Something magical happened when Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson joined forces with guitarist Marty Friedman and drummer Nick ...

Thrash metal flayed disco band Kiss before bingeing on high-speed guitars, rapid double bass drum and foul lyrics. The emergence of thrash in the early ’80s poked fun at a fan base of metal historians ...

Here is the best album by 15 legendary thrash metal bands. For over 40 years, thrash has been a dominant force in heavy metal. The '90s proved to be challenging as the musical tides shifted in both ...

Thrash metal, the linchpin of our modern metal universe. Born out of Cold War anxieties in the 1980's, thrash took traditional metal to grittier new heights and set the stage for all extreme sub ...

Metal is not immune to trends, and it's had its fair share of horrid ones. Does anyone really want to revisit funk metal anytime soon? That said there are still eras in its history that can and should ...

Since its emergence in the early ’80s, thrash has always been metal’s most reliable genre. Trends come and go, bands rise and fall, but at the end of the day what we all really want is a fast riff and ...

Fans of punk and metal nowadays take it for granted that the two genres often manage to intermingle. It isn't uncommon to spot a Black Flag t-shirt at a metal show, or a Metallica t-shirt at a punk ...

The following list of the nine best thrash metal songs over nine minutes long proves that the genre had way more going for it than brevity and untamed aggression. Of course, ever since Metallica ...

There was more to thrash than speed. Not too much more, admittedly, but the scene’s velocity merchants did occasionally dial things down a little and show their emotional sides. Most of thrash’s big ...

Fans of punk and metal nowadays take it for granted that the two genres often manage to intermingle. It isn't uncommon to spot a Black Flag T-shirt at a metal show, or a Metallica T-shirt at a punk ...

We're baaaaaaaaack. The sequel to our 5 Insane Thrash Metal Drummers compilation is finally here. Last time around we stated the following: These guardians of the skank beat, these purveyors of double ...