Originally Posted by MicShazam

I agree that Exodus are more the defining thrash band than Slayer is. While Slayer does have all the traditional songwriting elements down, their dry and harsh sound is not what I'm thinking of when I'm thinking typical thrash from the biggest decade of the genre.

Exodus has that thrash sound that is exactly what I think of when I think 80's thrash. It's more reverby and there's more of a snotty brat attitude. Less carefully controlled than a Slayer album.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.