and unrelated to Bin Laden?
@@kitoyobeni1 The samples were traced back to the USAMRIID (U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) facility at Fort Detrick, MD. It was a government false flag as Tim Carter said.
@@Easy_Skanking To what end? All that proves is that the terrorist act of mailing those samples was most likely domestic, with either a government employee involved or the samples being stolen?
My friends and I use to call the singer, Joey Belladonna, "IRONLUNG JOEY"!! He has some of the greatest Metal Screams! The songs 'A.I.R.' and 'Lone Justice' are great examples of Joey pushing his voice to the limits! I have always felt Joey's singing was underrated! 🤘🏻👨🏻🦲👍🏻 (MOSH HARD...ALWAYS!)
Anthrax is always the band out of the top 4 that gets minimized, but for me they were much bigger than Slayer. They were certainly far more accessible and varied in their output. They did bring a goofball vibe into the mix compared to the other 3 (I'm The Man and other funny tracks, playing in shorts, the Not Man mascot, Stephen King and comic book topics, etc) but also would bring socially conscious topics into the mix.
@@johnord684 Not really. My exposure was still thru national media, like MTv for example. I love Seasons and South, but nothing else from Slayer is a favorite for me. I might even have Testament and Death Angel over both.
Testament, Exodus and Overkill should be mencioned in every big ones in Thrash conversation. Please do more of them! Testament - Down for life Exodus - Riot Act Overkill - Rise Keep the Thrash up, guys! 🤘🏽
If you watch the official music video for this song, During the war dance section, aka the crushing mushrif in the middle of the song dot-dot-dot guitarist Dan Spitz is riding on top of Billy Milano's shoulders. Milano is a legendary hardcore vocalist, and was the frontman for the short-lived but legendary Stormtroopers of death, which is the band Anthrax has Scott in and Charlie benante formed with Nuclear Assault bassist Dan Lilkner and Milano as the vocalist their album "Speak English or die" is one of the greatest crossover albums ever in the history of metal and punk
Anthrax is the East coast member of the big 4 from NYC while the rest of the groups were from California and they are the ones that are both the goofballs and the social conscious of the thrash scene. Another socially active song of theirs is about the plight of the homeless called Who Cares Wins which is looking even more prevalent nowadays than it did when the video was shot in 1990
Apache here. Metal is one of the greates things we've ever heard especially Anthrax. The head banging goes with our culture about long hair. (Long hair is a blessing)
*My top 4 of the big 4 are 1st Metallica, 2nd Anthrax, 3rd Megadeth, 4th Slayer. For me this is based on vocals, instrumentals and the lyrical message behind the songs.*
I would also add "popularity" as that is also important, but I can't disagree at all with your rankings...I think Anthrax and Megadeth are tops when it comes to messaging but Metallica had more talent than Megadeth and maybe even Anthrax. Slayer is in the big four because someone called it the big four, but really it's the big three with a clearly defined number 4 that is over the next tier. I think the band he is talking about is Pantera, as it's really just Testament and Pantera in the next tier.
Growing up in the 80's it was AWESOME to see Anthrax and Testament right up there with Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer. I am Northern Tutchone and to see two great bands fronted by Natives gave me and my brothers pride when we " Wardanced " in the pit ! ✌❤🇨🇦
Boys I'm so happy you checked out this song...it's what I grew up on and the sound is very New York in the 80s.....along with SOAD,Rage, slayer(who are very anti racism) and anthrax.....they all have very good political, angry lyrics that more people need to hear. I'd hang with boys any day listening to music and talking about it. Keep up the amazing work!!
By the way, there are several great songs about Native Americans. Paul Revere and the Raiders did one in the early 1970’s called Indian Reservation. Then, between 1982 and 1986 you had three metal songs with the same theme, Run to the Hills (Iron Maiden), Damnation (Fates Warning) and this one. To me the best is Damnation, about vengeance over the desecration of Indian burial grounds. Plus you get to hear one of the alltime great metal vocalists in John Arch from Fates Warning.
I'm a huge fan of slayer, metallica and megadeth and kinda overlooked anthrax most of the time. That was until I saw them live on slayer's last tour, they fucking blew me away. 100% one of those bands that is untouchable live. Would definitely recommend it
Joey Belladonna, lead singer / frontman is part Indian, he used to put on an Indian chief head gear while performing that song on stage Hence song ' Indians ' Love the bass beat, thrash & mosh ... 👋🏻😸✌🏻
As a previous comment stated about Testament having a Native singer and a song Native Blood.... they have several songs of Native meanings Trail of Tears on their Low album is a good one. I too Smokey am Cherokee/Sioux but also Scottish/Irish and I hold onto my ancestry with pride and honor. Sepultura was another that should've been the Big 4
A couple of thoughts on something different that might expand your understanding of the world. Dead Kennedy “Holiday in Cambodia” and Rollins Band “Low Self Opinion”
YES!!!! Thank you guys!!!! ANTHRAX is top for myself in the Big 4. A.I.R. is another good one. One World, A Skeleton in the Closet, Intro into Reality and Belly of the Beast. Again thank you guys for getting into more ANTHRAX!!!!
