@avclub-77da6346955af7cc9c69c1003a412e8a:disqus Charlie don't cheat!
I know DRI is credited with the first blastbeat, but Charlie Benante's drumming on the first SOD record is legendary.

Celtic Frost weren't really thrash, though they're definitely the most creative 80s metal band. Coroner on the other hand, that was some next-level stuff.

I saw the accompanying tour back in 91 with Morbid Angel, Godflesh, Nocturnus, Ripping Corpse, Deceased, and one or two other bands. I'd like to think the reason metal was such a near total sausage fest then compared to the moderate majority sausage fest it is now was all the sweatpants.

"And while 64 percent of underage kids were able to purchase CDs with explicit lyric warnings last time around, in 2012 more than half of them were turned away, after clerks saw a teenager attempting to purchase a CD and became suspicious."