#304/939
August 30 1985
Stormtroopers of Death
Speak English or Die
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Milano Mash
What’s That Noise
Freddy Krueger
Milk
The ballad of Jimi Hendrix
Is this the first known use of the term “mosh”? On the song, “Milano Mosh”. I’ve never heard it before. Did S.O.D. coin it?
I dunno.
This is pretty hardcore punk but the guitars with their high end slashing remind me of…The Offspring. Like, in about a decade this sound is going to be refined and popularized.
This is what I was hoping Anthrax would sound like. But I guess it does cuz Scott Ian is the driving force here as well. And much of this record is just a bunch of guys (who happened to be melding Metal and Hardcore together for the first time, you know, like ya do) having a fucking laugh in a studio and, to be honest, some of it is hilarious. Everything D.O.A.’s last wasn’t.
Ha! Something else I didn’t know! From Wikipedia entry on “Mosh”:
“By the mid-1980s, the term was appearing in print with its current spelling. By the time thrash metal band Anthrax used the term in their song "Caught in a Mosh” ,(1987, btw-Allen), the word was already a mainstay of hardcore and thrash scenes. Scott Ian and Charlie Benante of Anthrax and S.O.D. have both been credited with the term originating from Vinnie Stigma of the New York hardcore band Agnostic Front. Through the mainstream success of bands like Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death, and multiple thrash metal bands in the late 1980's the term came into the popular vernacular.”
I guess it was.
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