Thrash metal
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Thrash metal is an extreme metal type of heavy metal music that is characterised by its high speed and aggression.
Origins
The origins of thrash metal are generally traced to the late 1970s and early 1980s, when a number of bands began incorporating the sound of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of hardcore punk and more specifically Thrashcore, creating a new genre and developing into a separate movement from punk rock. This genre is much more aggressive compared to its relative, speed metal.
Thrash metal bands
- Anthrax
- Artillery
- As I Lay Dying
- Celtic Frost
- Coroner
- D.R.I.
- Dark Angel
- Death Angel
- Deaths Head
- Defiance
- Destroyer 666
- Excel
- Exodus
- Flotsam and Jetsam
- Forbidden
- Hellhammer
- Helloween
- Kreator
- Megadeth
- Mercenary
- Metal Church
- Metallica
- Mortal Sin
- Nevermore
- Overkill
- Onslaught
- Pantera
- Sepultura
- Sabbat
- Sanctuary
- Shadows Fall
- Slayer
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Tankard
- Testament
- Trivium
- Venom
- Voivod
Thrash Metal Media
Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield of Metallica (pictured in 2008). Metallica's early work is regarded as essential to the development of the thrash metal genre in the 1980s.
New York band Anthrax was among the earliest and most successful thrash acts.
Venom's early work is considered a major influence on thrash metal.
Album cover Luchando por el Metal, by the Argentinian band V8, which was formed in 1979
Slayer (pictured in 2007) released Reign in Blood in 1986, considered a landmark achievement in the genre's history.
Testament was one of the most successful Bay Area thrash metal bands of the late 1980s.
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References
- ↑ Janosik, MaryAnn. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History: The video generation, 1981-1990 (2006)Greenwood Press. p. 231.
- ↑ Packard, Michael T.. Heavy Metal. The Harvard Crimson (9 November 2001).
- ↑ Prato, Greg. Primus, Over the Electric Grapevine: Insight into Primus and the World of Les Claypool (16 September 2014)Akashic Books. ISBN 978-1-61775-322-0.