#359 1989 Metal and Thrash Albums

“No sink or nothing, right? You’re just gonna go free ball it…”

1989 was the very first year EVER that The Recording Academy recognized hard rock and metal music with the “Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental”. And other than the completely insulting “slap in the face” by The Recording Academy to Metallica (think Will Smith & Chris Rock, but even more childish, petty, and completely unnecessary), there were no other Big Four albums or happenings in 1989.

(SIDEBAR: Y’know, maybe it’s just speculation, conspiracy theory, or just good old-fashioned karma in action, but the way Metallica “lost” that Grammy, it’s like they were literally “deleted from the mix” of nominees, so to speak. Not unlike a certain bass player from a certain mix on a certain album. Moving on…)

“Just gonna raw dog it…”

As we are all aware, metal (especially thrash) is far more than just The Big Four, and 1989 was actually quite an excellent year for metal. As thrash was nearing the zenith of its popularity, Wrathchild America’s debut album, Climbin’ The Walls, hit the record store shelves, Exodus, Testament, and Sepultura each released legendary 3rd albums, and Nuclear Assault released the first, the best, and arguably one of the most revolutionary lyric videos in the history of music for Critical Mass, featuring a one-eyed smiley face saying, “Follow me!” and a “Required Nasty Bit”, courtesy of Jessica Hahn.

“What is YOUR favorite album of 1989?”

Prepare yourself for a bit of obscure Metal Nerdery 1989-centric trivia, embrace what it means to receive your “first JOB”, and find out what you should definitely NOT do in your landlord’s pool when you JOIN US as we fire up the time machine and go check out THE CLASS OF 1989.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “Aww, mark the time!”/ “I might have got the end of it…hopefully it’ll be enough…”/

“No sink or nothing, right? You’re just gonna go free ball it…just gonna raw dog it!”/

“Do you have a problem using coasters?”/ #LakeVonMatthew / “Welcome to Lake Matthew…it’s deep and it’s wet…”/ “All the good buttons are gonna be Russell…”/ #markthetime / “Raw dog it…balls deep…”/ ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / “Sorry I made the table wet…” / “Turn it off now…”/ “So much yelling…that sounds like a great time…”/ ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST AND THE BUNKERPOON METAL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE!!!*** / “It’s deep and wet…and moist.”/

#bluealgae / “You can, but it’s probably gonna ruin your day…Toxic Avenger style…”/

“Guys will do that? Or you’ll do that?”

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(07:55): “Boys…Fellas…Hey Guys!”/ #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: THE CLASS OF 1989 / “It was sort of the introduction to death metal…thrash was becoming more extreme…”/ “You don’t even have to sell it…it sells itself.”/ “1989 is a special memory for me…that was when I first got my first job…and on the day I went to do my interview for the first job, I also got my first ‘JOB’!”/ “He’s talking about a beej…”/ #tremendous / “I got it while I was driving a car…I’m like “WHOA! I’ve gotta pull off the road…”/ “It’s like a buffet of metal…”/ “No Big Four releases during 1989…”

(12:43): “That’s the one place where it’s appropriate to say ‘Fabulous’…”/

#Exodus FABULOUS DISASTER (Fabulous Disaster – 1989) / #useyourheadphones #cantbeloudenough / “That’s a weird timing too…”/ “Zetro had this Udo, Brian Johnson, and a little bit of Bon all slammed together…”/ #ballstothewall / “That’s why thrash metal is the Olympics of music…”/ “Give credit to Slayer…give credit to Exodus…”/ “Kirk Hammett leaving Exodus may have been the best thing to ever happen to Exodus…”/ “I’ve got a good suggestion…I just wanted to hear a taste of Envy Life where Chuck Billy does the ‘death thing’ (death metal vocal growl) …”

(19:37): #Testament ENVY LIFE (Practice What You Preach – 1989) / “That’s kinda heavy and creepy at the same time…”/ “Get ready for the heavy harmonies…”/ “I swear…if you listen to this and you listen to their new album…it’s a completely different band…”/

“If he would have said ‘yeah-yeah’ a few times…”/ “You mentioned earlier ‘Headless Children’…did y’all ever get into the W.A.S.P.?”/ “The cover (the Headless Children album cover) looks kinda like Reign In Blood…”/ “Headless Children was released March 21, 1989 on Capitol Records”/ #WASP MEAN MAN (The Headless Children – 1989) / “Remember the interview with Chris Holmes in the pool?” / #fame / “Wouldn’t it be weird if you put on KISS makeup to be able to go out in public and be yourself?”

