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- Slayer – Reign In Blood (1990)
- Metallica – Master Of Puppets (1986)
- Megadeth – Rust In Peace (1986)
- Metallica – Ride The Lightning (1984)
- Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) David Scott "Dave" Mustaine (born September 13, 1961) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, actor and author. Mustaine is best known as a pioneer in Thrash Metal, being the former lead guitarist of Metallica before his dismissal in 1983, leading to finding and becoming the front man of his own band Megadeth shortly after.
- Marty Friedman (Megadeth) Martin Adam "Marty" Friedman is an American guitarist, known for his tenure as the lead guitarist for heavy metal band Megadeth which spanned nearly the full decade of the 1990s, as well as Cacophony alongside Jason Becker until 1989.
- Alex Skolnick (Testament) Alexander Nathan Skolnick is an American metal and jazz guitarist who is the lead guitarist of the Bay Area thrash metal band Testament, and heads the jazz band Alex Skolnick Trio.
- Jeff Hanneman (Slayer) Jeffrey John "Jeff" Hanneman was an American musician, best known as a founding member of the American thrash metal band Slayer.
- Slayer – Reign In Blood (1986) It takes just 28 minutes and 58 seconds for Reign In Blood to tear the competition apart and gorily crown itself the ultimate thrash album.
- Metallica – Ride The Lightning (1984) “Thrash implies a lack of arrangement, ability, songwriting, or any form of intelligence,” said Lars Ulrich to Kerrang!
- Megadeth – Rust In Peace (1990) For Dave Mustaine, the road to Rust In Peace was a rocky one. With his addictions to smack, cocaine and booze causing him his own problems, the band were forced to scrap much of their 1988 touring plans owing to bassist and narcotic running-mate David Ellefson’s own sickness.
- Metallica – Master Of Puppets (1986) As if you need telling about Master Of Puppets. A complex labyrinth of riffs that somehow remains cohesive; a record breathtaking in scope and intelligence that still arrives in the form of a fist, ’Tallica’s final album before the death of Cliff Burton was a game-changer.
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- Mick Thomson & Jim Root, Slipknot. Matt Heafy: “Throughout middle school, when that debut self-titled album came out, I used to hide my headphones under my long hair and listen to Slipknot in class all day long.
- John Petrucci, Dream Theater. Matt Heafy: “He takes well-rounded to a whole new level. He understands music completely, inside and out. He can sight-read, he can improvise, he can tell you what’s happening theoretically or thematically in a song from any style.
- Mikael Åkerfeldt, Opeth. Matt Heafy: “Mikael Åkerfeldt is another one of my all-time heroes. Blackwater Park changed music and changed metal for me. It’s one of my top 10 albums, from any genre.
- Alex Skolnick & Eric Peterson, Testament. Phil Demmel: “I roadied for Testament back in the day, when they were still called Legacy! I used to drive them around in my parents’ van.
- Tony Iommi. There could be no one else at number one. Tony Iommi created metal from the ground up, taking rock and blues as raw materials, drawing a songwriting logic and atmosphere from early horror cinema, and writing some of the best riffs – and, ergo, the best songs – in metal history.
- Dimebag Darrell. Dimebag’s ferocious lead technique was a full-frontal assault that drew as heavily on blues as heavy metal. His penchant for the lead work of rock and metal giants such as Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads was combined with his own unique take on the humble pentatonic scale.
- Randy Rhoads. Randy Rhoads was just 25 when he lost his life in a plane crash in 1982 but he left quite the legacy. He was supremely gifted, book smart but not ostentatiously so, and would deftly introduce the highfalutin grandeur of classical music into popular metal compositions.
- James Hetfield. The doyen of down-picking, the riffmaster supreme, Hetfield is the combustion engine that drives that unstoppable and unlikely phenomenon that is Metallica.
Sep 20, 2022 · One of the finest metal guitarists of all time, Jeff Waters was always destined for greatness, but this precocious debut album was, if we’re honest, taking the piss. Incredible musicianship, wonderful songs and with energy levels permanently in the red, Alice… raised thrash’s IQ and put its Canadian contingent firmly on the map once and ...
May 27, 2023 · For anyone into metal and hard rock at the time, this “speed metal” featuring blazing fast guitars and double-kick beats came as a welcome surprise. Groups such as Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer were the leaders in a new genre. Together they became known as the “Big Four” of thrash.
