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There were a lot of bad covers back in thrash’s heyday. Here are five of the worst offenders.

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Xantrix, Broken Hope and Goatwhore, plus a not-as-new album from Succumb. 

Because of the stature they have attained, much of the metal-loving world puts the Big Four as the sort of holy, uh, quadrinity of thrash metal. These are the bands—all American—that we consider the originators and finest progenitors of the genre. But not so fast. If we’re to look at many of the Big Four’s…