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Sep 27, 2019 · Here’s how it works. The Story of Thrash Metal Part One: The birth of a genre. “If you ask me what the first thrash metal song was, it’s Exciter by Judas Priest ,” reckons Gary Holt, who joined Exodus in 1981 after a crash course in riff-playing from the baby-faced quintet’s co-founding guitarist, Kirk Hammett .
Oct 4, 2019 · Here’s how it works. The Story of Thrash Metal Part 2: How thrash broke the mainstream. Master Of Puppets opened the gates for thrash’s assault on the mainstream. Suddenly, metal had a new frontline, and the scene would never be the same again. In Part One of our Story of thrash metal, we spoke to innovators Exodus, Anthrax, Sodom and ...
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.
Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and fast tempo. The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding -style lead guitar work.
Apr 29, 2010 · published 29 April 2010. From the Big Four - Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth - to the new wave. Metallica circa 1985 with a Big Four-letter word © Ross Marino/Retna Ltd./Corbis. Pioneered by Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth, thrash was the fastest and nastiest music of the '80s.
Aug 31, 2011 · Together with Metallica they had been christened the "Big Four" and were among the originators of the style that came to be known as thrash, which took the thundering force of traditional heavy metal, injected it with punk's sneering aggression and delivered the whole thing with a relentless, insistent groove.
Thrash metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo. The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead guitar work.