That's great! You guys need to see a live perfomance by Anthrax. The songs already's good in studio, but in concert they all are kickass. I suggest "I am the Law", "Fight Then till You Can't" or "In My World" \m/
This was the first political metal song I ever heard. This is before I ever knew who Rage or System were. Anthrax is by far my favorite of the big 4. Check out their song NFL. It’s a blast from start to finish
Did you miss Run to the Hills, or were you too young. It came out in 1982. Fates Warning put out Damnation in 1983, about the desecration of Indian burial grounds and the vengeance that will occur because of that. I also wouldn’t call this political. It is more a guide to right thinking, which, unfortunately, has very little to due with the political thought process.
This whole album is awesome from start to finish. Probably my all time favorite bass tone on any album ever, it just wouldn't work for anything outside of thrash. Check out more of their stuff, especially this album (Among the Living).
Wow, this was really deep. That was great. The atrocities committed against the Indigenous people over the years are vast. There was a book about the Osage people being murdered because of men wanting to get their hands on their oil money called Killers of the Flower Moon. Martin Scorsese made it into a film with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. It’s coming out soon.
🦋I love Anthrax I Sprinkle It On My Cereal In The Am For An Additional Kick. 😂(what doesn't kill you makes you stronger) 😄..Seriously Though This Song Is One Of My Favorites By Them. I Remember playing it on Guitar Hero Back In The Day. This song was one of my favorites to play. Feeling a bit nostalgic lately. I Need to Get Out My Rocksmith Games. So I Can Use My Actual Guitars. I have an Electric Acoustic Ibanez & a Dimebag Darrell, Dean Lightning Bolt Electric. Learning yea, Mastered Not Yet 😉...This Song Is Fire. I would love to watch you both reacting to Anthrax & Public Enemy's ''Bring The Noise'' in the future. Been Listening to Anthrax, Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Megadeth, Exodus, Kiss, Testament, Sabbath/Ozzy, Etc...etc... For Years Now. And the ''Among The Living'' Album Is An Amazing Work Of Art To Check Out.
The top Big 8, as I call it, is as follows: Metallica Megadeth Slayer Anthrax Exodus Overkill Testament Sepultura Those bands are too trash bands from the early ‘80’s. I love how some of these bands are linked together. Like Dave Mustaine was in Metallica and Kirk founded the band Exodus. Then when Dave Mustaine was fried from Metallica, Kirk left Exodus to join Metallica and when Dave started Megadeth Kerry King from Slayer was briefly the guitarist. When Metallica left the West Coast and went to New York they got signed by Johnny Zazula who had his label Megaforce Records and while they were in New York they bunked with the guys in Anthrax who were signed by the same record label but Metallica made their album first before all of them. In New York, Overkill was playing the city along with Twisted Sidter st the time. Although, Twisted Sister isn’t considered trash they were playing around New York’s clubs since the mid to late ‘70’s and all major record labels turned them down multiple times. Overkill said before they started they were influenced by Twisted Sister because when they played live they were heavy compared to how they ended up sounding in the albums. The Big 8 is actually in this order. Metallica Exodus Megadeth Anthrax Slayer Overkill Testament Sepultura
May as well try 'Only' by Anthrax. Not really a thrash song as was the trend with these bands in the early 90's but a great intro to John Bush on vocals. Hetfield claims this is the 'perfect metal song'.
Lead singer of Anthrax Joey Belladonna is native American, same goes for Chuck Billy singer of Testament! For me, the Big 8 in order would be: Megadeth Metallica Slayer Anthrax Testament Exodus Overkill Death Angel
Testament songs to check out, Over the Wall, Do or Die, Alone in the Dark, Trial by Fire, Disciples of the Watch, Envy Life, Sins of Omission, Practice What you Preach, Face in the Sky, The Legacy, Seven Days of May, Signs of Chaos, The Ballad, Return to Serenity and Troubled Dreams.
Four more thrash that deals with Native Americans, check-out Testament Native Blood. The vocalist is an indigenous person from one of the tribes of California. Also for indigenous hip-hop check out Drezus, Snotty Nose Red Kids, and Supaman.
