Last of the old school

You know, just before the Black album, which ushered in an era of watered-down metal from other old school favorites like Megadeth (Countdown to Extinction) and Anthrax (Sound of White Noise), it was amazing how many bands were coming out who were actually taking it harder than ever. Cases in point, Pantera and Sepultura. Sure, each band would have a role to play in the eventual rise of crap rock Nu-Metal, but just as everyone else was beginning to write ballads and love songs onto their albums, or hiring John Bush to sing for them, Pantera was turning almost into grindcore with their crunchy anti-ballad, This Love, and Sepultura released one of the classics of thrash metal, Arise.