I was actually thinking Believer's Dimensions. Their best album to date imo.

But how about this? [link to a melodeath song off of Caracass' milestone melodeath album 'HeartWork']

Not to get all "tin hat nutty", but to my understanding, any band and/or movement (like the 99% ) is what's called "controlled oposition". What better way to disfuse opposition than to control it yourself and stear it in a direction where it no longer threatens you?

Now, I never specifically said "angsty lyrics", the people in these bands lashed out at the world because of their feelings, some picked politics as the subject to express themselves with, then quit doing so, perhaps because of emotional maturity. They could be feeling the way they did, without writing "I hate everyone" Korn type lyrics and instead lashing out at the establishment, doesn't seem like much of a stretch to me.

Yeah, what about it? Indeed, are you fucking joking, man? Are you high as a kite? Retarded? New to metal? Other? All of the above? If you're not very familiar with thrash, that's absolutely fine; but don't expect to pick any metal album from 1993 at random and magically stumble upon the one long-lost thrash album released that year, despite 5 of us dedicated thrash fans having tried real hard to find one, and coming up empty. No offense, bro. Also, please note that quality isn't a criterion, never mind that 'Indepence' sucks ass (how could it not? it's only Sacred Reich's black album, after all); it's because it is not thrash that I'm saying it cannot be a 1993 thrash album. If it were shitty thrash, that'd be fine.

Not new to thrash, but new to the site. I was just taking a wild stab at your challenge, that's all, I generally agree with your point.

* What were the benefits of these new genres compared to Thrash ? One should keep in mind, that at some point these genres were developing in the shadow of the almighty Thrash.

What made Groove Metal so attractive among the veteran and newly formed Thrash bands ? Why is it still an integral part of their sound ?

Did the gubmint make thrash metal less political because it represented a threat to the establishment?

Let's take this seriously and discuss it.

1. Neither of those albums were released in 1990.
2. Neither of those albums are thrash (USPM fits the bill).
3. Have you taken your brain medicine today, Zodi?

The reason thrash metal "died" after the early 90's is because its components are so ubiquitous throughout other genres that it is treated as if the slightest deviation from the roots makes it something else. Take pure water and add a few grams of X, and now you have a Z mM solution of X. That's why people can listen to Sacrifice's Flesh and hear groove metal, but when they hear the same riffs in For Whom the Bells Toll they hear thrash or heavy metal. That's also why death metal is capable of withstanding a bazillion derivations and extremely disparate musical styles under its giant umbrella, yet a few Pantera-isms in a Shovel Headed Kill Machine or a Bloodletting earn a booting from the thrash pile. I'll continue listening to Hieronymus Bosch to satisfy my Coroner cravings no matter what genre you want to throw them under.

I don't think "stoner paranoia" could be applied to thrash's being eclipsed by DM and BM because people who founded DM and BM were searching for more extreme modes of expression than thrash and had to essentially build new subgenres of music to do so. While it'd be easy trying to find evidence of a conspiracy to explain why thrash declined in the 1990s, peoples' tastes changed in the 1990s and the majority of thrash bands either had to change to suit the changing tastes of the music-buying-public or play to increasingly select audiences.

The reason thrash metal "died" after the early 90's is because its components are so ubiquitous throughout other genres that it is treated as if the slightest deviation from the roots makes it something else. Take pure water and add a few grams of X, and now you have a Z mM solution of X. That's why people can listen to Sacrifice's Flesh and hear groove metal, but when they hear the same riffs in For Whom the Bells Toll they hear thrash or heavy metal. That's also why death metal is capable of withstanding a bazillion derivations and extremely disparate musical styles under its giant umbrella, yet a few Pantera-isms in a Shovel Headed Kill Machine or a Bloodletting earn a booting from the thrash pile. I'll continue listening to Hieronymus Bosch to satisfy my Coroner cravings no matter what genre you want to throw them under.

Limitations within the style of thrash metal inhibits(ed) growth to a great degree. There was only so far you could go before it ceased to be thrash and became something else. That was something quite evident as far back as the mid 1980s. Death metal, black metal, groove metal, doom metal, grunge, postrock, prog metal - they all offered different options that thrash ostensibly closed the door on. Speed, tempo, instrumentation, experimentation, song length, timing schemes, lyrics themes; the whole nine.