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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)