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Exodus and Bonded by Blood: The Album That Built Bay Area Thrash
Recorded in about two weeks north of San Francisco in 1984, held back by a nervous label until 1985, and still the record people mean when they say Bay Area thrash.
Cowboys From Hell: How an Arlington Bar Band Made a Thrash Record and Went Double Platinum
A birthday-party gig, a hurricane, a Fort Worth club, two months at Pantego Sound and roughly 300 nights on the road: the making of Pantera’s major-label debut.
Devastation: Corpus Christi’s Texas Thrash Veterans
A Gulf Coast band that cut its own debut, signed to Combat, made one of the heaviest records of 1991 at Morrisound, and called off its European tour before it began.