Exodus, Sodom, Kreator, Overkill, Sepeltura, Possessed, Dark Angel & Suicidal Tendencies are other really Good Thrash bands, I highly recommend them Also my own ranking of the Big 4 is: 1. Metallica 2. Slayer 3. Megadeth 4. Anthrax
I wouldn’t call Suicidal Tendecies Thrash (Although I like them quite a bit). Actually, I think the hosts are right on this. Outside of the Big 4, Testament would be the next best band. In fact, I would replace Slayer with them, and then, you would, truly have a Big 4.
@Craig Henry yeah suicidal isn't really thrash, but I would definitely keep Slayer in the big 4 and replace Anthrax wity Testemant, Slayer definitely had its place
Number 6 would have to be Exodus. Check out The Toxic Waltz or War is My Shepherd if you're interested. Also gotta get to I'm the Man, Caught in A Mosh, and Madhouse
The guitarist on this band once had a side group called stormtroopers of death or just S.O.D. they were much harder almost punk in speed of playing and inspiration. In the 80s they had an album called speak English or die that almost got banned because of that song.
I suggest Caught In A Mosh, A.D.I./Horror Of It All and Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.). Efilnikufesin is nice fuckin life spelled backwards (kind of) and that is what N.F.L. stands for. Horror Of It All was written in memory of Cliff Burton.
to me the thing that made anthrax stand out, was A) they were fun (mostly) B) that bass sound... jeezus... that bass sound ! and in SOD it was so much even deeper... they do not get enough cred but they were the east coast beasts... and great guys (not to mention the rap cross over stuff you mentioned, "I am the man" etc. plus their EPs were awesome)
One of the best memories in my life... I once sat with Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy in a bar in LA... That were two unnfforgettaabl actts as well... we were touring tthe US as a nowhere band from nowhere in Europe... Our opening act were Rage Against The Machine... we got on Jay Leno and different kinda shows and we got into the LA community... We were lucky... But I never will forhet the kindness of Testament and Anthrax and all these other bands that took us up in tyheir world!
I skipped school that day and took a few friends with me to NJ Anthrax invited people to the video shoot. Nit thinking we ALL WOULD SHOW UP. They had to call the fire department to control us. The theater was destroyed
Big 4 in terms of popularity and sales is. Metallica - 110m Megadeth - 45m Slayer - 20m Anthrax - 15m Its between Overkill and Testament then next with 10m between them but Overkill came early with the others.. Exodus was there from the start but is around 7th in terms of sales.
Anthrax actually started way before Anthrax. The most recent was there was a text with white powder in the mail but anthrax was a disease back in the 18th century. I think may be a little earlier or later I can’t remember but I know it’s something like that.
Exodus and Overkill were the other two “bigger” bands in the early, (early/mid 80’s), thrash world. Bands like Pantera, Metal Church and Testament were sort of in the second wave if you will.
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The singer is Native American “Joey Belladonna” He’s singing aboot equality of man, all races, creeds and color. I’ve always respected Anthrax for that! One of my all time favorite bands
Yeah sure he is what is he part Cherokee
Also Joey talks about the value of the land.
Aboot???? Lol
Actually "belladonna" is tipically from Italy. I m italian.
@@skyscraper7474 Joey`s father being Italian may be a clue...mother was native american
You guys will be blown away by any track off of ANTHRAXs Among the Living album. There's not one bad track.
That album is a masterpiece of thrash!
Absolutely, among the living far surpasses their later stuff in my opinion. Back when Metallica was still a good underground band. Just gotta throw this in there.....fuck Lars Ulrich!!!!!
I 2nd that there's not one song you want to skip. You just push play and listen to a gear music.
This is the Album that got me into thrash. That and Ride the Lightning.
Amazing album 🤘
The other band that often is included is Exodus, because of their relevance to the genre and also their origins, sharing members with other big 4 bands (Kirk from Metallica actually founded Exodus with Tom Hunting in their high school days and taught Gary Holt how to play his first licks, then he left to Metallica after Mustaine was fired)
Testiment is another hardcore native american metal band the 80's sound of Metallica/Pantera sound to the 90's death metal.
Exodus has done tracks that easily shred Metallica for sure like War is my shepherd
Id put death angel in the mix too.
@@glennscotti8891 Let's not forget Overkill and Flotsam n Jetsam!
Absolutely
Bought damn time ANTHRAX got some love! Need more!! 🇺🇲🤘
Australian band Midnight Oil did a similar themed song called 'Beds are Burning' for the Australian Aborigines that was massive within Oz around the same sorta time, tho they aren't thrash...more rock. Exactly the same thing happened here with the British invading and stealing the land while enslaving the natives.