(26:30): “How about some Metal Church?” / “I think Metal Church is just a metal band…they can do anything.”/ #MetalChurch BADLANDS (Blessing In Disguise – 1989) /

“They don’t have any problem picking excellent singers…”/ “That’s a dismount right there…stuck the landing…ten out of ten…”/ #notenoughriffs / #MCTentacleChoice /

“When Bill’s tentacles come out, things happen (they do)…and the universe is impacted positively (it is), and we thank you (we do)…”/ “Those tentacles are magic…he’s only got two of them…and he’s got five mini-tentacles attached to his two main tentacles…”/

“We’ve never really talked about them…”/ ***You can find the show notes at metalnerdery.com/episodes *** / #Obituary SLOWLY WE ROT (Slowly We Rot – 1989) / “It’s like a more death-y sounding Death…”

(33:21): “You know what else is ’89…Sepultura…”/ Back in the day, many considered Sepultura’s Beneath The Remains to be “the next Master of Puppets” in terms of thrash greatness / #Sepultura BENEATH THE REMAINS (Beneath The Remains – 1989) / “I almost thought you said ‘a little bit of diarrhea’…”/ “Don’t shit in your landlord’s pool…or their mouth…”/ “Fun Metal Nerdery fact…we did an episode for Beneath The Remains…way back…with the Mighty Mixon…”/ “Speaking of Mixon…”/ “Look at all the #cokelines (for Blood Feast)…”/ #thrashy / #BloodFeast CHOPPING BLOCK BLUES (Chopping Block Blues – 1989) / “I’ll bet their rehearsals were a bitch…”

(39:46): “How about a little bit of Overkill?”/ “I got an inverse erection…it actually creeped up inside my body…”/ #Overkill TIME TO KILL (The Years Of Decay – 1989) / “That’s what we’re doing really…we’re all just killing time…while we’re here…”/ “That little dash in there…that’s all your time to kill…”/ #NuclearAssault CRITICAL MASS (Handle With Care – 1989) / “OH listen to that! It’s just dirty…”/ “They always had the best shirts…you’d see a Nuclear Assault shirt and you’re like ‘that’s cool…that’s metal…’”/ #Kreator EXTREME AGGRESSION (Extreme Aggression – 1989) / “Look at the (Extreme Aggression) album cover…(Kreator are) radiating hatred off of their heads…”

(47:06): “We would be remiss to not include The King…Conspiracy is the sequel to “Them”…”/ #ThemPartTwo / #KingDiamond SLEEPLESS NIGHTS (Conspiracy – 1989) /

“That sounds like Zakk Wylde…is this an Ozzy song?”/ “Here’s another one…”/

#Ministry SO WHAT (The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste – 1989) / #IndustrialMetal /

“Russell Stover’s…or Whitman’s…or Wittler’s…”/ “Respect…”/ “Wait, what is that?”/

#rebellion / “You know what? Just for fun…”/ “You’ve been groomed for this…”/ #BlackSabbath WHEN DEATH CALLS (Headless Cross – 1989) /

“It’s got a nice creepy intro…that’s bass by the way…”/ “This has the sound of something… (NOTE: the intro to When Death Calls sounds somewhat similar to Planet Caravan)”/ “Keep your pants on…”/ “It’s like Dio Sabbath kinda…in a way…”/ “See? The Tony Martin era didn’t hurt you…”/ “What is YOUR favorite album of 1989?”/ “For those of you wondering…it still didn’t touch ’86.”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! /

#untilthenext #outroreel