+Angryprometheus The NJ series is pretty good and affordable. Most are equipped with the EMG 81 and 85 pickups and also an Original Floyd Rose, all for less than $800 USA dollars (not too bad price). They realized they gotta compete with ESP, Jackson, and Dean mid-price range equipment; so they stepped up their game.
Ten years later, those bands were playing my local clubs again. The later half of the 90s was rough, but deeper in the underground, some cool stuff was happening. Europe was still going strong, but in US, these bands were booked with alternative acts just to sell club tickets.
Yeah, I was about to say "ironically Anthrax wasn't one of them," but then I went over to Wikipedia and checked out how their albums charted. Well, I was wrong because Anthrax sold way more records with their new singer way after I totally lost interest in them. Crazy that Among The Living peaked at 62 on the US Billboard chart, State of Euphoria got to 30, Persistence of Time hit 24...and then their first album with the new singer goes to 7 and that came out in 1995. However, that album really was the beginning of the end for them. Next album went to 47 and the one after that only 118. Then, they waited 5 years and only reached 123 with the next one. Last one with John Bush in 2004 didn't even chart. So, they waited until 2011 to get Joey back on vocals and they hit 12 on US Billboard chart. Next one with Joey again hit number 2. Firing Joey might have been the stupidest move they made?
I miss 1986. Killer music everywhere back then. Pop music was even tolerable. The heavy shit blew my mind and changed the course of my love of music forever. \m/
+Shane Womack Indeed. 1986 was very important. The big four plus Exodus, Overkill, Testament and Death Angel were just making an impact. Glad I was 17 at that time!
Man, i blame my parents for making me in '76, way too late. But then again, thumbs up for dad, hè was the one who did my mom. Lord knows i never would have.
The Slayer band practice session was really cool. There should be more of those. I'd like to watch a complete, hours long Slayer practice from their heyday in the early - mid 1980s.
Funny thing about that though is that almost all of Dio's music is about that type of stuff, and I can almost guarantee none of these men would anything bad to say about Ronnie
+Mitchell Sawinski Right. I don't think they meant it as a slight, just to differentiate themselves from what people traditionally thought of metal themes at the time.
Your hardcore when you talk metal wearing a RUN DMC shirt. Scott Ian lives his, life his way, don't let anyone tell you what you should wear or how you should look.
I like how they mentioned you can call it speed metal, thrash metal, death metal. I mean, thrash metal is probably the coolest term for those bands. Back in those days, it would've made sense to call SLAYER death metal because of there lyrics, and not too mention that they pretty much influenced the entire death metal scene in florida.
back in the 80´s wasn´t a big deal to know the specific name of every subgenre, further that that, GnR, Van Halen and other Hard Rock bands would pass as Metal acts
***** Of course Death were very influential but SLAYER are just as important too. Those single note tremelo riffs you hear in most SLAYER songs like Hell Awaits, Praise of Death, Post Mortem, Criminally Insane etc are very common in Death Metal songs.
Oh I don't think that's true, but it certainly helps when you've got a plate full of shit. I just think the energy and subject matter is alluring regardless.
It was a great time... Puppets was such an epic release, Peace Sells, Among the Living too. And don't forget Exodus & Testament. Talk about good shows... in small clubs with such tight crunchy crunch sounds. Your parents hated it. It was awesome!
Dave hit it right on the head everytime. “the youth of america wants to thrash right now... were gonna do what we set out to do, which is break all the rules”.
i don't get the hate towards lars haha metallica are assholes, the whole group. it's a common thing in metalheads. just pointing it out, not mad about it
By 86 all my metal friends & I were into this stuff for a couple years already but I remember in 84 trying to get some of them to hear the greatness I was hearing mainly Ride The Lightning & they didn't get it right away. The first 2 seconds I heard Metallica I remember I thought this is the greatest band ever & they're my generation. Everything before was 10/15 years older then me but I still loved it.
