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So how did Thrash come about?

batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
edited June 2009 in Strut Central
Speed Metal vs Thrash?Wasnt Thrash - Punk + Metal?

Industry Label or true Fusion/Artistic happening?

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  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    Metal had no where to go but faster at around 1980...SLow and heavy had been done, but speed only had a few landmarks...Motorhead(the godfathers), inspired moments of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden and lots of lesser known, underground groups that would make up a sub-genre-critic-termed New Wave of British Heavy metal. Around 80-81 bands started to pop up that were playing very fast, lots of open-E chugga chugga riffing...Venom, Anvil, etc. In the US, particularly on the west coast, metal bands were being exposed to hardcore...Metallica, in LA, then Frisco were fans of punk as well as being deep metal nerds, as were their peers Exodus, Testament, etc...Slayer, from So Cal were taking the Judas Priest blueprint and adding the speed and agression they were gleaning from hardcore. They also added a healthy does fo Satan. The talented were able to meld the 2 into real music...but thrash actually were lots of bands trying to distance themsleves from hair/party/day glo spandex metal...also at the time there were also a bunch of hardcore/punk bands embracing metal as well...

    of course about 5 years later, the industry exploited it and it was referred to as "crossover"...
  • skelskel You can't cheat karma 5,033 Posts
    GBH and these guys were influential



    Add the speed of this plus the prevailing do-it-yourself ethos of punk and NWOBHM, and US equivalents like Dead Kennedies, add hordes of kids around the world sick to death of the excesses of the traditional rock gods and you get the ingredients for thrash. Add some tranquilising drugs to that mix, hordes of kids who could no longer face glamming up for Goth and you set the scene for grunge.
  • soulmarcosasoulmarcosa 4,296 Posts
    Pretty much what they said.

    Also skateboarding should be mentioned as an influence on thrash being accepted on a worldwide basis. Not being a skater, however, I am ill-equipped to discuss this aspect.

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Pretty much what they said.

    Also skateboarding should be mentioned as an influence on thrash being accepted on a worldwide basis.

    i aint never heard of nobody makin music on a skateboard
  • dwyhajlodwyhajlo 420 Posts
    Pretty much what they said.

    Also skateboarding should be mentioned as an influence on thrash being accepted on a worldwide basis.

    i aint never heard of nobody makin music on a skateboard

    If anybody's done it, I'm sure it was these guys:

  • dwyhajlodwyhajlo 420 Posts
    Or maybe these guys:



  • soulmarcosasoulmarcosa 4,296 Posts
    TALES OF TERROR
    "Skate or Bate"

    Change the world
    Grab yourself a skate
    Do a grinder on the Capitol steps
    Show the politicians what life is about

    Make skates not guns
    Drop acid not bombs
    Train people how to skate
    Not how to go to the next Vietnam

    Promote fun - not violence
    Skate or bate, man
    It makes a F*ck of a lot more sense

    If we all don't skate . . .
    The world's gonna end in a mess!
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    skateboard P's gonna be pissed...
  • PlantweedPlantweed 394 Posts
    Pretty much what The Hook Up said.
  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    Henry Rollins describes it (in the documentary "Punk:Attitude") as the moment that the "F*ck YEAH!!" dudes picked up guitars, post Black Flag. He also describes it as very homo-erotic.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    He also describes it as very homo-erotic.

    He should know.
  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    He also describes it as very homo-erotic.

    He should know.

    ZING!
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