Thrash Chat - Get me up to Speed.

A recent trade with our most feminine Florida resident got me thinking.....

If these Thrash albums are more to my liking:

Deliverance - Weapons

Deliverance - S/T

Testament - First Strike Still Deadly

Testament - Formation of Damnation

Vengeance Rising - Once Dead

Warbringer - War Without End

Avenger of Blood -

Blood Tsunami - Thrash Metal

Metallica - Ride The Lightning

Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Metallica - Death Magnetic

Once Dead - Visions Of Hell

Ultimatum - Into The Pit

Paradox - Heresy



In other words, faster, melodic and not as chaotic Thrash, what else over the decades would appeal to me?

some that come to mind:
Hirax - The New Age of Terror
Defiance - Void Terra Firma
Defiance - Beyond Recognition
Death Angel - Act III
Abattoir - Vicious Attack
Abattoir - The Only Safe Place
Boarders - The World Hates Me
Gothic Slam - Just Another Face in the Crowd
Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force
Agent Steel - Omega Conspiracy
Agent Steel - Order of the Illuminati
Heathen-Breaking the Silence
Heathen - Victims of Deception

You could try either/both of the TEMPLE OF BLOOD albums.

Also, I would recommend:

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM - No Place for Disgrace
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM - Doomsday for the Deceiver
FORBIDDEN - Forbidden Evil
FORBIDDEN - Twisted into Form
TESTAMENT - The New Order
ANTHRAX - Spreading the Disease
OVERKILL - Taking Over
OVERKILL - Horrorscope
OVERKILL - The Years of Decay
METAL CHURCH - The Dark (a bit more on the traditional side than pure thrash)

Those might fit the bill nicely.

Probably PERSUADER as well...I know they're not really considered Thrash widely, but to me they're like more Thrash, less Epic version of BLIND GUARDIAN...lots of cool fast parts w/ tight, Thrash-like guitars...

Also:

TOXIK - Workd Circus
TOXIK - Think This

How could I forget TOXIK!! Good call.

I personally don't consider PERSUADER thrash though.

Temple of Blood wrote:

You could try either/both of the TEMPLE OF BLOOD albums.

scottmitchell, I second this, you'll love them, methinks.

SpectreFate wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:

You could try either/both of the TEMPLE OF BLOOD albums.

scottmitchell, I second this, you'll love them, methinks.

I'll third it. Not sure why I don't think of ToB when someone says thrash. For some reason in my head I equate them with classic, traditional heavy metal.

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Probably PERSUADER as well...I know they're not really considered Thrash widely, but to me they're like more Thrash, less Epic version of BLIND GUARDIAN...lots of cool fast parts w/ tight, Thrash-like guitars...

Have their stuff. Good stuff.

Got the newest TOB on my want list. You know why? CMR III!

Thanks folks! Good lists and keem 'em coming.

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Got the newest TOB on my want list. You know why? CMR III!

Thanks folks! Good lists and keem 'em coming.

Ah, so comps do work as a promotional tool eh?

I'd also highly recommend the first two ANNIHILATOR discs. Incredible melodic thrash guitar playing.

You've got some good suggestions thus far. You may also dig the early Annihilator albums, especially ALICE IN HELL and NEVER NEVERLAND

Ok, well if we're going to toss out rarity status then I can give you plenty. Slap 'em on your want list and just hope you get lucky with some of them! These are all bands that have clean vocalists, and stay pretty much with the Bay Area sound.

