1991: A Great Year for Thrash

The Black album

superjuice wrote:

The Black album

Not thrash.

Sacrifice's Soldiers of Misfortune is my favorite thrash album of the '90s (maybe ever), and I'm pretty sure that was '91. The aforementioned Time Does Not Heal, Idolatry, and Mental Vortex are very good as well. I think '91 was really where metal's golden years ended. I would say that the '90s as we know them didn't really take the world by storm until 1992.

Nico wrote:

Sacrifice's Soldiers of Misfortune is my favorite thrash album of the '90s (maybe ever), and I'm pretty sure that was '91. The aforementioned Time Does Not Heal, Idolatry, and Mental Vortex are very good as well. I think '91 was really where metal's golden years ended. I would say that the '90s as we know them didn't really take the world by storm until 1992.

And in some countries the 90s started even later, like in 93 or 94. Thats when the fasion of Grunge and later alternative and industrial metal kicked in. Before people were still die hard traditional metal fans.

1991 was not a good year for thrash. As I recall the overall feelings at the time, it was obviously on the way out and my friends who were not thrash die-hards were moving on to other sounds.

"Time Does Not Heal" is an excellent album as was "Horrorscope" but those bands seemed to be out of step with what the mainstream metal audience was craving.

Once thrash bands got softer and PANTERA was making those bands sound like AOR, the thrash scene was done for about a decade and a half.

Temple of Blood wrote:

As I recall the overall feelings at the time, it was obviously on the way out and my friends who were not thrash die-hards were moving on to other sounds.

That sums up my experience as well, I started moving away from thrash around that time, not completely, but I was finding music that engaged me more elsewhere.

Like I mentioned earlier, my favorite "thrash" album that year was Mental Vortex, but Coroner was definitely leaning more in a progressive direction and that really inspired me at the time. One of my other favorite albums that year was Angel Rat, another album by a previously "thrashy" band that had moved into progressive territory and I preferred that sound to their earlier material.

And then 2 years later death metal had completely overtaken thrash.

You either went:

1. PANTERA/groove
2. prog
3. mainstream/AOR
4. death metal

Thrash was dying in 1991. The hype was over.

Temple of Blood wrote:

And then 2 years later death metal had completely overtaken thrash.

You either went:

1. PANTERA/groove
2. prog
3. mainstream/AOR
4. death metal

Thrash was dying in 1991. The hype was over.

By the time 1993 hit my favorite new bands were Kyuss, Sleep and Cathedral. Fast-forward another 3 years and I had discovered jazz and started selling off my metal collection.

Temple of Blood wrote:

1991 was not a good year for thrash. As I recall the overall feelings at the time, it was obviously on the way out and my friends who were not thrash die-hards were moving on to other sounds.

"Time Does Not Heal" is an excellent album as was "Horrorscope" but those bands seemed to be out of step with what the mainstream metal audience was craving.

Once thrash bands got softer and PANTERA was making those bands sound like AOR, the thrash scene was done for about a decade and a half.

Maybe it was gone in the mainstream but in the underground thrash metal was very very strong durning the 90s and 00s.

Temple of Blood wrote:

And then 2 years later death metal had completely overtaken thrash.

You either went:

1. PANTERA/groove
2. prog
3. mainstream/AOR
4. death metal

Thrash was dying in 1991. The hype was over.

I went All Christian in 1991. Still loved thrash and Christian metal was still releasing some decent thrash metal. Also loved the new death metal and more mainstream stuff.

I prefer it underground as opposed to trying to go more mainstream.