Thrash Metal

In your face! If other styles are too soft and you need to take no prisoners: Thrash Metal is the ultimate library to start your headbanging productions.

Combining the energy of hardcore and punk with heavy metal‘s complex rhythms and almost artfully celebrated guitar riffs; thrash metal is the root of most current extreme metal-subgenres.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Metal, Rock

1.9 GB, 10 Construction Kits, 956 Loops & Samples

49.00 €

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Thrash Metal

In your face! If other styles are too soft and you need to take no prisoners: Thrash Metal is the ultimate library to start your headbanging productions.

Hard, fast and precise riffs, thunderous double bass drums at extreme speed and a droning bass, lightning fast but accurate like a clockwork. Combining the energy of hardcore and punk with heavy metal‘s complex rhythms and almost artfully celebrated guitar riffs; thrash metal is the root of most current extreme metal-subgenres. This is unaltered aggressive metal sound with no unnecessary attachments.

To create this library, Ueberschall has opted for the typical band lineup with drums, bass and two guitars. All elements have been recorded live, using real valve driven amplifiers, an analogue console and a subsequent transition into the digital domain through high-end-converters. No admission for amp simulations here!

Content

Thrash Metal contains ten construction kits with a tempo range between 150 and 186 BPM. Each kit is divided into up to seven subfolders, including intro, A-, B- and C-parts, break and outro. Use the complete mix to prelisten to the construction kits‘ ideas. Like in all Ueberschall products, all instruments of all parts are also prepared as single tracks, enabling you to select your favorites and create your personal mix.

The drums have been specially taken care of. Besides a professional mix down, there are single tracks of bass drum, snare top and bottom, snare trigger-signal (for drum replacement and doubling), hi-hat, cymbals, toms, overheads and room microphones. In addition, the library offers tracks of the bass guitar and at least two guitars.

Whenever real hard hitting tracks are demanded, Ueberschall‘s Thrash Metal is your solution. Music productions, target group specific advertisements, movie trailers, games or just for headbanging - this is the library to produce thrash metal in your studio.

Elastik-Features

Ueberschall‘s Elastik player and Elastik libraries offer a clearly arranged structure. All names contain speed and root note information allowing for fast and easy navigation within a library. Time-stretching and pitch changes of loops can be performed easily and at highest quality using zplane‘s „élastique pro“ algorithm. All instrument loops within a construction kit can be transposed with no effort. Also, all drums of a library can be exchanged and combined with each other.

The attribute based browser with its clear layout enables access to all available loops with highest speed; across all installed Elastik libraries. With intuitive functions such as formant, resample, reverse and a multi mode filter, Elastik player allows fast music production but also offers free space to creatively manipulate loops.

Genre: Metal

Elastik Soundbank for Mac & Win - AU/VST/AAX/RTAS/Standalone

1.9 GB, 10 Construction Kits, 956 Metal Loops und Samples

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Mixes: 63

Backing: 63

Drum Loop: 64

Acoustic Bassdrum: 63

Snare Acoustic: 1

Snare Top: 64

Snare Bottom: 64

Snare Trigger: 63

HiHat: 42

Tom: 49

Cymbal Ride: 17

Crash Cymbal: 41

Cymbals: 21

Overhead: 64

Room: 64

Electric Bass: 63

Distorted Guitar: 150

In addition to the pitch and tempo manipulation, Elastik’s central Loopeye is a detailed loop-editing tool. A large number of parameters can be adjusted, including slice-based pitch-shifting, volume and pan, reverse, formant, filter and resample. Elastik even includes a random sound replacement function called INSPIRE: one click on the Inspire button and Elastik will select an alternative loop, providing just that bit of additional inspiration when you need it. All this can be done on the fly and without leaving the Elastik environment. You can define which soundbanks will be used in the Inspire tool with the new Inspire browser.

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REVIEW

Nevertheless, if you need some thrash in your sample-library arsenal, this delivers full force.

Thrash Metal

Sound on Sound, March 2013

www.soundonsound.com

"Nevertheless, if you need some thrash in your sample-library arsenal, this delivers full force. "

The more extreme forms of heavy metal might not be to everyone’s taste, but if you are a busy media composer, you never quite know when someone is going to demand a three-minute niche genre track by yesterday. If the required niche happens to be thrash metal, Ueberschall’s Elastik library of the same name might be just what you need to meet the deadline. Like the majority of the Elastik series, this library is organised into construction kits (10 in this case) and the 1.9GB of data are spread over nearly 1000 samples in total.

As might be expected, given the genre, the sampled instruments are dominated by drums, electric bass and heavy guitars. Thrash tends to be up-tempo and these kits were recorded at tempos between 150 and 190 bpm. Both the sounds and the playing seem to be spot-on for the style. There’s plenty of double kick amongst the drums, and the kick sounds themselves are tight, with lots of click, while the snares are crisp. The bass guitar sounds are solid but with enough top end to cut through, and the guitars, while definitely overdriven and distorted, retain enough definition to ensure that the rapid-fire riffing doesn’t just disintegrate into a wall of noise. Given the tempos played and how busy the instrumentation can be, one of the key elements of thrash metal is the almost metronomic timing required in the performances to keep everything tight. Thankfully, that’s achieved here.

Each construction kit provides plenty of options, including sections suitable for intros, endings and between three and five other song sections, so it is fairly easy to build a complete arrangement. Within each song section, as well as a pre-mixed drum loop, you get individual drum mics from the same performance — kick, snare top and bottom, hi-hat, toms, cymbals, overhead and room — so it is also easy to create your own drum mix. There is even a snare trigger track if you want to replace or layer new snare samples into the mix. Most of the song sections include a single bass guitar loop and at least a couple of rhythm guitar parts. Additional lead and/or melody guitars are included in places.

In terms of musical style, the kits themselves have a fairly contemporary sound; more Metallica, Slayer or Sepultura than Anthrax or Venom, and there is even some stuff that could easily pass for the heavier end of bands like Alter Bridge (heavy rock rather than Thrash). While this is a bit of a greedy request, it would have been an excellent extra touch to include DI versions of the main rhythm-guitar performances, so they could be re-amped in your DAW if you wanted to tailor your own guitar tones — but maybe that could come in TM2? Nevertheless, if you need some thrash in your sample-library arsenal, this delivers full force.

4/5 Stars

John Walden