BC Rich is crap unless you are willing to pay top dollar.

Angryprometheus Nowadays, absolutely right.

+Angryprometheus The NJ series is pretty good and affordable. Most are equipped with the EMG 81 and 85 pickups and also an Original Floyd Rose, all for less than $800 USA dollars (not too bad price). They realized they gotta compete with ESP, Jackson, and Dean mid-price range equipment; so they stepped up their game.

@@Angryprometheus wrong

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Tells you who's the most metal

Ten years later, those bands were playing my local clubs again. The later half of the 90s was rough, but deeper in the underground, some cool stuff was happening. Europe was still going strong, but in US, these bands were booked with alternative acts just to sell club tickets.

10 more years? Thrash mostly sputtered for a few more years until Grunge finally stamped it out like a cigarette.

SLAAAAAYYYYYEEERRRRR !!!!!!

Yeah, I was about to say "ironically Anthrax wasn't one of them," but then I went over to Wikipedia and checked out how their albums charted. Well, I was wrong because Anthrax sold way more records with their new singer way after I totally lost interest in them. Crazy that Among The Living peaked at 62 on the US Billboard chart, State of Euphoria got to 30, Persistence of Time hit 24...and then their first album with the new singer goes to 7 and that came out in 1995. However, that album really was the beginning of the end for them. Next album went to 47 and the one after that only 118. Then, they waited 5 years and only reached 123 with the next one. Last one with John Bush in 2004 didn't even chart. So, they waited until 2011 to get Joey back on vocals and they hit 12 on US Billboard chart. Next one with Joey again hit number 2. Firing Joey might have been the stupidest move they made?

@@BlackAceKisachi Slayer survived longest with whatever honor they began with still in tact. Not so for the rest of the Big Four.

I completely agree. It was, in wine terms, a vintage year.

Indeed it was. I'm glad I was alive in such a wonderful time.

+Shane Womack Indeed. 1986 was very important. The big four plus Exodus, Overkill, Testament and Death Angel were just making an impact. Glad I was 17 at that time!

I recall a time when having a guitar solo in a pop song was quite commonplace. Now not all metal bands consistently plays solos.

Man, i blame my parents for making me in '76, way too late. But then again, thumbs up for dad, hè was the one who did my mom. Lord knows i never would have.

He's Lemmy, he can walk into any damn video he wants.

Funny thing about that though is that almost all of Dio's music is about that type of stuff, and I can almost guarantee none of these men would anything bad to say about Ronnie

*writes Five Magics*

+Mitchell Sawinski Right. I don't think they meant it as a slight, just to differentiate themselves from what people traditionally thought of metal themes at the time.

+JJ 86 Yeah, that's a knee-slapper for me too. Love it to pieces!

@@ThoseChickenz Five Magics is about pot.

It sucked even then. The only reason they came up with a 2 hr Metal show, was so they could stop showing Metal during regular rotation.

It’s sad man

Same man

@El señor de la tienda someone's homophobic

El señor de la tienda thrash bands used to wear ripped jeans and some piercings (James Hetfield)

@@woodyb220 go listen to winger lol

@El señor de la tienda the 80s had a shit load of girly looking dudes, I mean look at glam metal

6penas it doesn't matter how you wear your hair It's what's inside your head

@@BW-dv5cd Scott Ian has rap in his head.

Run DMC is the reason I listen to metal. Just check out their song 'Rock Box' .

@@infinitecreativityondrums8367 yeah I liked thrash, punk, and rap growing up in the 80's. But yeah those were three different camps in high school

Anthrax never really care about their image and they do whatever the hell they want. That's why they are my favorite

back in the 80´s wasn´t a big deal to know the specific name of every subgenre, further that that, GnR, Van Halen and other Hard Rock bands would pass as Metal acts

***** Of course Death were very influential but SLAYER are just as important too. Those single note tremelo riffs you hear in most SLAYER songs like Hell Awaits, Praise of Death, Post Mortem, Criminally Insane etc are very common in Death Metal songs.

