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Michael172 
Im with you there.
Looking for some thrash I might not have heard.
Current Artist list...
Testament
Megadeth
Nuclear Assault
Evildead
Toxic Holocaust
Anthrax
Few more.
Anything I might enjoy?
OK-I can definitely weigh in here-Love Thrash! It was my coming of age metal circa 1983.....
If you're thinking about current releases from the orignators of the genre-I vote yes, yes, yes for last two Testament releases (as well as their early classics-very solid. If you're new to thrash you can't go wrong w/ Testament-a classic band who were just a step away from joining the big 4. W/ Chuck Billy (one of the most charismatic thrash vocalists ever) and Alex Skolnick back on guitar-arguably one of the great guitarists of our time-very tasteful and heavy melodic player who has a jazz background among other things.
I'm going to say something blunt, I think Dave Mustaine in his middle age is an idiot-that said-back in the day he put out two of my favorite speed metal albums-I don't think there is any real argument, "Peace Sells But Who's Buying" and "Rust in Peace" are some of the best of the genre. I just can't read anything he says without being totally turned off.
For a no holds bar, blue collar sound I think Overkill is terrific. Their 2010 release 'Iron bound" was on a lot of the year end lists and I think it's a freaking fantastic thrash album. No new school nothin'. Just good old fashion arse whipping thrash. The singer's voice takes some getting use to, but I like his vox.It's a bit screechy. He can carry a tune however and has a nice blues quality when he chooses to use it.
Voivod is supposed to have a pretty good new CD w/ a new guitarist if you like technical thrash. I'm thinking of picking it up. They're very well regarded.
Anthrax is killer-on the punkier side of thrash. Check out their old stuff. Going way back to my college days-'90 'Persistence of Time' is a classic. Love, love that album.
How about Machine Head? Been around for a while, but I just started listening to them two releases ago-The Blackening-it's really excellent. I like their new one as well- a bit of a metalcore influence-but the dude has strong clean vox as well. And,for a good modern metal band putting out new stuff-highly recommended. Just straight up American modern thrash metal. Great guitar work.
If you like At the Gates and are willing to listen to a sort of extreme vocal style, The Haunted are pretty cool-I like their early release "Made me Do It" w/ a death metal vocal vibe. And, it's got that cool Sweedish melododic DM thang......Their newer stuff-not so much.
And, speaking of extreme DM/hardcoreish vocals-some good talented young bands out there like Revocation and Skelletonwitch who create a witches brew of blackened thrash. I find the lyrics lacking, but I like thrash that has something to say. I find some of the young thrash bands, don't seem to have much to say lyrically....but that's a pretty strong bias.
Kreator's got a good 2012 release-German Thash!
If you know all of these very well-known bands, I hope I haven't insulted your metal intelligence.
Just some of my opinions about one of my favorite genres :-)
Edited by markm1 - 2/12/13 at 4:42pm
