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You showed a lot of favourites from my collection Mike. Those " Destruction " albums bring home to me why I love Metal so much!. Yes, I do like " Cracked Brain ". I see nothing wrong with the " Under The Influence " artwork either, and I did watch that Channel 33 episode as well. " They Live " is one of my favourite John Carpenter films, very funny and original. Mosh-Tastic episode Sir!🤘

Love Demolition Hammer . Named a cocktail 'Infectious Hospital Waste' while on the piss one evening. It was pretty much the dregs of evening we had. I agree about the coloured vinyl suiting the artwork.

‘Release From Agony’ was my introduction to ‘Destruction’… & I discovered it coz I saw Chuck Billy… I think it was… wearing a shirt with the cover art on! I’ve always preferred that debut from ‘Demolition Hammer’! “Throw enough shit & some of it will stick”… lol! Some excellent albums & additions to the ever growing vinyl collection here Mike!🤘🏻

Cool update ,Mike. I also have tge same Destruction double pack cd. I need to pick up sone of them High Roller reissues. Ive got an OG of the live one, and a reissue, by someone else of Release From Agony. I bought an OG ,Ride the Lightning off my mate Dave. Love that Blind Illusion album. Great stuff.

yeah man i love demo hammer, great lyrics too. glad you mentioned cannibal corpse, I always thought their guitar tones were similar.

I have the 2020 pressing of Temple Of The Damned also and for me it’s my second favourite Exodus album after Fabulous Disaster. I still havnt heard any Demolition Hammer but it’s available at my local and was thinking of picking up the reissues. Kool og’s there too.😀🤘

Goons hey … don’t be late for SCHOOLed ha ha! I’m with you on that ‘88 thin production, it has character! I saw Exodus on the Tempo Tour, I got to talk to Rick Hunolt for a few minutes, you’re right I don’t even know if he was actually breathing 😂

Have every single record you shown Mike and all great records .All Thrahtastic👍👍

Hey Mike. Great video. See, I told ya I’m here watching all your videos. It’s funny how even though we all have different tastes, us guys of a certain age (you, me, Marty, Jurgen, etc) all have very similar stories of our history with this music. On a separate note - I bought all those Cryptic Slaughter reissues thanks to Marty reminding me how great they are. You rule sir. Keep up the great work. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Hey again Mickey, nice video and commentary again thank you. A lot of great albums in that bunch. Honestly I went away from thrash like many have for quite some time and only got back into it in the last few years so there's been a lot of discovery in the last while. Maybe why I don't spend much time with say the first 4 Metallica albums....yes I love them don't necessarily have to give them a regular spin either having heard them so much.....kind of ties into your last question in the video somewhat.....thanks again 🙂

Those destruction reissues are really nice.

I commend you and your memory mate, I have absolutely no recollection about how I felt, what was said and what I exactly did when I try to recall experiencing first listens to a certain record or tape back in the 80s. Only fuzzy memories of what might have happened 😂 awesome haul from Jürgen and some killer OG* bargains. I have sold off some records that I can’t listen to all the way through anymore as it’s just way to overplayed but I have kept the cd copies just in case I feel like listening to a few deep cuts and skipping the overplayed hits. Hope that answers your last question. Back in Black and Appetite for Destruction were the first to go.

Sweet collection update here mate! Exodus for me should of been so much bigger! The rob dukes era is exceptional! Didn’t think much of the last one tbh though. Destruction rule to stuff me old china plate 😉🤘🏻🍺

Amazing showing of Moshterpieces! Highlight for me is that Exodus Tempo Of The Damned, that one is on my wish list. Possibly not hard to find but I always forget to look for it when I am shopping for new music. Great video.

Those dual album Destruction CDs sound horrendous, you'll be lucky to get shot of them... I was surprised just how much I liked that Blind Illusion album when I picked it up in the last year or so, instant favourite. I got my MFN RtL back in 2015 for 10.99 off Discogs, I probably baulked at the price back then as well lol. Absolute bargain on the Xentrix - great find!

I have the reissues of all 4 Cryptic Slaughter - all on lovely coloured wax

Tempo Of The Damned rules!!, Banging start to finish, just a great record. I've never gotten into Destruction, way too late to the party and I'm not big in those reissues with twobon one disc things either. Demolition . Hammer are murderous. The third album is a step down compared to the first two albums though. Great stuff Mick!!

