Thrash metal

Used to be into it more in my youth - my favorite all-time thrash album would have to be Rust in Peace.

I love Doom, I mean this one:
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=24606

I like Megadeth or Slayer every now and again, I suppose. Doesn't drive me particularly wild, but its occasionally rather fun.

The "classic" 4 are/were good.
The third and fourth Sepultura albums are fantastic thrash (first two were fantastic death metal!)
Death Angel
I  like Testament, but they were relatively inconsistent.
Viking - Man of Straw

proto-Thrashers Raven a favorite.. just reviewed Colin Marston's Indricothere which has considerable Thrash leanings

luckily we had Ron Quintana's fledgling Metal Mania available around town, which featured the important acts in the early 80s, it's where I heard about Venom, Accept, Sweet Savage, Raven and the better releases from Saxon, Motorhead and Fate

^ Not heard a lot of Raven but I would describe Accept as more Power Metal than Thrash.

I used to listen to quite a bit of Thrash in the 80's, my 2 favourite albums in the genre being Metallica's Master of Puppets and Slayer's Reign in Blood.

Other bands I had a soft spot for were Celtic Frost, Exodus, Flotsam and Jetsam (featuring the soon to be in Metallica Jason Newsted), Megadeth, Anthrax, Dark Angel, Death Angel (great for such a young band), Voivod, Sepultura to name a few. Oh and not forgeting Testament.

BroSpence wrote: The T wrote: yeah I forgot Sepultura... but i consider their classic albums more death than pure thrash... Beneath the Remains, and Arise are more thrash in my ears.  Where as, Morbid Visions and Schizophrenia were death all the way.  All four were incredible especially when compared to the likes of "Roots" (BLEH!).  Their newest album was actually pretty cool though.

Nightfly wrote: ^ Not heard a lot of Raven but I would describe Accept as more Power Metal than Thrash

Exactly. The only Accept song that sounds much like thrash is Fast as a Shark. At their best they were still an absolutely great band, a good example of when power metal actually had... you know, POWER.

By the way, don't capitalize genres, they're not proper nouns.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Accept were strongly influenced by the NWOBHM, which is essentially Proto Thrash.

I think that's a bit of a generalization... Venom, the prototype for thrash, were part of the NWoBHM as were a lot of other punk-influenced metal bands that played fast but I'm not sure if any of the really influential ones took as many clues from punk as Venom did... and not all NWoBHM bands were like that, even. I mean, what would you make of Pagan Altar, whose most obvious influence is Jethro Tull?

There are a lot of bands/albums between circa 1981 and 1985 which I would simply call "Modern Metal" ... not strictly NWOBHM anymore, but also not part of the styles which were established later (Thrash, Death, Black etc.).

That's weird... doesn't "modern metal" usually describe 1990s stuff that's very distinctly 1990s?

But, yeah, the lines between thrash and death and black metal were much blurrier back then. It helps a lot if you think of genres as vague descriptive terms rather than narrow boxes.

I still wouldn't call Accept thrash... far from all of their songs were all-out speedfests like Fast as a Shark, Flash Rocking Man or Breaker. Not all fast Accept songs were thrashy either - Burning, for example, sounds more like like Chuck Berry's Roll Over Beethoven or Blue Öyster Cult's Me262 than anything else.