Clash of the Titans

On the back of this, the band had spent the end of 1990 and much of 1991 out on the road promoting the album live to the masses.

In Europe, they had co-headlined the European Clash of the Titans, along with Megadeth, Suicidal Tendencies and Testament.

This proved to be an immense touring platform, with all of the bands coming off high profile and high selling albums.

Into 1991, back in North America, they continued with the Clash of the Titans format, this time retaining Megadeth, but adding Anthrax and Alice in Chains as the other supporting bands.

This also proved to be extremely popular, though the Slayer fanbase did not give the new boys on the block Alice in Chains as warm a welcome as they did the other bands.

During these gigs, it was decided that the band would record with a view to releasing a live album, something that would also help to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the formation of the band.

They never did a fucking Save the Planet show.

They did Clash of the Titans.

They gave no fuck.

Metallica, okay, after...

So that sort of worked.

And the other one that is similar to this is the whole Clash of the Titans situation.

So the idea here was that how do we make...

How can we elevate Thrash to a next level? And it was kind of the same thing, although we were still...

in the middle stages of thrash so clash of the titans uh first started off in europe september and october 1990 it was slayer and megadeth co-headlining so you get two of the biggest bands here um you know notably absent is metallica but later you know there'd be some stuff done with metallica But Testament.

So you got a second tier band there and never got their gold record.

But, you know, they were they were kind of a big band and Suicidal Tendencies, who actually did get a gold record.

I think 90, 91 was kind of like the peak for thrash metal as far as popularity, not as far as like, you know, best releases.

But I think around the time that you had like the Clash of the Titans tour and stuff, that was like, you know, this.

Without a doubt.

That was the peak of thrash was the Clash of the Titans tour.

right uh you know monetary of course you know the you know best albums most of us would agree came out in the 80s but man that was like when thrash crossed over to where it wasn't as underground you know you know it used to be like thrash wasn't a hit parader in the color pictures it was in like you know uh you know the lesser magazines that had you know everything's in black and white and shit but you got much better fucking info and shit um But the 90s were a turbulent fucking time.

And something I think, you know, everybody talks about how grunge killed a hair metal.

So that sort of worked.

And the other one that is similar to this is the whole Clash of the Titans situation.

So the idea here was that how can we elevate Thrash to a next level? And it was kind of the same thing, although we were still in the middle stages of Thrash.

So Clash of the Titans first started off in Europe, September and October 1990.

It was Slayer and Megadeth co-headlining, so you get two of the biggest bands here, notably absent is Metallica, but later there'd be some stuff done with Metallica.

But Testament, so you got a second-tier band there, and never got their gold record, but they were kind of a big band, and Suicidal Tendencies, who actually did get a gold record.