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Thrash metal is possibly the most popular subgenre of metal. Basically, it's a fusion of Hardcore Punk and the music of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM; you know, Iron Maiden). In slightly more detail, thrash metal, also known as "thrash", features very fast guitar playing, often with a signature "chugging" sound, and very fast drumming. Seriously, the drumming is impossibly fast... unless you're an actual thrash metal drummer, in which case, it's not.
Thrash metal began in the early eighties, and was popularised mainly by the "Big Four" (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax) as well as the three main bands of the Teutonic thrash metal scene in Germany (Sodom, Kreator, Destruction). Nowadays it's a bit old-fashioned, but still popular.
Fellow metal genres Death Metal and Groove Metal evolved directly from thrash.
Bands typically described as thrash metal include:
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