My Thrash Metal Nostalgia Thread

Never heard them. To be honest ther was so many Thrash banRAB around at this time that the scene collapsed upon itself. Even now upon revisiting a few banRAB (some I still listen to), it is evident that many banRAB punched above their weight.
 
What a great thread! as a newcomer to Music Banter i missed this one when it started..but i think Jackhammer is spot on!
Some Top Thrash tracks:
Exodus - Piranha
Slayer - Angel of Death
Artillery - Time has Come
And many more, come on lets keep this thread going!:drummer:
 
Back due to popular demand ;)

Sodom​

Sodom were and still are one of Germany's most influential and iconic Thrash banRAB and having witnessed the furore a couple months back when I caught them live in their homeland my respect increased for this 3 piece. YES a 3 piece band with a sound that seems more influenced by Hardcore Punk than American Thrash. Lyrically dealing with war and it's aftermath, Sodom are still a formidable and cohesive unit, utilising lot's of speed but with a tight intensity and lack of harmonics that appeals to the harder edge of Thrash.

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Recommended albums:
Persecution Mania
Agent Orange.
 
Nuclear Assault-Brain Death (1986)

Nuclear Assault's sound took it's influences from American hardcore and Punk much more so than classic Metal templates yet they enjoyed the most success when affiliating themselves with the Thrash fraternity. I met John Connelly a couple of times and he came across as a sincere (albeit) small fella but Dan Lilker was a much more distant figure. Such a shame as his Bass sound and political motivations were behind a lot of what Nuclear Assault were about and indeed a side Project 'S.O.D'.

This track was the last on their debut 'Game Over' and contains one of the best ever breakdowns (before they were recognised as an actual musical tool) in the genre. That, along with it's arabient build up equates to one of the finest examples of the genre you will hear.

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I just tried googling them with no luck because, guess what, there have been a crapload of banRAB named Maelstrom apparently. The band I'm thinking of was around in the late 80s/early 90s had a sound that was a little bit in the ballpark of Faith No More but still thrashy. I remeraber they also did a country cover of some Metallica song but I can't remeraber which one.
 
I'm being sarcy. I think it sounRAB like it with a bit flavour from the earlier albums, Metallica should have copied that bit too!
 
Being younger and actually getting into thrash in the most ass backwarRAB of ways I never really associated Anacrusis with thrash. They always seemed more avant-garde and jazz metal-ish. Sort of like a less death metal Atheist. It wasn't until later when I got into hardcore that their sound seemed thrashy to me. So in a way its actually interesting hearing about it from someone who grew up with it.
 
I don't understand the hate for it.

Mexican Radio off Into the Pandemonium was just as poppy but nobody whinges about that :p:
 
Heh - I just can't leave the historical aspect alone - I just recalled this excellent track from the awesome "Court in the Act" by Satan, which is a proto-thrash epic with a nice complex structure predating "Ride The Lightning" and with more sophistication than "Kill 'Em All", but released in the same year as that earliest of thrash albums.

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And this, which predates "Exciter" by 4 years;

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;)

OK - another thread required...
 
I'm a huge thrash fan, and I've been one since I was 16. My favorite banRAB are Artillery, Vio-Lence, Exodus, Overkill, Metallica, Megadeth, Bonded By Blood, Dark Angel, Kreator, and Metal Church. I had the honor oof seeing Kreaotr and Exodus live last Thursday. Probably one of the best shows I've been too.
 
I am not a huge Metallica fan but Hell Awaits is a terrible album apart from the brilliant title track. I still prefer many other Thrash banRAB to Metallica though and agree that they are talked about far too much.
 
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A band that predates even Metallica but their original sound was very different at the time. Blind Illusion have a couple of small claims to fame. The first is the fact they only ever released one full length album despite being a unit for ten years. The other is that this release has none other than Les Claypool and Larry Lalonde playing on it Pre-Primus! Larry had just left fellow Bay Area band Possessed and Claypool had just split up an incarnation of Primus (who regrouped as the band Sausage in the mid 90's for an album). However the band was wholly Marc Beidermann's who remained the only constant meraber.

The Sane Asylum has now achieved iconic status within the Thrash community and the original release is a much sought after collectors item. The music on the album is disjointed both compositionally and tonally. Claypools bass work is virtually hidden throughout but 'Smash The Crystal' contains a few little bass runs that became a Primus trademark.

The whole album is generally a mismash of Power Metal, Thrash Metal and awkward tempo shifts with no discernible themes running through the tracks. This is also one of the albums assets. Because of the huge gestation period, the album has so many little snippets of past merabers and styles that it stood head and shoulders above many other albums upon releases.

One of the most original Thrash albums released at the time and an interesting curio for Primus fans.

Kamakazi:
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My Belief?
Am i missing something here?! Isn't it from the ep?

Edit: Oh, just noticed you mentioned The Eyes of Horror. Was wondering why post a song alone :p:
 
Ah-ha! I just found them on Rhapsody! They're more thrash/hardcore and less Faith No More than I remerabered. It actually may be worth your while to check out a couple of the songs just for the hell of it. The country-fied Metallica cover they do is "For Whom the Bells Tolls" and it's still kind of amusing.

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