Yeah people would ridicule me in junior high, me and one other friend listened to Metallica in the whole school. All the posers called it noise, then when Justice came out two years later they all started wearing Metallica shirts
Wtf , Kerry has hair and no shades on, he looks crazier bald with tatts on his fucking skull lol, love what Hannemann said about listening to slayer's music ,you have to have problems or you won't get it!!! lol R.i.p jeff \m/😈\m/
I remember this spot on MTV. I used to have it on Beta videotape! And, it was my introduction to Anthrax. (I was already listening to everyone else on the special.)
Yeah, it was. Also, Kreator's Pleasure to Kill, Dark Angel's Darkness Descends, Sodom's Obsessed by Cruelty, and Sepultura's Morbid Visions were released in '86 too.
Scott Ian and Kerry King have long hair here but cut it off and no none gave a shit. The Metallica boys cut their hair and people thought the world was going to end.
+Daniel Burger Maybe Lars did but I didn't realize styling your hair was a crime. It looked like Randy Roads went to a hair saloon and make-up artist but no one gave a shit.
Scott Ian was right. Ten years later, 96, thrash and speed gave way to different things. 97-98 was a big move away from the 86 style. Another era of good music.
You're the millionth person to tell me that lol. I covered this a while ago. But yes, Jeff, Tom, Kirk (again), Dave, Joey, Shawn, Chris, and other Dave (not Lombardo, of Megadeth)
All the bands featured in this short film had broken into the mainstream, even if it was only a small dent. I think "Reign In Blood" was a top 100 release. Obviously "Master of puppets" did extremely well and Motorhead were already an established band by this point. All those other thrash bands as great as they might have been, were never going to get this kind of attention from MTV due to being to underground and specialist.
Yeah, fair point. I was only 1 or 2 when this was shot. I guess some people even now consider speed and thrash to be more or less synonymous. It's just really weird to think that those bands were actually considered DEATH metal back then.
I miss the 80s!! Just a few great records I own: Mercyful Fate-Melissa, Don't Break The Oath. King Diamond-Fatal Portrait (favorite), Abigail, Them. Voivod-Rrrrroooooarrrr. Venom-Black Metal, Welcome to Hell. Etc.... soooo many good ones...
CRO-MAGS- The Age of Quarrel. Slayer-Hell Awaits, Reign In Blood. Metallica-Ride The Lighting, Master of Puppets. Exodus-Bonded By Blood, Pleasures of the Flesh, Laaz Rockit....I can keep going, but I'll stop lol
Thrash is still alive and well. There are still new generation of bands coming up with killer records. Evile, Havok, Toxic Holocaust, Suicidal Angels, Warbringer, Midnight, Bütcher... and the list goes on.
There's so much hair! SO MUCH HAIR! I first heard Metallica in 1984, I was 14 and it changed my life, no kidding. 3 kids now, they all like Devin Townsend but not thrash. Yet.
@Buster Ellsworth Nah, not at all. My oldest told me thrash sounds old, she just prefers Jinjer and Woods of Ypres styles. The youngest daughter prefers hip hop but tolerates metal unless it's Nile or Morbid, she doesn't enjoy brutality.
It doesnt matter in how many four-chord songs about they make and how many cool sounds they can create artificially, it will never give the feeling good music written and played by good musicians gives you. Thats why pop music dies after 5 years and are replaced with new pop and why pop artists (i include glam here ;)) from the 80s are ashamed of what they did back then while people playing what they want and not what sells are not and are still doing just that and its still juse as awesome
B.C Rich everywhere, what a great era.
BC Rich is crap unless you are willing to pay top dollar.
Angryprometheus Nowadays, absolutely right.
+Angryprometheus
The NJ series is pretty good and affordable. Most are equipped with the EMG 81 and 85 pickups and also an Original Floyd Rose, all for less than $800 USA dollars (not too bad price). They realized they gotta compete with ESP, Jackson, and Dean mid-price range equipment; so they stepped up their game.
@@Angryprometheus wrong
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It’s funny how Slayer’s rehearsal room is all messy and random crap all over the floor and Anthrax’s rehearsal room is just spotless.
