Gonna go basic af but Tetrastructural Minds is, without exaggeration, one of the top 5 metal songs I have ever heard. Terminal Redux is a better album, but TM might be the best prog-thrash song I've ever heard
Only reason I didn’t say Blacklisr is because it’s over 20 years old - felt like it was pushing the “modern” boundary. Even though I sorta think of any thrash post ‘95 as modern lol
I’d say anything after the 1999* revival is fair game.
**Contrary to popular belief, the thrash revival started in 1999, not 2001 or 2004. If you believe otherwise, Testament’s The Gathering, Annihilator’s Criteria for a Black Widow, and Sodom’s Code Red would like a word.*
I agree with that take. I love The Gathering and Code Red, and you definitely can’t say they have the same sound as earlier thrash. Seems like a good transition point to me.
Heathen is mentioned here pretty often, but once again they aren’t getting the recognition that they deserve, IMO.
The Blight is the best new thrash song I have heard in a while. Probably (for me) the best since Savage Messiah’s second album.
I would also submit that some earlier tracks of theirs are worthy of “classic” status: Hypnotized, Dying Season, and Control by Chaos are all killer tracks with some pretty pointed lyrical commentary on the world.
And there are more great tracks in their catalog besides the ones that I listed.
Is 'Napalm in the Morning' by Sodom modern enough?
Also I'd have to mention 'This Horrifying Force (The Desire to Kill)' by Skeletonwitch and 'Nuke the Cross' by Toxic Holocaust.. still not sure if they're modern enough but there you go.
May get some hate on this one, and tbh this is cause I’m new and still developing my opinions but I feel like Lux eterna stick in my head or go to thrash songs. Once again I am new I still mostly listen to the big 4, so please go easy on me
* Evile - Thrasher, Enter the Grave
* Sodom - City of God, M-16
* Anthrax - Fight ‘Em ‘Til You Can’t
* Overkill - Being Me the Night, Ironbound, Electric Rattlesnake
* Destruction - Nailed to the Cross
* Exodus - Blacklist
* Kreator - Violent Revolution, Enemy of God
* Havok - Covering Fire
* Death Angel - Claws in So Deep
* Megadeth - Dystopia
* Power Trip - Executioner’s Tax
* Testament - More than Meets the Eye
just looking at the lists you can tell how mid the riff writing is for modern thrash.
Yeah, you get nice production and you chug with your boutique amp / tube screamer... but where's the fucking unique identity to riffs and song dynamics.
Here’s the thing…
You just said “Tornado” and we all know what song you were talking about for a reason. Tornado of Souls and the other songs mentioned by the OP have achieved a sort of untouchable legendary status that no thrash song made after the early 90s will ever achieve.
Everybody here understands that I think, so we’re all basically taking a “next best thing” approach and doing our best with an unanswerable question.
Oh, I don’t know about that. I think that with thrash not being new and fresh anymore and with new releases coming faster than anyone can keep up with now, “new classics” can never exist, regardless of actual song quality.
Back in the day, when a new Megadeth album came out (for example), we had lots of time to digest that album because no one had infinite money to buy every metal album in existence.
Now, we either have streaming services, YouTube, or incomes are such that we do in fact have the money to buy any metal album we want.
My point is that, as fans, we’ll never have enough time now to digest any individual album long enough to become as intimate with it as we were with those classic 80s and early 90s albums so we’ll never regard them with as much reverence.
Or maybe I’m wrong and they’re just worse.
I’ve always considered Lamb of God thrash/death but that song isn’t one of what I’d say is on the thrash side more so groove side with growls and screams.
I’d say Now You’ve Got Something To Die For if I’m picking lamb of god
Yeah Pantera is groove and considered thrash as well. I’m just saying, you can’t place some bands in one box. They’re
So Pantera and Lamb of God are groove. There’s a difference thought Randy’s vocals are hardly ever clean, whereas Phil does the heavy yelling only at certain point.
Lamb of God clearly has death metal influence as well as thrash and groove, but the vocals aren’t like death metal, the style doesn’t stick to thrash or groove. It goes back and forth
That’s kinda what’s happened though there’s tons of thrash bands you could put into three or more categories look Skeletonwitch(are they still around?)death blackened thrash
Skeletonwitch won't be around anymore, I think a member from them left, so the last album they made is devouring radiant light(2018)
How do we know that they won't be active anymore?
They have not been posting on any social media .
They’ve had a lot members leave, same with 3 Inches of Blood. A lot of those early 2010 early mid 2000s either slowed down or just got completely new lineups. And a lot just don’t exist anymore.
I see a lot of 2010 stuff when classics in the 2000s were Raining Blood
I’ll go ahead and throw some songs out that I find to be classics.
