Well that and I like Ingrate more then Abject which really has nothing to do with anything. I would drop Black Harvest into that conversation but then people might think I'm blowing smoke. No doubt there are modern day classics dropping with some regularity in DM (and doom for that matter). Probably would never have gotten into that or rekindled my interest in black and death metal without this or another forum. Maybe I would have found some of the bands I listen to on my own eventually (most likely on the thrash side of things) but as I said elsewhere I didn't know doom was a thing before 2011. That's where forus are a fantastic resource. Internet makes life easier for sure but you still have to know what you're looking for. It weighs on people in different ways I suppose. I can remember good times of playing Metallica when I was younger, but when I play them now, I'm mostly wishing to put something else on that I like more. I guess my point would be that some of the albums do hold nostalgic value for me, but other albums with a lot of nostalgic value don't hold up for my ears these days.
#Best thrash metal albums download#
I ended up working for a couple of record stores and would often buy based on the recommendations of friends and trusted sources on the internet without having heard the albums in question, and I still don't download anything. The internet helped, but I was limited to a 56k modem and still had to special order everything I wanted through record stores before I got a PayPal account to be able to use eBay. I loved what I was hearing in various genres and could never get enough, so I never stopped looking. I was 2 years old in 1989, so I discovered all of these albums as a teenager in the 00's. A lot of albums have nostalgic value that is hard to replace. And I do kind of stand by my choices - they're classic albums for a reason. But whether anything I come across now is going to cut as deeply as the albums I loved back then is another matter. What's great is that I'm still discovering good bands from back in the day, and there are no doubt plenty more to discover. And we obviously do have the internet now, so I've spent the past 7ish years investigating the genre fairly extensively. It was only around 2009 that I really got back into thrash, much as I'd never stopped paying attention completely. Got quite into death metal for a while too, and black metal, but definitely lots of non-metal music as well. Towards the end of it I bought Nevermind by Nirvana, and pretty much went off down that road for a while like so many other people. That's probably why my top ten choices are a bit, well, obvious - those were the albums that really hit me during that 89-91 period. I was about 9 years old when I discovered thrash (1989ish), and there wasn't any internet back then so my knowledge of the scene as a whole was somewhat limited. As far as classics go, it took a lot of listening before I found new stuff I liked and opened up to stuff I didn't, but DM has given us an embarrassment of riches the past few years, and I think there are new classics being made even now. Easy to forget now, when you can have the entire history of a scene laid bare on a screen in under a second. There's a lot of stuff from that time period that I never saw or heard of, and I didn't even know how much I was at the mercy of market forces. Trusted recommendations were king, because checking out a new album meant dropping fifteen bucks. But growing up, we had what was available at the record store, what friends had bought, and if we were lucky we'd read about something cool that the store could actually order. Thrash didn't really stick for me past my early 20s - I've always been more of a DM guy. This is close to my experience, though with different albums.
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