Hello there ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to rock?  It’s time for me trolling yet another thing that I don’t quite understand.  Look on the bright side however.  I’m actually searching for enlightenment rather than just petty name calling or pigeonholing.  So hit the jump and enlighten my ignorant ass.

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[face of a franchise presents two individuals that’ve fulfilled the same role. your task — choose the better of the two and defend your choice in the rancor pit that is the comments section]

Influenced by the NWOBHM, American metalheads of the early 1980s began shredding faster and partying harder. With art and life aping one another, the result was a new breed of metal called thrash. Yes, it’s a terrifying thought but thrash metal has been around for three decades. And nearly just as old as the music itself is the debate about who is most responsible for its inception.

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