It is for these very reasons that the final wave of underground thrash metal (1988-1992) is my personal favourite period of the genre’s history, for you see it was during these final years that we were treated to some of the most brutal, vicious, and just downright PISSED OFF-sounding thrash ever conceived. There’s no denying that this music’s primary objective is to serve as the ultimate outlet for internal rage and frustration and, well, to me nothing seems more frustrating than seeing an entire music scene that YOU helped create come crashing down before your eyes… finding yourself in a race against time as you struggle to compete against both a darker, more evil-sounding metal and the sell-out expectations of major labels. It’s no wonder that the albums released by lesser-known bands (i.e. NOT Metallica) during this period sound so intense, so full of hate, and so completely balls-to-the-wall insane, like every band had a bone to pick with the whole fucking planet. So many classic albums, like Overkill’s Horrorscope, Heathen‘s Victims Of Deception, Laaz Rockit‘s Nothing$ $acred, Dark Angel’s Time Does Not Heal, Sepultura’s Arise, Exhorder‘s The Law, Razor’s Open Hostility, and countless others were all released during this final tragic period of thrash metal’s history.
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