EXODUS - Bonded by Blood
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
Dark Angel - Darnkness Descends
Possessed- Seven Churches
Sabbat - History of a Time to Come
Death Angel - The Ultra Violence

Kill 'em All.

Was that really 23 fookin years ago??!!!!

I got it from Shades in London (anyone remember that shop?! I met Metallica there once!)

You bet i remember that place. As a yokel from the cundry i thought i'd died and gone to heavy metal heaven the first time i set foot in that place. First albums i bought there were ride the lightning and Flotsam & Jetsam's Doomsday for the deceiver

Nuclear Assault 'SURVIVE'

one of the main albums that got me into thrash

IT WAS PROB RIDE THE LIGHTNING THAT WAS ONE HELL OF AN ALBUM STILL IS!

kill em all. When i heard the open E riffing on metal militia i remember wanting to go out and by more thrash like that

When we used to go skating, I used to bring my shitty old boombox tape player with me and my mate brought a tape of slayer - seasons in the abyss. I nearly died when i heard the intro of war ensamble! That's how i got into thrash.

It was not an album which changed my life but seeing Metallica live on the Vertigo tour.

The first thrash album i bought was AJFA but it didnt really get me into metal I liked it alot but never dug deeper. Then my friend lent me a metal compilation cd with "Holy Wars" on it. The rest is history.

Megadeth - Rust In Peace! I bought that album purely because i thought the front cover was cool an i liked the name megadeth!! never heard em before that!!! glad i bought it coz it got me into thrash!!

Kill Em All

When i first heard that i was totally fuckin blown away, i hadn't ever listened to anything remotely metal before that, it did actually change me from a wee skinny fanny with a skin head listening to bonkers, to the fat, hairy bastard that i am today haha.

Handle With Care...Nuclear Assault.
I was a Maiden fan before that and Nuclear Assault opened me up into a whole new world of thrash.

It might seem odd but I really don't have an answer to this question. I just shifted to thrash really after dabbling in various forms of 'extreme' metal, wanted to look back to where those sounds were influenced from.

I then realised that in fact these earlier bands are usually more intense and indeed "brutal", but still kept the link with elements of my original heavy metal love.

Ok, there are two.

The first one, unsuprisingly enough, is Master of Puppets. I swapped an Extreme album (I think it was Pornograffiti) with a mate for Master of Puppets, originally just for a couple of days. I listened to it on the way home on the school bus and it was like nothing I had ever heard. This was early 90's and I owned the Black Album but this was something totally different. It just opened my eyes to what could be done with music.

Then, a few years later having been a huge Metallica fan all this time, I went out and bought Youthanasia and Rust in Peace at the same time. I played 'Reckoning Day' and thought, yeah, this is pretty cool. But then I put on 'Holy Wars...' and it just totally crushed. I remember the ridiculous grin on my face when I heard it for the first time. Sick shit.

OUTLAW - Rob wrote:I remember the ridiculous grin on my face when I heard it for the first time. Sick shit.

I tihnk everyone has experienced that same feeling when first hearing Holy Wars

thrash metal maniac wrote:

OUTLAW - Rob wrote:I remember the ridiculous grin on my face when I heard it for the first time. Sick shit.

I tihnk everyone has experienced that same feeling when first hearing Holy Wars

Yeah, that was fucking killer dude. I had heard Slayer and other heavy shit, but this, for me, just summed up exactly what I wanted out of heavy music and virtuosity. I suppose another album that made me feel that way was 'Vulgar Display of Power', it was the first Pantera album I had ever bought and I just thought it was beyond heavy. It's not thrash though so I guess I shouldn't really go on about it here!