Thanks HB, added all of those.
@BT Yeah I don't understand, why wouldn't we say Municipal Waste's earlier albums got the ball rolling if we were saying that?
I feel like a majority of the big name thrash bands returned to thrash in 2001 and 2003 which may have gotten the ball rolling. Kreator, Destruction, Overkill, Exodus, Sodom, some Megadeth, even Hirax etc. Maybe this spawned a new generation of copycats? Hard to say the reasons why. And why did all these big names decide it was time for thrash again also?
earlier album wasn't as influential and as good, perhaps?
i remember seeing tons of ppl talking about muniwaste in 05/06, not so much before that. it seems like once that album took off, labels started signing every thrash band out there.
imo i would put muniwaste as the most important band to come from the new wave and their albums being the most influential(influential...not the best) thrash albums of that era, even more so than those comeback albums.
bands like fueled by fire, diamondplate, merciless death, etc. saw the success that muniwaste was having and tried emulating them in lots of ways. "if they could do it, we could do it"
i could be wrong about it all, but that's my best guess as to why the new wave came about.
edit:' reasons why the older bands came back to thrash'
grunge/alternative/goth/groove/industrial all started fading in popularity, so they went back to what they did best.
haven't looked into it much, that's my guess tho.
oh yeah, the internet must have had something to do with it, too( made it easier to hype their comeback albums). "broheim, read on blabbermouth/metalachives that kreator/destruction/etc are playing thrash again. lets go see them"
