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1->''Got my foot pinned to the floor''
2->''You can feel the engines roar''
3->''Got thunder in my hands''
4->''I'm metal thrashing'' '''MAAAAAAAD!, YEAH!'''
5-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp15snaUfGw "Metal Thrashing Mad"]], Music/{{Anthrax}}
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7[floatboxright:
8Primary Stylistic Influences:
9+ SpeedMetal, NewWaveOfBritishHeavyMetal, HardcorePunk
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12Secondary Stylistic Influences:
13+ TraditionalHeavyMetal, PunkRock
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16'''Thrash metal''' is a SubGenre of HeavyMetal. Basically, it's a fusion of HardcorePunk and the music of the NewWaveOfBritishHeavyMetal (NWOBHM; you know, Music/JudasPriest, Music/IronMaiden, Music/{{Motorhead}}). In slightly more detail, thrash metal, also known as "thrash", features very fast, low-register riff-heavy guitar playing, and equally fast drumming accompanied by virtuoso-style guitar solos typically using E minor keys though other keys aren't unheard of.
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18Thrash metal began in the early eighties and was popularized mainly by the "Big Four" (Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Megadeth}}, Music/{{Slayer}} and Music/{{Anthrax}}) as well as the three main bands of the Teutonic thrash metal scene in Germany (Music/{{Sodom}}, Music/{{Kreator}}, Music/{{Destruction}}). By the 90s, its popularity began to wane as the genres it inspired (see below) began to overtake it in popularity, but it still had enough of a dedicated following to begin a "revival" of sorts in the 2000's (see the "New Blood" section). In June of 2010, the Big Four of thrash metal played together on one stage for the first time ever in a historic concert tour in Europe.
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20Closely related to thrash is '''crossover thrash''', a sub-genre of both thrash metal and hardcore punk started in the mid-80s. It is essentially thrash with much more obvious punk influence, namely less technical songwriting and more shouted vocals (especially gang vocals), but retains many of thrash's riffing and songwriting conventions. Named for the Music/DirtyRottenImbeciles album ''Crossover'', and most popularized by them, Music/SuicidalTendencies and Music/StormtroopersOfDeath, as well as Music/MunicipalWaste and Power Trip in later years.
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22Fellow metal genres DeathMetal, GrooveMetal and arguably BlackMetal evolved directly from thrash. Thrash metal evolved from SpeedMetal, and was instrumental in the creation of PowerMetal.
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25!!Bands typically described as thrash metal include:
26
27'''Old Guard'''
28
29[[index]]
30American West Coast
31* Music/AgentSteel
32* Bitter End
33* Music/DarkAngel (later material overlaps with ProgressiveMetal)
34* Music/DeathAngel
35* Defiance
36* Music/{{Devastation}} (later material overlaps with DeathMetal)
37* Music/{{Epidemic}} (also DeathMetal and {{Grindcore}})
38* Evildead
39* [[Music/ExodusBand Exodus]]
40* Music/{{Forbidden|Band}}
41* Forced Entry
42* Gammacide
43* Music/HeathenBand
44* Music/{{Hexx}} (also PowerMetal for most of their career, briefly played death/thrash circa ''Morbid Reality'')
45* Music/{{Hirax}}
46* Holy Terror
47* [[Music/LaazRockit Lääz Rockit]] (''Know Your Enemy'' onward, earlier material was power metal)
48* Music/{{Megadeth}}
49** 1986 - ''Music/PeaceSellsButWhosBuying''
50** 1988 - ''Music/SoFarSoGoodSoWhat''
51** 1990 - ''Music/RustInPeace''
52* Music/{{Metallica}}
53** 1983 - ''Music/KillEmAll''
54** 1984 - ''Music/RideTheLightning''
55** 1986 - ''Music/MasterOfPuppets''