Nice one Mike! Thrash in the 90´s went downhill when bands started to tune down more than a halfstep and boosterd up the drumsound. Maybe that´s just me though, hahaha... The Blind Illusion album is indeed produced by Hammet, I asked Mark Biederman about it and Andy Galeon confirmed it. "Tempo of the Damned" is indeed up there with the 80s records. It´s even better than some of those tbh. Btw, "They Live" is not fictional, it´s a documentary!

Love the video, gave me some idea about exploring :)

Demolition Hammer are one of my favourite bands, I fucking love em !!! Own both albums on cd, tape and vinyl - simply a must. Epidemic of violence rips !!!! I purposely picked BLUE vinyl for Tortured , because I get a fucking lob on when I see blue vinyl

Excellent thrash metal update, Mike! Good to see Demolition Hammer, Exodus, Destruction and Metallica.

I have the HRR reissues of the early Destruction albums , killer packaging - only ones I am bothered about - up to Cracked Brain. To be honest HRR do a cracking job on their reissues , got a few of them now. I actually think Release from Agony is my fav Destruction

I remember as a kid being kinda creeped out by the artwork from 'Release from Agony'. Is 'Cracked Brain' bad? I've actually never heard it. Nice OG pick-ups! I like that Omnitron album, because it's kinda weird.

I love Destruction, and their first releases put them among the heavyweights of Thrash Metal. They are also a strongly influential band for the second wave of Black Metal. I bought the re-released CD's to restore a little order to the chaos that was those early CD's, just like your Relase of Agony vinyl, they simply rock. Release of Agony ... I immediately thought of the strange creature from it's artwork when I watched the movie Labyrinth many years later. Tempo of the Damned is one of my favourite Exodus albums. Ride the Lightning is amazing, The Call of Ktulu, Creeping Death, and the title track are simply mind-blowing. Under the Influence is a great classic Overkill album. If I stop listening to an album that I've heard too much, it's never for a long time. Plus there are plenty more to listen too, it's never boring. Have a great Sunday Mickey! 😎🤘

Great stuff Mike…Excellent pick ups from Jurgen…the Destruction reissues are great , I have a few of them but I wanna get the rest Always nice to see that Blind Illusion record, it’s one of my favorites Love that Exodus album, have that edition Omnitron, sounds like a Transformer lol An awesome update Mate

Amazing stack here mate. That Demolition Hammer album is great but I do prefer Epidemic of Violence myself. Tempo of The Fanned us a beast and is better than some of their output from the 'classic ' era. I have those Steamhammer Destruction cds and like you say their a pain in the arse. Cheers Mike

Nice stack of vinyls there Mike. Glad you went back to Tempo of the Damned, great return to form for Exodus, shame that they didn't manage to keep the momentum running. Under the Influence is a killer album. Cheers. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Overkill - got the vinyl box set and all the others on cd - sold my early cds when I got the box set

Hi Mike!!! great Destruction haul from Jurgen, are you going to get of their stuff?? back in the day german thrash was a little to extreme for my taste so i never got into them....... also not very familiar with UK thrash like Xentrix or other bands like Demolition Hammer, bands i discover only a couple of years ago and realize that i have missed great music..... The first Metallica soong i listen was "FFWF" and yes it was the heaviest thing i have ever heard back then and loved it and yes you're right it was the music, not just the guitar solo it was the whole package vocal+guitar+drums+bass..... Now i need to check Cryptic Slaughter and Blind Ilusion because i'm a big Primus fan...... cheers

I had an original pressing of Ride The Lightning that I bought second hand for under a fiver. No longer have it because I donated a load of albums - all played to death - to sell to fund a rugby tour. My other memory of that album was when I took a dubbed copy and played Fight Fire with Fire during a music lesson in school - did not go down too well.

That Exodus is a fine comeback album - not many bands can do it , but they did ! I am always unsure when a band 'is back' after a long hiatus as they mostly forget how to write songs and usually a massive let down, but Exodus did a banging job.

Xentrix, got all the reissues on vinyl - except Ghostbusters which is an original

I paid £40 for my original Music for Nations Ride the lightning. But it doesnt have the merch sheet,thats when it goes higher. Im trying to get the Megaforce one and the Megaforce promo then youre looking at 3 figures.

I have all the early Metallica on cd on MFN - had em years - also got em on Japan import too - never got around to buying the vinyls , dunno if I am bothered really - partly because I have heard em that much its nothing special - total classics, of course.

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