Thrash Metal

[nbarber]

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My head can accept Testament, as they really fit that label, but again, my heart says Exodus. They weren't progressive, they weren't pretty. They were thrash.

I can agree with that. Testament had better production and Chuck Billy had a stronger voice but Exodus is Exodus...

 

[Delmarva]

Looks like we have sister copies.

Yours is the only one, other than mine that I've ever seen here at AK or anywhere else.

 

[jnicholson14]

They didn't last long. But man, this was as thrashy as thrash ever got, for me at least.
Blistering speed, but still an underlying melody. Brilliant stuff.

Hallows Eve - Tales Of Terror
1985 Combat/Metal Blade Records MX 8027 MBR 1042
https://www.discogs.com/Hallows-Eve-Tales-Of-Terror/master/126545

Metal Merchants is so good. Death and Insanity is a great release too. Loved these guys.

 

[jnicholson14]

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I can agree with that. Testament had better production and Chuck Billy had a stronger voice but Exodus is Exodus...

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I listened to this Exodus on cassette in my car for years, over and over. Great album. This album and Bonded make a great case for these guys being in the Big 5. But I like Testament's first album a whole lot too.

 

[Beatnik]

@Beatnik I was a guitar hero in high school, simply because I could play that sweep arpeggio from the beginning of "The New Order". Skolnick was a beast then, he's still a beast.

And what can be said about the mighty Metal Church?? Their album "The Dark" is as good as anything that came out at that time. I still play that album!

Let's jam !

I was just playing "The Dark" a week ago.



More Wayne.
Reverend / World Won't Miss You



and more.
Wayne / Metal Church



These are regular listens !

 

[nbarber]

Let's jam !

I was just playing "The Dark" a week ago.

Listening to The Dark as I get ready this morning...

 

[heavyrock]

They didn't last long. But man, this was as thrashy as thrash ever got, for me at least.
Blistering speed, but still an underlying melody. Brilliant stuff.

Hallows Eve - Tales Of Terror
1985 Combat/Metal Blade Records MX 8027 MBR 1042
https://www.discogs.com/Hallows-Eve-Tales-Of-Terror/master/126545

Now you are talking! Love this album. Forever. Never gets old or stale. Raw down to the bone, just deadly, whipcracking, neckbreaking metal masterpiece. To go with my copy I found this baby in the dollar bin long ago, I could not believe I found a test pressing of "Tales of Terror". Long live metal. Can anyone point me to a power thrash album as good as this one? If they can it would be a short list.

 

[Delmarva]

Now you are talking! Love this album. Forever. Never gets old or stale. Raw down to the bone, just deadly, whipcracking, neckbreaking metal masterpiece. To go with my copy I found this baby in the dollar bin long ago, I could not believe I found a test pressing of "Tales of Terror". Long live metal. Can anyone point me to a power thrash album as good as this one? If they can it would be a short list.

You have GOT to be kidding. In the dollar bin?

 

[heavyrock]

You have GOT to be kidding. In the dollar bin?

I did not check my notes, possibly $.25-$2 range. Cheep no matter what. No one cared for such things in the 90's! It was such a exciting find for me though, a classic favorite as a testpressing. Scroe!!

 

[Delmarva]

Big time scroe!!
Hallows Eve wasn't just great in studio. Saw them one time at The Bayou in Georgetown, D.C. I feel like Skullator was with the band so that would make it original lineup and around 1985. The earliest date I can find for them playing is 1988, but I know that's not right. Anyways, the band was on an entirely different level from even Metallica or Megadeth at the time. Pure bludgeoning onslaught.

 

[heavyrock]

Big time scroe!!
Hallows Eve wasn't just great in studio. Saw them one time at The Bayou in Georgetown, D.C. I feel like Skullator was with the band so that would make it original lineup and around 1985. The earliest date I can find for them playing is 1988, but I know that's not right. Anyways, the band was on an entirely different level from even Metallica or Megadeth at the time. Pure bludgeoning onslaught.

Killer. I saw some cool photos of them on facebook from around that era with them hanging my friend Jim that did Grinder zine out of the Baltimore suburbs.

 

[onwardjames]

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I can agree with that. Testament had better production and Chuck Billy had a stronger voice but Exodus is Exodus...

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Right on, completely. And, is that an original pressing of Fabulous Disaster??

Whoa. Recently searched for a copy, all I could find were reissues.

 

[nbarber]

Right on, completely. And, is that an original pressing of Fabulous Disaster??

Whoa. Recently searched for a copy, all I could find were reissues.

Yes it is. Bought new at Fallout Records and Skates on Seattle's Capitol Hill.

 

[Delmarva]

These kids were fast, clean and accurate.

Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
1987 Enigma ST-73253
https://www.discogs.com/Death-Angel-The-Ultra-Violence/release/933621

 

[Delmarva]

Metal Merchants is so good. Death and Insanity is a great release too. Loved these guys.

Whenever I play that Hallows Eve album it's for "The Mansion". What a great bit of horror metal.

 

[heavyrock]

I can never put on "Tales of Terror" and not listen to the whole thing, what does it run, maybe 25 minutes? It is essentially a demo recording put to was IIRC.

 

[Delmarva]

Me too. I always listen to the entire record, but The Mansion is what I think about between listenings.

 

[heavyrock]

How has Razor not been part of this thread yet?

 

[Zoot Allures]

My head can accept Testament, as they really fit that label, but again, my heart says Exodus. They weren't progressive, they weren't pretty. They were thrash.


THRASH..........UNDER..............PRESSURE!!!!!

or this yuletide favorite -

DO....THE TOXIC WALTZ!!!!!

I would be inclined to say Exodus as well but I would go to their 1st record Bonded By Blood with their original singer Paul Baloff. A record that grabbed you by the throat right from get go with the plane crash intro. A record that always warrants a repeat listen. One of my favorite Metal albums period, let alone Thrash.




First music festival I ever attended. 1985

 

[Zoot Allures]

And from Venom - Possessed we go directly to Possessed - Seven Churches (see what I did there?). Another arguably non thrash specific band but they are still pretty thrashy!

Possessed - Seven Churches

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I always laugh when I think that Larry Lalonde went onto play guitar for Primus.