I wouldn’t even call them rock, actually more new wave (Which I hated). I did like the song, though.
@@craighenry2351 It's hard putting Midnight Oil into a music category... take their song (my fave) Redneck Wonderland. It's as rock as you can get... but then the next song might be Mountains of Burma, which could almost qualify as a folk ballad. Maybe I class them as rock coz I prefer their harder quicker songs, not sure... but yeh trying to slot them into a genre is pretty bloody difficult.
Amazing song from an amazing album. When Ian screams “WAR DANCE!!!” the concert erupts into madness. Love these guys.
The singer Joey is part Native (before it was cool)
Mark Slaughter with his own band famous songs Up all Night/Flight to the Angels and Tony Carey Fine Day.
Testament is another thrash band with a Native singer and a similar song "Native Blood"
They also have another song, Trail Of Tears.
I didn’t know that about Chuck Billy, but it is interesting about how he came up with the lyrics for Alone in the Dark.
Such an awesome track. Never get the hatred for Anthrax, I think they are unique and stand out. Glad you had so much fun on this one.
Finally, I usually prefer studio versions of songs for reactions, but I have a live version of this on CD. Back in 2009, the Big 4 did several shows together, across Europe. They filmed the concert in Sophia, Bulgaria and Anthrax did this live. First, seeing Joey Belladonna run around the stage during the Wardance part in a full Indian headdress was awesome, but even better was what happened immediately before that. Ronnie James Dio had just died about 2 months before and the band jumped into a little bit of Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath in the middle of Indians. It was a great moment and it made the song just that much better.
The thing with Thanksgiving is that the winter in question was roughly 50 years before any genocide occurred. That's why I still believe Thanksgiving is a good holiday to celebrate. It just gets lumped in with the events that happened later due to the historical time lense.
You guys gotta do “I Am the Law”! All about the Judge Dredd comic…it’s classic. Also “ADI/Horror of it All” is EPIC, and “In the End” is a modern metal classic …also older Anthrax is the bomb, “Lone Justice” “The Enemy” “Medusa” “Metal Thrashing Mad” …Anthrax doesn’t get enough love that they deserve…and don’t even get me started about Testament ! Be the first and react to them, “Trial By Fire” and “Into the Pit” is where you should start…then “Alone in the Dark”, “Electric Crown”…and for the love of God someone give Sepultura some love on these reaction channels…”Desperate Cry”, “Refuse/Resist” and “Inner Self” is a WHOLE new level of thrash that you have to experience! YOU’RE WELCOME brothers!
Though they wouldn't exactly be the first. Brad & Lex reacted to Practice What You Preach a few months back.
i second the request on Sepultura.
Hard to believe this song is 35 years old. Loved it the first time I heard and it holds up today. The big breakdown with WarDance is epic.
Overkill gets no love!!! They belong in the top 5-6 of thrash. I can’t name one bad album. Seeing them in March with Prong🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
My all time favorite band is overkill
Prong is even more underrated I think. They influenced Pantera in a big way and are still putting out awesome music. I'd love to see that line-up!
First love concert was megadeth overkill and helloween. Amazing show.
I recently saw a "next 4" list and Overkill, Exodus and Testaent are there. I think the other was Sepultura, but not sure.
Is he saying “yellow butter”? Butt-Head, 199X
Anthrax covered alot of ground in their subject matter, they have lots of fun songs like Startin Up A Possy, or I'm the Man, or get deep with songs like Keep it in the Family or In My Workd.
They are still going and just had their 40th anniversary. The made a great history series for RUclips.
The Big 4 were named that way because they were probably the four first bands who became huge with thrash, the other bands that you always tend to forget who come right after it are Testament, Exodus, Overkill and Death Angel, often also called the 2nd Big 4. And there's also the Big 4 of German Thrash (sometimes referred to as The Big Teutonic Four) which are Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Tankard.
My great aunt was full crow Indian. I only knew her for a few years before she passed away. Also, I've been to the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina and its absolutely beautiful! The scenery with the smokey mountains and the native culture is really beautiful!
It was the French, Spanish, and English. There is so much misinformation about things. Its nice to go back and read about the things that really happened. Not all Indians were Peace, Love, and Woodstock lol. There were so many bad things done on both sides. But I remember when this song came out. We would blast this album all the time. Its crazy to think that at the time of The Big 4. They all put out their ground breaking albums. Metallica : Master of Puppets, Megadeth : Peace Sells but Who's Buying, Slayer : Reign in Blood, and Anthrax : Among the Living. Anthrax are the ones who got me into reading. Among the living about The Stand by Stephen King and its the first novel I read. Been reading books ever since. (Damn I read to much stuff lol History, Science, Sci-Fi) Great reaction as always. Keep up the Fantastic work.
