[Mag]

I have 3 songs that I can think of that I would call Thrash Metal. All by Soundgarden, Kick Stand, Rusty Cage, Jesus Christ Prose.

Thrash is fast Hard Rock that I associate with motorcycle racing. Has cool riffs, either bass, rhythm or lead guitar, with no cookie monster vocals.

Anyone know of other Thrash songs, bands?

[duff138]

  Unfortunatley your definition of Thrash Metal seems to be very different from the term thrash metal used by most people.  Thrash Metal is a style of metal used long before Soundgarden and a very different style of music.  I listened to lots of thrash growing up, but none that sounded like Soundgarden.


  Here's a good introduction into thrash metal:

http://www.thelefthandpath.com/lefthandpath/index.cfm/event/read/entry/The_LHP_Thrash_Metal_Primer

[Mag]

Yes I think your right. according to Wikipedia Thrash is more like Metallica which I'm familiar with. Highway Star by Deep Purple is considered the first Thrash metal song. I thought these 3 songs by Soundgarden are similar in style & speed to Highway Star.

[mvwhiting_83]

Testament, Megadeth, and early Metallica are thrash metal... A good few years before Soundgarden.

[nathanm]

Soundgarden might be metal-ISH, but definitely NOT thrash metal by any stretch.

A small sampling.  All played thrash at one time or another.

Annihilator
Anthrax
D.R.I.
Dark Angel
Death Angel
Defiance
Defleshed
Destruction
Evile
Exhorder
Exodus
Flotsam & Jetsam
Heathen
Hirax
Iced Earth
Kreator
Laaz Rockit
M.O.D.
Megadeth
Merciless Death
Municipal Waste
Nuclear Assault
Overkill
Razor
Realm
S.O.D.
Sabbat (UK)
Sacred Reich
Sadus
Sanctuary
Sepultura
Slayer
Sodom
Suicidal Tendencies
Testament
Tourniquet
Toxic Holocaust
Vio-Lence
Warbringer
Whiplash

Damn, there was this one video on HBB ages ago that reminds me of what you are describing (a bouncy, driving kind of rhythm) but I just can't place the band.

[chadh]

Municipal Waste?!?!?! 

Chad

[nathanm]

Yep, and they actually have a fairly decent, campy video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RDGLQuBkaE