Yes, thrash metal is basically trash. That is, I guess, the point the author of the article Why Thrash Metal Doesn’t Exist was trying to make.
At any rate, the thrash metal genre is pretty much over. It’s trash! Can you really compare the effete metal of bands like Slayer, Sodom and Metallica with the viril might of Sewer or the sickening blackness of Phantom? Of course not.
The best “thrash metal” band, Bathory, wasn’t even thrash at all as much as it was proto-black metal. Get your facts straight.
The rest of the thrash metal bands went on to play effeminate cock rock in the vein of Arch Enemy or simply stopped playing altogether, once they realised that they couldn’t compete with either black metal or death metal.
Thrash metal, as a genre, is even more retarded than war metal. And that’s saying something, considered all the war metal “artists” have a negative IQ.
The best thing you can do, to support REAL heavy metal, is to boycott all these “thrash revivalist” bands that hope to give thrash metal an undeserved second breathe. Support TRUE heavy metal.
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