For the year that gave us dial-up internet, Global Positioning System satellites, and "Seinfeld", 1989 gave us an equally legendary year in Thrash (and that's including Metallica's absurd Grammy "loss" to Jethro Tull. Insert retroactively-effective kancel-kulture tantrum-sigh here.)

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Show Notes:

(00:00) - #antirelaxers #waitforit #welcomeback to Bunker Poon Inversion Studios / 1989 and a tremendous attempt to not reference a certain particular album #theunnamedalbum / #wecrammed Metal Nerdery's Top 10 Thrash Albums for 1989 (#bolth individually and grouply) #moist and the process of discovering new thrash back in the day (#observeandreport) and potentially very similar Top 5's #damnnear

(07:42) - Starting with Number 10: #Ministry- The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste (#waitwhat and a moment of #RigorMortis #tangentionalality) #deprechedmode SO WHAT? #notreallythrash #grift Albert Hofmann's favorite #relaxer and the Vowels for Bowels movement / THEIVES and raising the bar on extremeness in Metal #theirony #kricketsplease

(15:06) - A note of explanation and a method to the rating madness / Set the Metal Nerdery Time Tunnel to 1989... #NuclearAssault - Handle with Care CRITICAL MASS / #Overkill - The #YOD (Years of Decay. . .***check out our #YOD #albumdive***) #moist and #clarification regarding #tonebone #mynewmemoir / #Sabbat (check out our #albumdive for Dreamweaver) conflicts and matches across the lysticles / Number 9 - #KingDiamond - Conspiracy (SLEEPLESS NIGHTS) #isitthrash #isitpowermetal or #isitbolth? #genre #fuckthat #blessed

(28:55) - #D.R.I. #DirtyRottenImbeciles BENEATH THE WHEEL (from Thrash Zone) and things that make Russell irritated #skatethrash #screwyouguys Number 8 - #WrathchildAmerica - Climbin' The Walls (CLIMBING THE WALLS) and some #WrathSAZ #trivia / ***check out Episode 13 (metal covers) ***BUY OUR SHIT at www.metalnerdery.com/merch and send #gumfunds for #tridentvibes #sixtynineday #ouchie

(36:07) - a personal testimonial and compliment from a listener #imsorry #dontlisten and also #thankyou (That's all you had to say...) / a moment of #tangentionalalityismness and something new and #spontaneous that should be viewed as #oddly and #insanely #entertaining Number 7 #Sabbat -Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays) THE CLERICAL CONSPIRACY #ballsout and a #thickpresence ***check out our Dreamweaver #albumdive and #timetravel back to 1989!!! #episodefiftyseven / Number 6 #manifestation #moist #Sodom AGENT ORANGE #gofast

(50:05) - Number 5 #Kreator - Extreme Aggression #isntitobvious EXTREME AGGRESSION and #badassery and also wishing you'd written a particularly killer riff and/or song / "We'll have a hole..." / #Overkill - #YOD Years of Decay (***Go check out the YOD Dive!!!***) I HATE #frostalert #frostwarning / The List Thus Far: 10 through 4 / Time for the TOP 3 and something that was found on the internet regarding #buttholesunshine / #Exodus - Fabulous Disaster #thetitletrack also check out our Very recent #albumdive FABULOUS DISASTER #noteven #grabitandputitin

(1:05:35) - Number Dos: the perfect amount of "1989-ness": #Testament Practice What You Preach vs #Sepultura Beneath The Remains #thetitletrack BENEATH THE REMAINS #bisforbumbum #readthoselyrics (***check out our BTR Dive!!!***) #moshpart and the #Alex Hmmm of #Discernment and a review of the list leading up to THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM FOR 1989!!!

(1:13:52) - #Testament Practice What You Preach and a very gently worded question (Russell NAILED it!!) #theunnamedalbum #TBA vs their #AJFA #grower PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH #ballfields rest upon #afieldofballs and comparisons between the vocal stylings of Mr. Hetfield and Mr. Billy ENVY LIFE (can you feel the #deathmetal component?) / Some honorable mentions that didn't make the list...***CALL METAL NERDERY ON THE PHONE-MAIL-VOICE-THINGY AT 980-666-8182!!!*** #asmr #onemessageASMR / Update on the #timemachinerelaxer #development (coming soonly to our merch page) / check out our #softoutro