I picked up the reissue of the early Hungarian thrasher FANTOM, with the demo "Lucifer Jelenj Meg" and some raw rehearsal stuff recently and must have filed it away without playing it, I'm spinning it now after the discussion about FOAD in the noisecore thread and holy shit this is some top shelf raw Iron Curtain thrash! Total early Sodom worship with great raw production and those ice-pick wild trebly solos that are so crucial for this sort of stuff.
I really wish these reissues had more of an oral history feeling in the liner notes, after visiting Hungary last year it's really fascinating how these bands existed behind the Iron Curtain and I'd love to hear more stories about what it was like. I heard some stories from people when I was there who were basically like "can you imagine what it was like being a punk/metal head in the 90's when everyone before you was a metalhead under communism!?"