I'm the man..."I'm so bad I should be in detention" The other Anthrax rap song
Love Anthrax. So many bangers!! Live version from Chili On Hell is pretty good.
Anthrax 'Caught in a mosh' is another that's complete fire, or their cover of 'Got the time' (which most fans jokingly call chicken in my head!)...but really there is so many songs of theirs worth checking it's hard picking faves. And am I wrong but wasn't that Anthrax in the mail around 9/11 being sent by some of your own within America and unrelated to Bin Laden?
The envelopes were from opportunistic domestic terrorists.
@@kitoyobeni1 cheers for that, yeh wasn't positive but thought that was the case.
@@kitoyobeni1 govt false flag
@@kitoyobeni1 The samples were traced back to the USAMRIID (U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) facility at Fort Detrick, MD. It was a government false flag as Tim Carter said.
@@Easy_Skanking To what end? All that proves is that the terrorist act of mailing those samples was most likely domestic, with either a government employee involved or the samples being stolen?
My friends and I use to call the singer, Joey Belladonna, "IRONLUNG JOEY"!! He has some of the greatest Metal Screams! The songs 'A.I.R.' and 'Lone Justice' are great examples of Joey pushing his voice to the limits! I have always felt Joey's singing was underrated! 🤘🏻👨🏻🦲👍🏻 (MOSH HARD...ALWAYS!)
"A.I.R." is my favorite Anthrax song.
Anthrax is always the band out of the top 4 that gets minimized, but for me they were much bigger than Slayer. They were certainly far more accessible and varied in their output. They did bring a goofball vibe into the mix compared to the other 3 (I'm The Man and other funny tracks, playing in shorts, the Not Man mascot, Stephen King and comic book topics, etc) but also would bring socially conscious topics into the mix.
East coast ,thats why.
@@johnord684 Not really. My exposure was still thru national media, like MTv for example. I love Seasons and South, but nothing else from Slayer is a favorite for me. I might even have Testament and Death Angel over both.
Testament, Exodus and Overkill should be mencioned in every big ones in Thrash conversation.
Please do more of them!
Testament - Down for life
Exodus - Riot Act
Overkill - Rise
Keep the Thrash up, guys! 🤘🏽
Agreed 💯…Add Death Angel to that list as well.
@Big Homie Steve The Metal Head Oh man, same here!
Overkill has so many bangers and I hope to watch them live someday...
Joey has one of the greatest metal voices.
If you want to do another Anthrax song, try Skeletons in the Closet.
If you watch the official music video for this song, During the war dance section, aka the crushing mushrif in the middle of the song dot-dot-dot guitarist Dan Spitz is riding on top of Billy Milano's shoulders. Milano is a legendary hardcore vocalist, and was the frontman for the short-lived but legendary Stormtroopers of death, which is the band Anthrax has Scott in and Charlie benante formed with Nuclear Assault bassist Dan Lilkner and Milano as the vocalist their album "Speak English or die" is one of the greatest crossover albums ever in the history of metal and punk
Anthrax is the East coast member of the big 4 from NYC while the rest of the groups were from California and they are the ones that are both the goofballs and the social conscious of the thrash scene. Another socially active song of theirs is about the plight of the homeless called Who Cares Wins which is looking even more prevalent nowadays than it did when the video was shot in 1990
Apache here. Metal is one of the greates things we've ever heard especially Anthrax. The head banging goes with our culture about long hair. (Long hair is a blessing)
*My top 4 of the big 4 are 1st Metallica, 2nd Anthrax, 3rd Megadeth, 4th Slayer. For me this is based on vocals, instrumentals and the lyrical message behind the songs.*
I would also add "popularity" as that is also important, but I can't disagree at all with your rankings...I think Anthrax and Megadeth are tops when it comes to messaging but Metallica had more talent than Megadeth and maybe even Anthrax. Slayer is in the big four because someone called it the big four, but really it's the big three with a clearly defined number 4 that is over the next tier. I think the band he is talking about is Pantera, as it's really just Testament and Pantera in the next tier.
*Anthrax - "Caught In A Mosh" and "Antisocial"*
& during my Navy career,
We had anthrax vaccine shots while we were at the Persian Gulf
L8 90s, early 2000s ...
