help me get into thrash metal

[brownmetalman420]

i have been meaning to expand more into thrash metal...i dont really listin to the real straight up thrash metal but i would like to start. i like some bands with a heavy thrash influience like...

ringworm
darkest hour
god forbid
the miscreants
unearth(in the eyes of fire)
the abscence

this is mostly metalcore/melodeath but i was hoping i could get some thrash recs based on these bands. i like heavy vocals usually and i really dont like metalica.

 

[Ultimate_Symphony]

I don't know any of the bands you mentioned, mind you. These are essentials if you want to get into thrash:

Sodom - Agent Orange
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Testament - The Legacy, The Gathering (if you like heavy vocals you'll love this one)
Kreator - Coma Of Souls
Watchtower - Control And Resistance
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
Anthrax - Among The Living

 

[Caecius]

Essential Thrash

 

[waif]

If you like the Absence you should dig Kreator's new album, which comes out in about 2 weeks iirc.

 

[M3t41Ti11D3th]

No one my agree but, imo, Rust in Peace by Megadeth is the best thrash album.

 

[Vinder]

Yeah, I second Anthrax. Persistence of Time was my favorite album of theirs.

 

[M3t41Ti11D3th]

Warbringer - War Without End

 

[Vinder]

No one my agree but, imo, Rust in Peace by Megadeth is the best thrash album.

You're right. I don't agree.

 

[Base Delta Zero]

Hell with all that squeaky-clean crap, come play in the mud and listen to Hellbastard!

 

[arg]

notice the OP said

i like heavy vocals usually

i assume he means vocals more like Testament and Slayer and not the higher-pitched raspy vocals common to most thrash.

 

[General Zaroff]

Exodus - Bonded By Blood

 

[Janga666]

My avatar: Slayer - Reign in Blood

that's what got me into thrash.

 

[Dak]

Formation of Damnation

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

The Chasm - Conjuration of the Spectral Empire (a nice and truly epic take on it, combined with death and doom metal influences)
Believer - Sanity Obscure (expansive, destructive guitar tone, and some added technicality)
Sodom - M16 (this band is the 5 star chef of meat-and-potatoes heavy thrash depending on the album)


and if it sounds interesting, later Immortal is more or less thrash as well, blackened thrash, but true thrash metal still makes up a big part of the sound. Actual neck-snapping dynamics happening.

 

[waif]

M16 is badass.

 

[Black Friday]

If you could OP, what about thrash is making it hard for you to get into it? That might help to narrow it down to some gateway bands.

 

[Vinder]

notice the OP said
i assume he means vocals more like Testament and Slayer and not the higher-pitched raspy vocals common to most thrash.

Some of Araya's vocals are quite high. That shrieking makes my toes curl.

Kreator & Anthrax have lower pitched vocals. Main reasons why I still listen to thrash.

 

[arg]

^yeah sometimes. i hate when he does that. though i like his vocals in, say, Bloodline.

btw, holy shit, Sodom is great.

Fuck the Police
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrZo8s1GFzM&feature=related[/ame]

City of God
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa6cINHLqRc&feature=related[/ame]

 

[Black Friday]

Arayas vocals on The Antichrist > Everything else he's ever done.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

also Tankard - Beast of Bourbon, another example of that German sound.