56** 1988 - ''Music/AndJusticeForAll1988''
57** 1991 - ''Music/MetallicaAlbum''
58** 1998 - ''Music/GarageInc''
59** 2008 - ''Music/DeathMagnetic''
60** 2023 - ''Music/SeventyTwoSeasons''
61* Music/{{Neurosis}} (played crossover thrash on their first two albums, later moved into [[DoomMetal Post-Metal]])
62* Music/{{Possessed}} (considered an early innovator of death metal)
63* Rigor Mortis
64* Music/{{Sadus}} (mid-era material had some overlap with technical death metal)
65* Music/{{Slayer}}
66** 1983 - ''Music/ShowNoMercy''
67** 1986 - ''Music/ReignInBlood''
68* Music/SuicidalTendencies (played crossover thrash from 1987 to either 1992 or 1994 depending on who you ask)
69* Music/{{Testament}} (also DeathMetal on their mid-late 90s albums)
70* Music/{{Tourniquet}} (also ProgressiveMetal and ChristianMetal)
71* Music/{{Torture}}
72* Ulysses Siren
73* Viking
74* Music/{{Violence}}
75* Music/{{Watchtower}} (also ProgressiveMetal and PowerMetal)
76
77American East Coast
78* Music/{{Anthrax}}
79** ''Music/AmongTheLiving'' (1987)
80* Music/{{Atheist}} (demos and ''Piece of Time'' only, also an UrExample of technical death metal)
81* Music/BloodFeast
82* Music/CannibalCorpse (''Eaten Back to Life'' only, though they have many songs in that style from throughout their career and bordered on death/thrash once again with ''Red Before Black'')
83* Music/{{Carnivore}}
84* Music/DirtyRottenImbeciles (later)
85* Music/DemolitionHammer
86* False Prophet
87* Gothic Slam
88* Music/HallowsEve
89* Music/{{Hellwitch}} (also an UrExample of technical death metal)
90* Music/IcedEarth (later became PowerMetal)
91* Malevolent Creation (''The Ten Commandments'' only)
92* Meliah Rage (also power metal)
93* [[Music/{{MOD}} M.O.D]]
94* Nasty Savage (also PowerMetal)
95* Music/NuclearAssault (Their first three albums also qualify as crossover thrash)
96* Music/{{Overkill}}
97* Music/RippingCorpse (also DeathMetal)
98* [[Music/{{StormtroopersOfDeath}} S.O.D.]]
99* Music/{{Terrahsphere}} (also ProgressiveMetal, borders on death metal at times)
100* Music/{{Toxik}} (also ProgressiveMetal, as well as PowerMetal on ''World Circus'')
101* Wargasm (later material was groove metal)
102* Music/{{Whiplash}}
103
104Misc. American
105* Music/{{Anacrusis}} (also ProgressiveMetal) (St. Louis)
106* Atrophy (Arizona)
107* Music/CorrosionOfConformity (Raleigh, North Carolina) (early work was crossover thrash, later moved on to [[DoomMetal Sludge Metal]])
108* Music/{{Exhorder}} (Mixed with GrooveMetal) (New Orleans)
109* Music/FlotsamAndJetsam (Arizona)
110* Music/{{GWAR}} (Richmond, Virginia) [[/index]]
111* Incubus (also DeathMetal) (Not be confused with the [[Music/{{Incubus}} alternative rock band]]; currently, they are known as Opprobrium.) (Metarie, Louisiana) [[index]]
112* Intruder (Nashville)
113* Music/{{Macabre}} (Though they are GenreBusting)
114* Music/ManillaRoad (Mostly traditional heavy metal or PowerMetal, but displayed strong influences from this on their albums between ''Open the Gates'' and ''The Courts of Chaos'') (Wichita, Kansas)
115* Music/{{Master}} (also DeathMetal) (Chicago, Illinois)
116* Music/MetalChurch (Seattle, Washington)
117* Music/MorbidSaint (Sheboygan, Wisconsin)
118* Num Skull (Greater Chicago)
119* Music/{{Pantera}} (also GrooveMetal) (Texas)
120* Music/SacredReich (Arizona)
121* Thought Industry (also Progressive/Avant-Garde Metal) (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
122* Wrath (Chicago)
123* Music/JohnZorn: Eclectic composer who mixes many different musical genres in his work, including thrash metal
124** ''Music/{{Spillane}}'' (1987)
125** ''Music/{{Radio}}'' (1993)
126** ''Music/MusicForChildren'' (1998)
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128Teutonic (German)
129* Music/AngelDust (later became PowerMetal)
130* Music/{{Assassin}}
