Exodus, Celtic Frost, Destruction, Kreator, Slayer etc...all still around and all still relevant but where's the new crop of thrashers carrying the torch? And I don't mean "retro thrash", "black thrash", or "death thrash"...there wasn't distinction like that back then. Bathory was just as much thrash as Forbidden, just a different approach. Municipal Waste seems to be the one leading the charge with true to form crossover thrash as if it was 1986. Where's the new crop of white hi top, stretch jean, leather jacket, bullet belt, muscle shirt wearing thrash bands?? I know of CSDO, Extinction Agenda and Blistered Earth but that can't be all...can it?

Dew Scented and Hatesphere.

Sorry we don't have muscle shirts, but:

Abhorred

There's one song from our first CD on there, but the new record is gonna piss all over Wallowing.

BlackoutRick said:

They seem more Swedish influenced to me...not true to form

cormid is pretty sick, massive power from mexico are really worth checking out. the bludgeoning's thrash stuff, abhorred, rapid decay although after a few songs they get boring, same with action hero although i heard they got a real drummer now so maybe not anymore

my other prject when we're not being gay with songs like jupiter 7
http://www.myspace.com/volatilethrash

edit

massive power is from chile

maslayer said:

I'll order some white high tops and a muscle shirt for my next gig. Just for you.

In the meantime, check out Thargos, I believe they might be what you are looking for. Also Aura Noir and Audiopain.

Toxic Holocaust, new Funerot.

DrinkHardThrashHard said:

Righteous!! No strech jeans tho?? *S*



Where can I hear Thargos and Audiopain? Aura Noir I feel is more towards black than straight up thrash

F.K.U. !, Funerot

totally agree...Funerot.

Random Acts of Violence

Shit, I forgot FKU. How coud I forget them?

maslayer said:

Thargos has a couple records, 'Salem City' is the latest and in my opinion greatest. I agree with you on Aura Noir but they defintiely have a lot of that real basic early thrash in there like almost direct ripoffs of Celtic Frost riffs. I just asked Intruder for an interview for the first issue of my new 'zine. I am psyched.

I'll have to make you a CD-R or IM you the songs or something. There were those others you wanted too.

Dissector said:

You should be punished... But, If ya hook me up with a copy of that Impetigo DVD, We'll call it even

"Beware!"

a cdr with some of that would be cool! I'd rather listen and judge for myself anyway! how can i get hooked up?

Well, I'll try and put one together. Make me a list of what you want and then PM me your address?!?

KING'S EVIL are killer.

You can get FKU on slsk, I am not sure of the other bands

King's Evil is pretty cool, I have that too. Ritual Carnage is a better band, except for the vocals. Had the new Ritual Carnage CD gone with harsher vocals, it might have been the best thrash record in over a decade, but instead they went with the higher-than-Joey Belladona-style which can be annoying.

Dew Scented and Terror 2000.

Both of those are good, but I'm not sure he's into the Swedish melodeath thrash. Maybe he is. They've been around for awhile though, and Dew-Scented early albums were pretty pure death metal.

MINISTRY OF TERROR were pretty cool, and MORTUARY (France).

bitch slicer

DrinkHardThrashHard said:

I dunno...the ones you listed definaltely but I don't know what you do have that I'd like to sample...maybe you have a list?

With the onslaught of metalcore bands in this country old school Thrash Metal is dying unfortunatley.Just look at last nights Exodus show when half the place emptied out after Suck Blown Chaos were done.

terror 2000 sucks

Jugulator said:

metalcore sucks

BLOODQUEST from virginia beach.
those kids are awesome.

Terror 2000 most certainly does not suck on some of their songs. Ideberg is an incredible riff-writer. The lyrics suck, and some of Speed's vocals suck, but damn, that 2nd album had some smoking riffs that iw ish i had thought up.

Jugulator said:

It hasn't 'died' per se, it's just been absorbed into black, death, melodeath, grind, tech-death, gothencore, and even dreaded metalcore who think its great now to take a crappy thrash riff and then burst into moshdowns and clean vocals.

Then again, pure thrash metal was already dead for a long time. if anything, it's coming back a little. people are sick of all the shit. this is why Kreator made big money on a US tour and thrash bands are getting signed.

Regardless, I'll still play this style with ExAgenda b/c that is where my heart is, and always was.

THRASH \m/

Kreator
Exodus
Dew-Scented
old Children of Bodom
Bolt Thrower

Rammer are the real deal. white high tops and strech jeans, great thrash

hmmmm... No mention of Nuclear Assault?!?!
I hear they're still makin' thrash.

ConquerTheBaphomet said:

Kreator, Exodus, and Bolt Thrower can't be considered "new thrash champoins" They've been around for 20 years I can't really call that new. They're still kings though but the point of this thread was to name some new bands that are still carrying the flame.

With that said, CoB, new or old, was never thrash no matter how you cut it. And Dew-Scented is just fucking lame and boring.

dwellingsickness said:

I have no way of copying DVDs. If I could you know I'd hook you up, man.

Dissector NLI said:

Woops, don't know what I did there.

bolt thrower?? thrash???? HARDLY!!

bodom indeed was never thrash. more like yngwie meets gothenburg.

people here are retarded:
cryptic warning and random acts of violence.

the_reverend said:

they are indeed the best local thrash bands. reverend, you are the wise old owl of this board.

i was very happy to read RAOV's article in the phoenix recently. they are definitely one of the4 best metal bands in new england and it was good to see them get some published recognition.

Rich (MASlayer) said CRYPTIC WARNING are not Thrash, he is the expert.

Witchtrap (Columbia)
Nocturnal
Toxic Holocaust
..and fucking Aura Noir (well, with the BM touch)

CW are too thrash. if rich doesnlt recognize that, he needs new ears.

I agree.

deathamphetamine thrash pretty damn hard too.

maslayer said:

The Bolt Thrower demo I have is very much thrash metal. But of course, for most of their career, the Bolt Thrower that became famous was a death metal band.

I would not say Random Acts of Violence or Cryptic Warning are pure thrash bands, but they certainly have a hell of a lot of thrash in there. So why the hell has my band not played with them yet?

HA! "NU THRASH".....!!!!

dreadkill said:

HAHAHA, but Yngwie is from Sweden to begin with...

but you're right, Bodom definately isn't thrash, they've some 'thrashy riffs' but they've always been a melodic metal band with obscene guitar/keyboard wankery (which, yes, I still love to listen to)

cryptic warning are NOT THRASH...it's thrash influenced DM in my opinion...let's compare them to say testament, Wargasm,Exciter, Forbidden etc...music is tight sure..the vocals kill it for me hence making them more death metal IMO...looking forward to hear RAOV though...and yes I am the expert...thanks for recognizing John!

BTW--so no one gets pissed off at comments I make, I was joking on the expert thing, so deep breaths people

maslayer said:

Yeah, okay.

bout time you see things my way Dwyer!

I'll second Witchtrap, killer band.

watchmaker666 said:

Absolutely! Their outfits are adorable!