"I was intrigued by how Rick was going forward, into  the current-day interpretations of Thrash. It was great working on it,  because it made me re-surface that time period, and how important it was in  my life, and how Heavy Metal evolved from that point as a whole. I was  re-connecting with all my friends, all the great people from "the day",  swapping stories, finding these great photos and all these things that we  (Rat and Director Lori DeAngelis-Kundrat) had made when I was putting  together OVERKILL, going as far back as 1979."Rat continues: "I had started to assemble a bonus piece for Get Thrashed  on the "DIY" element of our movement, but after about 5 seconds, I realized  that it would need to be it's own feature to really be meaningful...it  really hit home with me on how this all started as a DIY effort for  everyone involved...and I mean EVERYONE; the musicians, the DJ's, the  journalists, even the record companies. We all had to re-invent and  re-think everything, because we were all breaking new ground...music this  extreme had never been done before, and no one was successful with it yet,  so we really had nothing to compare it to. We were all networking our stuff  in the same underground, which is why we've endured as a community. It was  awesome: making flyers and cassette covers on the library copying machine,  silk-screening our own shirts, putting our stickers on the toll booths, and  using milk crates for everything you could imagine...it was a really fun  time, because we had no roadmaps or guidance, and we were just kids. It was  our absolute fanaticism for what we were doing that broke Thrash, the  mainstream industry pretty much ran from us. Our "DIY" attitude wasn't just  an interesting highlight or footnote of Thrash, it was EVERYTHING...it's  the core of the evolution, the single most significant driving force that  was an off-stage extension of our music."