Tells you who's the most metal
"Maybe it will be around in 10 years."
It's 2019 and I still listen to these bands daily.
Ten years later, those bands were playing my local clubs again. The later half of the 90s was rough, but deeper in the underground, some cool stuff was happening. Europe was still going strong, but in US, these bands were booked with alternative acts just to sell club tickets.
10 more years? Thrash mostly sputtered for a few more years until Grunge finally stamped it out like a cigarette.
SLAAAAAYYYYYEEERRRRR !!!!!!
Yeah, I was about to say "ironically Anthrax wasn't one of them," but then I went over to Wikipedia and checked out how their albums charted. Well, I was wrong because Anthrax sold way more records with their new singer way after I totally lost interest in them. Crazy that Among The Living peaked at 62 on the US Billboard chart, State of Euphoria got to 30, Persistence of Time hit 24...and then their first album with the new singer goes to 7 and that came out in 1995. However, that album really was the beginning of the end for them. Next album went to 47 and the one after that only 118. Then, they waited 5 years and only reached 123 with the next one. Last one with John Bush in 2004 didn't even chart. So, they waited until 2011 to get Joey back on vocals and they hit 12 on US Billboard chart. Next one with Joey again hit number 2. Firing Joey might have been the stupidest move they made?
@@BlackAceKisachi Slayer survived longest with whatever honor they began with still in tact. Not so for the rest of the Big Four.
I miss 1986. Killer music everywhere back then. Pop music was even tolerable. The heavy shit blew my mind and changed the course of my love of music forever. \m/
I completely agree. It was, in wine terms, a vintage year.
Indeed it was. I'm glad I was alive in such a wonderful time.
+Shane Womack Indeed. 1986 was very important. The big four plus Exodus, Overkill, Testament and Death Angel were just making an impact. Glad I was 17 at that time!
I recall a time when having a guitar solo in a pop song was quite commonplace. Now not all metal bands consistently plays solos.
Man, i blame my parents for making me in '76, way too late. But then again, thumbs up for dad, hè was the one who did my mom. Lord knows i never would have.
When mtv was actually about music
It sucked even then. The only reason they came up with a 2 hr Metal show, was so they could stop showing Metal during regular rotation.
It’s sad man
I love how no matter what Motörhead always is always relevant!
He's Lemmy, he can walk into any damn video he wants.
The best metal years.
The Slayer band practice session was really cool. There should be more of those. I'd like to watch a complete, hours long Slayer practice from their heyday in the early - mid 1980s.
"We deal more with reality instead of make belief, we don't sing about dungeons and dragons"
He should've added "But we sing about aliens and shit"
Funny thing about that though is that almost all of Dio's music is about that type of stuff, and I can almost guarantee none of these men would anything bad to say about Ronnie
*writes Five Magics*
+Mitchell Sawinski Right. I don't think they meant it as a slight, just to differentiate themselves from what people traditionally thought of metal themes at the time.
+JJ 86 Yeah, that's a knee-slapper for me too. Love it to pieces!
@@ThoseChickenz Five Magics is about pot.
The golden age of thrash metal
"the youth of america wants to thrash right now" maan wtf i shoulda been born in those times
wtf.
Same man
@El señor de la tienda someone's homophobic
El señor de la tienda thrash bands used to wear ripped jeans and some piercings (James Hetfield)
@@woodyb220 go listen to winger lol
@El señor de la tienda the 80s had a shit load of girly looking dudes, I mean look at glam metal
Your hardcore when you talk metal wearing a RUN DMC shirt. Scott Ian lives his, life his way, don't let anyone tell you what you should wear or how you should look.
6penas it doesn't matter how you wear your hair It's what's inside your head
@@BW-dv5cd Scott Ian has rap in his head.
Run DMC is the reason I listen to metal. Just check out their song 'Rock Box' .
@@infinitecreativityondrums8367 yeah I liked thrash, punk, and rap growing up in the 80's. But yeah those were three different camps in high school
Anthrax never really care about their image and they do whatever the hell they want. That's why they are my favorite
Ten years huh lol 30 years later I still listen and play metal!!!!!
