demondave said

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I've got an old issue of THRASH METAL from 1987 that I pulled out. It has a top 20 thrash albums of all time (so far). I think I'm gonna scan it and post it up.

It's funny when people talk about thrash in hindsight. Over the years a lot of stuff was re-catagorized as death or black because fans of those styles wanted to build on other bands.
Bathory, Venom and Celtic Frost were considered thrash. Early Sodom, Sepultura and Sarcofago were called thrash.

Death and Black metal were kicked around as terms, but so were Combat metal, power metal, speed metal, technical metal, Satanic Metal, white metal etc etc.

wow, I'm looking at a Metal Church article in this thing and it says
"The sound? Needs a name. Pick one - thrash metal, speed metal, death metal, black metal, HEAVY METAL. But isn't that where we started?"
The article goes on to say they sound like METAL CHURCH. ha ha