The big 4 had more melody and musicality than vast majority of these bands. I mean compare something like Tornado of Souls to most of this, vast difference in musical ability. The real greats of the genre make you forget it's "thrash" and just sound like awesome songs. Also Carcass, crazy melodies and ultra complex song structures but still heavy A.F
Gary Holt (Exodus/Slayer): "During that tour with Venom together in ’84, we immediately bonded with the Slayer guys. It was two bands of friends playing with one band of heroes, you know? We were just star-struck-Venom was one of the bands that helped mold both of us. We cut our collective teeth on albums like Welcome to Hell and now we were on tour with them, watching them bust through “Black Metal” and “Countess Bathory.” It was amazing, man. Venom are personal heroes of mine, huge influence on early Exodus, and still one of my favorite bands of all time."
Really well put together thrash documentary, one of the best I've seen & there are many floating around youtube... You put forward some solid, valid points - refreshing to see someone really knows their shit! Nice balance to include the other extreme metal subgenre offshoots with relevant timeline, to give perspective & insight. Excellent music selection too, made it that much more enjoyable. Great job metal brother \m/
Dave Mustaine (Megadeth): “Generally, James [Hetfield] was a gentle person when we were together, but he liked very violent music. We would drive at 60 miles an hour up and down the Pacific Coast Highway in the fog, drunk and listening to Venom.”
Megadeth did not copy anything. They had already finished their album in 1991. Just so it happened they released it later. something that Mustaine regrets to this day. and let's face it. he's much more skilful writer than anyone in Metallica. he doesn't it to copy aneone. in fact he's largely responsible for their first album
Very cool.. thrash metal story told by prince dracul from pensylvania himself .. but your probably mispronounced the year of 80's with 90's in your information, Keep up the good stories, my lord..
One could argue that trash and crossover trash doesnt really exist, the entire Kill em all album is pure hardcore music wise and the same goes for 85% of the bands and songs you mentioned here. The only difference is the looks of the band members, There are docus out there talking about how Metallica where into nyhc/hc scene but the hc dudes didnt want to have them there because hetfield and Lars etc had long hair. Its all hardcore punk really.
Lars Ulrich (Metallica): “On 'Whiplash', we just tried to play as fast as we could and have it make as much sense as possible. One of the bands we were listening to, who were an influence on 'Whiplash', was Venom. That first record [1981’s Welcome To Hell], with songs like 'Angel Dust' and 'Live Like An Angel (Die Like A Devil)', was a big inspiration. They took the energy and speed of what Motörhead were doing and made it a little more heavy metal - Motörhead had more of a punkish attitude. Venom need to get namechecked more when people talk about Metallica’s early days.”
Mille (Kreator): “There was this discotheque in Essen called Kaleidoscope. We used to go there every Monday night because they would play metal for two hours, before they started their regular program. One night the DJ played something I hadn’t heard before, which was almost disturbingly extreme. I went up to his booth and asked what he had just played. He said that the band was called Venom. That day changed my life, musically." "When we heard Venom's Welcome to Hell. We changed the style of the band completely. We were more like a heavy metal band and when we heard this. That was it!" “In the early days we would play covers of Raven, Twisted Sister and Priest, but when I heard Venom, our music changed drastically.”
Tom Araya (Slayer): "Without Venom, there’s a good chance there wouldn’t have been a Slayer. Their Welcome To Hell and Black Metal albums were a big influence on our guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman. We did covers of Venom, Maiden, Priest… Venom was a big influence on Kerry as far as the imagery, and how we did the song-writing. I still think that Welcome to Hell and Black Metal are fucking awesome records, and I still listen to them now actually. Venom was a huge influence, and we started working on our own songs and developed it."
Mmm no Australian thrash metal bands why? we did have some good bands the first known was Mortal Sin and Nothing Sacred around 1983 or 1985 Hobbs' Angel of Death
You did a very good video on Thrash metal origins ! Thank you, man ! I'm still listening thrash since 1983, but I add Jazz and blues tabs to my books to practise guitar !
Tom Angelripper (Sodom): “I think it was around 1981 that I realized that this was really what I wanted to do, to be a musician and to be in a band and I formed Sodom the next year, but we were big metal fans already anyway, and the biggest, most important thing to us was Venom’s ‘Welcome to Hell’ record. It was fantastic, I had never heard a band like that before, and we made the decision that we wanted to do that ourselves, we wanted to do our own version of that music.”
There is a lot of proper research in this independent documentary and not just subjective journalism, been listening to thrash and non commercial music since 83 and heard and seen lots of evolution and devolution in the genre, good to find something that resonates with (my personal) interest and nostalgia. Thank you for making the time and doing this. For anyone interested in historical information about this kind of music origins or inception this doco is most recommended.
I was that perfect age to discover thrash in the 80s (starting with Anthrax's Among the Living). It instantly spoke to me and I'm still a huge fan decades later. I think that era of 87-90 was so incredible, with every month bringing new incredible releases by these great bands. 1989 in particular seemed to be chock full of classics. I'm just glad there was a resurgence because it means that I've finally gotten to see bands like Voivod, Anthrax (with Joey) and Exodus in recent years. I don't bang my head against the stage necessarily but it's still a great time.
I think Dave/Metallica´s formula is much more Diamond Head than Venom(Exodus, Slayer). Diamond Head was a more agressive version of New Wave British of Heavy Metal.
well done like it thank you. I have heard most of these bands, I still listen to daily overkill,death angel, and flotsam and jetsam , at work mostly or driving to work. Slayer and metallica fell off musically for me around 2000 and never bothered to go back But the 3 I mention have still been putting out great metal.
Loved this mini doc; you did a great job. Having lived through this era, I totally agree with your assessment of grunge in relation to thrash. Thanks for the video, and best wishes!
I love thrash metal, I might try Paganini as a first thrash metal musician , but if you keep it to distorted guitars than I would say you hit it correctly, great work , thank you. Mark
Grunge beheaded Glam\Hair metal, not Thrash metal. Sepultura took the torch of Thrash metal and Meshuggah were holding the matches behind them. Confessor (USA) also did a milestone album in 1991 for the technical prog metal. I can include Pantera as well (1992, Vulgar Display of Power). So they were not competing with grunge metal at all! Glam and Punk got slashed by Grunge as typically Glam and Punk were mostly related and associated to fashion and apparel than any other genre of Metal. Well later Goth\DarkWave took the fashion trend from Glam\Punk\Grunge but that is not so much about Music. The only black sheep (pun intended) in the corner at that time were those scandinavian chaps who set their foot by creating Black Metal, originally intended as an antipode to the commercialisation of both Thrash and Death metal by 1992.
@@MusicStoriesbyTassosFrag-gs1hj Αν παρατηρήσετε τα ελληνόφωνα βίντεο σας έχουν πολύ περισσότερες προβολές. Αξίζει τον κόπο διότι υπάρχει ένα ρεύμα με Έλληνες που μιλάνε για το μεταλ πλεον και ο κόσμος παρακολουθεί τακτικά πιστεύω!
They weren't many (or any). The only other one I can think of is Dawn Crosby of Fear of God. I didn't choose each band's members, they are what they are.
@MusicStoriesbyTassosFrag-gs1hj It was not intended to be an personal attack. Merely my observation. Not insulting anyone's accents. That's not my issue. It's the audio quality that made this impossible for me to listen to. Very "tinny/echoey".