131* Music/AssortedHeap (also DeathMetal)
132* Music/{{Deathrow}} (also ProgressiveMetal on their later material)
133* Music/DepressiveAge (also ProgressiveMetal)
134* Music/{{Destruction}} (also SpeedMetal on their early material)
135* Music/{{Despair}}
136* Music/{{Exumer}}
137* Music/HolyMoses (Sabina Klassen is noted for being one of the few female singers in a thrash metal band)
138* Music/{{Kreator}}
139* Music/LivingDeath (earlier material is SpeedMetal)
140* Music/MekongDelta (also ProgressiveMetal)
141* Music/{{Paradox}}, beginning with ''Heresy'' (formerly SpeedMetal)
142* Music/{{Protector}} (also DeathMetal)
143* Music/{{SDI}}
144* Music/{{Sodom}} (started as BlackMetal and SpeedMetal, and experimented with DeathMetal once)
145* Music/{{Tankard}}
146* Music/{{Vendetta}}
147* Music/ViolentForce
148
149Argentina
150* Hammer
151* Music/{{Hermetica}}
152** Music/RicardoIorio
153* Horcas
154* Lethal
155* Malón
156* Militia
157* Nepal
158* Ojos Negros
159* Rapier
160* Serpentor
161
162Brazilian
163* Music/{{Attomica}}
164* Claustrofobia
165* Music/DorsalAtlantica
166* Music/{{Executer}}
167* Music/ExplicitHate
168* Music/{{Holocausto}} (also BlackMetal)
169* Music/{{Korzus}}
170* Music/TheMist
171* Music/{{Mutilator}} (also had elements of BlackMetal)
172* Music/{{MX}}
173* [[Music/{{Sarcofago}} Sarcófago]] (Mixed with BlackMetal and DeathMetal)
174* Music/{{Sepultura}} before ''Chaos AD'' (mixed with DeathMetal and later became GrooveMetal; they became thrash again starting with ''Dante XXI'')
175* Music/{{Soulfly}}, beginning with ''Dark Ages''
176* Music/TortureSquad
177* Music/{{Vulcano}} (also BlackMetal)
178
179Canadian
180* Aggression
181* Music/{{Annihilator}} (fused with SpeedMetal and ProgressiveMetal; later material mixed with GrooveMetal as well)
182* Music/{{Anvil}} (YMMV, has more in common with HeavyMetal with PowerMetal touches)
183* Music/DeadBrainCells (later material is also ProgressiveMetal)
184* Music/{{Exciter}} (though they may be SpeedMetal more than anything, they had elements of the genre)
185* [[Music/InfernalMajesty Infernäl Mäjesty]] (death/thrash, later material fully overlapped with death metal)
186* Music/{{Obliveon}} (also prog)
187* Music/{{Razor}}
188* Music/{{Sacrifice}}
189* Music/{{Slaughter}} (punkish death/thrash band, not to be confused with the glam metal band)
190* Music/{{Voivod}} (their first two albums were punk-thrash; from their third album onwards they added in ProgressiveMetal elements that eventually eclipsed their thrashier sound)
191
192British
193* Acid Reign
194* Music/{{Amebix}} - Crust mixed with thrash
195* Music/{{Deathwish}}
196* Music/{{Discharge}} - (While their early and most beloved material isn't 100% thrash, it's still heavily influential on the genre. The closest they got to pure thrash was their early nineties albums ''Massacre Divine'' and ''Shootin Up the World'')
197* Energetic Krusher
198* Hydra Vein
199* Music/{{Onslaught}}
200* Music/{{Sabbat}} (not to be confused with the Japanese BlackMetal act)
201* Music/{{Sacrilege}} (also d-beat, and a potential UrExample of crust punk)
202* Seventh Angel
203* Music/{{Skyclad|Band}}
204* Music/{{Venom|Band}} (Actually a heavy/speed metal band, but extremely influential to the genre)
205* Music/{{Xentrix}}
206
207Japanese[[note]]Most Japanese metal bands tend to change styles fairly easily, between members or even between different songs on an album. So ''dedicated'' thrash-only bands are few and far between, but almost any Japanese PowerMetal or SpeedMetal band will dip into ThrashMetal at points, and most of them have stuck with it for a while or incorporated it into their main concept.[[/note]]:
208* Music/{{Abigail|Band}}
209* Music/{{Anthem}} - has taken some detours into thrash, though it primarily falls under PowerMetal or traditional HeavyMetal.