Lots of great Anthrax tracks. Give Safe Home a try. It's got John Bush on vocals and just an insanely killer hook.
Also Keanu Reeves is in the video
Growing up in the 80's it was AWESOME to see Anthrax and Testament right up there with Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer.
I am Northern Tutchone and to see two great bands fronted by Natives gave me and my brothers pride when we " Wardanced " in the pit !
✌❤🇨🇦
Boys I'm so happy you checked out this song...it's what I grew up on and the sound is very New York in the 80s.....along with SOAD,Rage, slayer(who are very anti racism) and anthrax.....they all have very good political, angry lyrics that more people need to hear. I'd hang with boys any day listening to music and talking about it. Keep up the amazing work!!
By the way, there are several great songs about Native Americans. Paul Revere and the Raiders did one in the early 1970’s called Indian Reservation. Then, between 1982 and 1986 you had three metal songs with the same theme, Run to the Hills (Iron Maiden), Damnation (Fates Warning) and this one. To me the best is Damnation, about vengeance over the desecration of Indian burial grounds. Plus you get to hear one of the alltime great metal vocalists in John Arch from Fates Warning.
I'm a huge fan of slayer, metallica and megadeth and kinda overlooked anthrax most of the time. That was until I saw them live on slayer's last tour, they fucking blew me away. 100% one of those bands that is untouchable live. Would definitely recommend it
Guys, having grown up with this music and now seeing you react to it is SOOOOO DOPE!!!!
Joey Belladonna, lead singer / frontman
is part Indian, he used to put on an Indian chief head gear while performing that song on stage
Hence song ' Indians '
Love the bass beat, thrash & mosh ...
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As a previous comment stated about Testament having a Native singer and a song Native Blood.... they have several songs of Native meanings Trail of Tears on their Low album is a good one. I too Smokey am Cherokee/Sioux but also Scottish/Irish and I hold onto my ancestry with pride and honor. Sepultura was another that should've been the Big 4
You guys gotta check out some Biohazard!! Down for Life, Punishment, Urban Discipline ,Shades of Grey, Panic Attack
I liked that Anthrax have a different vibe than the other three bands because they’re from NYC so you’d get a touch of NYC hardcore in their music
What they dont teach in history class is that the first europeans here were vikings. The traded with natives instead of slaughtering them.
In the 80's I delivered Pizza and WORE THIS CASSETTE out in my cars stereo system.
A couple of thoughts on something different that might expand your understanding of the world. Dead Kennedy “Holiday in Cambodia” and Rollins Band “Low Self Opinion”
YES!!!! Thank you guys!!!! ANTHRAX is top for myself in the Big 4. A.I.R. is another good one. One World, A Skeleton in the Closet, Intro into Reality and Belly of the Beast. Again thank you guys for getting into more ANTHRAX!!!!
I was more into Anthrax then Metallica when I got into my love of metal.
Slayer was introduction to thrash and my first love, but now I love it all!
Anthrax "only" or Thier cover of back Sabbath, "Sabbath bloody Sabbath" are both fire 🔥🎶🤘
The content of this song is the reason why I would pick Anthrax over Slayer any day of the week.
Nightwish has a song about the same subject. Check the live version of Creek Mary's Blood from the End Of An Era.
Love to watch y'all bang your heads! Good morning guys! Thanks for the video!❤🤓
That's great! You guys need to see a live perfomance by Anthrax. The songs already's good in studio, but in concert they all are kickass. I suggest "I am the Law", "Fight Then till You Can't" or "In My World" \m/
great song. very important record. u can't go wrong wth any song on this record
YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!! WARDANCE!!! \o/\o/\o/ AND.... Watch the live performance for this song.... The Wardance part is bonkers!
Hi Guys, the other big four is: Exodus, Testament, Overkill and Death Angel.
This was the first political metal song I ever heard. This is before I ever knew who Rage or System were. Anthrax is by far my favorite of the big 4. Check out their song NFL. It’s a blast from start to finish
Did you miss Run to the Hills, or were you too young. It came out in 1982. Fates Warning put out Damnation in 1983, about the desecration of Indian burial grounds and the vengeance that will occur because of that. I also wouldn’t call this political. It is more a guide to right thinking, which, unfortunately, has very little to due with the political thought process.
Finally! I suggested this one for two years!
ANTHRAX and specially this album is one of the the best bands in the world.
Suicidal Tendencies would be up there. They influenced so many bands through the years.
This whole album is awesome from start to finish. Probably my all time favorite bass tone on any album ever, it just wouldn't work for anything outside of thrash.
Check out more of their stuff, especially this album (Among the Living).
