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Bolt Thrower is a Death metal act. Their sound grew out of Trouble, Slayer, Crass, Discharge and Candlemass. Those roots explain a lot about how Bolt Thrower arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Morbid Angel, Dismember, Nile, Malevolent Creation and Death, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sarcófago, Earache Records, Sacrifice, Earth Crisis and Vader, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 38 connections around Bolt Thrower, reaching back through Trouble and forward to Sarcófago. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Bolt Thrower connections
Bolt Thrower grew out of Trouble, Slayer, Crass and Discharge, shares an orbit with Morbid Angel, Dismember, Nile and Malevolent Creation, went on to shape Sarcófago, Earache Records, Sacrifice and Earth Crisis. 38 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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