No one wants to admit it, but thrash fits into transitional times because it skips all the politics, religion, and philosophy in order to focus on the lived experience of marginalized outsiders (skateboarders).
10 CommentsAgnostic Front East Coast and “East Meets West” Tours 2025
Old school hardcore punk placed many of us on the thrash-to-death pipeline where we started with Amebix, Cro-Mags, The Exploited, Discharge, or Agnostic Front and transitioned through DRI and Cryptic Slaughter into full-blown Sepultura, Slayer, and Bathory worship. These ancient bands ride again!
9 CommentsTags: agnostic front, Hardcore Punk, Thrash
Slayer Launches “Slaytanic Verses” Museum
Since the band is no longer active, Slayer has turned its focus toward preserving its place in history as arguably the most powerful and interesting metal band of all time. To that end, the band has launched the “Slaytanic Verses: Live Assaults 1981 Through Today” website.
47 CommentsTags: death metal, slayer, Speed Metal, Thrash
Suffer – Global Warming (1993)
In the idiosyncratic anomalies of metal, Global Warming stands out for being a death metal album with thrash vocals and occasional heavy metal influences which come from the more confrontational side of that genre instead of the groovy, relaxed side.
9 CommentsTags: death metal, suffer, Thrash
Sacrilege – Behind the Realms of Madness (1985)
Coming from the years of reckless ferment as metal and punk attempted to position themselves to get beyond the rock-revival of the NWOBHM years, Sacrilege incorporate thrash — the real thing, a punk/metal hybrid, not speed metal — into their Motörhead- and Discharge-inspired driving punk rock.
71 CommentsTags: Grindcore, Hardcore Punk, punk rock, sacrilege, Thrash
Open Directory of Slayer Bootlegs, Live, and Rare
Not many people appreciate the importance of Slayer. Along with other proto-death/black bands — Bathory, Master, Sarcofago, Hellhammer, Sodom, Possessed — Slayer stepped out of the speed metal sound to the tremolo sound and realized the possibilities of through-composed narrative songs based on the riff.
92 CommentsTags: metal, slayer, speedmetal, Thrash
Solanum – Ruled By The Cruel (2021)
Over the past decade, thrash has rebirthed itself as general resentment toward not just the system but the mentality of modernity has expanded, and Solanum bring us a thrash album straight from middle period Corrosion of Conformity crossed with Agnostic Front and Stormtroopers of Death.
No CommentsShards of Humanity – Cold Logic (2020)
Cold Logic offers thrashy, frantic death metal for caffeinated guitar shredders. Simple songs center around repetitive themes that undergo minor development through rhythmic variation, layering with lead guitar, and juxtaposition of complimentary ideas.
1 CommentTags: shards of humanity, Thrash
Mentors / Elbow Deep – Trash Party (2018)
Hanging out on the edge of the thrash genre with MOD and SOD, the Mentors represented the side of thrash that took thematically after punk; most thrash either placed metal riffs in punk songs (Cryptic Slaughter, Suicidal Tendencies, Fearless Iranians From Hell) or punk riffs in metal songs (DRI, Dead Horse) and took after one of the two thematically, but the Mentors kept the party and sleaze side of punk alive.
2 CommentsTags: elbow deep, gore-grind, Grindcore, mentors, Thrash
Sanity Control – War on Life (2020)
Thrash bands like DRI and Cryptic Slaughter bridged the years between hardcore failing and grindcore appearing. They took punk back to its roots as total alienation and made some great music by picking up the metal style of riffing, which is why they were described as crossover bands. Sanity Control seeks to revive those years.
2 CommentsTags: Crossover, sanity control, Thrash
