Your way in
Bay Area thrash 1983
The original epicentre: technical riffing, clearer production and a little more melody.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 9
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- San Francisco, USA
- Tempo
- 180-240 bpm
- Song length
- 4-7 min
- Written about
- Nuclear war, Corruption, Violence, frequently comic, The scene itself
- Vocals
- Shouted
Why this one
| You said | Bay Area thrash | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shouting, but I can still hear the words When someone is singing, what should come out? | shouted | 100% | ×3 |
| Heavy. I want to feel it. How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| As fast as anyone can play What pace? | 9 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1983 | 100% | ×1 |
| Yes. A proper melody. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 7 out of 10 | 70% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 94% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, melody 1 out of 9. Bay Area thrash leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Slayer, Reign in Blood 1986
Slayer - Reign in Blood. Twenty-nine minutes that redefined the word extreme.
- 2The one to put on first
Exodus, Bonded by Blood 1985
Exodus - Bonded by Blood. Recorded in 1984, released late, and it held up anyway.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Thrash metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Bay Area thrash's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Crossover thrash 90%
The exact point where hardcore and thrash metal merge: metal riffs, skate-park attitude, mandatory circle pit.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Bay Area thrash.
The way into Crossover thrash -
Viking metal 82%
Norse themes, male choirs and marching tempos. It sounds like a longship, not a tavern.
4 steps from Bay Area thrash, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Viking metal
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- As fast as anyone can play put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Doom metal, Drone metal, Funeral doom. Worth 2 of 9.
- The seventies and eighties put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Kawaii metal, New nu metal, Progressive metalcore. Worth 1 of 9.
- Yes. A proper melody. put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Grindcore, Brutal death metal, Cybergrind. Worth 1 of 9.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.