Whatever happened to rock and metal's class of 1985? It was an interesting time for heavier music. In the metal world, thrash was all the rage. On the heels of Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax, four ...
A trip through SPIN’s 1985 archives reveals plenty of cool underground culture—deathrock, early industrial, Henry Rollins doing stuff. When it came to metal, however, coverage in ‘85 tended toward the ...