Y’all were talking about thrash metal music a while back, and I was curious: is there a band or song y’all would recommend to someone who has never listened to thrash metal before?
Oh and if y’all want I can ask a horny question too—
*edited to fix where we put the wrong time
Its hard for us to pick a particular band or song -
- Do we recommend the first thrash metal song we ever heard roughly fifteen years ago? (we still love this album after rediscovering it years later)
- Do we recommend the first thrash metal song that we heard after we got really into music
sixTEN years ago (apparently we forgot how time works) and led us into heavier stuff? (we heard this live version before the studio version) - Do we recommend the thrash metal album that made us want to play guitar? (and had us excitedly singing along by the end even though we later heard the original album and found this remastered version isn't as great)
- Do we recommend the song that gave the genre its name?
- Do we recommend the first full album to be released by a thrash band?
- Do we recommend one of the more melodic triumphs of the genre, the iconic, crushing brutality of one of its pioneers, the wonderfully weird experimentation that paved the way for many more bands, the punk flavor after a decade of anger and practice, the alcohol-fueled partying, or the ferocious origins that also helped birth the genre of black metal?
- Do we delve into the splintering of the genre in the 90s and all the many directions the surviving bands explored from a softening of the sound (that created innumerable imitators) to industrial-tinged introspection to nearly death metal (another genre born from thrash metal)?
- Do we mention thrash bands that formed later and took part in the 2010s resurgence of the genre, some of which managed to take the genre in new directions even after thirty years of music or the ones that came to add their own stamp on the sound?
We've been writing this post for the last hour because there's just so much thrash metal we want to talk about and mention, this is far from an exhaustive list (which completely fails to address the point of your ask) and if we spend any more time on it we'll start swapping out the albums we put in points six, seven, and eight and find ways to add even more.
The original description we heard about thrash metal was something like the composition of heavy metal combined with the aggression of punk. Those roots still run deep in the genre and we love hearing how some bands stretch this to the point of entering other genres and exiting thrash metal (our favorite part is how each band changed (or didn't) over the years and hearing those changes).
Here's a few of our favorite thrash bands and some of our favorite thrash albums from them (which is a challenge for most of these because we have multiple favorites from them):
- Kreator - Coma of Souls (1990)
- Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction (1992)
- Overkill - W.F.O (1994)
- Anthrax - Persistence of Time (1990)
- Sodom - Sodom (2006)
- Sabbat - Dreamweaver (1989)
- Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal (1991)
- Metallica - ...And Justice for All (1988)
- Toxik - Think This (1989)
- Sacrilege - Within the Prophecy (1987)
- Voivod - Killing Technology (1987)
- Znöwhite - Act of God (1988)
We're stopping here because we've now spent an hour and a half on this and we need to sleep, but we are always up for talking about and listening to thrash metal!
And horny questions are welcome as well!