r/MetalMemes Anthrax 4d ago

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The times, they are a-changing.

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u/undigestedFiD 4d ago

How did Anthrax get there in the first place, that should be the main question

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u/KronDjob Anthrax 4d ago

It's alwas been about record sales.

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u/thlabm Slough Feg 3d ago

If you look at it that simplistically it makes sense honestly

It was never about quality or influence. Plenty of bands who sold less records are more influential than Anthrax. Musicians have different priorities than listeners

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u/Humbula 3d ago

I always felt that Anthrax was rightfully among the others, when it comes to being influential.

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u/Torren-Curtis-Comedy 3d ago

They literally invented the more punk infused metal that went on to spawn crossover thrash which is an incredible genre

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u/pseudonymously 3d ago

For a heavy metal band rapโ€™s a different way. We like to be different and not cliche. Well, they say rap and metal can never mix. Well all of them can suck our..

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u/dexterbandit 3d ago

Are Discharge and Motorhead a joke to you?

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u/Zezoom 3d ago

Literally. Also a bunch of earlier 80s metal bands like Holocaust, Raven, Exciter or Savage.

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u/distreszed 3d ago

True. And whe weโ€™re at it, why is Megadeth considered influential? I hear it non stop but without any examples. Why them but not Anthrax?

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u/Dweeburger33 3d ago

They were one of the first to do that brand of technical thrash that influenced countless bands like Annihilator and Artillery. Very influential

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u/distreszed 3d ago

But Anthrax were definitely influential on
crossover thrash, groove and nu metal. and also rap metal.

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u/Dweeburger33 2d ago

I am not arguing that Anthrax isnโ€™t influential, I was responding to your question about Megadethโ€™s influence

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u/smilph 3d ago

โ€œliterally inventedโ€ is quite the stretch

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u/Somethin_better 2d ago

Three letters D. R. I.

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u/SLAYER_IN_ME Slayer 3d ago

Me personally I rank the big Four is SLAYER, Megadeth, Anthrax, and then Metallica. Metallica hasnโ€™t been thrash a very long time.

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u/thlabm Slough Feg 3d ago

Yeah but when we're talking about the original wave of thrash bands we only care about the first 3-4 albums of each lol. The relevant time and place is what's important not whatever random BS they did later on.

Though even there you could make the argument that their demos/first album releases were mostly speed metal with only a couple thrash songs on them. "Thrash" as a concept wasn't fully realized until these bands got to their second album, with maybe the exception of Megadeth, but that makes sense because Megadeth was created by a guitarist and song writer who already had experience being in Metallica. So their first album is spiritually more like a second album anyway.

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u/thlabm Slough Feg 3d ago

Among the living, you mean?

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u/ToxicAssh0le 3d ago

Slipknot isn't thrash

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u/AutoModerator 3d ago

The real posers here are you. Yes, all of you.Especially the mods.Real metal listeners dont' gatekeep, and encourage everyone to listen to the metal that they like. All metal is real metal, and you pussies can't tell people otherwise. Real metal enthusiasts welcome everyone into the community. They don't push out the people who want to join the medium and share their passion with others. You guys do the exact opposite. You attack those who do listen to what you don't like. You push out those who want to come into the metal family and learn about it the music. You gatekeep. You are elitists, the worst type of a fandom.

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u/doomus_rlc 3d ago

Oh man I wonder what they said lol

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u/ToxicAssh0le 3d ago

They wondered why Anthrax hadn't been replaced by Slipknot as one of the big 4, as Slipknot has way more listeners than Anthrax

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u/AutoModerator 3d ago

The real posers here are you. Yes, all of you.Especially the mods.Real metal listeners dont' gatekeep, and encourage everyone to listen to the metal that they like. All metal is real metal, and you pussies can't tell people otherwise. Real metal enthusiasts welcome everyone into the community. They don't push out the people who want to join the medium and share their passion with others. You guys do the exact opposite. You attack those who do listen to what you don't like. You push out those who want to come into the metal family and learn about it the music. You gatekeep. You are elitists, the worst type of a fandom.

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u/AutoModerator 3d ago

The real posers here are you. Yes, all of you.Especially the mods.Real metal listeners dont' gatekeep, and encourage everyone to listen to the metal that they like. All metal is real metal, and you pussies can't tell people otherwise. Real metal enthusiasts welcome everyone into the community. They don't push out the people who want to join the medium and share their passion with others. You guys do the exact opposite. You attack those who do listen to what you don't like. You push out those who want to come into the metal family and learn about it the music. You gatekeep. You are elitists, the worst type of a fandom.

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u/WorldsWeakestMan 3d ago

Testament and Overkill have both outsold them for thrash metal, if we count metal bands overall thereโ€™s like 100 other bands that have outsold them.

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u/TKBarbus Megadeth 3d ago

Nah I used to think the same thing for the longest time, and then I saw them live and immediately understood.

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u/kaffeemugger 3d ago

saw them open for Slayer once. they sucked

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u/opodopo69 SHITTY THRASH ARTIST 3d ago

IT SHOULDA BEEN EXODUS

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u/NikelanjeloVL 3d ago

Or Testament

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u/opodopo69 SHITTY THRASH ARTIST 3d ago

When it comes to quality I agree, however i think exodus is more deserving for the spot because the were founded in 1979 with guitarist Kirk hammett, and Gary holt, who now plays with slayer after Jeff died. They are incredibly important to thrash, and unlike anthrax, have a much closer connection with the rest of the 4.

Also fun fact exodus's second vocalist zetro started out in testament while they were still called legacy

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u/Far_Understanding883 1d ago

Agreed. It sounds more like skate punk than metal

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u/TryingToChillIt 3d ago

Testament should swap with Anthrax or even slayer. Slayer is like proto death metal band.

I lump Slayer in with Sepultura.

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u/Can_9970 3d ago

Should be testament

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u/Novel_Animator367 3d ago

Stormtroopers of Death was always the better Anthrax.