210* Music/{{Barbatos}} (Mixed with black metal, side project of Abigail)
211* [[Music/MasakiYamada Flatbacker/EZO]] - probably ''the'' first well-known Japanese thrash band. Its singer would join Loudness, below, during its thrashiest period.
212* Music/{{Gargoyle}} - A thrash metal band with [[AvantGardeMetal experimental]] tendencies.
213* King's-Evil
214* Music/{{Loudness}} depending on the era, though 1991-93 is ''the'' thrash era, with 2010-12 coming up soon after. Also known for the ProtestSong component of thrash, being well-known for left-leaning and social libertarian political messages.
215* Narcotic Greed
216* Negarobo
217* Music/{{Outrage}}
218* Ritual Carnage
219* Rosenfeld
220* Music/{{Sabbat}} - One the best known dedicated thrash metal bands from Japan. Incorporates black metal influences.
221* Music/TokyoYankees
222* Music/XJapan, during its days as "X" until around the mid-1990's, combined thrash with HairMetal, SpeedMetal and ProgressiveMetal
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224Misc.
225* Music/AlienWeaponry (New Zealand Māori, with NuMetal influence)
226* Music/{{Artillery}} (Danish)
227* Music/{{Aspid}} (Russian)
228* Music/CalhounConquer (Swiss, also ProgressiveMetal, bordering on AvantGardeMetal)
229* Music/{{Coroner}} (Swiss) (also ProgressiveMetal)
230* Music/CelticFrost (Swiss) (also BlackMetal and DeathMetal, as well as HairMetal and DoomMetal on ''Cold Lake'' and ''Monotheist'' respectively)
231* Music/{{Criminal}} (Chilean)
232* Cyclone (Belgian)
233* Flames (Greek)
234* F.K.Ü. (Sweden. Started in 1987, released first album in 99.)
235* Music/{{Hexenhaus}} (Swedish, also PowerMetal)
236* Music/HobbsAngelOfDeath (Australian)
237* Invocator (Danish)
238* Music/LegionOfTheDamned (Dutch)
239* Music/{{Mandator}} (Dutch)
240* Maninnya Blade (Sweden)
241* Music/MortalSin (Australian)
242* Midas Touch (Sweden)
243* Necrosis (Chilean)
244* Pestilence (Dutch) (''Malleus Maleficarum'' only)
245* Poltergeist (Swiss)
246* Red Warszawa (Danish)
247* Shah (Russian)
248* Stone (Finnish)
249* Witchtrap (Colombia)
250* Music/WolfSpider (Polish, also ProgressiveMetal)
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252'''New Blood'''
253* Music/ThreeInchesOfBlood (Canada)
254* Algebra (Sweden)
255* Music/AngelusApatrida (Spain)
256* Atomic Witch (Ohio)
257* Music/AustrianDeathMachine (side project of Tim Lambesis, known for his work with Music/AsILayDying) (California)
258* Music/AvengerOfBlood (Nevada)
259* Music/{{Barbatos}} (Japan)
260* Besieged (also death metal) (Canada)
261* Bestial Invasion (Ukraine)
262* [[Music/BioCancer Bio-Cancer]] (also DeathMetal) (Greece)
263* Music/BlackFast (also ProgressiveMetal) (Missouri)
264* Black Mass (Massachusetts)
265* Music/BlackTide (Florida, later material is melodic metalcore)
266* Music/BodyCount (crossover thrash band from California, also RapMetal on later releases)
267** ''[[Music/BodyCountAlbum Body Count]]'' (1992)
268* Music/BondedByBlood (California)
269* Music/BulletForMyValentine (Mixed with Metalcore) (United Kingdom)
270* Music/BurningWitches (Switzerland)
271* Music/{{Buzzoven}} (An odd mixture of Crossover Thrash and SludgeMetal) (North Carolina)
272* Chemicaust (Texas)
273* Children (also progressive metal and blues rock) (New York)
