Is Thrash Making A Comeback?

Is Thrash Making A Comeback?

Bands seem to be jumping into playing "thrash bandwagon", I don't mind, better then other crap out there. Is thrash getting more exposed to the media or is it the just me? I'm learning about so many bands, but I also search around the net alot and learn about them through boards like these or review sites.

Hell, even heavy metal in general, look at Maiden's release getting #9 or was it 10 on the American charts, i forgot. I'm mainly speaking about the American media.

meh, i never pay attention to charts & media. so it never went away as far as i'm concerned.

Yeah thrash has been making its way back for a few years now. It never really went away, just went WAY underground. Everything always recycles, so I guess its recycling now again.

I agree that Thrash is coming back. But not only Thrash, Metal became more and more popular in the last years. There are a lot of bands which play the old styles again. And Thrash is one of them.

Good things never die – Metal never dies – Thrash never dies!

If there is a bandwagon, then it is bands like Trivium that are jumping on it. Bands like Agent Steel, Avenger of Blood, King's Evil, and any other current real thrash or speed metal band are just making the music they love, the music that has always ruled!

ack

Ultimatum have been playing the same style of metal for over ten years. We've never cared about what's popular. We just play what we love.

Personally I don't ever see thrash becoming again what it was in the late 80's and early 90's.

I agree with ultmetal on one hand, but on the other hand, it is making at least sort of a comeback. There are more new bands in the style now than there were 10 years ago.

Here is my theory: thrash in the 80's was so badass because they had somthing stupid to revolt agianst; hair metal. Then when the big four thrash bands got rich famous and did'nt have that long haired kick your ass speed demon teenager aggressive feel to the music. So the thrash that still remained; violence, forbidden, ext... got much less coverage by the media, so thrash went very underground in the 90's. Just recently the thrashers have seen the past repeating itself; when the 80's thrashers saw bands like poison dressing like girls they wanted to kick some ass. Now we got little emo kids slitting their wrists because they cant handle their emotions? What the hell it that? I mean thats enough to piss anyone off right? But thats not all, they put on make-up and wear girls pants. So the long haired kick your ass speed demon teenagers of this generation are going to step up here in the next few years. We have only seen the begining of an age that will be as memorable to thrash as the 80's.

To me,Thrash never went anywhere.Thrash will never die!!!

I don't necessarily agree with this Mad. In some ways yes, a lot of bands did get less coverage. But the bands you mentioned were changing as well. At least as far as thrash bands that were more in the main stream. The bigger metal labels just stopped signing thrash, where-as a few labels that were way underground (Necropolis, Primitive Art and a few others) signed a few.

This new wave of thrash I can see where you are going there. A lot of the older guys (like me and a few others) really aren't mad at that emo stuff. No I don't like it at all, but its not really in the mainstream is it? I am still pissed from the grunge and alternative era. As far as the guys in girl pants... HAHAH yeah that smurf poo is funny! But for high school kids in this day and age and the metalheads that are writing metal.. yeah I can see that their angst stems from that.

If it is coming back, that's great. But I haven't ever really paid attention the media regarding the music scene. So I don't know.

ultmetal wrote:

Personally I don't ever see thrash becoming again what it was in the late 80's and early 90's.

I agree. also, what people call "thrash" these days is a bit different than the classic thrash from that era.
there are a few bands that still play old school thrash.

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there are a few bands that still play old school thrash.

Like?

Avenger of Blood, Hirax, Destruction, Kreator, Ultimatum, Merciless Death, Temple of Blood...

Fueled by Fire - Thrash Is Back



DENIM, LEATHER, Thrash is what we are!


Bang your head against the stage


At Baloffs command


Thrashing, smashing...Posers on the floor!!


We'll leave you on the floor,bruised and sore





THRASH IS BACK!


THRASH IS BACK!


THRASH IS BACK!





Violence, mayhem, the crowd begins to slam!


Circle pitting maniacs, thrashing all around!


