Right...so something that has come up ALOT recently, due to people talking about the purpose of this forum and i think someone brought it up in the P2P thread....but does UK thrash scene actually extend past this forum?

When you look at it the majority of the good bands atleast have a username that they occasionally post on at the very least and then apart from the odd few i really dont know any other bands in the thrash scene.

The only people i can honestly think of that i havnt seen post on here is: Warpath, Savage massiah and pitful reign....no wait...maybe not pitful reign...i think i rember some threads... but def those other 2 bands.

What does a "scene" have to be to actually be a scene? As it stands we have what 10 /15 or so good/decent uk thrash bands that are largly based within the London area or within a close northan proximity...(mostly lol), yet none of them tend to get together that often... i meen i dont live in london, what kind of fan base does say Damnas and Mutant, H.O.D etc.. bring in a normal gig ? Do you guys all advertise the shit out of every gig and all go to each others gigs?

I really am confused as to why people are saying that a uk thrash scene doesnt exist...when in my eyes, clearly one does...for example The london gama bomb show and then the Overkill Exodus show last month...that was full of people that were there for both of those dates.
FTA in april, even if its just like 20 of us from bands and the forum....still people of familiar interests comming together for a mutual love of metal and beer? A scene...no?

For me a scene has a group of bands at it's core that all feed off of each other creatively and try new things. Helping those guys along are a group of fans that turn up to let them know when they've hit the nail on the head or fucked up.

That certainly exists but there 'seems' to be a lot more bands in London then fans atm. I've stood in the purple turtle all night and been one of the few guys who wasn't in a band. It's still a great night but it does make you wonder.

IMHO there is a bigger fan base out there but they just don't know these gigs are on and if they do stumble upon it they don't know who the bands are so they do something else on a Friday night.

You've got to remember 90% of the people that want to see Exodus are not interested in unsigned bands in small venues. They just don't see the appeal. Of course if they went to a Resilience Records xmas bash they might change their minds

ha true, tbh i was thinking about it earlier and i think out of my friends from school/home etc only maybe 4 or 5 are really into there thrash and music like me, but they have not only never seen any of these unsigned thrash bands - but i dont even think they know any bands are playing at any local venues.

I think as hopefully James will agree when he pops in here - if maybe people realise there is a thrash forum...then they will discover and begin to realise there is a live scene out there! Now i think to it at the Old blue last gig...every single person i met bar maybe 3 people were all in a band from this forum ahahahaha.

Does anyone know any good thrash bands that arnt a part of this forum? Again i will cite Warpath but i only discovered them after the Terrorizer unisigned poll the other month.

the real question should be;

Does life extend past this forum?

this is how i got introduced, saw matt drake with an mutant shirt, searched on myspace, really like the clip of psycho surgery-saw a poster for a damnas ep release party which mutant were playing and went there taking a friend who doesnt even like metal and now he cant wait for the mutant ep(we jam zombie holocaust sometimes)- went to the gig, was headbanging alot for mutant, tried to start a moshpit and spilt katze beer and knocked her about 5 meters backwards(sorry) rik was headbanging to the side of me, he starts talking to me bout uk thrash and that he was gonna do a sftournament , i signed up to ukthrash that day and genuinely cried at the way people were on the forum(which many times nearly caused me to stop coming here) went to sf tournament and met some very nice lads, and then that was about it, how i got to know ukthrash and abit of peeps from here.

haha, please tell me you actually didn't physically cry

not physically but in everysingle other way possible

I love how my drunken pitch at the Damnas show has been tactfully edited out of your story Zurab. It's for the best!

I will concoct a more constructive on-topic reply later, but basically I would say that it does extend beyond an online thing yes.

james i mentioned that so many times in other threads

James wrote:I love how my drunken pitch at the Damnas show has been tactfully edited out of your story Zurab. It's for the best!

I will concoct a more constructive on-topic reply later, but basically I would say that it does extend beyond an online thing yes.

I totally agree with james, but i would add that a couple of years ago, this forum completely was the UKThrash scene, now its just one part of it. and that is pretty cool, and not a bad thing at all, in fact very healthy and a wonderful thing. yes there is certainly a real tangible scene/community outside the forum, or at least there is in London, and from what i have seen in Birmingham and Wakefield too, obviously there is ALOT more to the UK than that, but i would assume its pretty similar in other places as well.

Indeed, I see many people at "UKThrash" gigs that aren't on the forum, or if you get get to talking to them, they'll say "Ooh I've got an account, but I never really post"... likewise, if you check out the "bands"section on here, there's quite a few still active bands that never post...

People are just bubbling under the surface.. there's a much bigger scene than you think.. although I'm pretty sure there's still people out there who know plenty of the bands, but little of the forum..

In this thread I tell how I went to see Devastation at Bar Monsta last year and I didn't recognise anyone there but it was packed. It was most surreal. If I remember correctly there were a lot of girls there and Zurab was most peeved by this parallel universe:



So there is an extended scene outside this forum I guess.

Tbh if you look at UKthrash in a whole, whilst it does have pockets of resistance up and down the country, nothing 'big' really has happened since last summer when GB released the Earache album/The Alldayer down London, the summer before was the Evile/ Alldayer in Birmingham.

I am guessing the highlights this year will be the Mutant EP (as its been on hold forever) and the new HOD, with FTA happening in April.

Reanimator have stopped putting on gigs for the time being, and without the UKThrash band releasing new stuff or bands coming over and playing the UK for the first time things are gonna get stale.

I don't think UK Thrash extends beyond this forum. If the forum didn't exist, Thrash in the UK would probably be at the exact same point it is just now, i.e. a loose association of bands and cliques of bands doing the odd gig together. In terms of actually promoting the scene, I can't really say it works for me - I knew of Amok, Evile, Gama Bomb and Mutant before I signed up here (three years on Tuesday) and can't really say I've been introduced to any other worthwhile Thrash bands since.

The Fourth Norseman wrote:the real question should be;

Does life extend past this forum?

In mycase.... no