274* Chronosphere (Greece)
275* Craven Idol (also black metal) (United Kingdom)
276* Critical Defiance (Chile)
277* Music/CrypticShift (also ProgressiveMetal and TechnicalDeathMetal) (United Kingdom)
278* Cryptosis (originally Distillator) (Netherlands)
279* Music/{{Dekapitator}} (sort of, they got their start in the late nineties) (California)
280* Music/{{Demiricous}} (Indiana)
281* Demoniac (also BlackMetal) (Chile)
282* Music/DiamondPlate (Illinois)
283* Music/{{Droid}} (also ProgressiveMetal) (Canada)
284* Enforced (Virginia)
285* Music/{{Evile}} (United Kingdom)
286* Music/{{Exmortus}} (GenreBusting example, but thrash is the scene they are most heavily rooted in) (California)
287* [[Music/ExtinctionAD Extinction A.D.]] (also HardcorePunk, borders on metalcore at times) (New York)
288* Music/{{Fastkill}} (Japan)
289* Foreseen (Finland)
290* Music/FueledByFire (California)
291* Music/GamaBomb (Ireland)
292* Music/{{Ghoul}} (California)
293* Music/GodForbid (starting with ''Gone Forever''; also {{Metalcore}}) (New Jersey)
294* Music/HammersOfMisfortune (''Overtaker'', also ProgressiveMetal)
295* Harlott (Australia)
296* Music/TheHaunted (melodic death/thrash, melodic metalcore in the primary Peter Dolving era) (Sweden)
297* Music/{{Havok}} (Colorado)
298* Music/{{Hexen}} (California)
299* High Command (Massachusetts)
300* Hypnosia (another late-nineties band) (Sweden)
301* Invincible Force (also DeathMetal) (Chile)
302* Music/{{Judiciary}} (also HardcorePunk) (Texas)
303* Music/KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard (huge fans of the genre who play this on ''Infest the Rats' Nest'' and ''[=PetroDragonic=] Apocalypse...'', also [[DoomMetal stoner metal]] on those releases) (Australia)
304* Music/LambOfGod (Virginia)
305* Music/LazarusAD (mixed with GrooveMetal) (Wisconsin)
306* Music/LichKing (Massachusetts)
307* Lost Society (first few albums, later material is melodic metalcore) (Finland)
308* Music/MachineHead (also GrooveMetal; although they've been around since 1992 and occasionally put thrash influences in their early albums, it wasn't until 2007's ''The Blackening'' that they truly became a thrash metal band) (California)
309* Madrost (also TechnicalDeathMetal) (California)
310* Music/ManticRitual (Pennsylvania, relocated to California)
311* Music/{{Mastery}} (Canada)
312* Mental Devastation (Chile)
313* Music/MercilessDeath (California)
314* Music/{{Ministry}} (From ''Houses of the Molé'' onward, mixed with IndustrialMetal)[[note]]An interesting case, as while they formed in the early 1980s, they only started playing thrash in the 2000s-though some of their earlier work has thrash influences)[[/note]] (Texas)
315* Miscreance (also TechnicalDeathMetal) (Italy)
316* Music/MunicipalWaste (Virginia)
317* Nekromantheon (mixed with black metal) (Norway)
318* Music/{{Nervosa}} (death/thrash starting with ''Downfall of Mankind'') (Brazil)
319* Music/{{Noisem}} (also DeathMetal) (Maryland)
320* Oath of Cruelty (Texas)
321* Music/{{Obsolete}} (also TechnicalDeathMetal and ProgressiveMetal) (Minnesota)
322* Music/{{Ouroboros}} (also TechnicalDeathMetal) (Australia)
323* Music/{{Paranorm}} (also ProgressiveMetal) (Sweden)
324* Parkcrest (Chile)
