Master of Puppets....

A lot of people have 'tallica to thank for being metal!!!

slayers decade of aggression, id only really heard angel of death and postmortem at the time (about 5 years back now); and a friend who heard that on my comp assumed i liked slayer and got me decade of aggression for my birthday; i wasnt really that thrilled until i listened to it, then i was thrashin all the way

Killing Is My Business is the album which made me finally acknowledge thrash metal.

slayer - reign in blood

first thrash album i bought and it was all down to public enemy, i was into hip hop before metal and i really liked their song channel zero from it takes a nation of millions to hold us back(it samples angel of death)

1 survive by nuclear assault
(must have played that album fuck knows times)

2 skeptic's by agent steel

3 Persecution Mania

GAMABOMBER wrote:skeptic's by agent steel

Hell yeah!

Pez got me into Agent Steel, my first non big 4 thrash/speed band! Fucking love that album, must've listened to it millions of times

"Hell On Earth", which was a Music For Nations compilation from 1983, had Metal Militia on it, first time I'd heard Metallica. It was instant love... "Speed Kills", an Under One Flag compilation from 1986 was also very important. I'd moved on to Slayer, Exciter etc., but this opened my eyes to the likes of Celtic Frost, Possessed, Sodom, Voi Vod, Exodus, Megadeth...

terrorizer wrote:"Hell On Earth", which was a Music For Nations compilation from 1983, had Metal Militia on it, first time I'd heard Metallica. It was instant love... "Speed Kills", an Under One Flag compilation from 1986 was also very important. I'd moved on to Slayer, Exciter etc., but this opened my eyes to the likes of Celtic Frost, Possessed, Sodom, Voi Vod, Exodus, Megadeth...

Yeah, i remember the speed kills... compilations being very important for opening thrashers eyes to new bands.

Must've been an extremely exciting time... fuck I wish I was old

You bet it was!!...And I started thrashin' in the late 80's!!

heh speaking of Speed Kills, downloaded the apparent precursor of Destruction - Bestial Invasion of Hell named "Speed Kills". Turned out just to tracks taken off the Bestial Invasion of Hell demo labeled as Speed Kills, cunts.

I know they where on the first Speed Kills comp but this is seperate.

hmm pssibly master of puppets but i think it was rust in peace that really opened my heart to thrash! and still one of my faves south of heaven got me hooked on slayer!

Ha you lot are making me feel old, but yeah it was a fucking killer time in the mid 80's when thrash was exploding but still underground. The record that showed me the way was "Show No Mercy". I got it from Shades in London (anyone remember that shop?! I met Metallica there once!) on the evidence of the nasty looking cover. This would be 1984 I think. When I got home and played it, it just fucking annihilated me. It was so evil and fast compared to anything else, the atmosphere was totally different to ANYTHING else. Not too long after, they released "Haunting The Chapel" and "Hell Awaits" which upped the ante even further. If you were around at this time, you would understand why thrashers worshipped Slayer, compared to the watered down nu metallers they have become (sort of!). Sorry I'll get my zimmer frame...

I can think of three mainly

Metallica- MoP
Exodus- Fabulous Disaster
Nuclear Assault- Survive

Kill 'em All got me into thrash, but Bonded By Blood got me into other thrash bands besides from early Metallica and Megadeth.