***** I know, but thank you anyway :)

Slayer weren't far from death metal at the time. Harsher vocals and they would've been

BOBBYGITRPLYR ive had a damn nice life but i fucking love metal. I wonder if this was spawned by middle school. Bullying sucks ass

Not true

Oh I don't think that's true, but it certainly helps when you've got a plate full of shit. I just think the energy and subject matter is alluring regardless.

Makes me wonder if kids in the 80's that lived in 3rd world countries listened to SLAYER since they had hard as well ... 🤔

Boo hoo

Yeah people would ridicule me in junior high, me and one other friend listened to Metallica in the whole school. All the posers called it noise, then when Justice came out two years later they all started wearing Metallica shirts

Well this was about 30 YEARS AGO, SO....

and Lars is not bald yet

And no sunglasses

Jerry Hill and no being a asshole to everyone

Yeah. Almost don't recognize Kerry with the hair

I rather look young.

Dude, lemme was born with a beard

He was 41 in this

He looked like Dakota Fanning

when he wasn't the biggest douche in rock

@@hmpz36911 😆

i don't get the hate towards lars haha metallica are assholes, the whole group. it's a common thing in metalheads. just pointing it out, not mad about it

He's more athletic than you think, he was a junior tennis prodigy at one point in his home country.

Yep too bad we didn't get to see them grow together musically. I'm positive so far so good so what would of been much better

Cowboys From Hell! Not a full thrash album but 3-4 thrash songs on there

86 was better

most likely

Daves moms house ...i think?

@@Pray-4-Me lol oh man....

buzzcrushtrendkill Among the Living too

Among the living was releases in early 87´

Yeah, it was. Also, Kreator's Pleasure to Kill, Dark Angel's Darkness Descends, Sodom's Obsessed by Cruelty, and Sepultura's Morbid Visions were released in '86 too.

Also Darkness Descends and Schizophrenia.

Exumer's Possessed by fire

The difference is that Kerry King and Scott Ian were balding.

+Brian Reading So it was the metal gods that deemed them unworthy of the long hair.

+khazz01 Rob Halford made it okay first.

+khazz01 Scott and KFK didnt get haircuts from an Armani salon.

+Daniel Burger Maybe Lars did but I didn't realize styling your hair was a crime. It looked like Randy Roads went to a hair saloon and make-up artist but no one gave a shit.

THANK YOU. These kids think it stayed popular, but damn do I remember the 90s... Iron Maiden were booked at my local club...

Where were you in 96? These bands were suffering.

The golden age for this music was 83-88.

All the bands featured in this short film had broken into the mainstream, even if it was only a small dent. I think "Reign In Blood" was a top 100 release. Obviously "Master of puppets" did extremely well and Motorhead were already an established band by this point. All those other thrash bands as great as they might have been, were never going to get this kind of attention from MTV due to being to underground and specialist.

CRO-MAGS- The Age of Quarrel. Slayer-Hell Awaits, Reign In Blood. Metallica-Ride The Lighting, Master of Puppets. Exodus-Bonded By Blood, Pleasures of the Flesh, Laaz Rockit....I can keep going, but I'll stop lol

Gama Bomb " Zombie Brew" - killer thrash song, particularly at Halloween

The music is still alive and always will be but the scene is pretty much dead and will never make a comeback

@@istarteverysentencewithbro Yeah but scene culture died in general. It doesn't exist for any genre anymore.

Nirvana has nothing to do with anything. They made one album. The singer died from heroin and grunge lasted about four years. Goodbye.

RIP bro, thanks for the Slayer World Painted Blood lesson

@Buster Ellsworth Nah, not at all. My oldest told me thrash sounds old, she just prefers Jinjer and Woods of Ypres styles. The youngest daughter prefers hip hop but tolerates metal unless it's Nile or Morbid, she doesn't enjoy brutality.

lars is a jack off.

"getting old sucks" -- Speak for yourself, LADY!

hardcore is for hardcore fans.