325* Phylactery (Canada)
326* Plague Years (Michigan)
327* Music/PowerTrip (also HardcorePunk) (Texas)
328* Music/{{Profanator}} (Mexico)
329* Project: Roenwolfe (also PowerMetal) (Florida)
330* Music/{{Razormaze}} (Massachusetts)
331* Music/{{Revocation}} (half thrash, half TechnicalDeathMetal) (Massachusetts)
332* Ripper (also DeathMetal) (Chile)
333* Sadistic Ritual (Georgia)
334* Sakrificer (California)
335* Music/SavageMessiah (also PowerMetal) (United Kingdom)
336* Music/SevenKingdoms (Florida)
337* Music/ShadowsFall (between ''The War Within'' and ''Retribution'', mixed with {{Metalcore}}) (Massachusetts)
338* Shards of Humanity (also death metal) (Tennessee)
339* Schizophrenia (also death metal) (Belgium)
340* Shrapnel (United Kingdom)
341* Music/{{Skeletonwitch}} (also MelodicDeathMetal, became melodic black metal on ''Devouring Radiant Light'') (Ohio)
342* Music/{{Skelteria}} (Texas)
343* Music/Stam1na (Finland)
344* Steel Bearing Hand (Texas)
345* Music/SuicidalAngels (Greece)
346* Music/{{Susperia}} (Norway)
347* Music/{{Sylosis}} (fused with MelodicDeathMetal and ProgressiveMetal) (United Kingdom)
348* Take Offense (California)
349* Music/{{Tantara}} (Norway)
350* Music/{{Tremonti}} (mixed with PostGrunge and GrooveMetal) (Florida)
351* Music/ToxicHolocaust (also BlackMetal) (Oregon)
352* Toxic Ruin (Wisconsin)
353* Music/{{Trivium}} (mixed with {{Metalcore}} and MelodicDeathMetal, the ratio of either depending on the album) (Florida)
354* The Troops of Doom (Brazil)
355* Music/UnlockingTheTruth (New York)
356* Music/{{Vektor}} (also ProgressiveMetal) (Arizona, relocated to Pennsylvania)
357* Vexovoid (Italy)
358* Violator (Brazil)
359* Music/{{Warbringer}} (California)
360* Music/{{Wastelander}} (Michigan)
361* Music/{{Zombiekrig}} (Sweden)
362[[/index]]
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364!!Tropes common in this genre are:
365* BerserkButton: HairMetal, especially during the genre's '80s heyday, to thrash bands and their respective fanbases who regarded them with the same kind of derision reserved for Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock. It is not even remotely an exaggeration to say that if you went to a thrash show in the 80s with so much as a glammy haircut, you'd get turned away at the door and be told to go fuck yourself (if you were lucky), and would have a very real chance of getting jumped.
366* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to its direct progenitor SpeedMetal.
367** Within thrash metal, the Teutonic scene is the DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to the US scene.
368** And also within thrash metal, Brazillian Thrash, which is even more extreme than Teutonic thrash and bordered on proto-black metal in places with groups such as Holocausto, Music/{{Sarcofago}} and early Music/{{Sepultura}}.
369* EpicRiff: Being one of the most riff driven genres of music, these are pretty common.
370* FandomRivalry: While most thrash fans are perfectly content to listen to, both, Music/{{Metallica}} and Music/{{Megadeth}}, certain fans still argue about which band is better, which song is originally written by which bands, etc. Notable in that the bands themselves were far from friendly with each other for a long time.
