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10 дек 2024 :	ALEX SKOLNICK Names Only TESTAMENT Song That Is Always In The Band's Set
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13 ноя 2024 :	TESTAMENT's CHUCK BILLY Says His Number One Ambition Is To One Day Tour With METALLICA
5 ноя 2024 :	TESTAMENT's CHUCK BILLY Says Upcoming Duet With NIGHTWISH's FLOOR JANSEN Is 'A Really Beautiful Song'
24 окт 2024 :	TESTAMENT Announce Multi-Format Reissue Of Practice What You Preach Album; "Time Is Coming" Lyric Video Streaming
23 окт 2024 :	TESTAMENT's ERIC PETERSON On New Drummer CHRIS DOVAS: 'He Brought Some Life Back'
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22 авг 2024 :	ALEX SKOLNICK Is 'Excited' About TESTAMENT's Next Album
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22 авг 2019

ALEX SKOLNICK Has 'No Problem' With TESTAMENT's Exclusion From 'Big Four' Of 1980s Thrash Metal

In a brand new interview with the "Basel Meets" podcast, TESTAMENT's Alex Skolnick was asked why his band wasn't included in the so-called "Big Four" of 1980s thrash metal (METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX) — the dominant thrash metal groups that helped bring that genre into the mainstream. "Interestingly, I have no problem with it, because I look at it as a seniority thing," the guitarist replied (see video below). "I joined TESTAMENT in very late '85; I think my first gig was early '86. So, 1986 — what happened [that year]? METALLICA releases 'Master Of Puppets'. They were already on their third record. They were on their way to becoming one of the biggest bands in the world, which was clear… I mean, it wasn't clear they would be that level, but we knew they were gonna at least be as big as IRON MAIDEN and SCORPIONS at that time. So they were already off and running. SLAYER released 'Reign In Blood' that year, after having several albums out. ANTHRAX had several records out. I think at that point, MEGADETH was on their second record. So all those bands, they were past their first record. They were all off and running. At the time, the classic TESTAMENT lineup was just forming. So, I'm fine with that. They were there first, and they were doing big things. And we came along a little later. But I have no problem with those groups being classified together."

Alex's comments echo those of TESTAMENT singer Chuck Billy, who told the "Music Mania" podcast last year that his band came along too late to be included in the "Big Four."

"When you say 'Big Four,' you think of the '80s when that was what was referred to as the 'Big Four,' which is correct — those four bands [METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER and ANTHRAX] were the biggest four bands of our era; at that time, all [of them were] at the platinum level, when there was much more acceptability to this music," he said. "Around '91 [or] '92, the grunge scene came in, and all the bands following us — EXODUS and OVERKILL and all those kind of bands — lost that momentum because the industry started changing its format. So when they say [METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER and ANTHRAX are the] 'Big Four,' I say that's correct. We were the next generation of the 'Four' [laughs], but we were just caught in the wrong time… wrong place, wrong time."

Several years earlier, Billy told Metal Insider that METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER and ANTHRAX are the only bands that deserved to be lumped together as part of the "Big Four."

"I think that when it comes down to the 'Big Four,' as far as I can see it, back when metal was at its height in the late '80s/ early 90s, all of those 'Big Four' bands had a ton of great success and were selling millions of records," he said. "I think around that same time, we were growing apart as a band and the music market had changed. So I think we were kind of, I guess, as they say, 'on deck in the batting circle' waiting for our success selling millions of records at that time.

"So when people say the Big Four, Five or Six, I don't see it that way," he continued. "The 'Big Four,' those four bands had great success selling millions of records. But the rest of us — EXODUS, DEATH ANGEL [and] TESTAMENT — we didn't sell out those festivals or that amount of records. So I don't see us being compared to that. I'd say if metal was still going as strong as it was, yeah, we all stood a chance to sell a lot of records. That's just my take on it. When people talk about that, to me, those four bands are justifiable, and that's it. I don't see any other bands that were the 'Big' whatever."

Back in 2017, OVERKILL vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth said that "when it comes to being selected and not selected" for inclusion in the "Big Four", "that's a simple accounting issue. When you talk numbers, numbers make the world go around, numbers put food on your table, and numbers put the 'Big Four' in arenas. And they sell enough records to do that… He who sells the most gets the pole positions."

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine said in a 2013 interview that EXODUS "probably" should have been included if the "Big Four" were expanded and considered the "Big Five" "because there was nobody else at the time that had that kind of pull or that kind of importance in the metal community. Granted, it was with [late EXODUS singer Paul] Baloff, and Baloff had a voice that you had to have an acquired taste for, but you know, I liked him."

METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett concurred, telling U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine in a 2014 interview that "EXODUS in the '80s had some bona fide problems, but I think their first album [1985's 'Bonded By Blood'] is just as good as [METALLICA's debut] 'Kill 'Em All'. We were just playing the music we wanted to hear because no one else was playing it and it wasn't being played on the radio. It was only a small group of people who knew about it and it was almost elitist in that 'No posers allowed!' thing."

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22 авг 2019

Flaming

Сколник очень сдержанный парень.
В стотысячный раз объяснять школоло очевидную причину, почему они не в Big4 еще утомительнее, чем объяснять в России почему американцы понимают рок-н-ролл гораздо шире. Где это и Пинк Флойд, и Тупак, и Кайли с Тестаментом.

22 авг 2019

olly71

Осталось только узнать почему там нет Exodus и Overkill но почему то есть не известно за какие успехи Anthrax. ( По первым трём группам у меня вопросов нет - заслужили )

22 авг 2019

Flaming

Вот о чем я и говорил, бххх)))))))
Даже повикипедить на тему лень.

22 авг 2019

Ed Hunter

Очевидно, что большая 4 состоит тупо из самых популярных групп, что подтверждают продажи дисков и позиции в чартах, у Exodus, Overkill и Testament вместе взятых не продано столько альбомов, сколько у тех же Anthrax, остальное чистая вкусовщина.

22 авг 2019

Flaming

Exodus / Megadeth - момент спорный, по их старшинству. Первые и образовались аж в 79-м, и готовый альбом лежал у них целый год, до 85-го, и вышел на пару месяцев ранее Киллинга.
Но по факту Мегадет популярнее, да и поинтереснее. Так что выиграли по очкам.
У остальной тройки по субординации все верно. И появились раньше прочих, и жанр развили, и популярнее более других.

22 авг 2019

Ed Hunter

По дебютному да, но у Мегадет в 86 вышел Peace Sells на мейджор лейбле.

22 авг 2019

grgr

Кто-то ещё парится по поводу биг-4? Кроме самих биг-4.
И непонятно, почему именно 4, а не 3 или 8, к примеру.

22 авг 2019

Flaming

Журналисты парятся.
И те, кто гораздо лучше знает, кому в четверке не надо быть :)

22 авг 2019

Ed Hunter

Наверное, потому что такого высокого уровня успеха достигли только 4 группы из всех

22 авг 2019

Sunriser

Выход есть - A Little 5: Testament, Overkill, Death Angel, Exodus, Machine Head

22 авг 2019

kabachok_nja

Скольнику пох. Он ваще джазист и все эти ваши тхрэсхи ему только как источник дохода и сдались