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Best Thrash Bassist

#43
Allmanfan456 said:
Yay another Wayne Darley fan!! :D I thought I was the only one! Yeah man he knows exactly what to do! His Stonewall bassline is amazing, Imperiled Eyes is amazing. And The Fun Palace just shows he can groove. Stuff like Phoenix Rising or Sounds Good to Me showcases what he can do melodically and it's utterly beautiful.

I wonder what happened to him. He dropped off the face of the earth after he left Annihilator because he couldn't go on their Japan tour after Set the World on Fire came out. He got offered to join again when Jeff Waters reunited the classic line up on Criteria for a Black Widow. I heard he denied because of health problems, I don't know. Can't find any information on him at all aside from some vague posts on wikipedia and other sites alike. It's a shame he's not in another band!

He should be recognized as one of the great bassists of thrash I think. Up there with Cliff, Ellefson in my opinion.
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yeah i fell in love with darley when i heard him on alison hell
 
#45
Allmanfan456 said:
I'm not sure if he played on Alison Hell. He's listed on the album but I've also heard Jeff Waters played bass on it. I'm not sure. If he did play on Alice then he has some fine bass work on that album. :)
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I'm pretty sure Jeff played bass on that track, but Darley is also credited on the album. I'll have to dig out my vinyl and have a look on the inner sleeve!
 
#46
Hmmmm.... Figured I would weigh in, as for so long, these bassists never really go their props. After 10+ years in the genre, I am glad to see this.. It's long behind me (as evidenced by my Morrissey/Andy Rourke avatar LOL), but I love the thread...

Timi Hanson, Mercilful Fate (more morbid than thrash, but man, he's frigging gooood.)

Frank Thorwarth, Tankard

Guilty pleasure - Duke Erickson, Metal Church... some nice work on that first album. Listen to Beyond the Black (ignore the "eh" vocals and cheesy lyrics)

And a thumbs up to Dave Carr, bassist from PA thrash band Anvil Bitch.. Good guy, damn good bass player.

Anvil Who? Check AB out.. (makes me feel 19 again.)

Anvil Bitch - Sanctify - YouTube
 
#47
N.F.A. said:
I like the guy from Coroner. Ron Broder I think..
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Good call, mang :cool:

Tituscrow said:
Martin van Drunen - Pestilence. Before they became full on death metal, MvD nailed the bottom end for this vastly underrated Dutch band. Currently a travesty to the Pestilence name !

Paolo Jr - Sepultura. Matured greatly and peaked, IMO on Beneath The Remains and Arise.
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Pestilence is great and I love Sepultura up to Arise. Can't say I've noticed much audible bass, let alone great bass playing from these bands though :hmm: When would you say Pestilence became Death Metal? I'll listen again to those first two albums and pay closer attention to the bass.

Elbozo said:
Hello, i've literally made an account on these forums just to post in this thread (been lurking for quite some time), so this is my first post :)

I have to add Doug Keyser, bassist from Watchtower. Great style, really impressive technique and i'm not sure if it's true, but i heard that when Metallica was looking for a bassist to replace Jason, he applied and was declined because he was too jazzy!

Give him a listen, if you like progressive stuff, you won't be dissapointed!
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Hello, mang. Welcome! Yes, another good bass player. I love his playing on Energetic Disassembly, especially that little bass solo near the end of Cimmerian Shadows.
 
#48
meatwad said:
Although Steve DiGorgio is more known as an old school death metal player, I consider "Human" by Death more thrash than death metal. Fretless, fingerstyle, and fast as hell!
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He considers that some of his most innovative bass playing. But while the album was being mixed he was on tour with Sadus. Bass got buried on it, royally pissed him off and he called up Chuck asking (paraphrasing here) "wat da f? bass?"

Yea early Death is kind of borderline thrash. Not quite though. But in the late 80s genres still hadn't really been defined yet. People were calling Bathory death metal(amongst about a dozen other names too).
 
#52
I'd say Ellefson. There's probably quite a few bassists in thrash who might be a bit better technically, but Dave just does a great job with working in with the music. And I LOVE the jazzy feel of Peace Sells... album and So Far... I wish they'd make one of their newer albums have a few songs that has that feel like Peace Sells does, but it seems highly unlikely since the reason they had that sound back then was because of Garr Samuelson and Chris Poland.

Also Frank Bello and Testament's bassist are great Thrash Bassist.

I don't know about Cliff Burton, because Metallica tuned out the bass so much from their music I can rarely hear him. If you have a great bassist it's beyond me why you would do that, especially some hoops they went through in their early days to get him to play for them.
 
#56
A bit off topic, but I always considered myself to be thrash metal fan, but I haven't even heard of 90% of the bands listed here, so I guess I'm not.

Back on topic, I guess I'd say David Ellefson, mainly because I like Megadeth best of all. I also think Greg Christian is good along with the guy from Sepultura.
 
#57
Misfit said:
A bit off topic, but I always considered myself to be thrash metal fan, but I haven't even heard of 90% of the bands listed here, so I guess I'm not.

Back on topic, I guess I'd say David Ellefson, mainly because I like Megadeth best of all. I also think Greg Christian is good along with the guy from Sepultura.
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How old are you? I'm guessing that like me, there's a fair few of us here that were teenagers in the mid to late 80's that probably have a ton of old thrash vinyl tucked away in boxes somewhere :)
 
#58
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I would personally go with Tom Araya. Frank bello is great, but Anthrax became sorta girly after their first three albums, and Cliff's tone was never quite my thing. Tom is (admittedly) somewhat simple and artless, but he finds the groove of the song and that's what really matters.
 
#60
Elbozo said:
Hello, i've literally made an account on these forums just to post in this thread (been lurking for quite some time), so this is my first post :)

I have to add Doug Keyser, bassist from Watchtower. Great style, really impressive technique and i'm not sure if it's true, but i heard that when Metallica was looking for a bassist to replace Jason, he applied and was declined because he was too jazzy!

Give him a listen, if you like progressive stuff, you won't be dissapointed!
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Yeah, the guy from Watchtower is awesome. Very Geddy-like in his thrashness.

My favorite thrash bassist of all time is Harley Flanagan from Cro-Mags. Bass tracks on Best Wishes are truly truly pisser.
 

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