371* FollowTheLeader: While there were several thrash metal bands willing to take their own spin on thrash metal in its heyday, the genre had more than its fair share of copycat bands that record labels were more than willing to sign because of its popularity, no matter how unoriginal or uninspired (much like what happened with it's hated enemy, HairMetal). This happened again with the 2000's revival, with many bands happy to just imitate bands like Music/{{Slayer}}, [[Music/ExodusBand Exodus]], Music/{{Anthrax}}, etc., without adding anything new to it, and the image of the derivative Exodus, Anthrax, Kreator, or Nuclear Assault clone with a cookie-cutter Ed Repka or Andrei Bouzikov album cover with zombies, monsters, or mutants standing around looking menacing or doing bad things to people who sang about HeavyMeta, [[OdeToIntoxication beer]], and [[FilkSong 80s action and slasher movies]] became indelibly burned into the scene consciousness. The derisive label of "pizza thrash"[[note]]which ironically is believed to have been coined by Lich King and/or their local friends in Sonic Pulse to affectionately refer to lighthearted retro thrash[[/note]] quickly gained traction as an epithet to hurl at bands who fit this mold, and with the general demise of the retro thrash boom in the 2010s, anyone who fits the "pizza thrash" mold is unlikely to see any meaningful success.
372* GatewaySeries: Music/{{Metallica}} is one for thrash, and often to classic metal as a whole. Music/{{Slayer}} and the "big three" German bands (Music/{{Kreator}} especially) tend to be this for harsher thrash and often to extreme metal as a whole.
373* GenreKiller: Thrash never "died" as such, but the rise of newer sub-genres (some of which were directly influenced by thrash), and the fact that some of the bigger bands in the genre underwent stylistic changes, lead to the genre's waning popularity in the 90s. The retro thrash revival, on the other hand, ''did'' die, and the causes were a mix of increasing mainstream apathy due to a glut of third-tier acts, the almost universally awful record contracts (particularly from Earache; Bonded by Blood, in particular, was so broke during their touring days that on one tour in 2010, the bigger bands repeatedly gave or bought them food because they ''couldn't afford to eat'') that bled many bands dry and left them hopelessly in debt to their labels, and the omnipresence of tour buy-ons onto bills that they often did not belong on that ultimately hurt their ability to gain reliable fanbases, and the collapse of Heavy Artillery Records in mid-2012 can generally be pinpointed as the last nail in the revival's coffin. While much of the damage has been mended and modern thrash has begun to creep back as of the early 2020s, the scene is far more rooted in the underground than the 2000s acts were and is based heavily around Unspeakable Axe Records, Blood Harvest, and Redefining Darkness Records, and most newer acts that get noticed fall into crossover/hardcore, death/thrash or blackened thrash, or technical thrash.
374* GenreRelaunch: While there were still bands playing thrash metal throughout the 1990's and early 2000's, the genre suddenly saw a surge in popularity in the mid-2000's, mainly thanks to Municipal Waste. Labels such as Earache and Nuclear Blast capitalized on this, and by the end of the decade there were several well known acts playing "retro-thrash."
375* {{Gorn}}: Not used as much as death metal, but still occasionally used, most famously by Slayer and some German thrash bands.
376* HarshVocals: Used mainly by Teutonic thrash bands, but occasionally heard in bands from other scenes as well.
377* LighterAndSofter: Lyrically, crossover thrash bands tend to be this compared to regular thrash bands, and many songs tend to be more humorous in nature, but they may be just as fast and intense musically, and sometimes more so.
378* MetalScream: Often more of the operatic or snarling variety.
379* MotorMouth: Rapid fire vocal delivery is pretty common, especially in crossover but also in more "standard" thrash bands, particularly on the extreme (and extreme speed) end of the spectrum. [[Music/{{Slayer}} Tom Araya]], [[Music/SuicidalTendencies Mike Muir]], [[Music/DirtyRottenImbeciles Kurt Brecht]], [[Music/StormTroopersOfDeath Billy Milano]], [[Music/VioLence Sean Killian]] and [[Music/DarkAngel Don Doty]] are just a few vocalists especially known for this.
380* PowerBallad: "Semi-ballads" are pretty common, especially on earlier albums.
381* ProtestSong: Being influenced by HardcorePunk, political songs show up frequently in thrash.
382* RatedMForManly: Just try to deny it, whether you're a fan of the genre or not.
383** This is evidenced by the joke "What has 2,000 legs and 2 breasts? The audience at a thrash metal concert."
384* RockMeAmadeus: The genre has a huge emphasis on fast yet highly melodic shredding, though not as much as its sister genre, PowerMetal.
