Those synths were either buried beneath guitars or used as texture. Among the blockbuster releases were Twisted Sister’s Stay Hungry, Dokken’s Tooth and Nail, Whitesnake’s Slide it In, Scorpions’ Love at First Sting, and Van Halen’s 1984, just to name a few. At the time of its release, much of the fuss surrounding 1984 involved Van Halen s adoption of synthesizers on this, their sixth album - a hoopla that was a bit of a red herring since the band had been layering in synths since their third album, Women and Children First. Van Halen's album 1984 became a huge success, hitting 2 on Billboard. In any event, here we go, the 20 albums that invented thrash, slashed, thrashed and capped at 20. Although seldom represented on this list, 1984 was a banner year for glam metal, pop metal, mainstream metal, or whatever the hell you wanna call it. sell and made possible the rise of a radio-friendly hard rock and heavy metal. As well, with a bunch of these bands I wanted to pick two and even three albums, with a further arguable shortcoming arising from the dearth of NWOBHM and the complete absence of hardcore (I have my reasons-very few thrashers actually listened to much of this, contrary to legend, and the recorded history does not cough up one clear winner). In any event, it was pretty tough limiting this list to 20, while also spanning metal history, which, as you will see is necessary-because thrashers are musicologists (or at least pretty darn knowledgeable metal historians). Thrash metal-distinguished by its speed, double bass drumming, barked vocals and lightning quick palm-muted riffery-has proven to be one of the most productive genres of metal since its inception in and around 1983 to the point where… well, the type of heavy metal that is simply called “metal” these days is pretty much first and foremost, some strain of thrash.
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