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Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and fast tempo. [3] The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead guitar work.
Pirate metal is a subgenre of folk metal that blends heavy metal, thrash metal, and sometimes speed metal with pirate mythology, and, commonly, elements of sea shanties. The style was influenced heavily by German heavy metal band Running Wild and its third studio album, Under Jolly Roger .
Thrash metal was an inspiration for later extreme genres such as death metal and black metal. This list also includes certain bands which belong to the first wave of black metal. These bands essentially played thrash metal with a heavy emphasis on Satanic and occult themes in the lyrics and imagery. [12]
D.R.I.'s music has combined elements of punk rock, thrash metal, speed metal, and heavy metal, while their early material has been described as hardcore punk. They are often cited as one of the key bands that helped create the crossover thrash genre, along with S.O.D., Suicidal Tendencies and Corrosion of Conformity.
Groove metal, sometimes also called neo-thrash or post-thrash, [1] is a subgenre of heavy metal music that began in the early 1990s. The genre is primarily derived from thrash metal , but played in slower tempos, and making use of rhythmic guitar parts.
Megadeth is referred to as one of the "big four" of American thrash metal bands, along with Metallica, Anthrax and Slayer. "It's obviously flattering," Mustaine said, of being recognized as a ...
A skank beat is in other words a sped up 2/4 rock or polka beat. In the US the skank beat was early on also referred to as the "Slayer" or "thrash" beat due to its popularity among thrash metal bands such as Slayer. [19] The bomb blast is essentially a combination of blast beat and double bass drumming. When measured in 16th notes a bomb blast ...
Grindcore is influenced by crust punk, [5] thrashcore, [3] hardcore punk and thrash metal, [7] as well as noise musical acts like Swans. [8] The name derives from the fact that grind is a British term for thrash; that term was prepended to -core from hardcore. [9] Grindcore relies on standard hardcore punk instrumentation: electric guitar, bass ...