385* RockMeAsmodeus: A common theme among the more extreme bands, most prominently Music/{{Slayer}}.
386* TropeCodifier: Music/{{Metallica}} for more melodic or traditional thrash and Music/{{Slayer}} for the more extreme side of thrash. Music/SuicidalTendencies and Music/DirtyRottenImbeciles are this for crossover thrash.
387* TropeMaker: It's not exactly clear who should get credit for playing the first thrash song, but it's generally agreed that [[Music/{{Metallica}} Metallica's]] ''Kill 'Em All'' is the first thrash album. Venom's ''Welcome to Hell'' is a possible UrExample.
388* UrExample:
389** Two of the most common candidates for "first thrash songs" are Music/BlackSabbath's "Symptom of the Universe" and Music/JudasPriest's "Dissident Aggressor" (later covered by Slayer).
390** Before them was [[Music/SheerHeartAttack "Stone Cold Crazy"]] by Music/{{Queen|Band}} (if not considered it for this genre, is definitely the first example of SpeedMetal). "Parasite" by Music/{{Kiss}} is a more obscure one brought up. These were later covered by Metallica and Anthrax respectively.
391** Though the NewWaveOfBritishHeavyMetal is a big inspiration, Music/{{Motorhead}}, Music/{{Venom}} and Music/DiamondHead are perhaps the biggest, with Venom's ''Welcome to Hell'' perhaps being the ultimate "earliest thrash album".
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393!!Thrash metal songs (excluding the Big Four, with geographies listed):
394* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8t-Bw81970 Annihilator - Wicked Mystic]] (Canada)
395* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nJrkXwAD3I Artillery - Khomaniac]] (Denmark)
396* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO9nvwyZON8 Coroner - Die by My Hand]] (Switzerland)
397* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyLvR09pvM Dark Angel - The Burning of Sodom]] (Los Angeles)
398* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-2HbZi3gU Destruction - Curse the Gods]] (Germany)
399* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1loT9DadlI Enforced - UXO]] (Virginia)
400* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI_PQZvz5js Exodus - The Toxic Waltz]] (Bay Area)
401* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y8xaIdJ03w Flotsam and Jetsam - Hammerhead]] (Arizona)
402* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPufxljtQng Forbidden - Through Eyes of Glass]] (Bay Area)
403* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzDC7qnWaM Gama Bomb - Hammer Slammer]] (Ireland)
404* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGk1pnuD_qw Havok - Scumbag in Disguise]] (Colorado)
405* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj9G6CWnTAM Heathen - Hypnotized]] (Bay Area)
406* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNsropg4pg0 Hobbs' Angel of Death - Jack the Ripper]] (Australia)
407* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0HcF67FtOQ Holy Moses - Current of Death]] (Germany)
408* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y93Xax1Okho Kreator - Ripping Corpse]] (Germany)
409* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wwsFsshkX0 Mantic Ritual - Black Tar Sin]] (Pennsylvania)
410* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsmv1nzCWjw Narcotic Greed - As the World Is Burnt]] (Japan)
411* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBzNJcoIPpg Nekromantheon - Cast Down to the Void]] (Norway)
412* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kweVT4X6PDM Nervosa - Never Forget, Never Repeat]] (Brazil)
413* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJbu_llZGY Overkill - Hello from the Gutter]] (New Jersey)
414* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOWf8uqGf8A Power Trip - Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)]] (Texas)
415* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqlncklMC_U Razor - Violent Restitution]] (Canada)
416* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd51dtXKwlM Rigor Mortis - Wizard of Gore]] (Texas)
417* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6q1gU6q4IY Sabbat - Hosanna in Excelsis]] (UK)
418* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svVvAYukiUI Sacrifice - Terror Strikes]] (Canada)
419* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-x59ON5Q88 Sodom - Agent Orange]] (Germany)
420* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Hr6S_uzCw Testament - Over the Wall]] (Bay Area)
421* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11TZZduH94M Toxik - World Circus]] (New York)
422* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3d9OA45a0w Violator - Atomic Nightmare]] (Brazil)

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