D.A.M. - Human Wreckage
D.A.M. - Inside Out
Slammer - The Work Of Idle Hands...
Fallen Angel - Faith Fails
Dimentia - Affliction
Steel Reign - Change To Insane (they sound A LOT like Testament. You can get this from CDBaby, so go get it now!!)
Stone - Stone
Squealer - Wrong Time, Wrong Place?
Simple Aggression - Formulations In Black (has some funk-ish elements mixed in the thrash, go on YouTube and search for them. You should see the video for the title song, and they also have a MySpace page)
Mordred - Fool's Game
Defiance - Product Of Society
Depressive Age - First Depression
Carbide - Spiral Termination
Acid Reign - Obnoxious
Addictive - Pity Of Man
Airdash - Thank God It's Monday
Amnesia - Unknown Entity
Headhunter - Parody Of Life (Destruction wouldn't be your cup of tea, but their vocalist Schmier used a different vocal style with this band and played a solid form of power/thrash here)
Mortal Sin - Face Of Despair
Jersey Dogs - Thrash Ranch
Intruder - A Higher Form Of Killing
Intruder - Escape From Pain
Intruder - Psycho Savant
Kinetic Dissent - I Will Fight No More Forever
Dead On - Dead On
Atrophy - Socialized Hate
Atrophy - Violent By Nature
Bitter End - Harsh Realities
Attica - Pitched Black
Cold Steel - Freakboy
Cyclone Temple - I Hate...Therefore I Am
Darklin Reach - Where Evil Dwells
Dementia - Recuperate From Reality
Drunken State - Kilt By Death
Drop Hammer - Mind And Body
Earthquake - The Truth
Genetic Wisdom - The Fear Dimension (not really Bay Area, more progressive/thrash, but I think it would be right up your alley)
Grinder - Nothing Is Sacred
Hades - If At First You Don't Succeed
Havoc Mass - Killing The Future
Imagika - Worship
Imagika - ...And So It Burns
Powermad - The Madness Begins...
Powermad - Absolute Power
Poltergeist - Behind My Mask
Poltergeist - Depression
Poltergeist - Nothing Lasts Forever
Pyracanda - Two Sides Of A Coin
Pyracanda - Thorns
Rage - Reign Of Fear (they were more speed/thrash on their first 2 or 3 albums)
Rage - Execution Guaranteed (see above)
Redrum - Power Corrupts
Risk - The Daily Horror News
Risk - Hell's Animals
Risk - Dirty Surfaces
Ritual - Trials Of Torment
Vulture - Easier To Lie
Vendetta - Go And Live...Stay And Die
Vendetta - Brain Damage
Whiplash - Insult To Injury
Xentrix - Shattered Existence
Xentrix - For Whose Advantage? (you'll LOVE this one, I promise you that)
Skyclad - The Wayward Sons Of Mother Earth (again, I'm dead certain you'll LOVE this release)
Sacred Reich - Ignorance
Sacred Reich - Surf Nicaragua
Sacred Reich - The American Way
Slaugher House - Face Reality

That's all I can come up with off the top of my head (and scanning my CD collection beside quickly).

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Atrophy - Socialized Hate
Atrophy - Violent By Nature

Oh yes, most definitely.

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Hades - If At First You Don't Succeed

DUH! Of course! Why didn't I think to mention Hades? It's not like they're from my home state or anything!!!

Most of my suggestions have been named already, but I will add:

Blind Illusion- The Sane Asylum

DOH! Just thought of another one I forgot to mention:

Panic - Epidemic

DeathCult wrote:

Most of my suggestions have been named already, but I will add:

Blind Illusion- The Sane Asylum

Good stuff!

Awesome bass playing, which is a rarity in thrash metal!

ATROPHY does indeed rule...

How about VIO-LENCE?

I second Sideshow on that Steel Reign recommendation.
Another that I dont think has been mentioned yet-Artillery

Also check out:
Hyades
Ancestral
Nameless Crime-cdbaby has this

ARTILLERY are awesome. "By Inheritance" is probably the best place to start for him if he is looking for more melodic stuff.

VIO-LENCE is great but may be too punk-y for him I think.

Everything exceptionally cool has already been listed but I would say maybe any poltergeist album or Antidotes "total".

Witchburner - Blood of Witches
Witchburner - German Thrashing War
Angelus Apatrida - Give 'Em War
Anger As Art - Anger As Art
ADX - Division Blindee
Assorted Heap - The Experience Of Horror
Corrosion of Conformity - Blind
Cyclone - Brutal Destruction
Deathrow - Riders Of Doom
Deathrow - Raging Steel
Defiance - Void Terra Firma
Denata - Art of the insane
Despair - Decay of Humanity
Devastation - Idolatry
Hobbs' Angel Of Death - Hobbs' Angel Of Death
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form


There are tons more!

Thanks all!!

I've got nothing to add that these wankers didn't already point out. But I will gladly add some of these bands to my want-list as well. Thanks, everyone.

Anthrax [Belladonna]
Tourniquet [first 2]
Overthrow - Within Suffering
Outrage - Black Clouds
Meliah Rage - Solitary Solitude
Aria [Russia] first 3
Pig Pen - Bleedin' Stinkin' and Drinkin'
Scanner - Terminal Earth

Sanctity - Road to Bloodshed

Everything else is mentioned

Coroner - No More Color
Coroner - Mental Vortex

(the earlier albums are a little more chaotic, so try these first)