Scott Ian was there at the birth of thrash. The guitarist”s band, Anthrax, helped lay down the template for the scene that emerged in the early 80s, even inadvertently lending the burgeoning movement a name with the song Metal Thrashing Mad, from the New Yorker’s 1984’s debut album Fistful Of Metal. But what came before thrash? Here, he runs down 10 tracks that laid the foundation for the movement that took metal to a new level of velocity.