Louder, Louder the crowd starts to scream!!


Saying thrash is back with their fist in the air





THRASH IS BACK!


THRASH IS BACK!


THRASH IS BACK!





Run on the stage, jump in the crowd


They catch you as you fall from the air


The lights hit your face as you surf the crowd


You see the band on the stage,


Kicked in the head


By a white high top


The mark is left on your face


Turned and tossed by the people below


Until you fall in the hole





The crowd pulls you in to the circle pit


Slamming and banging your head


A thrasher falls, you help him up,


Slamming the posers to death!


Singing along while your knees hit your face,


Not giving a damn who's in your way


Your hearts beating fast as your pitting away


THRASH WILL NEVER ....DIE!!!





80's is when thrash was made,


Those were the glory days


Thrash was asleep, but now it's awake


We'll never die, we're here to stay


The glory days are back!


THRASHERS UNITE!! Scream with Me!!





THRASH IS BACK!


THRASH IS BACK!



And while Baloff and Exodus were doing it to express themselves, anger,
whatever, to make something new, Fueled by Fire (and thousands of
today's thrash bands) are doing it, trying to sound like bands in the
80s did, and probably just rewriting lyrics while looking at BBB
booklet. Baloff & co. probably didn't want to sound like an 60s
band.



I do like a lot of new bands, but they're just doing it wrong. The
creative factor is between very little and zero, and the stuff they
bring on on their own is somewhere there too. Especially FbF are an
horrible example of it - stolen riffs everywhere! And the last song on
the album is "Command of the Beast". What else coud you expect, heh.



Some cool new bands with their own attitude: Municipal Waste, Violator (the lyrics are kinda silly at times, too), Negligence.

And I'd certanly like to see Fueled by Fire's show, to see how many things from the lyric are true.

ultmetal wrote:

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there are a few bands that still play old school thrash.

Like?

Avenger of Blood, Hirax, Destruction, Kreator, Ultimatum, Merciless Death, Temple of Blood...

Thats good list

dude go to u tube man, thats pretty damn acurate to what is going down in LA, bunch of thrashers with denim vests and rebok hitops the pits are massive! people divin off the balcony and just tearin the place up. and they do it because they love IT; thrash from the 80's they dont want to make somthing completly different because what they wanna do is 80's thrash metal. they are certainly not following any trends. i really dont know why everyone gives the thrashers crap for doing somthing that happened in the 80's. they love it, they dont give a damn what the hell century it came from.

I didn't say that I don't like it if bands are doing the music in the old way - but if you're doing it, do it with style! It seems that bands are focusing more on a "old school" sound than on songwriting!

Saw this two videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwjlaMAXvI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b65dGGerXg
(can you hear the shameless Metallica / DA (Thrashers) here?)

I guess those moshers wouldn't survive our moshs haha, not to mention the maniacs in Bulgaria at Sinister show - till the blood was spilled and beyond, like nothing happened.

I hope that FbF will come up with their own ideas on the next release - this one is good but I simply can't enjoy it 'cause it's such a thievery!

seems that music has been taking a bit of a circle lately and its been back to heavier and faster music so thats just fine with me! The Toxik reunion came from the band being approached at time of the re-releases and there was still a positive buzz about it!

Nope, everything is saturated with metalcore. Not enough thrash purity like it was in the late eighties.

What bands are you listening to? Nothing I have heard worth the horns in thrash these days has any metalcore in it!

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everything is saturated with metalcore. Not enough thrash purity like it was in the late eighties.

thats what fuels thrash gives us somthing to be pissed about, hair metal had the same affect in the 80s'

Thrash isn't making a "comeback" and there is no "bandwagon" until bands actually make money doing it IMHO.

What, you mean you're not getting rich off of Temple of Blood? I find that hard to believe. I know Ultimatum is just rolling in the dough.

Bwahahahahahaha!

Yeah, I guess all those sweet Benjamins are what motivated us to jump on the "bandwagon", right?