Talk:Bolt Thrower (band)
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[edit] Featured article candidate?
According to the notices on the top of this page, this article has been a featured article candidate, but I can't find any info about the nomination or its rejection (all the links seem to go to edit pages). Does anyone know where that information is? Rbarreira 21:40, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
- I nominated it Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Bolt_Thrower it has since been renamed Spearhead 22:10, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Grindcore
They were Grindcore originally, so i added it. Take it down if you can prove they wernt.Captaincookie 11:00, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- they never were grind. they had some hardcore punk influence, early on. furthermore they're straight death. Spearhead 15:54, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- 2 things: First, I removed this paragraph because it's written horribly and makes little sense- "Primary to popular belief ...For Victory wasn't comeback to bolt thrower's grindcore roots (War Master, Realm of Chaos). Metal-Encyclopedia Anus and Earache records call the ...For Victory to grindcore because bolt thrower take a more Godflesh influence to ...For Victory and Godflesh is a own band of Napalm Death-former Justin K Broadrick."
- Also, I think you can make a strong argument that Bolt Thrower can be considered a grindcore band. Listen to "In Battle There Is No Law"; the use of blast beats, the layering of guitar rythms against the drum beat, etc. Yes, there is a hardcore punk influence, but isn't grindcore really just a combination of fast/heavy thrash or death metal with fast hardcore (i.e. Napalm Death)? Death metal and grindcore are often very similar and a lot of bands combine both styles, including Suffocation, Exhumed and Bolt Thrower. They certainly aren't a "straight death" band, if you want that listen to Baphomet or Massacra. I'm going to edit the page to mention something like "Bolt Thrower are considered by some part of the grind genre".Jowe27 18:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Grindcore
I think Realm of Chaos and ..For Victory is a Bolt Thrower's only grindcore releases.
- they never were grind. they had some hardcore punk influence, early on. furthermore they're straight death.Spearhead 17:51, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Removed category
Removed Birmingham bands category as they are from Coventry, not Birmingham. Bubba hotep 20:07, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- they're from around brum. Whale and Karl are from brum, Jo and Gav live in Leamington Spa and Baz is from Coventry. Spearhead 20:37, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
It didn't mention Birmingham at all in the text so that's why I took the category out. It's OK though, someone's put it back in for you. Bubba hotep 08:09, 8 October 2006 (UTC) Although, I have now created the new category of Music from Coventry, England. Bubba hotep 09:18, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bolt thrower redirect page
I have overwritten the disambig page for "Bolt thrower" - it now redirects to here because the other article (Ballista) doesn't even mention "bolt" and "thrower" in the same sentence. Besides the "other uses" link someone else has put up on the band article is sufficient if I'm being generous. Bubba hotep 15:00, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- This article should then be moved to Bolt Thrower - no reason to have a redirect page instead of an actual article. - Quirk 15:45, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
