Thrash of 1989
For the year that gave us dial-up internet, Global Positioning System satellites, and "Seinfeld", 1989 gave us an equally legendary year in Thrash (and that's including Metallica's absurd Grammy "loss" to Jethro Tull. Insert retroactively-effective kancel-kulture tantrum-sigh here.)
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JOIN US and behold the painstaking craftsmanship and delicately balanced relaxer levels required to manifest such a totally subjective, potentially speculative, and muchly suspective lysticle as METAL NERDERY PODCAST'S TOP 10 THRASH ALBUMS OF 1989.
Nuclear Assault
D.R.I.
WRATHCHILD AMERICA
Sabbat
Sodom
Kreator
Over Kill
Exodus
Sepultura
Testament
Show Notes:
(00:00) - #antirelaxers #waitforit #welcomeback to Bunker Poon Inversion Studios / 1989 and a tremendous attempt to not reference a certain particular album #theunnamedalbum / #wecrammed Metal Nerdery's Top 10 Thrash Albums for 1989 (#bolth individually and grouply) #moist and the process of discovering new thrash back in the day (#observeandreport) and potentially very similar Top 5's #damnnear
(07:42) - Starting with Number 10: #Ministry- The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste (#waitwhat and a moment of #RigorMortis #tangentionalality) #deprechedmode SO WHAT? #notreallythrash #grift Albert Hofmann's favorite #relaxer and the Vowels for Bowels movement / THEIVES and raising the bar on extremeness in Metal #theirony #kricketsplease
(15:06) - A note of explanation and a method to the rating madness / Set the Metal Nerdery Time Tunnel to 1989... #NuclearAssault - Handle with Care CRITICAL MASS / #Overkill - The #YOD (Years of Decay. . .***check out our #YOD #albumdive***) #moist and #clarification regarding #tonebone #mynewmemoir / #Sabbat (check out our #albumdive for Dreamweaver) conflicts and matches across the lysticles / Number 9 - #KingDiamond - Conspiracy (SLEEPLESS NIGHTS) #isitthrash #isitpowermetal or #isitbolth? #genre #fuckthat #blessed
(28:55) - #D.R.I. #DirtyRottenImbeciles BENEATH THE WHEEL (from Thrash Zone) and things that make Russell irritated #skatethrash #screwyouguys Number 8 - #WrathchildAmerica - Climbin' The Walls (CLIMBING THE WALLS) and some #WrathSAZ #trivia / ***check out Episode 13 (metal covers) ***BUY OUR SHIT at www.metalnerdery.com/merch and send #gumfunds for #tridentvibes #sixtynineday #ouchie
(36:07) - a personal testimonial and compliment from a listener #imsorry #dontlisten and also #thankyou (That's all you had to say...) / a moment of #tangentionalalityismness and something new and #spontaneous that should be viewed as #oddly and #insanely #entertaining Number 7 #Sabbat -Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays) THE CLERICAL CONSPIRACY #ballsout and a #thickpresence ***check out our Dreamweaver #albumdive and #timetravel back to 1989!!! #episodefiftyseven / Number 6 #manifestation #moist #Sodom AGENT ORANGE #gofast
(50:05) - Number 5 #Kreator - Extreme Aggression #isntitobvious EXTREME AGGRESSION and #badassery and also wishing you'd written a particularly killer riff and/or song / "We'll have a hole..." / #Overkill - #YOD Years of Decay (***Go check out the YOD Dive!!!***) I HATE #frostalert #frostwarning / The List Thus Far: 10 through 4 / Time for the TOP 3 and something that was found on the internet regarding #buttholesunshine / #Exodus - Fabulous Disaster #thetitletrack also check out our Very recent #albumdive FABULOUS DISASTER #noteven #grabitandputitin
(1:05:35) - Number Dos: the perfect amount of "1989-ness": #Testament Practice What You Preach vs #Sepultura Beneath The Remains #thetitletrack BENEATH THE REMAINS #bisforbumbum #readthoselyrics (***check out our BTR Dive!!!***) #moshpart and the #Alex Hmmm of #Discernment and a review of the list leading up to THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM FOR 1989!!!
(1:13:52) - #Testament Practice What You Preach and a very gently worded question (Russell NAILED it!!) #theunnamedalbum #TBA vs their #AJFA #grower PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH #ballfields rest upon #afieldofballs and comparisons between the vocal stylings of Mr. Hetfield and Mr. Billy ENVY LIFE (can you feel the #deathmetal component?) / Some honorable mentions that didn't make the list...***CALL METAL NERDERY ON THE PHONE-MAIL-VOICE-THINGY AT 980-666-8182!!!*** #asmr #onemessageASMR / Update on the #timemachinerelaxer #development (coming soonly to our merch page) / check out our #softoutro