That time was gold. Some of the best bands ever at their prime regarding their attitude and spirit. Thanks for the video.
I like how they mentioned you can call it speed metal, thrash metal, death metal. I mean, thrash metal is probably the coolest term for those bands. Back in those days, it would've made sense to call SLAYER death metal because of there lyrics, and not too mention that they pretty much influenced the entire death metal scene in florida.
back in the 80´s wasn´t a big deal to know the specific name of every subgenre, further that that, GnR, Van Halen and other Hard Rock bands would pass as Metal acts
***** Of course Death were very influential but SLAYER are just as important too. Those single note tremelo riffs you hear in most SLAYER songs like Hell Awaits, Praise of Death, Post Mortem, Criminally Insane etc are very common in Death Metal songs.
***** I know, but thank you anyway :)
Slayer weren't far from death metal at the time. Harsher vocals and they would've been
Jeff hit it right on the nose! If you live nice life you wont get it. I've had a hard life and metal has been the only thing there for me,
BOBBYGITRPLYR ive had a damn nice life but i fucking love metal. I wonder if this was spawned by middle school. Bullying sucks ass
Not true
Oh I don't think that's true, but it certainly helps when you've got a plate full of shit. I just think the energy and subject matter is alluring regardless.
Makes me wonder if kids in the 80's that lived in 3rd world countries listened to SLAYER since they had hard as well ... 🤔
Boo hoo
It was a great time... Puppets was such an epic release, Peace Sells, Among the Living too. And don't forget Exodus & Testament. Talk about good shows... in small clubs with such tight crunchy crunch sounds. Your parents hated it. It was awesome!
Dave hit it right on the head everytime. “the youth of america wants to thrash right now... were gonna do what we set out to do, which is break all the rules”.
holy shit these guys were just kids back then! :D And unbelievable. Kerry King with hair???
Well this was about 30 YEARS AGO, SO....
and Lars is not bald yet
And no sunglasses
Jerry Hill and no being a asshole to everyone
Yeah. Almost don't recognize Kerry with the hair
Lars looks like that kid that was always picked last for dodgeball
He looked like Dakota Fanning
when he wasn't the biggest douche in rock
@@hmpz36911 😆
i don't get the hate towards lars haha metallica are assholes, the whole group. it's a common thing in metalheads. just pointing it out, not mad about it
He's more athletic than you think, he was a junior tennis prodigy at one point in his home country.
By 86 all my metal friends & I were into this stuff for a couple years already but I remember in 84 trying to get some of them to hear the greatness I was hearing mainly Ride The Lightning & they didn't get it right away. The first 2 seconds I heard Metallica I remember I thought this is the greatest band ever & they're my generation. Everything before was 10/15 years older then me but I still loved it.
Yeah people would ridicule me in junior high, me and one other friend listened to Metallica in the whole school. All the posers called it noise, then when Justice came out two years later they all started wearing Metallica shirts
I love how Lemmy has always looked old
I rather look young.
Dude, lemme was born with a beard
He was 41 in this
Makes You Like Metal Even More
Jeff Hanneman, Tomaraya, Dave Mustaine, Joey Belladonna, and Kirk Hammett somehow managed to keep their hair LOL
Speed metal isnt a genre its ART!!! \m/
Wtf , Kerry has hair and no shades on, he looks crazier bald with tatts on his fucking skull lol, love what Hannemann said about listening to slayer's music ,you have to have problems or you won't get it!!! lol R.i.p jeff \m/😈\m/
Being a thrasher from 84 to 88 was the best time of my life, getting old sucks
I still listen to these bands and I’m 55 !!
That Megadeth lineup was the best group of musicians this style of music ever saw.
Yep too bad we didn't get to see them grow together musically. I'm positive so far so good so what would of been much better
Was the best year for all 4 kick ass albums.. Still fucking love it to this day. I tell my kids the music that changed it all
Gotta Love NWOBHM Without That Amazing Movement These Awesome Thrash Metal Bands Wouldn’t Exist Both Genres Absolutely Rule 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Was the megadeth interview shot in their smack house?
most likely
Daves moms house ...i think?