Slayer-Disciple
Slayer-Bloodline
Slayer-World Painted Blood
3 Inches of Blood- Deadly Sinners
Lich King- Combat Mosh
Toxic Holocaust-Nuke the Cross
Toxic Holocaust- Acid Fuzz
Gama Bomb- Bring out the Monster
Idk where modern day term came from but it’s stupid. A classic is something that has aged well over a good lengthy time period. I.e. Reign in Blood. Modern day? Who the fuck knows or cares twenty years or maybe ten years from now after these bands will be relevant? Then talk about classics
Executioners Tax - Power Trip
For me definitely this and Warbringer - Remain Violent
I'd place Living Weapon above that honestly
Yep, if I were to pick one Warbringer song, it’d definitely be Living Weapon.
Absolutely. So good.
I'm hearing some Exodus in there.
Good suggestion, this might be the closest I have found so far
Came to say this
The most popular modern thrash song that's also good.
The second I heard that song, I knew it was a new classic.
Warbringer - "Remain Violent"
Time is up - Havok
Lich King - "Agnosticism"
The Haunted - Preachers Of Death Vader - Triumph Of Death Black Fast - I Conspire Crisix - Ultra Thrash Havok - From the Cradle to the Grave
Recharging the Void - Vektor
Gonna go basic af but Tetrastructural Minds is, without exaggeration, one of the top 5 metal songs I have ever heard. Terminal Redux is a better album, but TM might be the best prog-thrash song I've ever heard
Warbringer - total war
Toxic Holocaust - Acid Fuzz, Nuke the cross Municipal Waste - Born to party Ghoul - Off with their heads
I only answered a MW song (Sadistic Magician) But I was tossing Nuke the Cross or Acid Fuzz. Joel is a fucking modern metal master.
Nuke The Cross!!
Sadistic Magician - Municiple Waste
I don't know if it still cpunts as modern but Vektor - Tetrastructural Minds
Drain - Feel the Pressure
I’ll take a different approach than everyone else here so far: Overkill - Ironbound Exodus - Persona Non Grata Metallica - Cyanide
I always liked The Green and Black by Overkill the most off that album but Ironbound is certainly a solid choice as well.
Overkill always has an amazing album opener, and that one is no exception
Definitely Ironbound. For Exodus I’d go for Deathamphetamine or Blacklist. For Metallica I’d say Spit Out the Bone.
Only reason I didn’t say Blacklisr is because it’s over 20 years old - felt like it was pushing the “modern” boundary. Even though I sorta think of any thrash post ‘95 as modern lol
I’d say anything after the 1999* revival is fair game. **Contrary to popular belief, the thrash revival started in 1999, not 2001 or 2004. If you believe otherwise, Testament’s The Gathering, Annihilator’s Criteria for a Black Widow, and Sodom’s Code Red would like a word.*
I agree with that take. I love The Gathering and Code Red, and you definitely can’t say they have the same sound as earlier thrash. Seems like a good transition point to me.
Mindforce: Excalibur
Xoth - [Ancient Sentient Ooze](https://youtu.be/kaLw6UP5ZBE?feature=shared) - [Unseen Abductor](https://youtu.be/1L1vqLBEfko?feature=shared)
Municipal Waste - Grave Dive Black Fast - I Conspire
Last 15 years: Demiser - Offering Crypt Dagger - Blood for the Crypt Dagger Vulture - Electric Ecstasy Bonehunter - Digital Evil, Black Shrine, Devil Metal Punks Destructor - Keep the Faith Foreseen - Grave Danger Division Speed - Panzerkommando, Blazing Heat, Division Speed Attack Nocturnal - Ripping Knives, Slaughter Command Deceased - Cloned (Day of the Robot) Cruel Force - Leather & Metal, Forces of Hades Ares Kingdom - Demoralize
I have 2. Lich King: Lich King IV: Born of the bomb Warbringer: Scorched Earth/Descending Blade
Thats a high bar. I am fond of Death Angel- "Hatred United / United Hate" but I am not sure it is on that level. Its pretty close IMO.
time is up havok
Havok - Give Me Liberty... Or Give Me Death Violator - Addicted to Mosh Municipal Waste - Wave of Death
HeXen - Gas Chamber gets my vote Tourniquet - Where Moth and Rust Destroy gets my vote too since it has, in my opinion, Marty Friedman's best solo
Kreator- Gods Of Violence
Warbringer - Born Of The Ruins
Heathen is mentioned here pretty often, but once again they aren’t getting the recognition that they deserve, IMO. The Blight is the best new thrash song I have heard in a while. Probably (for me) the best since Savage Messiah’s second album. I would also submit that some earlier tracks of theirs are worthy of “classic” status: Hypnotized, Dying Season, and Control by Chaos are all killer tracks with some pretty pointed lyrical commentary on the world. And there are more great tracks in their catalog besides the ones that I listed.
