Various bands have played thrash metal at some point of their career. The genre evolved in the early 1980s from combining the drum beats of hardcore punk...

Possessed is an American death/thrash metal band, originally formed in 1982 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Noted for their fast style of playing and Jeff...

grouped together as the "Big Four" of U.S. thrash metal. Other U.S. bands, such as Overkill, Metal Church, and Bay Area acts Exodus, Testament and Death Angel...

adopt pseudonyms. During the 1980s, several thrash metal and death metal bands formed a prototype for black metal. This "first wave" included bands such as...

Testament is an American thrash metal band from Berkeley, California. Formed in 1983 under the name Legacy, the band's current lineup comprises rhythm...

especially in the Tampa Bay area. As a result, Tampa is unofficially known by many death metal fans as the "capital of death metal." The scene coalesced...

as speed metal. The movement began in the United States, with Bay Area thrash metal being the leading scene. The sound developed by thrash groups was...

studio albums. Death Angel is considered one of the key bands in the Bay Area thrash metal movement of the 1980s, and secured opening slots at club venues...

speed metal. The movement began in the United States, with Bay Area thrash metal being the leading scene. The drumming sound developed by thrash groups...

the locus of its own distinctive thrash metal scenes – East Coast and Bay Area, Teutonic, and Brazilian thrash metal. Their debt to the NWOBHM was acknowledged...

"poseur metal". In 2014, Stewart Taylor wrote that in the Bay Area thrash metal scene in the 1980s, in venues where bands like Exodus played, metal fans...

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981 by guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, drummer Dave Lombardo...

important bands from the Brazilian thrash metal scene during the late 1980s. The band's sound is closer to the Bay Area thrash scene than the Brazilian scene...

Lisa Harrelson (1987–88). The band's debut album, Hell-O, a crossover thrash metal-punk rock album, was released in 1988 under Shimmy Disc. The band started...

com. January 18, 2023. Retrieved April 2, 2023. "San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Pioneers FORBIDDEN Announce Comeback: 'This Is Not A Reunion; It's...

pretty close." Catherine Strong stated that grunge's strongest metal influence was thrash metal, which had a tradition of "equality with the audience", based...

performed by inhabitants of the island of Crete. Crossover thrash – a fusion of thrash metal and hardcore punk. Crunk – known for its heavy basslines and...

mid-to-late development of the Punk in Brazil, and that of Brazilian thrash metal. Democratic renewal also allowed for the recognition and acceptance of...

Tour started in April 1989 with Helloween joining San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal band Exodus in support of headlining act Anthrax. The band was slotted...

performed songs by popular heavy metal groups. They quickly gained interest in heavier styles and joined the thrash metal cover band Fiend, but were kicked...

Christian Vander Vangelis Voivod: Canadian progressive metal band with thrash metal roots Von Hertzen Brothers Rick Wakeman: Keyboard player who recorded...

previous album, St. Anger (2003), and is considered a return to the band's thrash metal roots, with more complex compositions, standard guitar tuning on most...

late 1980s metal fragmented into several subgenres, including thrash metal, which developed in the US from the style known as speed metal, under the influence...

Rock music continued to enjoy a wide audience. Soft rock, glam metal, thrash metal, shred guitar characterized by heavy distortion, pinch harmonics...

Afterlifelines to be released March 29, 2023 – European Tour begins in April 2024". Metal Rules. December 15, 2023. Retrieved December 15, 2023. Guttridge-Hewitt...

nearly every other subgenre of heavy metal including death metal, black metal, and thrash. In 2002, heavy metal saw a new subgenre called deathcore, which...

Low. Many subgenres of metal developed outside of the commercial mainstream during the 1980s. In the early 1990s the thrash metal genre achieved break-out...

band was known for, but introduced elements of progressive rock and thrash metal to their sound as well as a technical musicianship that was very uncommon...

2008). "Nicolas Anelka's four goals earn manager's praise after Chelsea thrash AC Milan 5-0". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 May 2016. "AC Milan Out of UEFA...

Rage, then Sweet Children. They were part of the late 1980s/early 1990s Bay Area punk scene that emerged from the 924 Gilman Street club in Berkeley, California...