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ze_mau
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 9:34 pm 
 

I´ve seen this subject discussed many times in many foruns around the web , but what are your picks on this one ? I will always mention "Purgatory" , by Iron Maiden , as probably the first true "Thrash" song , but thos is just my opinion ...

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"Paranoid" (1970) is grasping towards thrash and "Children of the Grave" (1971) gets even closer.

"Stone Cold Crazy" (1974) and "Symptom of the Universe" (1975) also deserve mention.

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For a full proper thrash song and not just any early song with fast palm-muted open-string riffs, I'd say Venom's Witching Hour.

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I always thought Judas Priest - Call for the Priest sounded very thrashy. Another early one that rarely seems to get mentioned is Rainbow - A Light in the Black, which is basically proto-speed metal.
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I always thought Judas Priest - Call for the Priest sounded very thrashy.


I think it's a Helloween song recorded 12 years before. The harmonized guitar lines and double bass drumming are amazingly evocative of power metal. I just wish it was a better song.

Now, if we're talking "Dissident Aggressor"...

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When I first heard "Rapid Fire" by Judas Priest, I thought it sounded thrash before thrash just lacking the production.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:32 am 
 

ze_mau wrote:
I´ve seen this subject discussed many times in many foruns around the web , but what are your picks on this one ? I will always mention "Purgatory" , by Iron Maiden , as probably the first true "Thrash" song , but thos is just my opinion ...


Gotta agree with you. When first hearing this I thought it sounded pretty damn thrashy. Interested to see what others come up with.
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Witching Hour is the only real candidate for proto thrash metal in my opinion. It has that chunky punkiness that makes thrash what it is.

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traxan
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"666" from Anvil. Insane song for 1982.

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ze_mau
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:13 am 
 

tomcat_ha wrote:
Witching Hour is the only real candidate for proto thrash metal in my opinion. It has that chunky punkiness that makes thrash what it is.



Not all Thrash is "punkish" at all . I mean , I am a musician . Thrash has a lot of elements of Punk / HC on the rhythm session . Attitude as well . but musically , Thrash is hardly "punkish" most of the time . But yeah , Venom was the closest thing sounding "Thrash Metal" before Thrash existed ...

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ze_mau
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:16 am 
 

Immortal666 wrote:
When I first heard "Rapid Fire" by Judas Priest, I thought it sounded thrash before thrash just lacking the production.



Agree . The whole "British Steel" record was something "really furious" for 1980 IMO .

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:51 am 
 

I’d mention Il Rovescio Della Medaglia’s Sodom E Gomorrah or Night Sun’s Nightmare. Both earlier and heavier than Stone Cold Crazy.

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ze_mau wrote:
tomcat_ha wrote:
Witching Hour is the only real candidate for proto thrash metal in my opinion. It has that chunky punkiness that makes thrash what it is.



Not all Thrash is "punkish" at all . I mean , I am a musician . Thrash has a lot of elements of Punk / HC on the rhythm session . Attitude as well . but musically , Thrash is hardly "punkish" most of the time . But yeah , Venom was the closest thing sounding "Thrash Metal" before Thrash existed ...


without the punk/hc elements its just speed metal.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:37 pm 
 

tomcat_ha wrote:
ze_mau wrote:
Not all Thrash is "punkish" at all . I mean , I am a musician . Thrash has a lot of elements of Punk / HC on the rhythm session . Attitude as well . but musically , Thrash is hardly "punkish" most of the time . But yeah , Venom was the closest thing sounding "Thrash Metal" before Thrash existed ...


without the punk/hc elements its just speed metal.



I don't agree with that. Tyrant and Exciter are pretty thrashy for their time and when you get to Unleashed In The East there's no punk influence whatsoever.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 1:14 pm 
 

What do you think about Scorpions' - "Now" ?

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"Stone Cold Crazy" (1974) and "Symptom of the Universe" (1975) also deserve mention.


That's what I was thinking. Also maybe some early 80s GBH. Some of that stuff sounds a lot like bits of "Kill em All".

What about something like Gamma "Four Horsemen"?
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ze_mau wrote:
What do you think about Scorpions' - "Now" ?


Eh, if you're gonna take a song from Blackout, Dynamite is the better candidate. Can't Get Enough as well.
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TrooperEd wrote:
ze_mau wrote:
What do you think about Scorpions' - "Now" ?


Eh, if you're gonna take a song from Blackout, Dynamite is the better candidate. Can't Get Enough as well.


Those are all excellent songs, but there is not a single thrash riff in any of them.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:24 pm 
 

If you're going to pick a Scorpions song, He's A Woman, She's A Man is a much better candidate for a proto-thrash song than anything from Blackout.

Surprised that nobody's mentioned Fast As A Shark by Accept. That song was considered a standard among the pioneers of the early thrash scene. The title track from Restless & Wild is quite thrashy too.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:39 pm 
 

Temple Of Blood wrote:
TrooperEd wrote:
Eh, if you're gonna take a song from Blackout, Dynamite is the better candidate. Can't Get Enough as well.


Those are all excellent songs, but there is not a single thrash riff in any of them.


2:22 in Dynamite sure sounds like thrash to me.



MorbidEarth wrote:
If you're going to pick a Scorpions song, He's A Woman, She's A Man is a much better candidate for a proto-thrash song than anything from Blackout.

Surprised that nobody's mentioned Fast As A Shark by Accept. That song was considered a standard among the pioneers of the early thrash scene. The title track from Restless & Wild is quite thrashy too.