Be All End All, I Am the Law, Only, Fight em til you can't- all great Anthrax songs.
Wow, this was really deep. That was great. The atrocities committed against the Indigenous people over the years are vast. There was a book about the Osage people being murdered because of men wanting to get their hands on their oil money called Killers of the Flower Moon. Martin Scorsese made it into a film with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. It’s coming out soon.
Great, now I'm on Amazon looking for that shower curtain!
Joey Belladonna (singer) is Iroquois on his mother's side.
I'd say the biggest classic thrash metal bands in order are
1. Metallica
2. Megadeth
3. Slayer
4. Anthrax
5. Exodus
6. Testament
7. Overkill
Chuck Billy from Testament and Patrick Dubar from Mind Funk are 2 other Native American vocalists
can't go wrong with Anthrax. Great video! Keep on rockin in the free world!
Devildriver - The Mountain
Unearth - Endless
A.I.R by Anthrax, it's their opening track off their second album. I think this is where they found their catchy, heavy sound.
My wife's family still on the Rez!!!!! Trust me it is a SAD situation!!!
🦋I love Anthrax I Sprinkle It On My Cereal In The Am For An Additional Kick. 😂(what doesn't kill you makes you stronger) 😄..Seriously Though This Song Is One Of My Favorites By Them. I Remember playing it on Guitar Hero Back In The Day. This song was one of my favorites to play. Feeling a bit nostalgic lately. I Need to Get Out My Rocksmith Games. So I Can Use My Actual Guitars. I have an Electric Acoustic Ibanez & a Dimebag Darrell, Dean Lightning Bolt Electric. Learning yea, Mastered Not Yet 😉...This Song Is Fire. I would love to watch you both reacting to Anthrax & Public Enemy's ''Bring The Noise'' in the future. Been Listening to Anthrax, Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Megadeth, Exodus, Kiss, Testament, Sabbath/Ozzy, Etc...etc... For Years Now. And the ''Among The Living'' Album Is An Amazing Work Of Art To Check Out.
The top Big 8, as I call it, is as follows:
Metallica
Megadeth
Slayer
Anthrax
Exodus
Overkill
Testament
Sepultura
Those bands are too trash bands from the early ‘80’s. I love how some of these bands are linked together. Like Dave Mustaine was in Metallica and Kirk founded the band Exodus. Then when Dave Mustaine was fried from Metallica, Kirk left Exodus to join Metallica and when Dave started Megadeth Kerry King from Slayer was briefly the guitarist. When Metallica left the West Coast and went to New York they got signed by Johnny Zazula who had his label Megaforce Records and while they were in New York they bunked with the guys in Anthrax who were signed by the same record label but Metallica made their album first before all of them. In New York, Overkill was playing the city along with Twisted Sidter st the time. Although, Twisted Sister isn’t considered trash they were playing around New York’s clubs since the mid to late ‘70’s and all major record labels turned them down multiple times. Overkill said before they started they were influenced by Twisted Sister because when they played live they were heavy compared to how they ended up sounding in the albums. The Big 8 is actually in this order.
Metallica
Exodus
Megadeth
Anthrax
Slayer
Overkill
Testament
Sepultura
Anthrax puts on an AWESOME show!!!!! Love them!!
Some of the best meaningful lyrics in any song around. Very powerful
May as well try 'Only' by Anthrax. Not really a thrash song as was the trend with these bands in the early 90's but a great intro to John Bush on vocals.
Hetfield claims this is the 'perfect metal song'.
Lead singer of Anthrax Joey Belladonna is native American, same goes for Chuck Billy singer of Testament! For me, the Big 8 in order would be:
Megadeth
Metallica
Slayer
Anthrax
Testament
Exodus
Overkill
Death Angel
Anthrax
Annihilator
Testament
Overkill
Pantera get a mention for Heresy
@@uraniumcranium2613 Holy shit can't believe I forgot about Annihilator dude they're sick
Great message and everything.
It's just so cheezeball. Haha
I think you guys should check out Crystal Ann / Alice in Hell by Annihilator... super underrated classic thrash band! 🤘🤘🤘
Testament songs to check out, Over the Wall, Do or Die, Alone in the Dark, Trial by Fire, Disciples of the Watch, Envy Life, Sins of Omission, Practice What you Preach, Face in the Sky, The Legacy, Seven Days of May, Signs of Chaos, The Ballad, Return to Serenity and Troubled Dreams.
Four more thrash that deals with Native Americans, check-out Testament Native Blood. The vocalist is an indigenous person from one of the tribes of California. Also for indigenous hip-hop check out Drezus, Snotty Nose Red Kids, and Supaman.
