Thrash Metal

In your face! When other styles are too soft and you take no prisoners: Thrash Metal is the ultimate library for your headbanging productions. Hard, fast and precise riffs, thunderous double bass drums at extreme speed and a droning bass, lightning fast but precise like clockwork.

Format:

ELASTIK

Genre:

Metal, Rock

1.9 GB, 10 Construction Kits, 956 Loops & Samples

49.00 €

24.50 €

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Loop Library for the free Ueberschall Elastik Player
VST2/3, AU, AAX and Standalone for macOS and Windows

No Place For Amp Simulations

This loop pack uses a typical band line-up of drums, bass and two guitars. All instruments were recorded live using real tube amps, an analog console, and then converted to digital using high-end converters. No place for amp simulations here! Thrash Metal contains 10 construction kits with tempos ranging from 150 to 186 BPM. Each kit is divided into up to seven subfolders, including intro, A, B and C parts, break and outro. All instruments are included as single tracks, allowing for full customization and a personalized mix.

Hard, Fast And Precise

The drums have been especially taken care of. In addition to a professional mix-down, there are separate tracks for bass drum, snare top and bottom, snare trigger signal (for drum replacement and doubling), hi-hat, cymbals, toms, overheads, and room mics.

Hard-Hitting Tracks

Combining the energy of Hardcore and Punk with the complex rhythms and almost artfully celebrated guitar riffs of Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal is the root of most of today's extreme Metal subgenres. This is an unadulterated, aggressive Metal sound with no unnecessary frills. Whenever you need really hard hitting tracks, Thrash Metal is your solution. Music productions, commercials, movie trailers, games or just for headbanging - this is the library to produce Thrash Metal in your studio.

Credits

All instruments played by Kai Reuter.

Genre: Thrash Metal

Elastik Soundbank for Mac & Win - AU/VST/AAX/StandAlone

1.9 GB, 10 Construction Kits, 956 Metal Loops & Phrases

SOUNDBANK CONTENT

Mixes: 63

Backings: 63

Drumloops: 64

Acoustic Bassdrum: 63

Snare Top: 65

Snare Bottom: 64

Snare Trigger: 63

HiHat: 42

Tom 49

Ride: 17

Crash: 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