I think by 82 thrash was already at the very least in a larvae stage, so that's a little too late for "before thrash existed."
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 4:43 pm 
 

Would also nominate Bow Wow’s Electric Power Up and Sammy Hagar’s This Planets On Fire

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 4:58 pm 
 

MawBTS wrote:
"Paranoid" (1970) is grasping towards thrash and "Children of the Grave" (1971) gets even closer.

"Stone Cold Crazy" (1974) and "Symptom of the Universe" (1975) also deserve mention.


I think Stone Cold Crazy really has the stop-start staccato and bursts of lead guitar down to a tee. Except sounding like thrash doesn't really make it the first thrash song. But whatever, interesting suggestions.

No Motorhead yet though?

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traxan
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 5:07 pm 
 

Almost forgot: Riot, "Fire Down Under," and really, almost everything else.

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ze_mau
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 5:14 pm 
 

I still think "Now" , by Scoprions , is kinda proto thrash because of the intensity , but anyways ...

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Symptom of the Universe.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 12:08 am 
 

ze_mau wrote:
I still think "Now" , by Scoprions , is kinda proto thrash because of the intensity , but anyways ...

"Now" definitely, but the Scorps' main contribution to the more brutal side of metal comes a bit earlier, from their 70's material, "He's a Woman, She's a Man" and "Steamrock Fever" from "Taken by Force" as already mentioned here; this savage piece of metal called "Another Piece of Meat" from "Lovedrive"... "Can't Get Enough" from that same album, too. To point at the more obvious ones...

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I always thought Phantom of the Opera sounded thrashy. Especially the buzz saw guitars and semi fast drumming definitely qualifies it as an early thrash like song.

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Iron Fist and later Burner are good examples of proto thrash i think.


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metalistkrieg wrote:
I always thought Phantom of the Opera sounded thrashy. Especially the buzz saw guitars and semi fast drumming definitely qualifies it as an early thrash like song.


To me that song is blueprint speed metal. But its slightly unusual structure foreshadows a lot of thrash.

Wow, what a song it is, though.

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Rainbow's "Kill the King" also
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 9:37 pm 
 

Perhaps Symptom Of the Universe. I would not call it thrash entirely but definitely has some intense thrash riffage for 1975. Sheer Heart Attack by Queen was another good example of early thrash riffs, in 1977.

Triumph Street Fighter Suite was quite a bruising thrash metal riffs. It is a two part song, the first part simply titled Man is definitive proto-thrash metal. Thrash riffs, intense double bass insanity, soaring soprano vocals and thunderous bass lines with dark lyrical content. The second part simply titled Reprise is .... Folk music? The Folk element builds quite extravagantly to an amazing thrash metal finale before a classical guitar conclusion.

While not a thrash song perse, the same year Triumph did a number of Thrash breaks in the song Let Me Get Next To You. All of that in 1975.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:53 am 
 

If you leave out all the proto-stuff, WITCHING HOUR from 1981 is still the song to go. It's still considered a Thrash-song today on the contrary to all the other stuff that is mentioned here. .

The discussion brought me to rediscover "666" from Anvil and together with "March of the Crabs", it really does the job, but that record came out the following year...

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In case demo versions are in scope:

If we're going to quote music from 1981 onwards, Metal Church had Merciless Onslaught on a demo back then.
If we're talking 1982, there's more Metal Church, some Metallica and Anthrax (the Across the River part before Howling Furies).

If demos are out of scope, then obviously Ace of Spades.
Honourable mention to Gillan's Unchain your Brain (1980)

And yes, Triumph, while the whole song having many quiet parts, there is some proto-thrash riffing in that 1976 song. But the topic is "first thrash metal song".
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Necrobiotik wrote:
Iron Fist and later Burner are good examples of proto thrash i think.
Burner is from 1993 unless there's a hidden demo version somewhere.
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kalervon wrote:
Necrobiotik wrote:
Iron Fist and later Burner are good examples of proto thrash i think.
Burner is from 1993 unless there's a hidden demo version somewhere.

I know,but it's Motorhead , and according to the archives, Motorhead plays Speed Metal that is basically Thrash Metal "before Thrash existed" ... And look the quotation marks. :nazi:

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Speed metal is not "thrash metal before thrash existed", speed metal is speed metal. But let's take your bullshit seriously for a minute, how could Burner potentially be the first of these songs ?

There are no quotation marks around the word first.
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So these examples given in the whole thread are not thrash metal too,man. :) Anyway nevermind then.
PS. What really matter is that Motorhead was a thrash metal band "before Thrash existed" . Don't know If the first, this is a hard and well subjective question.

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Necrobiotik wrote:
So these examples given in the whole thread are not thrash metal too,man. :) Anyway nevermind then.
PS. What really matter is that Motorhead was a thrash metal band "before Thrash existed" . Don't know If the first, this is a hard and well subjective question.



Motorhead simply provided more aggressive ways of execution, the way many others did in the late-70's/early-80's, on a couple of songs; that's all. Their significance regarding the spawning of the speed/thrash metal genres is by no means bigger than the one of any other band mentioned here.

The guys, like Lemmy (R.I.P.) had said it so well many times in the past, were just sticking to their own sped-up, noisier version of the good old rock'n roll... from where all things came if you think of it.

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idunnosomename wrote:
metalistkrieg wrote:
I always thought Phantom of the Opera sounded thrashy. Especially the buzz saw guitars and semi fast drumming definitely qualifies it as an early thrash like song.


To me that song is blueprint speed metal. But its slightly unusual structure foreshadows a lot of thrash.

Wow, what a song it is, though.



One of the band's ten best songs, no doubt. Yeah, it can pass for a lot of things although I've always considered it an early template for the progressive metal roster, above all.

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It's Symptom of the Universe. Somebody close the thread, seriously.

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