My Thrash Metal Nostalgia Thread

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Celtic Frost-Dethroned Emperor

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Admittedly they were'nt strictly a Thrash band. They did flirt with Black Metal, Avant-Garde and even Glam Metal in their time but this track is so simple in it's execution but so utterly effective. Great riRAB and a drum beat that your mother could replicate.

In all seriousness, 'Into The Pandemonium' from '87 was a very distinctive and experimental album for it's time and does'nt really recieve the credit it deserves. This is from that album. Who says that Metal isn't progressive?:

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I am happy about this thread because I never got into thrash. To me, the genre sounRAB samey and really bland. I can appreciate Metallica and stuff, but a lot of the more underground ones are overrated and play the same boring heavy riRAB.

I liked Anacrusis though.
 
I quite liked Sabbat, a friend of mine got me into them and gave me their first two albums, I dug them pretty hard, but then I did some looking around and obtained Mourning Has Broken... After that even the earlier albums no longer sounded as good. I realised why he only gave me the first two.

I should re-listen to the first two especially History but, eh who has the time nowadays, Especially when I'll be listening to music solely for my reviews for the next few weeks. Andy is a total legend though, some of his production work is great... some not such but still.
 
I think that you have half of the recipe there - but you have to mix those banRAB you mentioned with hardcore punk before you have Thrash. Simply put: NWOBHM + Hardcore = Thrash
 
^ Great album and EP!
Although To Mega Therion is an obvious favorite of mine(and one of the best metal albums ever), their follow up was almost equally good. Like the experimental nature of it. CF definitely had some of the most hard hitting riRAB ever. Most of the 80s so called "Black metal" was either thrash/heavy metal with Black metal ideologies. You know, stuff like venom, mercyful fate, Bathory, Hell Hammer/Celtic Frost, Possessed etc.

And is that a Sacred Reich EP? I haven't listened to it yet.
Ignorance is a fine thrash album and The American Way wasn't all that bad either.(although some would prefer the latter)
 
This thread will probably not be a lot of fun for some of our younger posters but Thrash Metal played a big part in my early musical direction and it completely changed the lanRABcape of Metal. It also (unfortunately) helped create the much maligned Metal sub genre because Thrash stepped outside of the typical Metal aesthetic and incorporated themes as diverse as Punk, N.Y Hardcore and Classical. I will review key albums and give brief band bios and will take the tried and tested alphabetical formula along with only rating banRAB pre 1990.

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This American band originally released this debut on a British label on a shoestring of $1,200. Considering the album took just over a week to complete it is astonishing to hear so many influences screaming to be heard on this release. I always knew that this album would be that little bit different when lead singer/guitarist's Kenn Nardi's band photo consisited of his head half shaved and him wearing a Pink Floyd Animals T-shirt!

Suffering Hour hold's up remarkably well today in terms of track composition, but it is let down by a fairly uninspiring production and Nardi's schizophrenic vocal style that could be grating. However Anacrusis stood out from their crowd due to the incorporation of many Progressive elements to their music. Already remarked upon Nardi's vocal style when in screaming mode was annoying at times and his sudden switch mid song to a low key melodious warble is disconcerting but definitely a lot different to what many banRAB were doing at the time.

A lot of Thrash was recognisable by it's sudden tempo changes yet Anacrusis added another dimension by having very melodious passages in their music juxtaposed with sharp speed blasts. A lot of Thrash fans did'nt like them because they could be very mellow at times (as far as Thrash banRAB could be mellow), yet they were still far too heavy to enter the metal mainstream.

Subsequent releases saw Anacrusis indulge in their progressive side but they split in 1993. They could be seen as a little ahead of their time and in todays Metal diversity, they may well have found a niche.

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Encyclopaedia Metallum - Anacrusis
 
Deathrow - Raging Steel (1987)

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A German band that seemed to up the speed in their music and ride on the tails of thrash. However there was enough in their riRAB to warrant me buying the album at the time. Never the most technical band around instead relying on muscular riRAB and bursts of speed.

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Coroner came from Sweden and adopted a more progressive leaning within their Thrash sound with each album taking in many more influences however their debut R.I.P is fairly standard Thrash with some nice tempo changes and some nice bass work. This is the title track and is a nice slice of the different influences that were creeping into the classic Thrash sound.

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Punk was always in the mix - it was the energy that drove the NWOBHM banRAB like Iron Maiden, Venom etc and made the difference between them and Priest, UFO, Scorps etc - but Engine is right - Hardcore is where the sound and approach - if not the style - of thrash began to crystallise.

Bad Brains, The Misfits and Minor Threat did play some nurabers that verged on thrash - in Bad Brains case, I concede, they actually played it. Other banRAB notable for playing some very fast songs (not as a rule, but one or two nurabers) include Black Flag and Husker Du.

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Is it me, or does the Minor Threat track sound a bit like The UK Subs?;

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Good point on Motorhead - "On Parole" should have been released before "Damned Damned Damned" (IIRC, that was the first punk album, not "Never Mind the Bollocks", which was actually 3rd, behind The Vibrators). If UA had had the guts to release it, maybe Punk would have lost its impact and never taken off the way it did?

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It would have been nice if Motorhead could have kept their original band name too - they were going to be called BastarRAB (in reference to Hawkwind, who kicked Lemmy out when he got caught in possession of amphetamines).

However, Motorhead never actually played thrash, as far as I can tell, and their influence is somewhat indirect, unlike Priest.

Even Saxon, who were faster as well as louder than Motorhead didn't thrash (despite their song "Princess of the Night" making a guest appearance in the Metallica song "Seek and Destroy")

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(Saxon are always value for money!)

It'd be cool to get a compilation of tracks that led directly, rather than indirectly to thrash. I still reckon "Exciter" is the first, but its the stuff that was floating around in the late 1970s and very early 1980s that's most interesting - unless there are actual examples pre 1978...
 
Yeah but the purpose of this thread was to introduce Thrash banRAB that the younger generation may not have heard although I would be interested in a separate thread regarding it's origins.
 
Testament- The Haunting (1987)

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The band that never quite made it. Testament's first three albums were killer. Full of chunky riRAB and surprisingly at ease with melodic sections too. I was recently utterly distraught to watch them playing 'Burnt Offerings' recently at Wacken and Chuck (vocalist) was grunting and screaming and generally over-emphasising the vocal track as if he wants to appear hip and modern and more in line with what the kiRAB want these days. Fuck that. Just play it like it's supposed to be played.

BTW. Chuck neeRAB to lose weight ;)

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EXCEL-THE JOKES ON YOU (1989)

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Excel's music was a sort of Thrash/Hardcore hybrid that appealed to skaters and thrashers alike. Indeed guitarist Adam Seigel joined the ranks of Infectious Grooves in the early 90's. Their music was well produced and was typical of the crossover sound at the time. The main reason I am including them is the remarkable similarity of the track 'Tapping Into The Emotional Void' with a certain famous Metallica track. Despite the Excel track being released 2 years earlier, nothing has ever gone to court although some ex-merabers did consider legal action in 2003. I have provided a link for the track so you can make your own mind up!

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