Desc: A History of a Time to Come: Directed by Joshua Callis-Smith. With Mike Abel, Ben Allen, Ian Arkley, Jim Aspinall. A History of a Time To Come - the story of UK thrash, a documentary telling the tale of British thrash metal through the ages, from the early 80s to the present day. The film aims to fill in the blanks in the history of the genre, where those bands who were once so popular, have faded from memory.