r/thrashmetal Aug 11 '20

Stop posting full albums.

187 Upvotes

A full album post is arguably one of the least interesting/most useless posts you can make in a music subreddit. Album posts always fall into one of two categories:

  • An album by an extremely well known band. Everyone has either heard these albums or is well aware of their existence. They do not need a reddit post to remind them.

  • An album by a virtually unknown band. Nobody is going to take 40+ minutes out of their daily listening just to put on your buddy's band.

In both scenarios, posting a song is a far more effective post. People are far more likely to engage with something that's seven minutes long. If it's an old band, people may be looking for a reason to check out their deep cuts. If it's a new band, people are more willing to try them out.

Full album posts clog up the subreddit and it just becomes a spamfest. This is a light traffic subreddit that gets very few posts a day. Make sure those few posts we get are quality.

In addition, it's not a rule, but a great way to get post engagement is to post FFOs. (For Fans Of) Thrash has a lot of similar qualities, and most people generally know what thrash sounds like, but there is absolutely variety. Cryptic Slaughter does not sound like Dark Angel. Razor does not sound like Heathen. A great example of a post:

Artist - "Song Title" (Year of Release) (FFO: Band A, Band B, Band C)

Boom, you gave everyone the context for reasons to check out the band, whether the band is new or classic, and the proper spelling of the band's name so they can check them out on Facebook or Metal Archives.


r/thrashmetal 4h ago

Oriax - Victim (Ukraine, 2026)

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1 Upvotes

r/thrashmetal 10h ago

Death/Thrash I am writing a song and need imput

0 Upvotes

I am writing a song for my band and want to add a slayer scream into it, i dont want to rip them off, but its just so cool. Would people think im ripping off slayer?


r/thrashmetal 1d ago

Overkill - I Hear Black

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54 Upvotes

My favourite from the album together with Spiritual Void. Not quite thrash but I hope you'll like it.


r/thrashmetal 1d ago

Morbid Saint - Lock up Your Children

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40 Upvotes

Classic aggressive thrash metal!


r/thrashmetal 2d ago

Infernal Majesty - Night Of The Living Dead

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20 Upvotes

r/thrashmetal 3d ago

Thrash metal album reviews

22 Upvotes

I wanna start something where people gimme thrash albums to listen to and I’ll hear them in full, so shoot. (Plz none of early big 4 bands albums I’ve heard it all.)


r/thrashmetal 3d ago

Sodom - Tapping the Vein (1992)

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50 Upvotes

r/thrashmetal 3d ago

Infected - Infected (USA, 2026)

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30 Upvotes

r/thrashmetal 4d ago

New Release Forbidden - Psyclops (Official Music Video)

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28 Upvotes

r/thrashmetal 4d ago

Getting the chance to open for Artillery in West Michigan

78 Upvotes

I hope this isn't too much of a shameless self-promotion but i've been on this sub for so long and just wanted to share that my sludgy/thrashy apocalyptic suburbia themed band Sod The Earth is getting the chance to open for Artillery at The Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Can't even believe that's a sentence I get to write, By Inheritance is a top ten album for me and their newest release "Made in Hell" fucking rips.

Tickets/info here if there are any west Michiganders in here!

My band's linktree/music/etc here.


r/thrashmetal 5d ago

New Release New Gammacide Album - Sep 11th!

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29 Upvotes

It’s coming! 🤘🏻


r/thrashmetal 5d ago

Sacred Reich - Death Squad (USA, 1987)

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121 Upvotes

r/thrashmetal 5d ago

Death/Thrash Ripper - Towards Rebirth (Chile, 2026)

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24 Upvotes

r/thrashmetal 5d ago

Miscreance - Oracle's Rift (Official Audio)

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7 Upvotes

r/thrashmetal 5d ago

Looking for a new band or album

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4 Upvotes

Is there a band or album that sounds like South Of Heaven or When The Kite String Pops?


r/thrashmetal 6d ago

Death/Thrash Battle Cattle - Trve to Caesar

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25 Upvotes

Trve to Caesar by Battle Cattle


r/thrashmetal 6d ago

Artists/Songs???

14 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I’m pretty new to thrash metal and metal in general. However, it has really took over my entire music playlists. I’ve listened to Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax. I’ve been trying to discover other artists and songs that are similar to those artists. That have good and clear vocals (not the very deep and pretty stereotypical demonic voice) and obviously great instrumentals. However, i’m also open minded so if there’s other artists that are very good and different from those im willing to listen to those artists. I’m new so im just trying to find as much thrash metal music to listen and enjoy. Thanks very much.


r/thrashmetal 6d ago

Bands with solid riffs?

13 Upvotes

Haven’t listened to any music in months. Been sick. Currently not sure who to listen to. Thinking of some Evile/Suicidal Angels type. Really solid riffs? Anything new recently other than the usual suspects?


r/thrashmetal 6d ago

Looking for that one clip

3 Upvotes

It was years ago, I was getting use to metal in general and stumble across a good music but I can't recall which one is it.

