Trends in music seem to repeat every 2 decades- so were currently in the midsts of an 80s revival -a good thing?
Time seems to blur of memories, and what was once the subject of ridicule seems to become clouded with a fondness that only time can give. 80s acts are reforming to bring us the music we remember from our youth, showing that there is still an audience for their ‘classic’ songs.
Thrash metal was dominant in metal during the 80s -which spawned such classics as Metallica’s ‘Master of puppets’, and Slayer’s ‘Reign in blood’ has come back to life with band such as Evile and Municipal Waste leading the way for the new guard. ‘Old school’ bands like Testament, Exodus and Kreator are finally getting much overdue credit and have been revived, delivering new albums and tours. Iron Maiden returned to the lofty heights that they reached in the 80s and the Darkness revived interest in glam rock again. Damn them. Anthrax brought back Joey Belladonna, only for him to leave again afew months later, with Anthrax then searching for yet another singer. Megadeth split up due to a injury to Dave Mustaine -only to recover and bring them back with the albums ‘the system has failed’ and ‘united abominations’ and were currently waiting for the next album. Kreator spent the 90s moving away from the thrash sound they help develop with 1986’s ‘a pleasure to kill’, only to return to the well with 2001’s ‘Violent revolution’, 2005’s ‘Enemy of god’ and their recent effort ‘Hordes of chaos’ has seen the German group return to their glory days.
So thrash is alive and well, but does that mean all those bands will have to suffer through the metal drought of the 90s and the horrors of ‘indie’ and ‘britpop’ again?
Lets hope not.
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