I like Superjoint Ritual more, they have more of a punk metal meets doom thing going.
I like that.
Pantera way ripped off Exhorder, but their still pretty good.
Thrash and Thrash Metal aren't the same, Heresy & Cryptic Slaughter would be Thrash, but not Thrash Metal.
New York thrash metal is pretty different than bay area, its more hardcore edged like Nuclear Assault, Carnivore and Leeway.
Also there's crossover thrash like D.R.I., Gang Green, The...
Grindoce is almost a complete shoot-off of hardcore and crust.
D.R.I. (a hardcore band) recorded the first blastbeat in '82/83 with the song So Sence on the Dirty Rotten LP.
Crass, Discharge were also heavily influencial to grindcore. Discharge coined the term "noise not music", That pretty...