2024 0817 Cause and Effect – Jay Smack Host
“Metal Thrashing Madness – An Audio History of Thrash Metal”
(non-indented titles are full songs, indented titles are clips)
Playlist/Timeline
Influencers
1974 – Queen – Sheer Heart Attack – Stone Cold Crazy (London)
1975 – Black Sabbath – Sabotage – Symptom Of The Universe (England)
1977 – Dead Boys – Loud, Young and Snotty – Sonic Reducer (Cleveland)
1977 – Judas Priest – Sin After Sin – Dissident Aggressor (England)
1979 – Motorhead – Overkill – Overkill (England)
1980 – Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden (England)
1981 – Venom- Welcome To Hell – Angel Dust (England)
1981 – Tigers of Pan Tang – Spellbound – Gangland (England)
1981 – Black Flag – Damaged – Rise Above (LA)
1982 – GBH – City Baby Attacked By Rats – City Baby Attacked By Rats (England)
1982 – Anvil – Metal On Metal – March of the Crabs (Toronto)
1982 – Accept – Restless and Wild – Fast As A Shark (Germany)
1982 – Tank – Filth Hounds of Hades – Filth Hounds of Hades (England)
1983 – Exciter – Heavy Metal Maniac – Heavy Metal Maniac (Toronto)
1983 – Misfits – Earth A.D. – Mommy Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight) (NJ)
The Big Four
1984 – Anthrax – Fistful of Metal – Metal Thrashing Mad (NYC)
1984 – Metallica – Ride The Lightning – Fight Fire With Fire (SF)
1984 – Slayer – Haunting The Chapel – Haunting The Chapel (SF)
1986 – Megadeth – Peace Sells But Who’s Buying – Wake Up Dead (L.A.)
First Wave 83-87
1984 – Metal Church – Metal Church – Beyond The Black (SF)
1985 – Exodus – Bonded By Blood – Bonded By Blood (SF)
1986 – Kreator – Pleasure To Kill – Riot of Violence (Germany)
1986 – Nuclear Assault – Game Over – Sin (NYC)
1987 – Sodom – Persecution Mania – Perseution Mania
1987 – Overkill – Taking Over – Powersurge (NJ)
1987 – Death Angel – The Ultra-Violence – The Ultra-Violence (SF)
1987 – Possessed – The Eyes Of Horror EP – Storm In My Mind (SF)
Second Wave 88-92
1989 – Testament – Practice What You Preach – Practice What You Preach (SF)
1989 – Sepultura – Beneath The Remains – Beneath The Remains (Brazil)
1988 – DRI – 4 of a Kind – Suit and Tie Guy (Houston, moved to SF)
1989 – Annihilator – Alice In Hell – W.T.Y.D. (Welcome To Your Death) (Canada)
1990 – Sacred Reich – The American Way – I Don’t Know – (Phoenix)
1990 – Destruction – Cracked Brain – Cracked Brain (Germany)
1990 – Exhorder – Slaughter In The Vatican – Exhorder (New Orleans)
1991 – Cornoner – Mental Vortex – Semtex Revolution
Post-thrash – 91-92, nu metal, groove metal, thrash bands evolve, early 2000’s
Metallica’s “Black Album”, grunge – change from speed and length to concise, heavy songs. Rise of grunge and alternative metal – Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains
Resurgence
2007 – Evile – Enter The Grave – Thrasher (England)
2012 Lich King – Born Of The Bomb – Combat Mosh (Massachusetts)
2012 – Municipal Waste – The Fatal Feast – Jesus Freaks (Richmond)
2017 – Iron Reagan – Crossover Ministry – A Dying World (Richmond)
2018 Sepulcher – Panoptic Horror – Abyssal Horror (Norway)
2020 – Warbringer – Weapons of Tomorrow – Forepower Kills (L.A.)
2023 – Enforced – War Remains – Hanged By My Hand (Richmond)
