Best NEW releases from OLD thrash bands

To me Motorhead is speed metal.

They had a huge impact on the thrash world for sure. I could actually see how someone would think they were thrash.

I'm not a fan, but I do respect all they did for thrash.

me like......

Hirax
Overkill
Laaz Rocket
Exciter
Ultimatum
Megadeth
Slayer

Out of what I've heard:

Overkill - ReliXIV
Testament - The Formation Of Damnation
Ultimatum - Into The Pit
Megadeth - Endgame
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Kreator - Enemy Of God

Destructor - Forever in Leather
Destructor - Sonic Bullet
Sabbat - Karmagmassacre

That's it, I think.

troublemagnet wrote:

Exodus-Let there be blood
At War-Infidel
Sodom-Sodom
Faith Or Fear-Instruments of Death
Iron Maiden-A Matter of Life and Death
Laaz Rockit-Left For Dead

What the?!?!?! Iron Maiden are THRASH?!?!?!

What are you on?

Testament, Megadeth and Overkill especially, always do it for me

Lots of great stuff posted so far. Here's a few that haven't been mentioned yet

Mekong Delta - Lurking Fear
Flotsam & Jetsam - Dreams of Death
Whiplash - Unborn Again
Solstice - To Dust

Sacrifice - The Ones I Condemn
Hirax - El Rostro De La Muerta
Sodom - Sodom
Artillery - When Death Comes
Testament - The Formation Of Damnation

Can motorhead be labeled as pure thrash? I find it hard to exactly define their music.

Ultimatum-Into The Pit
Testament-Formation Of Damnation
Metallica-Death Magnetic (although not a full return to thrash)
Megadeth-United Abominations
Megadeth-Endgame
Overkill-Immortalis
Hirax-El Rostro De La Muerta

Gilbert wrote:

Can motorhead be labeled as pure thrash? I find it hard to exactly define their music.

They are speed metal and traditional metal both. Not thrash though.

Gilbert wrote:

Can motorhead be labeled as pure thrash? I find it hard to exactly define their music.

It depends on how you define thrash.

One of the most prevalent definitions in the mid 80s was that thrash was the riffs and song structure of metal combined with the speed and energy of punk.

If you go by that definition, then Motorhead would be thrash. What band better exemplifies that definition?

If you go by what the well known thrash bands of the 80s sounded like by the end of the decade, and compare that to Motorheads output during that time, then probably not.

But then again, play Overkill, Ace of Spades, Kill 'Em All, Show No Mercy, and Fistful of Metal back to back, and note all the similarities: the riffing, the tempo of the songs, etc.

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Smurf it, they're Motorhead, that's all that matters.

Motorhead rule. I know

Gilbert wrote:

Can motorhead be labeled as pure thrash? I find it hard to exactly define their music.

I always call them hard rock, but oh well.

Dave the Boss wrote:

Gilbert wrote:

Can motorhead be labeled as pure thrash? I find it hard to exactly define their music.

I always call them hard rock, but oh well.

To me they are much heavier than just hard rock. Everyone sees things differently though.

ultmetal wrote:

Sort of a play off of TOB's thread about the new crop of thrash bands. What NEW releases (within the last five years or so) from older bands do you think are really good. (Keep it to about 5)

Hirax - New Age of Terror
Hirax - El Rostro De La Muerta
Meliah Rage - Masquerade (ok, technically not "thrash" but close enough!)
Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
Paradox - Electrify

(then I break my own rule and list six. LOL!)

All of these, except the last which I haven't heard.

Megadeth - Endgame
Ultimatum - Into the Pit
Metallica - Death Magnetic

Testament ~ The Formation of Damnation
Exodus ~ The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A
Exodus ~ Tempo of the Damned
Kreator ~ Hordes of Chaos
Metallica ~ Death Magnetic
Ultimatum ~ Into the Pit
Overkill ~ Killbox 13

With their 2007 album Destructor have once again proven themselves to be the best thrash metal band on the planet. MAXIMUM DESTRUCTION!

Bulldozer - Unexpected Fate