They also have a song from 1988 called "who cares wins" that tackles homelessness. They also did a video For It.
Exodus, Sodom, Kreator, Overkill, Sepeltura, Possessed, Dark Angel & Suicidal Tendencies are other really Good Thrash bands, I highly recommend them
Also my own ranking of the Big 4 is:
1. Metallica
2. Slayer
3. Megadeth
4. Anthrax
How come everyone leaves out Overkill when talking about the big 4 or 6 or 8
@@kevinfurman201 seriously they're underrated, but that goes to any other Thrash band other than the Big 4
I wouldn’t call Suicidal Tendecies Thrash (Although I like them quite a bit). Actually, I think the hosts are right on this. Outside of the Big 4, Testament would be the next best band. In fact, I would replace Slayer with them, and then, you would, truly have a Big 4.
@Craig Henry yeah suicidal isn't really thrash, but I would definitely keep Slayer in the big 4 and replace Anthrax wity Testemant, Slayer definitely had its place
Number 6 would have to be Exodus. Check out The Toxic Waltz or War is My Shepherd if you're interested. Also gotta get to I'm the Man, Caught in A Mosh, and Madhouse
The guitarist on this band once had a side group called stormtroopers of death or just S.O.D. they were much harder almost punk in speed of playing and inspiration. In the 80s they had an album called speak English or die that almost got banned because of that song.
I suggest Caught In A Mosh, A.D.I./Horror Of It All and Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.). Efilnikufesin is nice fuckin life spelled backwards (kind of) and that is what N.F.L. stands for. Horror Of It All was written in memory of Cliff Burton.
You guys got that Atlanta fashion I haven't seen since Danny Boone and Rehab (Warner Robbins).
Keep it up with the great videos, mofos. You have one of the few good reaction channels.
Cheers.
Another great thrash is Sepultura. React to Ratamahatta or Territory, you'll love!
to me the thing that made anthrax stand out, was A) they were fun (mostly) B) that bass sound... jeezus... that bass sound ! and in SOD it was so much even deeper... they do not get enough cred but they were the east coast beasts... and great guys (not to mention the rap cross over stuff you mentioned, "I am the man" etc. plus their EPs were awesome)
I once played soccer against them on a parking lot, with them and Testament... Bands against fans... We won!
One of the best memories in my life... I once sat with Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy in a bar in LA... That were two unnfforgettaabl actts as well... we were touring tthe US as a nowhere band from nowhere in Europe... Our opening act were Rage Against The Machine... we got on Jay Leno and different kinda shows and we got into the LA community... We were lucky... But I never will forhet the kindness of Testament and Anthrax and all these other bands that took us up in tyheir world!
Joseph Belladarni...Singer....Mother Native American Iroquois ....Father Italian.......
They were on a Married with Children episode too..
Please do more anthrax: try: "in my world" "belly of the beast" and "only"
You guys need to watch the live performance from their Chile on Hell show in Santiago, Chile from 2014. The entire floor turned into a circle pit.
fantastic song used to mosh alot of times in the 90's
Great reaction fellas 🤘
HEY!
About time for ' AnthraX '
' Bring the Noise ' w/ Flavor Flav / Public Enemy
Seen / heard that video / song?!
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@Big Homie Steve The Metal Head - I thought so, T/Y
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I skipped school that day and took a few friends with me to NJ Anthrax invited people to the video shoot. Nit thinking we ALL WOULD SHOW UP. They had to call the fire department to control us. The theater was destroyed
Big 4 in terms of popularity and sales is.
Metallica - 110m
Megadeth - 45m
Slayer - 20m
Anthrax - 15m
Its between Overkill and Testament then next with 10m between them but Overkill came early with the others.. Exodus was there from the start but is around 7th in terms of sales.
Song: Bring the Noise !!!! Antrhax feauturing Public Enemy !!!!!! Just listen
Glad to see y’all do Anthrax. Check out State of Euphoria (whole album) or Charlie Benantes later band Stormtroopers of Death
Anthrax actually started way before Anthrax. The most recent was there was a text with white powder in the mail but anthrax was a disease back in the 18th century. I think may be a little earlier or later I can’t remember but I know it’s something like that.
for better or for worse...Natives are an important part of our nation. Warriors, Code Talkers, wonderful people, part of our strength.
Exodus and Overkill were the other two “bigger” bands in the early, (early/mid 80’s), thrash world.
Bands like Pantera, Metal Church and Testament were sort of in the second wave if you will.
With the big four I’d say the honorable mentions as you might put, it would be testament, followed by exodus, and then overkill