@@Pray-4-Me lol oh man....
I remember this spot on MTV. I used to have it on Beta videotape! And, it was my introduction to Anthrax. (I was already listening to everyone else on the special.)
I would so watch MTV again if they played this stuff for today's unexploited thrash bands..
Scott Ian - "this is the best thing for the next ten years".......
he was damn right
1986 could be argued as the pinnacle of Thrash. Master of Puppets, Reign in Blood, Peace Sells were all released in that year.
buzzcrushtrendkill Among the Living too
Among the living was releases in early 87´
Yeah, it was. Also, Kreator's Pleasure to Kill, Dark Angel's Darkness Descends, Sodom's Obsessed by Cruelty, and Sepultura's Morbid Visions were released in '86 too.
Also Darkness Descends and Schizophrenia.
Exumer's Possessed by fire
Scott Ian still has it....... It's just on his face.
Thanks for the upload!
1:54 "This is the next thing I think for the next ten years or so..." and yes, look. It's been more than 10 years now and metal is still with us.
Having 27 different categories of METAL is great, but WE NEED MORE!!!
He's got a point, we stick in arguing about genres, after all, we just want it faster and louder
1990 was a great year for thrash.
Rust in peace with Seasons in the abyss.
Cowboys From Hell! Not a full thrash album but 3-4 thrash songs on there
86 was better
Key words "that you can hear on the radio"...
Scott Ian and Kerry King have long hair here but cut it off and no none gave a shit. The Metallica boys cut their hair and people thought the world was going to end.
The difference is that Kerry King and Scott Ian were balding.
+Brian Reading
So it was the metal gods that deemed them unworthy of the long hair.
+khazz01 Rob Halford made it okay first.
+khazz01 Scott and KFK didnt get haircuts from an Armani salon.
+Daniel Burger
Maybe Lars did but I didn't realize styling your hair was a crime. It looked like Randy Roads went to a hair saloon and make-up artist but no one gave a shit.
Awesome. Hail Old School Metal.
Any more clips from that Slayer rehearsal space?!?! Would LOVE to see it...
Scott Ian was right. Ten years later, 96, thrash and speed gave way to different things. 97-98 was a big move away from the 86 style. Another era of good music.
Music 1986: "Damn this stuff is good"
Music 2019: "wtf is this garbage?"
rare 80s footage an era were the metal was still real and badass
motörhead rocks!!
Metal Will Never Die 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
1986 was the year of the wonderful thrash metal albums) fuck yeah!!
killer footage...thanks goongoon
dang bro...i wish everyone could read that....you put it so out so right that i'm speechless
I was 16 in 1986 and my neck is still sore
"All those Iron Maiden fans, they really want to hear us."
Anthrax, Testament and Death Angel show coming up... will be just like the good old days! \m/
Those are the most words I’ve ever heard Jeff Hanneman speak.
Those small Megadeth clips with Gar.... gave me gooesebumps.
Ian Scott was right with that ten year claim; at least for that style and feeling
Where were you in 96? These bands were suffering.
The golden age for this music was 83-88.
10 YEARS----IT RAN TILL 90' WHEN GRUNGE CAME OUT AND METAL WAS FORGOTTEN.
THANK YOU. These kids think it stayed popular, but damn do I remember the 90s... Iron Maiden were booked at my local club...
You're the millionth person to tell me that lol. I covered this a while ago. But yes, Jeff, Tom, Kirk (again), Dave, Joey, Shawn, Chris, and other Dave (not Lombardo, of Megadeth)
I miss you MTV
In 1986, there was also Dark Angel, Exodus, Over Kill, and not to mention the German Thrash Metal bands.
