Thrash - Who Invented It?

[Mouse]

I've been reading an interesting discussion on the Metallica board (http://www.metallicabb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=123962) and decided to make this thread. There were some good ideas. For example, Kill 'Em All was the first pure thrash album to be released, but some argue that the songs on Slayers Show No Mercy, which came out later, were written before hand. Others are suggesting Overkill wrote a trash-esque tune. So many ideas...

[Dayeth]

Dunno, but Metallica perfected it.

[Toasty]

Well i hav to say Kill Em All was a killer and one that set the mark for Thrash but i dunno about starting it.

It was around 1980-1982 when bands like Celtic frost/Hellhammer and Slayer were developing what would become thrash.

80s punk/hardcore outfits such as Discharge were certainly important in its inspiration.

[Teabags]

Originally Posted by allsystemsfail

80s punk/hardcore outfits such as Discharge were certainly important in its inspiration.

I have to agree with you.

[ragudave]

What about the first Suicidal Tendancies album ? Or is that not strictly thrash...

[Monk Rocker]

Originally Posted by ragudave

What about the first Suicidal Tendancies album ? Or is that not strictly thrash...

Suicidal Tendancies were one of the original skatepunk bands.

[lepeep]

from AMG :

Thrash was essentially the sound of underground heavy metal during the '80s, dominated by a driving, percussive approach to rhythm guitar (thanks to a pick-hand technique called palm muting) and furious levels of aggression. Thrash was often technically accomplished, taken at fast tempos, and emphasized heavy, sometimes atonal guitar riffs over melody; however, these generalizations are far from absolute rules. In its early days, thrash was essentially the same thing as speed metal, the product of American bands who in the early '80s fused the lean, vicious attack of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with the tempos of hardcore punk and Motorhead. However, the dexterity and constant intensity required to play speed metal proved limiting to some, and a variety of different approaches quickly took shape: some thrash bands concentrated more on midtempo grooves, occasionally accelerating into speed-metal realms; some, like Metallica and Megadeth, used their instrumental technique to craft more intricate and progressive music; others emphasized the music's aggression to project theatrically menacing images. Thrash provided a harder, heavier, more authentically metallic alternative to the accessible pop-metal bands who dominated the charts in the late '80s, and despite a dearth of airplay, it became quite popular, so much so that when Metallica and Megadeth streamlined their sound to make it more accessible in the early '90s, they became instant superstars. Diehard underground metalheads took refuge in the thrash-inspired death and black metal styles, which took thrash's dark subject matter and visceral force to intentionally disturbing extremes.

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not many bands mentioned in there...

my fave "thrash" band would have to be DRI