Sacrifice

Canadian thrash metal band from Toronto, Ontario. Formed in 1983.
SACRIFICE was one of the best Canadian thrash metal bands in the 1980s. While the USA had its big 4 (Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer), Canada also had its own big 5 – VOIVOD, RAZOR, ANNIHILATOR,EXCITER and Toronto’s SACRIFICE. Born in Scarborough in 1983, the band released three albums during the 80s on Diabolic Force / Fringe (Torment In Fire, Forward To Termination and Soldiers Of Misfortune) that are all considered to be absolute thrash metal classics. They also released a fourth studio album Apocalypse Inside in the early 90's before parting ways in 1993. After coming back together to play a reunion concert in 2006, they released their fifth studio album The Ones I Condemn on Brazilian label Marquee Records in 2009. Although the band faced numerous line-up changes, especially in their early days, founding guitarists Rob Urbinati and Joe Rico, and bassist Scott Watts recorded every studio album and demo, and drummer Gus Pynn on everything but the Apocalypse Inside demo and CD. The band even had a pretty big video hit on Much Music (back when they played videos, of course) with “Reanimation” and was a big live draw across Canada.