All the bands featured in this short film had broken into the mainstream, even if it was only a small dent. I think "Reign In Blood" was a top 100 release. Obviously "Master of puppets" did extremely well and Motorhead were already an established band by this point. All those other thrash bands as great as they might have been, were never going to get this kind of attention from MTV due to being to underground and specialist.
I want to go back to them days
The Big 4+Motorhead=
Yeah, fair point. I was only 1 or 2 when this was shot. I guess some people even now consider speed and thrash to be more or less synonymous. It's just really weird to think that those bands were actually considered DEATH metal back then.
2:15 the best way to describe why i fucking listening to Heavy Music
"next 10 years", Nirvana: not if i have anything to do with it
Nirvana has nothing to do with anything. They made one album. The singer died from heroin and grunge lasted about four years. Goodbye.
Años que no veia este video grandioso
Still powerful as 30 years ago..
The 70's seemed awesome. And simple. And OH MY GOD,LEMMY WAS THERE!
I still have it... it's on my back!
10 years says Scott... Boy was he wrong. Been 30 and everyone still loves it.
I miss the 80s!! Just a few great records I own: Mercyful Fate-Melissa, Don't Break The Oath. King Diamond-Fatal Portrait (favorite), Abigail, Them. Voivod-Rrrrroooooarrrr. Venom-Black Metal, Welcome to Hell. Etc.... soooo many good ones...
CRO-MAGS- The Age of Quarrel. Slayer-Hell Awaits, Reign In Blood. Metallica-Ride The Lighting, Master of Puppets. Exodus-Bonded By Blood, Pleasures of the Flesh, Laaz Rockit....I can keep going, but I'll stop lol
first time started hearing speed metal bands i got into it fast
Thrash is still alive and well. There are still new generation of bands coming up with killer records. Evile, Havok, Toxic Holocaust, Suicidal Angels, Warbringer, Midnight, Bütcher... and the list goes on.
Gama Bomb " Zombie Brew" - killer thrash song, particularly at Halloween
The music is still alive and always will be but the scene is pretty much dead and will never make a comeback
@@istarteverysentencewithbro Yeah but scene culture died in general. It doesn't exist for any genre anymore.
My parents hated it, I loved it!
SLAYER
"Sorta unsafe as you can get" oh how the mighty have fallen
There's so much hair! SO MUCH HAIR!
I first heard Metallica in 1984, I was 14 and it changed my life, no kidding. 3 kids now, they all like Devin Townsend but not thrash. Yet.
@Buster Ellsworth Nah, not at all. My oldest told me thrash sounds old, she just prefers Jinjer and Woods of Ypres styles. The youngest daughter prefers hip hop but tolerates metal unless it's Nile or Morbid, she doesn't enjoy brutality.
I would kill for all the footage of the Slayer jam in this video.
RIP bro, thanks for the Slayer World Painted Blood lesson
it was done well... im promoting you
It doesnt matter in how many four-chord songs about they make and how many cool sounds they can create artificially, it will never give the feeling good music written and played by good musicians gives you. Thats why pop music dies after 5 years and are replaced with new pop and why pop artists (i include glam here ;)) from the 80s are ashamed of what they did back then while people playing what they want and not what sells are not and are still doing just that and its still juse as awesome
R>I>P Wurzel
Wow. That was pure prophesy.
Nice rehearsal room slayer
kerry king was so handsome back then
The 80's ruled cause of metal.
i remember watching that.
getting old sucks.
"getting old sucks" -- Speak for yourself, LADY!
its not less melodic. its DIFFERENT kind of melodies
i used to have a copy of this special i recorded off mtv back in 1987. i loved this tape. wonder where it went to???
When all of these bands were underrated ò_____ò
I Imagine when Lars heard that Mustaine didnt go quietly away and die, he thought..."oh shit"...
lars is a jack off.
Best Metal Year [1986]
Slayer jamming in the basement..... who wouldnt want to be there?
Vintage SLAYER !!!
Some legends here (Gar, Würzel and Jeff RIP)
So many no longer with us...r.I.p Jeff, Lemmy,Wurzel, Cliff and Gar
The big 4
R.I.P. Lenny =(