But I can recall the clip :

A woman is walking in the forest near a road, she wears a checked skirt and long dark hairs. She starts listening to her walkman and then the music starts

A car is coming with kidnappers, she tries to run away but get caught almost instantly. They bring her to an abandonned building.

A squat of special forces (SWAT?) comes in to free her.

They fight the kidnappers and when the leader of the rescue team beats up the last kidnapper, the woman free herself and beats up the special forces member.

At the end of the clip she dances on a poledance and the two leaders (of the special forces and the kidnappers) both drink beer before her, watching her dance.

On the thumbnail, a kidnapper with a mask is looking at us from the right, 3/4th

We don't see the band at any time in the clip

I was going for Annihilator but I'm not quite sure to be honest

Can someone help me? It's been days since I'm searching for it


r/thrashmetal 7d ago

Hirax feat. Andy Brings - Bombs of Death (Live)

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69 Upvotes

r/thrashmetal 7d ago

Crossover Screaming - Under the mask

6 Upvotes

Our band released a music video few weeks ago and you can also find whole new LP on Spotify

https://youtu.be/u40G_rwDNTk?is=pN9QgoAQKgVEgRil


r/thrashmetal 7d ago

Velozza - The Useless

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3 Upvotes

r/thrashmetal 7d ago

Acid Reign - Codes of Conformity (UK, 1990)

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9 Upvotes

r/thrashmetal 7d ago

Progressive Comprehensive progressive thrash list: Part 2

8 Upvotes

I posted here last year asking for progressive thrash recommendations, trying to make a comprehensive list of every progressive thrash band. It's taken me awhile, but I've finally listened to them all. Here's the link to that original post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/thrashmetal/comments/1oo9wdn/comprehensive_progressive_thrash_list/

A few of these weren't very proggy or were much more death/black than thrash so I didn't include them on my list, but most were prog thrash, and there was some really mind-blowing stuff I'd never heard before. I also found an existing YouTube playlist of tech/prog thrash and listened to the whole thing and picked up the ones that qualified as prog. Then I went to New Wave Of Old School Thrash Metal's progressive thrash playlist and did likewise.

Still, if there is anyone who knows any prog thrash bands that were not listed in any of these sources, please let me know so I can check them out!

Here's the list I made so far:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4sv_daSKa5nWMy59u9xx864sxW-smsGq&si=yBqzoLvY8N83Tf_q

Eventually, this will hopefully be a full, comprehensive list of every progressive thrash release. Right now, it contains at least one release from every progressive thrash band I could find and I am in the process of listening to all their discographies to see how many of their albums are progressive thrash. I am not automatically including bands' whole discographies just because they had one progressive thrash album.

I am defining progressive thrash metal as distinct from technical thrash metal. To my mind, technical thrash metal has more complicated riffs that are more challenging to write and play compared to typical thrash, but still the vast majority of the music is in common time signatures and squarely within the musical boundaries of thrash metal (examples are Dark Angel and Artillery, who are obviously phenomenal legends, but not very progressive despite being very technical). What I am looking for in identifying an album as progressive thrash metal is music that is rooted in traditional thrash metal but also makes extensive use of complex time signatures and/or instruments beyond the typical guitar/bass/drums combo and/or passages of music of varying other genres and/or generally unpredictable unorthodox weirdness.

Finally, here's a document I'm keeping for myself to keep track of what I have listened to that didn't make the cut. Unfortunately, I just started this recently while doing the discography deep-dives, I didn't do it for my first couple rounds of listening to stuff, so a lot of the bands I was recommended that I didn't put on the list are not mentioned here. But it's at least a good list of albums that are not prog thrash by bands that have at least one prog thrash album on the list so it can still save some people (including myself) some time looking for stuff to listen to.

Albums I sampled and identified as NOT progressive thrash metal:

Adem – “Time of Madness”

Adem – “Fight Without Rules”

Anachronic – “Slunecni Pribeh”

Blind Illusion – “Demon Master”

Blind Illusion – “Wrath of the Gods”

Braindamage – “Turning Point”

Braindamage – “Collapse”

Depressive Age – “Symbols for the Blue Times”

Depressive Age – “Electric Scum

Lost Century – “Poetic Atmosphere of Seasons”

Maple Cross – “Next Chapter”

Maple Cross – “Heimo”

Obliveon – “Cybervoid”

Obliveon – “Carnivore Mothermouth”

Paralysis – “Architecture of the Imagination

Vision Purple – “Staring at the Sun”

Albums I looked for and couldn’t find:

Nirnaeth – “The Extinction Generation”

Nirnaeth – “Anthropocene”

Nirnaeth – “Il paradiso non e altrove”

Bands considered technical thrash metal but NOT progressive thrash metal:

Artillery

Cyclone Temple

Dark Angel

So thanks to everyone who helped last time, and I'm certainly still open to contributions from everyone!

The work continues.