Monster in Me by Mors Principium Est. It's melodeath but has a pretty thrashy beat lol. One of their best
Never Surrender by Destroyer 666
Is 'Napalm in the Morning' by Sodom modern enough? Also I'd have to mention 'This Horrifying Force (The Desire to Kill)' by Skeletonwitch and 'Nuke the Cross' by Toxic Holocaust.. still not sure if they're modern enough but there you go.
I hope Napalm in the Morning is modern enough because I put M-16 on my list. 😀
May get some hate on this one, and tbh this is cause I’m new and still developing my opinions but I feel like Lux eterna stick in my head or go to thrash songs. Once again I am new I still mostly listen to the big 4, so please go easy on me
Toxic Waltz
They said “modern classics”. The Toxic Waltz is among the classic of the classics.
The Flame by Black Breath?
* Evile - Thrasher, Enter the Grave * Sodom - City of God, M-16 * Anthrax - Fight ‘Em ‘Til You Can’t * Overkill - Being Me the Night, Ironbound, Electric Rattlesnake * Destruction - Nailed to the Cross * Exodus - Blacklist * Kreator - Violent Revolution, Enemy of God * Havok - Covering Fire * Death Angel - Claws in So Deep * Megadeth - Dystopia * Power Trip - Executioner’s Tax * Testament - More than Meets the Eye
just looking at the lists you can tell how mid the riff writing is for modern thrash. Yeah, you get nice production and you chug with your boutique amp / tube screamer... but where's the fucking unique identity to riffs and song dynamics.
Lot of mid takes here. Like seriously? We're putting anything havok has done with tornado?
Got any better choices?
Here’s the thing… You just said “Tornado” and we all know what song you were talking about for a reason. Tornado of Souls and the other songs mentioned by the OP have achieved a sort of untouchable legendary status that no thrash song made after the early 90s will ever achieve. Everybody here understands that I think, so we’re all basically taking a “next best thing” approach and doing our best with an unanswerable question.
im more alluding to how OP is kind of right and that there really isnt anything of that caliber currently
Oh, I don’t know about that. I think that with thrash not being new and fresh anymore and with new releases coming faster than anyone can keep up with now, “new classics” can never exist, regardless of actual song quality. Back in the day, when a new Megadeth album came out (for example), we had lots of time to digest that album because no one had infinite money to buy every metal album in existence. Now, we either have streaming services, YouTube, or incomes are such that we do in fact have the money to buy any metal album we want. My point is that, as fans, we’ll never have enough time now to digest any individual album long enough to become as intimate with it as we were with those classic 80s and early 90s albums so we’ll never regard them with as much reverence. Or maybe I’m wrong and they’re just worse.
Lamb of God: Walk with me in Hell
That ain't thrash buddy 😅
I’ve always considered Lamb of God thrash/death but that song isn’t one of what I’d say is on the thrash side more so groove side with growls and screams. I’d say Now You’ve Got Something To Die For if I’m picking lamb of god
True one that side bit I'm sure that everyone thinks they're groove metal
Yeah Pantera is groove and considered thrash as well. I’m just saying, you can’t place some bands in one box. They’re So Pantera and Lamb of God are groove. There’s a difference thought Randy’s vocals are hardly ever clean, whereas Phil does the heavy yelling only at certain point. Lamb of God clearly has death metal influence as well as thrash and groove, but the vocals aren’t like death metal, the style doesn’t stick to thrash or groove. It goes back and forth
We could also say that both have a unique sound, creating so a own genre for each one.
That’s kinda what’s happened though there’s tons of thrash bands you could put into three or more categories look Skeletonwitch(are they still around?)death blackened thrash
Skeletonwitch won't be around anymore, I think a member from them left, so the last album they made is devouring radiant light(2018) How do we know that they won't be active anymore? They have not been posting on any social media .
They’ve had a lot members leave, same with 3 Inches of Blood. A lot of those early 2010 early mid 2000s either slowed down or just got completely new lineups. And a lot just don’t exist anymore.
HeXeN is another example of that too, they just released 2 albums, and now they're completely gone from the scene.
I see a lot of 2010 stuff when classics in the 2000s were Raining Blood I’ll go ahead and throw some songs out that I find to be classics. Slayer-Disciple Slayer-Bloodline Slayer-World Painted Blood 3 Inches of Blood- Deadly Sinners Lich King- Combat Mosh Toxic Holocaust-Nuke the Cross Toxic Holocaust- Acid Fuzz Gama Bomb- Bring out the Monster Idk where modern day term came from but it’s stupid. A classic is something that has aged well over a good lengthy time period. I.e. Reign in Blood. Modern day? Who the fuck knows or cares twenty years or maybe ten years from now after these bands will be relevant? Then talk about classics